I recently djed somewhere where I could have used nice CDJs, but chickened out and stuck with my controller that I'm super comfortable with. I think I'm going to have to go to the dj store and figure out an arrangement to practice on their CDJs though, it would be really nice to have that option.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
So I played out on someone's lovely £1500 all-in-one system. Great club, great soundsystem.
To my horror when I transferred a crate over to USB and plugged it in, none of the track information appeared and I ended up having to mix completely blind (couldn't even organise my tracks in order of BPM, they came up alphabetically).
Turned out okay in the end, but having painstakingly analysed all my tracks, set cue point information and gotten used to mixing in key, it kind of messed my flow up a bit. I was told that you have to use Rekordbox to get all this information on another system. Seems like a longwinded way of going about things and I'm not sure exactly where to start. I downloaded the free Rekordbox programme but it looks like another Serato-style mixing programme. I realise that this is what Rekordbox can be used for, but all I want to be able to do is transfer the info I've already fed into Serato on another person's version of Serato. It doesn't feel like too much to ask really?
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 8 January 2018 10:51 (six years ago) link
https://serato.com/latest/blog/16877/pro-tip-copying-crates-to-a-usb-flash-drive
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 8 January 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
haha, i read that whole forum and commented on it in the end. seems to say the track info is locked into the mp3s so it should just transfer over when you save the files to USB, but that's not what happened when i tried it, so I've no idea what I did wrong
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 8 January 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
Well, if you just copy the mp3s from your folder, the info will be lost. But as long as you copy it from within the files section in serato itself it should work just fine. At least it does so for me.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 8 January 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
I did it in Serato, but now I come to think of it, I originally put it on a folder to a portable powered HD, which didn't work when I plugged it into the controller. So I ended up transferring the folder onto a borrowed laptop and then onto a USB stick. That last step was done outside of Serato so maybe it was that.
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 8 January 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
So apparently all CDJ systems use Rekordbox. Bugger, so why did I opt for Serato again? Another thing I noticed is they don't really like FLAC files. So why did I download all those tunes on FLAC again?
JFC
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
obv they're not pioneer but numark cdjs are mostly serato compatible iirc
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:20 (six years ago) link
it's more the compatibility issue with other people's systems. Twice I've been asked to play and been told 'you just need to bring a USB with your tracks and everything's set up for you', only to discover that a quarter of my tracks won't play and the rest have all their cue, bpm and key info missing.
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link
it's just useful having all that stuff in there if I want to do fast cuts etc.
Can anyone school me on DJ pools? I'm having difficulty finding download sources for the kind of music I like to play out (mostly afrobeats/dancehall/soca/global beats) since the demise of Google Play. DJ Pools have been mentioned, but I've no idea how these work. I mean, really I don't want a massive glut of tunes - I like to download things on a track by track basis.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link