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Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 5:49 PM UTC

hucker wrote: post #49

Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist…

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Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by rgarcia » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 5:58 PM UTC

hucker wrote: post #49

Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist…

This is already sort of happening on turntable. The other night Sir Mix-A-Lot was DJing in one of the rooms.

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by hucker » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

rgarcia wrote: post #52

hucker wrote: post #49

Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist…

This is already sort of happening on turntable. The other night Sir Mix-A-Lot was DJing in one of the rooms.

So can a DJ on turntable actually DJ (e.g. transitions, mixes, effects etc)? If not, did Mix-A-Lot just put on cool songs in sequence or did he have a prerecorded mix or what? I mean for the regular facebook-crowd just putting on playlists for each other is cool, but what I was thinking was more focused towards people who enjoy live DJ sets. Alas, I have not been able to get into turntable.fm yet, so I have to ask :/

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by joepestro » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 6:55 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #15

bproper wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can Gabe K built a turntable.fm scrobbler - http://gabek.github.com/TurntableScrobbler/

Awesome! Thank you. I only wish his site wasn't a migrane generator.

Here's another one called Turntable.fm Extended (has a few other features, like notifications):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnciafhfaahhafklck...

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by earbitscom » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 7:11 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #27

brown9-2 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like it's a lot more fun if you can join rooms with friends or people whose tastes you know intersect yours

Exactly. When nobody I know is on, I just use Pandora - with a crowded room, I can't skip a song I hate. And with friends, you get exposed to new music from trusted sources, and everyone ends up trying to play something that's equally palatable. (Unless your friends are jerks and decide to play Tool's LAMC.)

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Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by djjose » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 7:24 PM UTC

hucker wrote: post #49

Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist…

I've thought about this as well. I used to record my DJ sets with an mp3 player that had line-in. I'd just spin, record, and then upload when I got home the next day (and even do my podcasts this way on my home gear). An iPhone app that did the same for name brand DJ's would be excellent. They could record or even stream to a room of their own (or their label or the nightclub itself). I'd love to login to the Club Amnesia room and be able to listen to sets from their Ibiza parties in the last week. The right execution would totally work for EDM fans I think. I tried something similar with podcasts: bestdjpodcasts.com but what TT has is much more compelling IMO.

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by rdouble » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 7:31 PM UTC

djjose wrote: post #56

hucker wrote: post #49

Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist…

I've thought about this as well. I used to record my DJ sets with an mp3 player that had line-in. I'd just spin, record, and then upload when I got home the next day (and even do my podcasts this way on my home gear). An iPhone app that did the same for name brand DJ's would be excellent. They could record or even stream to a room of their own (or their label or the nightclub itself). I'd love to login to the Club Am…

If you don't care about streaming you can use something like fIRE2 from Audiofile Engineering and upload direct to Soundcloud. There are other similar products in the app store, and you could probably even use the built in free "voice memo" app. Streaming live is hard because you generally have no control over the uplink wifi and 3G is too slow.

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by djjose » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC

rdouble wrote: post #57

djjose wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've thought about this as well. I used to record my DJ sets with an mp3 player that had line-in. I'd just spin, record, and then upload when I got home the next day (and even do my podcasts this way on my home gear). An iPhone app that did the same for name brand DJ's would be excellent. They could record or even stream to a room of their own (or their label or the nightclub itself). I'd love to login to the Club Am…

If you don't care about streaming you can use something like fIRE2 from Audiofile Engineering and upload direct to Soundcloud. There are other similar products in the app store, and you could probably even use the built in free "voice memo" app. Streaming live is hard because you generally have no control over the uplink wifi and 3G is too slow.

Interesting, thanks for that! I know lots of DJs are using SoundCloud now, so maybe a TT-Soundcloud type integration with some branding elements and the like would do the trick. How great a tool would TT be during say, Armin Van Buuren's weekly A State of Trance show to interact with his fans in realtime. I know guys use Twitter now but I feel like Twitter is being forced into being this tool because this tool doesn't really exist. This would bring some context to the conversation.

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by devindotcom » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

Isn't the first month, like, the least indicative month, out of ALL the months? If they have 200,000 next month and a million in a year, we'll talk, but this site has all the indicators of being a that's-cool-move-on thing.

Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

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Post by hucker » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 8:09 PM UTC

djjose wrote: post #56

hucker wrote: post #49

Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist…

I've thought about this as well. I used to record my DJ sets with an mp3 player that had line-in. I'd just spin, record, and then upload when I got home the next day (and even do my podcasts this way on my home gear). An iPhone app that did the same for name brand DJ's would be excellent. They could record or even stream to a room of their own (or their label or the nightclub itself). I'd love to login to the Club Am…

The EDM crowd is exactly the type of people I'd see targeting with this. As you suggested clubs could have their own "rooms", as well as individual DJs. Streaming live (if possible), and saving to an archive. Fans/listeners could obviously mark as favorite and get notifications when live or a new set has been uploaded from the club/DJ. Real time chat for discussion and requests. Frontpage with featured up and coming DJs, the most favorited and so forth.

As you remarked though, proper execution and probably contacts so as to get some sizeable DJs in from the start would be key for this to work.