SwingDJs

It seems pointless to me not to use the superior AAC format for encoding your own collection simply for ideological reasons -- in what possible way will you be compromised in the future by using AAC for this purpose now? 1) From a listener's perspective Ogg is just as good, if not better, than AAC....

One thing about USB sound cards and XP SP2 - you might encounter a little problem with your USB sound card after you've upgraded (i.e. it won't work). Previously my soundcard worked fine from my USB outlets, but now it needs to be plugged into a powered USB hub. See this knowledge base article: http...

julius wrote:i barely noticed the DJing all weekend long as far as the official events were concerned. it was more about live music.

We have a winner!

Take a number.

Currently DRM is not an issue for songs you rip from CD, but you can bet that the entertainment industry is very interested in making sure that the only circumstances you can make a copy of a song are the ones they control. DVD-A and SACD have copy protection schemes and there have been attempts to ...

Digital Rights Management - gives them control over how many times you can play a song, if you can burn it to CD, if you can transfer the song to another device, if it gets deleted if you unsubscribe from a service, etc. Big brother stuff.

AAC does give you better quality, but I'll trade off space for being free of DRM. Any format that tries to limit how I can use music that I have purchased is something I will never use.

Time to register"FineBrownFrame."

Did anyone else catch a dissonance between Frank's band and Barbara Morrison during her second set of songs on Saturday night? To me they were both on time and within the same structure, but it felt like they weren't doing the same song, hitting the same accents, so in the end it felt like they were...

Djed a friend's wedding ... he's a bit ocd which worked well for me ... I put together a top selection of a few hundred songs and he gave me a list of ones he'd like played ... it was quite sufficient to DJ with and I never felt restricted. Having said that, I wouldn't do it for someone I didn't kno...

Could be a lot of things - shape and dimensions of the room, acoustical treatments, sound system, etc. Without seeing the sound system and playing with it, the only thing I can really ask about is the room itself. What are the measurements of the room? What is its shape? Doe you have any acoustical ...

You could always go back to 78's Reuben

OT but love the songs you have cued up there Drew.

Perhaps we could make a video of the discussion for the people that won't be there?

1.) can power an outdoor party of about 50 guests. 2.) will survive 3rd-world-country baggage-handling. 3.) might double as a decent home audio system once the wedding is over. These three things are very difficult to reconcile - the sonic qualities of an outdoor sound system differ greatly from th...