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DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

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Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

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Post by mxfh »

a2dam wrote: post #19

Spotify used to have this, and it's very annoying that they removed the feature about a year ago.

Yeah someone at Apple Music must have looked into USP / market differentiator checkboxes, where Spotify skimped out of more permissive/expensive? licensing contracts that would allow for that home use DJ use case.

In most countries you need special licensing for public reproduction of copyrighted music anyway. That use case is not covered by your private streaming subscription. It´s just a means to get the media.

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#102

Post by tarentel »

butlike wrote: post #100

I just want to be able to play two songs on top of one another (on any streaming platform) and have them have 2 separate volume sliders...

If that's all you want you can very easily do this with a cheap mixer and two devices capable of streaming.

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#103

Post by butlike »

sowbug wrote: post #77
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks interesting - only to see I have to convert my whole flac library

It works with FLAC; in fact, that's preferred, because you want to start with the best available quality.

TECHNICALLY flac is conceptually worse than wav. Flac truncates the 0 values in the PCM file, WAV preserves them. It's functionally the same, but wav reads the file while flac has to re-add the 0's then read the file, so there's technically one more processing step (which could go wrong).

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#104

Post by butlike »

tarentel wrote: post #102
butlike wrote: post #100

I just want to be able to play two songs on top of one another (on any streaming platform) and have them have 2 separate volume sliders...

If that's all you want you can very easily do this with a cheap mixer and two devices capable of streaming.

I just want to do this in-app, on the bus/train/car. I'd even be willing to pay more for the subscription

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#105

Post by timeon »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #95
mikae1 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mixxx.org for a FOSS (read: somewhat enshittification proof) alternative.

I love mixxx, but I bet this apple music thing will never support open source dj software. They are too afraid of folks pirating the music.

I guess someone using mixxx is not streaming the music (like me) so yes these are different target 'markets'.

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#106

Post by xnzakg »

butlike wrote: post #103
sowbug wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It works with FLAC; in fact, that's preferred, because you want to start with the best available quality.

TECHNICALLY flac is conceptually worse than wav. Flac truncates the 0 values in the PCM file, WAV preserves them. It's functionally the same, but wav reads the file while flac has to re-add the 0's then read the file, so there's technically one more processing step (which could go wrong).

That's kind of like saying storing files in a zip is worse than storing them uncompressed. Or like the "what color are your bits": https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#107

Post by genewitch »

sollewitt wrote: post #16

Djay’s killer feature is algorithmic stem extraction. The streaming audio services that have integration (Tidal, now Apple Music) don’t allow this processing. It’s an arbitrary technical limitation that I suspect is rooted in a licensing agreement from the rights holders. tl;dr this is great for playing with sequencing, but a lot of modern djays will want to be able to do stem separation even when exploring, and live…

Does it stem in real time? That is can you use it to do karaoke on an arbitrary song as it streams?

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#108

Post by nsteel »

notpushkin wrote: post #33
mikae1 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mixxx.org for a FOSS (read: somewhat enshittification proof) alternative.

I think Mixxx is for live mixing only. Still a good piece of software though!

Not sure about that.

There is a feature request for supporting streaming services and the hurdle is legal more than anything. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/938180

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#109

Post by ChadNauseam »

ahilss wrote: post #30

I’m the developer of Transitions DJ ( https://dj.app/ ). If anyone can connect me with the team at Apple Music, I would be interested in doing an integration.

woah, insane domain name cop. and the app looks awesome, nice!

Re: DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

#110

Post by te_chris »

cyberpunk wrote: post #71
te_chris wrote: post #56

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It works on serato

I just tried it in Serato and it says stems are not available for streaming music. Their wiki says so also(0). 0: https://support.serato.com/hc/en-us/articles/12188545880719-... Real bummer, I still have to pipe stuff through Ableton, record it, then import it..

Rats. I DJ’d a wedding with tidal last year and it worked. It just needed analysis.
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