Mad_Cyril

Literally plug phone into PC / laptop and then drag and drop the tracks into it. None of that iTunes nonsense

    7 months later

    I have a very annoying issue.

    How can I tell iTunes/Music that I have the actual AIFF/WAV file on my hard drive rather than it thinking the track is an iCloud item? Ive moved libraries onto a new Mac and have my master iTunes Library I can access via the cloud, but all my actual HQ files are on an external drive that I want my library to point to.

    In the old days you just switched off wifi, tried to play the track and iTunes would ask you to try and locate the file. Then you would redirect it to the external drive. That option is now gone.

    Only other option I have is re import the AIFF/WAV files but then all my playlists will be screwed as they point to the previous version of the track. Or download the track from the cloud in crappy 256kps format that defeats the whole object of be spending $$$$s over the years on better bit rates

    Real PITA

    Lol at iTunes. The biggest pile of wank ever invented and my reason for ditching everything Apple 10 years ago. Amazing it sounds like it’s still as shite as it ever was

      How/Why people still use Apple App’s is beyond me. Overly elaborate hipster shite.

        You get sucked into the ecosystem and they start taking bits away. Moving towards a more consumer focus than a pro user. A right pain.

        SM001 I buy all my pop/ indie-music from there, don’t really use it otherwise anymore. The only other option to actually buy a lot of that music is Amazon, the plus side of iTunes is that it organizes the music for you then too.

            Homegrove
            What’s the sound quality like through Amazon. I always thought it was poor.

              Yeah, iTunes is better on that regard too. You can buy more and more of that stuff from Bandcamp too thankfully these days.

              Mad_Cyril Have you tried the beaport steam service stright to your Denon decks? im kind of intrugued by that. Sounds like fun.

                  mono-stereo
                  Was put off by the fact that you can’t record. Also being tied into one particular source for tunes.

                  Not sure if that’s still the case re: recording.

                  Other than that looks pretty solid, Denon have just upgraded the whole OS/DB so is miles slicker too in terms of processing

                      Mad_Cyril I don’t now. I totally would, I mean I really loved it, but I had rekordbox/laptop failures during performances on some streams where the music would stop because of a bug or cable problem, or moisture / hot air being too much for the macbook.. whatever it was I never regained confidence in this method again so reverted to buying tunes.

                      You can record the sets by plugging a recorder into the back of your mixer/controller’s Booth Out and route it to field recording devices such as a Tascam DR05, Tascam DR-40 like mine (records crowd noise with inbuilt microphones during club events).

                      I’d just buy a used one.

                      Alternatively, if you have another laptop or computer (not the one you DJ from) you can get one of these and route the audio into it, and plug this into that laptop - it will convert the RCA signal to digital audio via USB to the computer for you and you can record via free software such as Audacity.

                        (you can justify the expense in this by the sheer saving you get by using link and not buying every tune you like)

                        I remember the pain of iTunes as a DJ. I think as a music fan it would be fine if you collected music in a more ‘everyday user’ fashion and didn’t want to DJ from it. I think it works well for the masses.

                        But I have a portion of my hard drive from an era when I used to use it to burn CDs for CDJs before going to USB and I just wish I hadn’t.

                        For DJing, I still say two Pioneer cdjs, a mixer, headphones and a usb/sd card are king, and will be for some time. Denon, Serato, lugging vinyl, streaming etc are imposters.

                        Still use iTunes to rip cds which I store on an external hard drive, works fine with my iPods. Can’t be fucked with storing any of it in the cloud.

                          mono-stereo
                          Been on it today now some tosser has made me think about it again!!

                          Seems pretty decent to be fair.

                          Particularly taken with the idea I can try tunes in mixes whereas without would basically be a bit of a punt.

                          Currently throwing together 5 - 7 tunes then getting stuck. Could be a lack of imagination but then finding something to progress the mix becomes a ball ache. Beatport link could help here.

                          Especially when I’m only using at home anyway

                              I create playlists in Apple Music and then utilize UKeySoft on a PC to rip that playlist into FLAC files. Sometimes the size of the playlist is 25 - 80 tracks. I add them to a folder and then import folder to Rekordbox on the iMac used exclusively for music storage and Rekordbox. Rekordbox then used to export a USB which is then plugged into an XDJ-1000 MK2. I may not be the help you were asking for but thought to explain my setup. Outside of my iMac using an operating system that is steadily becoming unsupported by Apple (High Sierra)…think my setup is somewhat standard.

                              DJing sounds like an absolute ball ache.