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Mad_Cyril See loads of comments about people listening to, editing tracks, adding cue points etc. whilst prepping mixes and cant get my head around how long it must take.

To do this id have to fire up the laptop and spend hours trawling through tunes. Am I being stupid or is this as time consuming as it sounds ?

With a bit of organisation and planning it surely isn’t difficult to get through loads of music per week. Pre-COVID, I must have consumed two hours of music (of all genres) per day getting to and from work, and doing an evening walk for exercise or being on the subway or in a taxi to the pub (I never speak to taxi drivers, they are always total cunts in any country). Add in the odd time at home when I’m doing some work or fannying about on here with music in the background.

With careful planning, anyone could probably get through 14-16 hours of new music a week just going about their normal week?

    That’s a shitter mate. Happy 50th all the same

    Happy Birthday, Grant 🍻

    bosstrabs With careful planning, anyone could probably get through 14-16 hours of new music a week just going about their normal week?

    It’s more finding tunes that mix together well, and that takes experimentation, not just listening back to tracks. Think of all your fave prog transitions, they aren’t happy accidents.

    Fair enough, you dj I don’t.

    But my starting point would be sifting the new releases to look for any new MUSCULAR PROG BANGERS.

    • Amps replied to this.

      Along_the_Wire
      Sounds like a boss plan, sure it can be resurrected when we’re out of this shite.

      Hope you had a great Birthday and the practice went well.

      Will miss you when you graduate from remedial class ✊

      Anyine recommend a good wav to mp3 converter.

      Had a look earlier and found loads online, where you upload and convert.

      Would prefer sw on my mac to do it

        Whilst we are on such a subject… other than mp3s, which other formats allow you to add artwork? I know I have asked this before. Sorry.

          Mad_Cyril i bought wavepad which is fine for a bit of rudimentary editing and conversion.

          Amps …AIFF, hence why they are preferable to WAV’s for me

          • Amps replied to this.

            Mad_Cyril
            I buy most of my music off Bandcamp these days . I always download the Wav file but if I want the MP3 file I download that as well.

              Dubman
              Rekordbox is recording my mixes in .wav format, so a bit too large to move around

                Dubman That’s what I use. Probably better stuff out there, but for the amount I use it, it’s a decent free option.

                Played for 4 hours last night, mostly new music, and listened to recording today. A very humbling experience. Key clashes all over the place, no clue of any flow. The moment you think you’re good you’re not. Over confidence is a bad thing too.

                  Homegrove i wd not be too hard on yourself! the flow if it ever comes (hardly ever for me) comes from knowing your records really well and having an instinct for what will work - rarely happens when working with a lot of new tracks - still what do i know - you are miles better than me!!!! i would totally shit myself playing on strange equipment to any actual humans!!!!!

                  Wasn’t being too hard on myself, more happy. Keeps me focused knowing I still can’t half ass this after 19 years.

                  Dubman How he doesn’t actually name Nina Kraviz is beyond me.

                    I just need the hat & glasses and I’m all in..cunta-claus is coming soon though.

                    Amps
                    PT 3..how to look cool behind the decks.

                    18 days later

                    Legend.

                    Used to follow him an Miles around.

                    Were boss when playing at Yellow in Mcr