Managing your tunes across multiple devices

Amps

Mad_Cyril You’ve replied to yourself here chief, who is this meant to be to?

Mad_Cyril

Corrected!

Amps

Mad_Cyril What is SW?

Amps

Amps What is SW?

Help us out here @Mad_Cyril

jonattonyeah

Mad_Cyril Neither of those has enough of the tunes I want.

This is stuff I’d buy from Beatport, Traxsource etc…

Spotify has a pretty extensive collection, MC. I was honestly quite surprised when I finally signed up. I use it mostly to make sure I enjoy the entire tune rather than the Beatport clip, buying after. Most new and newer releases are on there, unless there’s some international issues around songs being blocked that I’m unaware of.

Mad_Cyril

I know mate, I have Spotify,.and have spent ages picking iTunes out of every crevice!

I buy tunes and want to record mixes, you can’t do that with streaming.

Looks more like Rekordbox cloud is where it might be at

jonattonyeah

Mad_Cyril

Ahhh gotcha. I misunderstood.

baggers44

Mad_Cyril same sort of problem - - iTunes is annoying . I sync mine to dropbox and play from there on the move. the features are v basic and you have to play each track individually - no playlists. Works for longer mixes too which are too big for iTunes to load into the cloud. suboptimal solution though.

Mad_Cyril

Amps
Sorry Amps, Software. Not very exciting.

I’m pretty time poor at the moment for all of this, hence the thinking.
Haven’t e enough done you that clip ref the filters yet!!

Amps

So… essentially the issue here is that you put a playlist together on your phone, and then have to recreate it on your DJing laptop?

I’d make your DJing laptop the home for all your dance music singles, maybe keep the albums and non dance music elsewhere or wherever they are now. Connect your phone to the DJing laptop to transfer and then to the phone for your playlists.

As for then transferring your playlists back to the DJing laptop… not the biggest effort in the world is it? As long as your not shifting 100s of tracks?

I download on one machine, and then transfer them to another for mixing. But as mentioned in another thread, I do a lot of my selecting in multiple carts on Beatport, download handfuls of tracks, mix them, save them, listen back in the Nazi sled as I romp across the Cheshire plain. No playlisting as such, just filtering and sorting before I buy.

Mad_Cyril

Amps essentially the issue here is that you put a playlist together on your phone, and then have to recreate it on your DJing laptop?

Nope. I want to be able to take the tunes from my DJ laptop, play on phone, feck around and sort into some kind of playlist that I can then synch back to my laptop.

I don’t have the skills to pre filter and be able to mix them, still at the bottom of remedial.

What would really help is if I could take, say my grotcore playlist over to my phone, listen and sift it, then whack a playlist back to my laptop.

Not only would it be mkr flexible, but would give me more time, which is short, to listen and sort tunes.

Rekordbox seems to offer this, but its 1.4k eye phone then £15/month.

What I want to do seems pretty natural, and shouldn’t be that hard with cloud tech.

Along_the_Wire

Don’t go down the Rekordbox cloud thing - absolute shite. Like Amps said, use the laptop as the epicentre and transfer playlists that already exist there to your phone.

Amps

Mad_Cyril I just wouldn’t worry too much about the ‘synching’ or transferring of playlists from one to the other, as I said, as long as they aren’t hundreds of tunes long, it shouldn’t take more then two minutes to recreate.

Otherwise… maybe look for some software that will let you export your play list as a CSV text file or something?

Also, fuck phones for music, it just murders your battery. Dedicated player. Such a thing might even give you an answer to your playlist issue.

Old-Dutch

Yep, in a pre-Covid world, I would put my mew tracks on my phone and sort them into a playlist on my train journeys and then sort them into the same order in a folder on Serato and mix through to see how well they go

Mad_Cyril

Old-Dutch
What did ye use on your phone?

Old-Dutch

Mad_Cyril

Just make my own playlists on the Samsung music player which was already on the phone when I bought it

deathbysmurf

Edit: helps if I read ahead…^

Listening to playlists on my phone has been my basis for working out mixes for years now. Can’t say from experience that I know what the cloud system is like, but my laptop library is around 1,000 tracks or so that I’ve pruned over the years, and I’ve found it helpful to a) have a library of tunes organized by multiple aspects, and b) have a setup that is capable of categorizing those aspects and exporting your track history to a useable format (html, xml, etc.).

Mad_Cyril

Old-Dutch DEcent lpayer, nothing came with my s10 5gees so assumed they didn’t have one.

That’ll go some way to resolving.

Still can’t believe all the big players haven’t got an offering that does except Rekordbox (£15 / month is nuts though for a hobbyist)

Old-Dutch

Mad_Cyril

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

mono-stereo

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

Along_the_Wire

The Rokordbox thing is a right faff an all.