Unpopular opinion. I really like Beatport.
Beatport
I wish I had some of the money I spent there back, lol.
Hey better than the record days where I’d be hammered and I’d order a bunch of tracks from like Hard To Find, 3 Beat, and Planet X. Package would arrive a few days later and I’d be like what I don’t remember ordering anything. Put them on the old 1200’s and wow I must’ve been drunk these are terrible.
At least BP is just a $2 commitment.
Any promo codes knocking about at the moment?
Anyone experiencing any problems logging in to the website from an android phone?
I’m able to log into my account via a laptop, but when I try the same from my phone, I’m getting an invalid prompt.
ScottBailey nevermind. Working now…
ScottBailey
Rinsing Grant’s tracklist Scott?!
Mad_Cyril yoink!
ScottBailey They seem to have issues all the time. Haven’t been able to play music on there using Chrome on a Mac for over a year. Have to use Firefox or other to browse.
Amps I’ve always used firefox on my laptop, so not noticed that tbf. Frustrating not to be able to filter by releases, or turn on ‘pre-order’ on my phone though. Fed up having to trawl through all the compilations being churned out at the moment!
ScottBailey compilations being churned out
An end of year thing I guess? Not something I usually look at to be honest.
Amps I use a Mac and Chrome and never had an issue. Strange.
Beatport need a few more features. The ability to filter out comps would be nice but probably not viable.
Definitely the ability to filter out tracks you’ve already listened too would be handy. I know the bulk of promo’s are dropped on a Friday but they add them all the time.
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SM001 you can definitely filter out comps’ on a laptop by using the ‘type’ filter to just see ‘releases’ only, but I don’t know if they use java (or some alternative) for that feature that my phone doesn’t recognise.
SM001 The thing they are crying out for is a tagging system of some form. So, if you really want a nice juxtapose track next, maybe some 303 acid to rub up against the piano track you just played, you can go into ‘prog house’ and then filter stuff tagged with ‘303 acid’. That would save having to filter through every track in the hope of finding one with a bit of appropriate acid.
I’ve not used BP in years. I don’t know why you’re all not using Crates. It runs off the BP back so you’re effectively using BP but with a much, much better UI. It’s a lot quicker than the BP UI, there’s more functionality than BP. Once you’ve spent 10 mins setting some personalised crates up it’s an absolutely dream to use. You link your BP account and you can purchase directly, so you never need to visit BP again.
It was jointly created by Mark Slee who owns SF’s Manjumasi label with Atish and another guy.
crates.co is the address for it. Give it a try.
Looks like Beatport but with an even smaller interface and artwork. Pass.
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Kumquat don’t know why you’re all not using Crates. It runs off the BP back so you’re effectively using BP but with a much, much better UI. It’s a lot quicker than the BP UI, there’s more functionality than BP
This is brilliant Simon, first time I’ve had a productive rummage for a long time
Can someone do mean a favour and try to log into Beatport via their phone (pref’ android) please?
Not been able to log into their website via my phone for the last couple of weeks now. Either get a “500 internal server error” screen come up, or says “invalid login”.
Everything working fine from my computer, and been really careful typing username and password in, so not sure if it’s something their end or not.
Cheers in advance
Just tried logging in, no dice.
As soon as i try type in user name it flips.
On a Galaxy s20
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Mad_Cyril cheers MC. I’m on an S8.
Reason I want to use my phone is because our wifi in the flat it rubbish and it takes forever to download tracks, whereas it takes seconds when I use 4g on my phone. Was working fine up until 2 weeks ago.
Basically goes to random pages as soon as I hit login.
Is over WiFi too.
Fine off my eye pad.
Suspect an android issue (call me Sherlock!)
Try switching your browser to ‘desktop site’ and then back to mobile afterwards - worked for me on an S10.
Mad_Cyril exactly the same as me then.
Thanks for doing that. Thought I’d been hacked or something. Even changed my password when logged in on my laptop, just in case!
Echo Cheers for the tip, however I just tried that and still get “invalid login”
Just to mix it up, I was logged out of Sound cloud and now can’t access my account anymore and after multiple non-replied to emails have decided to black ball that shite for good.
Thanks for your time, guys.
ScottBailey Cheers for the tip, however I just tried that and still get “invalid login”
Have you tried turning it on and off again?
Smallman1 why didn’t I think of that earlier?! Knew I could rely on you, Ed….
ScottBailey why didn’t I think of that earlier?! Knew I could rely on you, Ed….
One does what one can!
Separate note, anyone got a Beatport Code? Could have sworn I saw one the other day but can’t find now??
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Some codes just popped up
SAVE10, SAVE20 & SAVE30 for purchases > 20, 40 & 60 $ respectively.
I buy through a US VPN, spent $60 and was VERY surprised to find SAVE30 took $30 off the price, not 30%
40 odd tunes for just over 20 UK quids.
Touch**
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Only Mp3 mate, amateur hour over here!