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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 2big2fail_47 »

nukem222 wrote: post #53
CharlesW wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has this in the form of a poorly-marketed feature called iTunes Match ($25/year). https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935 I no longer subscribe to Apple Music, but I have 169.5 days of purchased music that I can stream anywhere. Tracks that exactly match an entry in their catalog are presumably just represented as a pointer, and tracks which aren't available in Apple Music are uploaded.

Readers should note that it's super buggy. Occasionally your music will be unavailable, even though it can match it to tracks that ARE available on apple music (it just says "not available in your region" and is greyed out). Sometimes it also "matches" to the clean version of the music (may god damn people who think that censoring music is a good idea) and there's no way to correct it. I've lost an impressive amount…

for that case i'd just go with plexamp and self-host the music.

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

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Post by Jgrubb »

input_sh wrote: post #49
nanna wrote: post #45

I recently learned that DJs today just press a button to mix two tracks. Growing up mixing and beat matching used to be a skill to be proud of. Now it's just a button. So I was told.

There's no skill involved in pitching the two nearly-identical-in-BPM tracks and nudging them into rhythm. Put any sync button DJ in front of a proper CDJ setup, give them a couple of hours to practice and they will be able to pull off a set. Most importantly: it is the least important part of the job. Nobody in the crowd gives a shit about whether or not you're using the sync button, it makes no difference to them.…

Amazing - every word of what you just said is wrong.

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

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Post by easyThrowaway »

plasma_beam wrote: post #5

Question is can I access MY library and playlists synched to Apple Music with this? I don’t care about being able to access the Apple Music library.

I've been able to mix together tracks from Apple Music (the service) I had on a playlist with wav files I've added in the past to... Apple Music (the app) straight from rekordbox and they worked fine.

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

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Post by omneity »

plasma_beam wrote: post #5

Question is can I access MY library and playlists synched to Apple Music with this? I don’t care about being able to access the Apple Music library.

I have been able to do this with Djay Pro since before this announcement. Not sure if it's now also on other platforms but it works great with Djay even for my own titles cloud synced through Apple music.

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

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Post by mfro »

sowbug wrote: post #9

I steer clear of Apple products, but I've still had a lot of fun in this space thanks to DJ Studio ( https://dj.studio/ ), a desktop app that helps make offline (rather than real-time) mixes. I use it to make a monthly personal mixtape, which is a nice way to remember what I used to listen to. They call it a "DAW for DJs," which is accurate. I especially admire the team that makes it. The CEO records demo videos that…

The Apple Music integration in dj studio is currently completely nonfunctional for me on macOS. I get a listing of tracks in my library but I cannot use them even after downloading locally.

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Post by akx »

kennyloginz wrote: post #36
notpushkin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It’s not for live mixing only.

Can you point out the nonlinear/non-live features? https://mixxx.org/features/ doesn't do a good job of that.

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Post by ThatMedicIsASpy »

sowbug wrote: post #9

I steer clear of Apple products, but I've still had a lot of fun in this space thanks to DJ Studio ( https://dj.studio/ ), a desktop app that helps make offline (rather than real-time) mixes. I use it to make a monthly personal mixtape, which is a nice way to remember what I used to listen to. They call it a "DAW for DJs," which is accurate. I especially admire the team that makes it. The CEO records demo videos that…

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

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Post by SSLy »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #68
sowbug wrote: post #9

I steer clear of Apple products, but I've still had a lot of fun in this space thanks to DJ Studio ( https://dj.studio/ ), a desktop app that helps make offline (rather than real-time) mixes. I use it to make a monthly personal mixtape, which is a nice way to remember what I used to listen to. They call it a "DAW for DJs," which is accurate. I especially admire the team that makes it. The CEO records demo videos that…

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

"DJ.Studio supports many file formats from MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC and more."

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Post by kakoni »

input_sh wrote: post #40
kakoni wrote: post #32

So if you looking to get started, get ddj-flx4 (or flx2) controller, plug it into your iphone, download rekordbox app and link Apple music into it. Makes really nice bedroom/portable setup.

Not necessarily, Rekordbox mobile never supported all of the streaming services supported on Rekordbox desktop.

Looking at my latest rekordbox iOS it does apple,soundcloud,beatport and tidal. I guess only one missing (that desktop has) is beatsource?
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