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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by bandrami on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:31AM (#39914873)
I have a residency at a nightclub and the rotating younger DJs who open literally just come in with their phone and hook up the controller to it and run spotify through some app that speaks Rekordbox (it's probably actually the Rekordbox app, come to think of it). Without even having checked what the signal in the club is like beforehand (luckily it's pretty good). I asked one if he had any tracks actually downloaded to his phone and he looked at me like I was a stegosaurus.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by ssl-3 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:29AM (#39915161)
I've heard from DJ friends that there are plugins that let Spotify play on [say] two DDJs at once, perhaps through Rekordbox. Perhaps even on a pocket computer. (I an not an expert on DJ fare -- I just hang out with these guys and help make it happen.)

And I'm sure that Spotify works usually, and I'm sure it's against the Spotify ToS, but I'm also sure that this level of reliance on end-to-end Internet connectivity is bound for inescapable failure.

Eventually.

(For our "little" pop-up off-grid DJ rig, which was not actually particularly small: I made sure we had redundancy for everything we felt we needed: Power, amps, sources, speakers, and the rest of the works -- except Internet. We assumed, going in, that the Internet would be useless and thus none of our actual-plans relied on it, and we also knew that we were pretty far from any civilization that could garner us replacement parts.)

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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by bandrami on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:42AM (#39915266)
That sounds right; Serato has something similar. (I keep meaning to write something for Mixxx to be able to do that with Jamendo...)

What's really jaw-dropping for me is the deezer-based live stem extraction, where you can press a button and just be playing the vocals or the drums. (This is, weirdly, fundamentally the same tech that makes those pictures, which still astounds me.) I still get annoyed with the "sync" button because it doesn't let me do a half-beat lead-in. I will probably always be a dinosaur in this field, which is fine. But I would at least try to pass on the hard-earned knowledge that you have to assume in a live performance any given system will fail at some point.

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