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You're telling me - I walk up to you and tell you I want to hear Dave Matthews - Two steps...you can;

1) determine if you have it
2) find it in your magic book/stack/box of cd's....
3)take out the cd that you've already got cued up in the player
4) Put that cd back in it's sleeve
5) cue up "Two Steps"
6) listen in your headphone to make sure you've got the right song
7) re-cue.....................
8) hit play

In less than 5 seconds?

I know you're a big cd advocate, and that's ok...It works for you... but let's be real....

I've been there and couldn't do that.......
 
thatmusicguy said:
You're telling me - I walk up to you and tell you I want to hear Dave Matthews - Two steps...you can;

1) determine if you have it
2) find it in your magic book/stack/box of cd's....
3)take out the cd that you've already got cued up in the player
4) Put that cd back in it's sleeve
5) cue up "Two Steps"
6) listen in your headphone to make sure you've got the right song
7) re-cue.....................
8) hit play

In less than 5 seconds?

I know you're a big cd advocate, and that's ok...It works for you... but let's be real....

I've been there and couldn't do that.......
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This nebulous "benefit" of being able to cue up a song that fast is really anything but for any dj worth their salt.

I have an itinerary for weddings I do, and a general guideline verbal, mental, or written, for non-wedding events, and for all of them, when programming in set, I have the next several songs already laid out in front of my rack on the table and ready to go.

If someone puts in a request that comes in that would flow well with what is on or coming up, I will work it in, but I am still programming ahead and am able to work in deviations as they come without missing a beat.

If you find yourself repeatedly NEEDING to queue up songs instantly, or putting in those "Insta-quests" ("play this next") songs, you are not actually programming music at all, just taking and spitting out requests.

So congrats - your laptop and software have made you a human jukebox with instantaneous song-cueing ability! Well done! THIS is what you call "evolution?" :)

As dj's, we should all know that those songs that guests tell us to "play next" rarely, if ever SHOULD actually be played next.

So you can actually locate and queue up a floor-killer in under 5.0 sec. flat?

Rock on!:sqlaugh::rofl::sqlaugh:
 
point taken ---- not that anyone does this....talking hypothetical

I've seen myself come up with a song that I know would go well with 20 secs left in the song playing (bear in mind with a laptop/pc, you're library is there in front of you...and have that ability to follow that route, something you couldn't do with a pc....

just proving a point.....
 
thatmusicguy said:
point taken ---- not that anyone does this....talking hypothetical

I've seen myself come up with a song that I know would go well with 20 secs left in the song playing (bear in mind with a laptop/pc, you're library is there in front of you...and have that ability to follow that route, something you couldn't do with a pc....

just proving a point.....
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Thats why even though I use CDs, I have my Laptop for last minute plug ins or must play requests from the person who paid me. Only the person paying me rates to get a " Can you play this next" actually played next if it is within realistic time frame.

I love the feel of live mixing, nothing against software. I do like the convenience of the Laptop for situations as I described above. Plus realisticaly, I can have 3 songs on cue all the time. 2 CDs and 1 laptop. Best of both worlds!

More power to whatever works for everybody else. :sqwink::sqbiggrin:
 
Boy did this thread go off tangent. :D

Part of the reason for declining CD sales is the record companies. For years they've done one thing ~ sell the medium. Not the product, the medium. They sold albums just because customers liked the artwork.

They've fought the MP3, they've fought downloading of music, they've fought the transfer of product to hard drives. Why? Because music isn't what they're selling. They put what amounts to senseless noise on the medium (CDs) and try to sell it.

Customers don't want senseless noise, they want music. If the record company shirts ever figure that one out, they'll start making money again.
 
Yes Fred this did get off track. As Ducky said it is depressing and sad to see stores like Tower and Virgin closing up. I use to love going in there and see rows and rows of cds by the thousand. I could spend hour and hours in these cd stores and get such a high when walking out with some new cd's in my hand.
I haven't been in Best Buy in a while, but I have noticed WalMart is also cutting back on its cd inventory.
 
I miss the old Warehouse stores ( dunno if thats just a Cali thing). Huge selection of good used CDs all the time. If they were scratched anyway, just return them for exchange. This one that I went to was close to a Community College so you know students would hawk their cds to get some cash. Oh and when Napster came out, all these guys unloaded their CDs by the boatload thinking they will always have the internet at their fingerstips to download whatever song they wanted (legaly or otherwise), and they were right.
 
Brian Martin said:
I use to love going in there and see rows and rows of cds by the thousand. I could spend hour and hours in these cd stores and get such a high when walking out with some new cd's in my hand.
I haven't been in Best Buy in a while, but I have noticed WalMart is also cutting back on its cd inventory.
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Me too. However, I don't miss dropping $300 every visit only to have a handful
of playable or short lived tracks for gigs.

Getting my music a la carte is less fun, but more sensible.
 
DJ Ducky said:
Okay, so then you're relying on your sound card, a software program that could potentially have bugs, and an operating system the could crash or cause your program to crash at anytime. So instead of having lesser-quality music, you've got no music until you can reboot your laptop?
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and jumping in to the fray....

The only lesser quality- not subjectively, but actually, via electronic testing, is the MP3. Even the most devoted PCer wouldn't claim them to be BETTER.

Rob, you may use only QUALITY sources for downloads- and I sure as heck know that YOU will do a good job downloading- but that's just you.

No matter how great the download site ( or ripped disc, for that matter), the end product will depend on the amateur downloading and ripping. No quality control, as there IS at a hard media production plant. The end product, great source or not, can come out like complete crap- and that's assuming it's a perfect source. Then add in other variables like transmission media and the amateur's PC equipment. the original uploading operator, PC, and transmission media.

As for the "digital Age"-- bad news folks, but my understanding is that the next "next big thing" will be a new type of hard- and supposedly secure- media. This whole discussion will then be digital vs NEW hard media, and the PC people will be the luddites....:sqwink:

To whoever posted about not being computer savvy, see Ducky's reply- same here- and I DID run a PC show. Then went back.

Loading? Two single drawer players and ten discs laid out in advance on the felt- no dead air. Find and load? Disc pros know how to organize a collection for fast pull, and with the muscle memory in the hands - including the famous "finger flip", - no lag there either. Just a matter of having the skills and keeping them polished. For someone who never learned how to handle hard media, this would be difficult, of course. And yes, I'm just as fast with the PC.
 
I want my Vinyl Records again :)
 
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