Downloading at gigs

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

I'm interested to know what people download onto and how they connect it to their play out system. Do people just link straight in? Do you download straight onto a laptop or transfer via a USB drive?

[DeckstarDeluxe]

Usually either the iphone or straight off the download source. While doing this however as I have one laptop I go onto cds so I'm not asking the computer to do too much at once.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

How do you download straight to your laptop Neil?

[DJ James Lake]

If I needed to I would download straight to my laptop with itunes and a USB dongle

[Excalibur]

I'm interested to know what people download onto and how they connect it to their play out system. Do people just link straight in? Do you download straight onto a laptop or transfer via a USB drive?

As formerly alluded to, I've seen folk like yourself state many many times how important it is not to connect a laptop which is the primary ( only? ) playout device, to the internet. That must surely be fraught with danger, even when using trusted sites like Amazon, etc. :confused: :confused:

In my very humble, and not really informed opinion, I'd have said that the only sensible way would be to have a download machine separate to the playout. Two laptops, or laptop and HDC. And yes, before anybody starts, that will immediately require the P word, but it's simply a required licence.

Isn't the ability to scan and check/preview downloads prior to playing them worth the fiver a week? It's got to be better than corrupting your whole system. Anf if I understand corectly, by downloading direct, I guess the only backup is your download site? Even dicier.

Download to laptop for me, scan, copy to usb stick, put into Cortex/Numark. Simples.

[DeckstarDeluxe]

How do you download straight to your laptop Neil?


Venue Wifi or a doogle.

I can think of only two times I've had to do this.

[Rowleys]

I use my iphone and itunes on the phone. Then the phone in linked to my play out system.

When i'm out djing i never use the laptop for anything else just play out

[Shaun]

I'm interested to know what people download onto and how they connect it to their play out system. Do people just link straight in? Do you download straight onto a laptop or transfer via a USB drive?

Itunes on my ipad, connected to my mixer with a mini jack to phono cable.

[Charlie Brown]

Phone, mini jack to phono.

[Ecstatic Events]

I have used a none playout laptop and dongle previously and transferred to my main PO PC via USB drive. If I ever need to do it again I'll use my iPhone 4 linked to mixer in the same way as Shaun, as a rule I dont do it often!!! But it's there if needed...

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Venue Wifi or a doogle.



:D :muppet:

[Danno13]

I've used my laptop with dongle a couple of times in the past but don't like plugging/unplugging anything into my gig machine when it's running so it means playing a track or two from CD whilst I copy the tracks across which can be a bit of a pain mid-gig, since I got the iPhone I can just download straight to there and play from it on a spare channel on the mixer.

[Twinspin]

I have a laptop next to my console and mobile broadband via a three usb dongle. (Mine isnt a gig machine)

I have a 8GB USB stick. get the songs i need from 7 digital save them onto a usb stick and make a database using the denon dj manager software on the laptop.

and plug it into the denon hub (job done)

I will download songs i havent got but i dont do it all the time during a gig it depends whos asking.