SwingDJs

So what do you use for DJing now? CDs. Someday, when I have the $$ and the time, I plan to move to a laptop. DJ'ing is just a once-in-a-while hobby for me these days though. I started out dj'ing mp3s (on a PJB-100 ) but didn't have a way to preview tracks, so I switched to CDs. And once I got used ...

For editing mp3s (and AACs) on a Mac I've heard good things about Fission, from Rogue Amoeba: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/ It's pretty cheap ($32) and is supposed to be very easy to use. It edits the encoded files directly without encoding/decoding so there's no (additional :)) loss in audio ...

I had the same reaction; I have a 3G iPod Nano and would really like to have the new on-the-fly features. But it looks like Apple is going to force us to buy another iPod to get this. And I doubt that there's any technical reason why they couldn't do this on the current gen ipods. Apple has updated ...

kitkat, I've been thinking about the same thing, buying a laptop just for DJ'ing. Personally I prefer CDs but these days fewer venues have CD players on site. And I already have plenty of desktop computers. I've just started looking; one resource I've used to find good deals is dealnews.com. Checkin...

Instead of adblock I'd go with adblock plus. Adblock is no longer being updated and doesn't work with firefox 3.0. http://adblockplus.org/en/

I used 10.4.11 for a month or so before upgrading to 10.5 last week and didn't have any problems with iTunes or otherwise. I don't have any "haxies" installed (like APE ) or any downloaded iTunes plugins; these can cause problems. I agree with straycat, run Disk Utility and check things ou...

Haven't tried it on 10.5, but bpmWidget works OK with 10.4 & latest iTunes. It's a dashboard widget which is a little less convenient.

http://rzepa.net/david/bpmWidget/index.html

Jonas wrote:eMusic Europe just added a whole bunch of the great Black & Blue Sessions CD's with music recorded in the 70's and 80's.

Dammit. Now I'll have to get an eMusic account. I resisted for so long...

how about the song in the opening scene of "Thank you for smoking"? It's called "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" and the recording is by Tex Williams. A fun song for a great movie. :) I don't think I'd lindy to it though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke!_Smoke!_Smoke!_...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/arts/15lutcher.html http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/06/14/nellie_lutcher_blues_pianist_from_roaring_20s_singer/ From nytimes.com: Nellie Lutcher, 94, R & B Singer, Dies By PETER KEEPNEWS Published: June 15, 2007 Nellie Lutcher, a singe...

The technique is called acoustic fingerprinting and it's a kind of music information retrieval.

I believe that this is a completely different scheme than the one ccdb (gracenote) uses; I'm pretty sure ccdb uses song lengths & number of tracks.

Anyone heard this one yet? It's an interesting idea, at least. The samples sound good to me but I don't know if there's anything I'd DJ off of it. If you haven't heard of it, this CD is a mix where they combined an old recording Ray Charles made with new recording by the current Basie ghost band. ht...

The iPod has a very limited on-the-fly playlist feature. You can add items to a special playlist and remove them, but that's about it. You can't move items from one playlist to another or change their order, or modify any other playlist, or delete songs from the device. If you have a computer to plu...

Anyone heard about this one? It sounds like an April Fool's joke to me.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/izilla.shtml

It says it has built-in support for ripping from CD/DVD and vinyl, and includes 2T (aka 2000G) of storage.

Not a false ending, but I always get looks at the break when I play Cab's "Are You All Reet?" A DJ around here occasionally plays that song and hits the pause button for a few seconds during the break. Evil, and probably not an OK thing to do, but the first time I heard it, it totaly crac...