Toon Town Dave wrote:John, I like that sort of setup. I've been considering a move to a PC based setup but it's more to reduce space/annual licensing costs.
How does the "waitlist" work in PCDJ? Does it differ from a playlist? Can one still queue an extra track or two in a player?
There is an option to "autoplay". The software will start playing things in your waitlist automatically one after the other. You can set the time between songs etc (or mixing beginnings and ends - don't recommend this for swing djing). The "autoplay" is not as nice as one would think, taking into consideration that some songs end before the actual end of the track, etc. In that case you'd get dead air until the track really ended and the next track starts up.
There are few critical drawbacks to PCDJ Red; one not being able to pick which fields are shown (album and time are missing, interestingly enough) when you're browsing your collection from within the software.
I believe you can get a trial copy at
http://www.pcdj.com if you want to evaluate it. If you're interested in some workarounds to the above limitations let me know.
PCDJ FX alleviates some of this nonsense, but then takes away the recordcase (preview) player - you actually have to load a song into one of the players to preview it. uggghhh. When PCDJ FX fixes this, I will upgrade to it.
Greg A. I know you were evaluating Tracktor - have you had much success with it?