SwingDJs

It seems that Jack OSX and Soundflower may work instead of Detour. Here are the links... I'll try them out later this week. Thanks, I'll have a closer look at those. But from a preliminary scan of the feature lists for both of these, it appears that they appear as additional sound cards. This won't...

There's "Bojangles" by Ellington, but Bill Robinson might not classify as a swing dancer.

Detour doesn't work on my intel mac, unfortunately. It's a shame, and it seems like a weird limitation that it's so hard to run applications on a Mac that talk to different soundcards.

Here's a bit of trivia for you, quoting from "Anthologie des grilles des jazz", it states that "As far as we know, the longest american standard is 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter: 100 consecutive bars!"

For the record, most software abandoned the wav/cue method for doing image backups of audio discs... at least from a interface point of view. The whole bin/cue exposure method sucks. Living in the Linux world, I'd say that most software I've seen still uses the bin/cue (or bin/toc in the cdrdao cas...

I'd keep two RAID:ed external hard drives with RAID 1 Using RAID for this is probably overkill, since a simple sync/backup from your main disk to the secondary, done regularly, will keep your data happy, and will make the two disks less dependent on eachother. In another subthread, the reason i pro...

GemZombie wrote:I too would rather just do an .iso backup.

.iso is for data CDs. For audio CDs you need a copy of the audio data and the CD table of contents and optionally the CD-TEXT info etc. So a wav/cue combination will do the trick. Or a flac file with an embedded cue sheet.

I have created my own system that I will explain below. I don't expect anyone else to want to use this, but if you are interested just let me know. My setup consists of a number of python scripts that manipulate my files. It allows me to do several of the steps described below in a single move. The ...

The only Hutton I own is from Jazzwomen: Great Instrumental Gals that I found in France. It's a fun compilation, but not much to dance to, and the sound quality varies a lot. But it has one of my favourites, Rose Murphy with "Rosetta", in a version that makes me happy anytime I listen too ...

I rip everything to .wav files and store them on an external hard drive. I can then grab the raw stuff to burn to CD or transcode to MP3, OGG or whatever format I need afterward. That's a bit wasteful. I encode my CDs as FLAC, which is a lossless compression (and then reencode the individual tracks...

Actually, I didn't! I meant commission to arrange old songs we love but never get to hear anymore for modern bands! So you got it exactly right. I guess it depends on whether you want new arrangements or transcriptions of old recordings. There are a lot of people that do the latter, and in the band...

Thank you Dave for the advice. It turned out one of the dj guys in our association has a M-Audio Fast Track Pro , so we could borrow it when we had a visiting laptop dj in town last Tuesday. That guy would be me. I think the solution to our problems will be to either fix the DJ mixer to accept prop...

I just found CuePhase, a Mac app for DJing which seems to me to be perfect for how I would like to laptop-DJ swing music. I don't care one bit about beat matching or any other fance stuff. What I want, and that CuePhase gives me is. * A queue of songs to play * A simple way of browsing music and pre...

Did I mention this app yet for mac? It's called Detour. http://www.rogueamoeba.com/detour/. It allows you to specify which program will use which soundcard. I do without iTunes and DJ1800 because I don't like how DJ1800 stops when it's library is being updated. I use Audion 3 with Itunes. I use Aud...

hear hear... a little research and shopping does indeed reveal wider options for the pc... much wider. since we're talking laptops here, simply put: baloney. all external soundcards will work just as well on macs as they will on wintel boxes; all the common hardware interfaces are shared. the (usua...