SwingDJs

I agree with Peter on this one.

You can Swing to Barbara, but can you Lindy Hop to most of it?

ya, I use TDK, which is a decent brand. I used to use KODAK gold, but they're too expensive and hard-to-get (ebay), and I didn't think they were worth the extra money. So, I don't really think it's the media. What about ... sometimes have you noticed some players not being happy about the last trac...

try different burning software... some have problems with VBR. I know my company's has a few issues that i'm trying to get fixed now.

i've been told Nero handles it pretty well.

It can happen that way actually. Chances are your CD player doesn't deal as well with CD-R media in general, and especially 24x (which is a bit different). I don't know if burning at a slower speed will actually help, but it feasibly is possible. "Burn proof" ability is in most CD burners ...

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No, I've just been using XP since it was available in betas, and I DJ my primary nights using MP3's. I know quite a bit about computers and media formats as I work for a software company that deals with this stuff a lot. MP3's don't expire, and can't be made to inspire in any normal means, so I woul...

Well, i tried opening another dead E-music file with another program and couldn't find it. then I seached my C drive for the name of the song and couldn't find... very frustrating...I still suspect this is a Sony issue because they don't like downloaded music... I very much doubt that some evil son...

that would depend on how good your sound card in your PC is. A lot of internal sound cards have a lot of hiss and bleed. The internal SB Audigy, and most of the true Sound blasters for that matter, do pretty well. Cheap audio cards sound horrid, lots of hiss and electronic noise. The Extigy is quite...

My balance is usually pretty simple. In my small scene, there are only a few people who seem to *really* enjoy and understand the music... most of the dancers are using it for a "metronome", as we have heard discussed before. That depresses me, of course, but the few that do listen know wh...

Oh, and a side note, Music Match's encoder is very poor in comparison. Even the folks at Emusic know the best one: the LAME encoder.

All I can really tell you is that musicmatch stinks. It's probably musicmatch that's causing you the problems. That awful software tends to try to take over your system. I'm really amazed at despite it's flaws, intrusion, and annoying qualities, just how many people install it.

Greg, it probably is your computer. You really can't all of the sudden disable old mp3's. Something on your computer changed... Did you install new software/hardware/virus scanner etc?

mp3's aren't like Window Media files that can be locked via license.

I'm the only one, either they come to my night, or they have to dance at home. I don't get any complaints, and i only get a few requests... so I think I'm doing ok, despite being swing-dictator

I think it's my anti slow/groovy jazz stance anyway. I find too many "groovy" versions of classics being played by DJ's lately. I spent a horrid night at the 9:20 a while ago, where this behavior was overused. So some of those versions of In a mellowtone you're talking about would probably...

Not to be bitchy about it, but I'm rather tired of hearing 10 different versions of the same song. Occasionally it's cool, but this has become, for many Swing DJ's, a benchmark... how many new versions of the same old stuff can we find? The real problem is that most of these new versions, well, let'...