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I don't know why anyone would still use music on CD today. I find my laptop eminently reliable - certainly more reliable than CD ever was. In over 3 years I've lost maybe a minute of sound in total. That's literally hundreds of gigs & only once had an inexplicable pause in a first dance of about a second - barely enough time to even fade the backup in.
My last experience of djing with cd was with a couple of pioneer cdjs. One stopped working meaning I had to alternate between vinyl & cd, then as I started to run out of vinyl I hadn't yet played a Numark dual CD unit was brought in. Problem with that was it steamed up & couldn't be used anyway. Utterly embarrassing. And this was in a club where the rigours of player life are notably easier than the life of a player on the road.
The risks of being entirely digital are great but you can reduce them substantially with backups. The benefits of laptop & controller DJing vastly outweigh those risks. Virtual folders, crates, search & sorting etc. It's a dream come true for me. When I look through my old cd wallets I ponder how on Earth I ever used to find anything.
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The reason I'm still stuck in the 19th century using CDs is that I simply haven't got years of spare time to rim my CD collection onto a hard drive to make them digital friendly (not to mention the cost of a ProDub licence).
I did of course start in the arm wrenching era of vinyl, so even CDs represent a significant weight reduction in music. My 3 x Denon DN-4500 CD players have only once put a foot wrong and, with the spare already connected, that was soon sorted.
Its a system what I have been used to for the last 20 years and, back then, I vowed I'd never get a CD player as I had too much vinyl. Oh well, something changed my mind!!
I have every track I have on an Excel database and finding even the most obscure request often only takes 30 seconds.
So for several reasons, I am staying with CDs for now, though the DND-4500 mk 2 does have 2 USB inputs so there is a route for playing music from USB's, which is slowly taking shape.
I have looked at digital controllers with everything in mind and I must admit, the preference is at the moment is for the Denon MC-6000 mk 2. But what I would sincerely prefer is a controller that does not need a laptop. Remember the Cortex? I wish I'd bought one then.
Now, has anyone got a spare year?
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Ah I forgot about all the ripping. And the tagging. Oh my days the tagging!
Ripping wasn't so bad. Me & my wife worked as a team, with no less than 4 computers on the go over the course of a few weeks. I relied on autolookups initially & then corrected tracks later.
As a bar & club dj my core library was at most 400 discs, mostly compilations & pool CDs so wasn't too bad for remembering where everything was.
I'm not mocking you at all & fully sympathise with your reluctance to change. Back when I only used vinyl I'd see my cd touting dj friend try to persuade me, only to see one of his players go into a spasm just before I left the bar
When I ultimately made the switch to cd it still didn't leave vinyl behind completely.
My first ever gig using a laptop alone didn't go well. Playout hung, still playing music but couldn't be interacted with so I had to go back to CD for a few tunes while it rebooted. That almost put me off forever.
Preparing to go out on the road entirely digital took weeks & weeks. Mostly tagging, sorting & testing. It was a slog & even today I'm finding badly tagged tracka. Would I ever consider going back? Not on your life!
Last edited by Nakatomi; 07-06-2018 at 03:56 PM.
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Originally Posted by
mattydj50
Remember the Cortex? I wish I'd bought one then.
Is this the sort of cortex you wish you had bought? DMix 600
Inside every old person, is a young person wondering 'What The Hell Happened'. Tempus Fugit
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Originally Posted by
mattydj50
I simply haven't got years of spare time to rim my CD collection onto a hard drive to make them digital friendly (not to mention the cost of a ProDub licence).
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the DND-4500 mk 2 does have 2 USB inputs so there is a route for playing music from USB's, which is slowly taking shape.
That will still require Pro Dub...
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Originally Posted by
rth_discos
That will still require Pro Dub...
No it doesn't, because the only stuff I have on my USB's have been bought as digital files.
I have already started ripping CDs to a blank hard drive as and when time permits (early evening to end of buffet time, or sit down meal time is good for a few).
Having used vinyl and CD for the past 48 years, what I find difficult is having the hard copy sleeves in front of me in the box to thumb through for "dead mind" inspiration.
Trouble is, by the time I finish ripping, I might have retired!
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Technically if you so much as move a file from one device to another you need produb. For example.. Download music on a home computer, transfer to USB drive... Ouch.
Regarding inspiration.. That's where filter folders, virtual folders etc come into their own.
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Resident Antagonist
Originally Posted by
mattydj50
No it doesn't, because the only stuff I have on my USB's have been bought as digital files.
Originally Posted by
Nakatomi
Technically if you so much as move a file from one device to another you need produb. For example.. Download music on a home computer, transfer to USB drive... Ouch.
Justin (and initially Gavin) is right - the moment you make a copy of a digital track, you should be in possession of Produb.
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