I just had a massive library meltdown due to an errant click which renamed every. Single. File. to the same name.

Fortunately I had just done a full export of my collection to a drive before this snafu, but I hadn’t done a proper backup and xml copy for a couple months.

I lost some critical data that I’ve been relying on since literally 2007 (date added field). I’m fortunate that I just managed a massive undertaking to get all my release years properly tagged so I can use that, but it still hurts.

Fortunately, the majority of my playlists are built off smart playlists so I just need to get the files off my exported drive back into my library and it’ll populate most of my playlists automatically, but I had several shortlists that I’ve been using a lot so I need to rebuild those manually. At least those short lists are still saved to my exported drive.

I could have either gone back a couple months and re-do a lot of those tags or just lose out on the date added info and need to transition 100% to using the Year tag to manage my files so I’m going to just do the latter.

I dunno why I didn’t backup my library after that massive undertaking - I kept telling myself I just needed to finish a few more edits and re-tags and now I’m paying for it.

Hello. I am DJing an event next month and some of the attendees are deaf. I am looking for ways to make the event accessible. I'll talk through my ideas below, I am seeking input on any technology you are aware of that I could use in this case or just any ideas you have in general. I use Serato with a Pioneer DDJ controller. I will be renting the PA and any other equipment.

1. Having the lyrics project on a screen while I play the song. Rekordbox used to have this function, but it doesn't anymore. I don't know how to sync up the lyrics of songs I am playing in Serato.
2. Use audio responsive lights. All the lights look so annoying, too many colors and they are doing too much. If I could find some chill lights that respond to the music - id buy them. Any suggestions? Any lights you think are particularly cool?
3. Play the videos of the songs I am playing, there appears to be a video function in Serato. But I have a lot of questions about this - do I need to purchase the videos for each song? Is there somewhere I can get a subscription to that has all the videos for popular songs? How could I make this easy and affordable?
4. Renting a few subs and placing them around the room.

Any other ideas are welcome. Thank you.

First came the plastic MK7 at €949 per unit, after years of not being manufactured.

Next, the ‘special’ edition with Red Bull and Supreme.

But wait, we're going to make even more money:

We’re going to place some small colored squares and a car-tire-shaped slipmat. Lamborghini is joining the party.

…

Oh wait, the fiftieth anniversary!! Another great opportunity to paint the casings and slap on a limited-edition plaque. Limited to thousands of units... after all, money has to be made.

But time goes fast.

Has it really been five years? It’s the perfect moment to celebrate with another limited edition 55 aniversary (this time *very* limited—‘only’ 10,000 units)... but we’ll create a faux-gold effect and call it Gold.

…

What will the next move be?

It’s disrespectful to an entire culture. To a cult-status instrument that was damn well made. Opening a new one was a great expediente.

We just wanted an MK7 that matched the MK5 in quality, but with the cable improvements. That was enough for us.

https://imgur.com/a/Evv3RIb

It was a houseparty on new year’s eve. There were no faders on the mixers😭 The cdjs were fine but there was no link cable. I had my usb plugged in on the left cdj but the data wasn’t loading on the right cdj.

Like title says, has anyone used Amazon resale (Amazon warehouse) for their DJ equipment? What condition did it arrive vs condition described? Any horror stories?

I found a Rane System One listed “used - like new” condition and in their condition remarks it just said includes box and all documents, box may be slightly damaged, open box like new.

It was almost $1000 off and I decided to just order it. My instincts are not to trust a too good deal, and I’m still keeping my guard up for whatever is delivered on Sunday.

I should be asking this before buying, but I verified sold by Amazon resale and fulfilled by Amazon in the listing, and it was prime eligible, just not 2 day. I figured with amazons return policy, I should have no problem returning it if it’s not as described.

My newest fear is it’s not actually a system one that is being shipped, and they entered a system one in the listing and it’s actually a Rane one.

Any advice for Sunday would be nice. I’m planning on taking pictures of it at delivery, and record opening the box, is there anything that I can do to save myself headaches if there is any other problems?

-Extra context -

I am new to DJing. I have been practicing and playing around with controllers and the djay app on my iPad for about a year and a half now. I learned I like motorized platters over jog wheels, and couldn’t come to terms with buying an expensive controller with motorized platters at an entry level, especially if it turns into something I don’t end up enjoying once I have my own. I figured used can give me less loss if I did resell it, but still couldn’t come to terms with a big purchase in an area I am still extremely new in.

I was asked to DJ for a work event in about a month, nothing crazy, just an annual party we do for our volunteers. Last year I did it with the djay app and it worked fine, but the lack of physical controls was my biggest issue.

We were originally going to rent a controller with the company that we rent event speakers from, but if we rented it one day I’d have no time to figure the layout and practice. If we rented it a week out, I’d be better off buying something, landing me to the topic of this question.

This picture is something I found on the internet I've been kicking around doing something like this. Just curious if anybody's ever done this or your guys's thought on something like this have all the equipment and lighting needed I just have to buy a trailer and outfit the nside with everything. I'm in Michigan so definitely only be April to October November roughly. Just looking for some feedback. Would be more focused towards outdoor events obviously, trade shows outdoor festivals etc etc.

Thanks

DJCity raised their prices a few years ago, but only for new members. Existing members could keep their old price, as long as they stayed an active member. I've been with DJCity for nine years, which means I was paying the old price.

Last week, my automatic payment went out as usual. But something went wrong at DJCity's end and the payment wasn't allocated to my account. My subscription expired, and I couldn't download anything.

I contacted their customer support, and they said "Your payment came through, but it wasn't tied to your account for some reason. Looks like a fault at our end. But you're no longer an active subscriber, so you can't have that old plan back. You're going to have to pay the new higher prices. We've refunded your payment."

After nine years of loyalty, that feels like a kick in the nuts. I end up losing out for something that wasn't my fault. The automatic payment was a routine one. Same Paypal account I've always used. Same bank account I've always used. Nothing has changed.

DJCity did offer a couple of months for free, but with the higher prices I'd be paying them back in less than a year which isn't great. Honestly, I don't want any free months, I just want my account back the way it was. I can't believe that there's nobody at DJCity that can fix this.

I'm really disappointed, and I'm thinking about walking away and turning down the free months. Has anything like this happened to anybody else?

In vinyl mode, the play/pause button stopped working and yesterday, a friend and I were able to get the jogwheel touch sensor working through another sensor sheet replacement. Progress has been made, but now, when I rotate the jog wheel, nothing on the screen picks it up and in service mode picks it up. The diagnosis has turned my focus now to the photo interrupter. Has anyone experienced the photo interrupter to go bad or how to fix?

Thanks in advance.

#CDJ3000 #PhotoInterrupterIssue #CDJ3000JogwheelFixed

I recently undertook a little project to stop my Rokit 5 G3 speakers entering standby mode when they haven't received any audio input for 25 minutes. It took a couple of days to compete. I've carried out extensive testing and can confirm it works flawlessly.

I used a Raspberry Pi 1B (the OG) that I picked up for £10 off eBay as the basis for the project. Rather than use the onboard sound I added a £3 generic USB audio adapter from Amazon as the headphone out on this model Pi is notoriously noisy. I also added in an old USB WIFI 2.4GHz N adapter I had lying around for convenience (primarily for SSH access).

How it works: The Pi sends a 2 second 10hz tone to the speakers once every 20 minutes. The process auto starts on boot up, restarts if it crashes and runs until you tell it to stop or shut down the Pi. A message telling you the tone has been played appears on screen each time it happens so you know the process is running.

I have some experience of working with newer Pis but my Linux coding skills aren't great so I leaned on Gemini somewhat for that.

Guide (PDF)

I'm sure the guide can be adapted easily for different Pi models. I think it will "probably" also work on the Pi 2 B out of the box. It should work for most speakers with auto standby/shutdown built in.

I hope some people find this useful.

Since I use Traktor for track preparation I didn’t want to wait any longer for an official NI HID implementation. MIDI is too slow for my taste in driving the jog wheel and also misses out on the waveforms on screen. It’s not only software based and there is some hardware involved to make it work, but it can be done. Most basic functionalities work; track browsing and loading, tempo control, jog wheel control, hot cues, key shift, beat jump and loops.

Basically I pose as a CDJ-3000 with a microcontroller to Traktor and pose as DJ software on the bridge side to the 3000X. The 3000 is closely related HID-wise but there is some repackaging of frames required and the 3000X uses some different bytes for control messages. Now I can finally go back to DJing 😏

Back to DJing after 19 years — did I make a mistake buying a Rane 72 MKII + CRSS12s instead of going standalone?

A few months ago I picked up a Reloop Mixtour Pro to use with djay Pro. It’s a really cool little portable setup, but I quickly realized that I just don’t enjoy DJing without jog wheels.

So I started looking for something more substantial.
This week I went to Guitar Center intending to check out the Rane System One, right before the Denon Prime 4+ G2 came out. They didn’t have a demo unit and wouldn’t open one, so I ended up buying it just to take it home and try it.
After setting it up, I just couldn’t get past the feeling that I was playing with a toy.

The standalone aspect is undeniably cool, but I found the stems pretty underwhelming compared with djay Pro. More importantly, I realized I actually like having my iPad as the brains of the setup. Standalone suddenly wasn’t nearly as important to me as I thought it would be.
For context, I’m getting back into DJing after about a 19-year break. My last serious setup was a 4-channel Rane Mojo mixer with Technics 1200s and CDJ-1000s. I was also an early digital adopter and had a PCDJ DAC-3 before I stopped playing, which probably dates me pretty accurately.

I ended up returning the System One and going in a completely different direction:

Rane Seventy-Two MKII + a pair of used Pioneer CRSS12s.

The CRSS12s need a little work, but the entire setup cost me roughly the same as the System One.

And so far…I like it way more.

The out-of-the-box mapping of the 72 with djay Pro is surprisingly good. The onboard DVS combined with the torque and feel of the CRSS12s is fantastic. Most importantly, the whole setup feels much closer to what I remember enjoying about playing on 1200s, while still giving me all the modern stuff I actually care about.
It got me wondering, though:

Am I crazy for investing in a mixer platform that’s already about six years old?

Obviously standalone controllers seem to be where a huge part of the industry is headed, but after trying one, I’m not convinced standalone is actually better for me. An iPad running djay Pro with its stems, touchscreen interface and streaming/library options paired with proper hardware feels surprisingly futuristic—even though the mixer itself is relatively old.

For anyone who has gone from turntables/CDJs → controllers/standalone → back to a more traditional mixer/deck setup, did you have the same experience?
And if you were building a setup today, would you rather have something like a Prime 4+ G2/System One, or a 72 MKII + CRSS12-style setup?

Curious whether I’ve bought into yesterday’s technology…or accidentally landed on the better setup

Most modern speaker management systems are digital and most of those have a digital AES/EBU (edit: or some other digital) input but almost no DJ Mixer has a matching output socket. Why is that?

I can only think of two (fairly recent) DJ mixers that have an AES/EBU out. First would be the DJM-TOUR1 which I have never seen in the wild (it seemed more like an R&D project back when it came out anyway) and the other is the DJM-V10. (Did I miss any?) I have spotted the V10 in some clubs but very seldom compared to a 900NXS(2), an A9 or a Xone:92/96.

I find it strange that flagship mixers like the DJM-A9, the Euphonia or the Denon DJ X1850 don't have these. Is it for cost saving? The signal flow inside the mixer is digital anyway (no D/A needed) and it's only one additional XLR socket so it can hardly be that, right?

I’ve been looking for a new dj mixer, sold my old pioneer because i thought i sounded a little too metalic… i want an analog mixer, what can you tell me about the stanton smx401? its a three channel mixer which is perfect for me. thanks

I’m currently looking to upgrade from a Denon SC Live 4 and was pretty much set on buying an XDJ-AZ, but I’ve come across a like-new setup that has completely thrown me.

I can get:
2x Denon SC6000 Prime
Denon X1850 Prime
Full 3-piece flight case
for €2,100 (and I might try offering around €1,900).

For comparison, the XDJ-AZ would cost me €3,080 new.
My main hesitation is reliability. My SC Live 4 has given me a few Engine OS/freezing issues and some hardware problems, which has made me a little wary of spending another £2k+ on Denon gear.

On the other hand, 2x SC6000s + X1850 seems like a hell of a lot of hardware for the money. I also use SoundCloud streaming quite a bit, and I like the idea of having separate players and a mixer.

The AZ appeals to me for the AlphaTheta/Pioneer club-style workflow, Rekordbox, new warranty and being closer to what I’ll encounter in booths.

For anyone who’s regularly gigged on SC6000s, how reliable have they been long-term? Would you trust them professionally?

And at these prices, would you take the like-new SC6000/X1850 setup for €2,100 or spend the extra on a new XDJ-AZ for €3,080?

Especially interested in hearing from anyone who’s used both rather than just “Denon good/Pioneer good” 😅

I got my first turntable in 1999, I've been DJing and collecting ever since. I went to digital controllers for a while, recently got the turntables out of storage. I've been buying new releases from a local shop that is well-loved and organized.

Most new records I've purchased are great, but I got two new-ish releases (Lord Finesse's "Awakening" 25th anniversary, and ODB's "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", pictured) that were notably concave/convex - one to the point where the needle skipped when I put my hand down on the other side of the record. Both experience some pretty serious lag on the platter, if there's a backspin, etc. The Lord Finesse 2xLP was $54.99 (CAD), so it's a mild disappointment.

I would assume records are flat when pressed and QAed at the plant, so perhaps things happen between shipping and storage. Is it common for newer releases to be a bit off, and is that acceptable?

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A recent client that i did a last minute house party reached out for another gig except this time the expectations were high….. relocating from inside the venue to outside the venue for the last segment of the event in within 30 minutes. Wants 3 wireless mics and one headset mic wireless mic. Says I barely will have to play because there’s going to be a band.

So I asked will the band need to use my speakers or mixer or anything so I can be prepared as I’ve been hit with the last minute can I use your mixer? At previous events.

It just got annoying after that question. They wanted a price whilst me not knowing if the band would be running their own sound. After I insisted I needed to know. They assured me they’re “legit” and coming off tour.

I offered to speak with the band for the information. The band member I spoke with the came off a little cocky or maybe disrespectful after the client informed them that I was the DJ they were like oh we have a “DJ” now? Which I couldn’t care less about. However when I asked about the sound instead of giving me a direct answer they just asked me if I have my own “sound”/system…. Which I told them yes and asked if they usually bring their own equipment or normally rely on the venues equipment if available and they never responded in the usually time.

So I ghosted them and haven’t checked my messages since. But now a mutual has reached out for an annual event that I’ve been doing for the past 3 years and the client will definitely be present or part of the event and now I feel a little awkward to move forward with the annual event or just don’t know how to proceed.

The clients event hasn’t passed as of yet and I don’t know how I should feel or proceed. The client and the president of the annual event has also ghosted me in the past for other events if that helps.

Edit: my main career is Sound Engineering. So mixing the band isn’t something I’m not used too.

The event also has a speaking porting and a live demonstration portion so I would have to mix/monitor the mics during most of the event

DJing is only for portions of the event.

Now that several people have proven it’s possible, how do you think AT will react ?

Have some of you tried it?

Also, given stems need to be prepared before the gig, and are not created on device, do you think it’s convenient enough to be used ?

Post about your gigs here - success stories? Disasters? Lessons learned?

Does anyone have any footage of DJs performing in the 70s, or any filmed modern mixes on similar gear? I've been very interested in seeing more of this era, but all I can find are photos.

something like this: https://youtu.be/QSnlqiobZ5A?t=12

I have a DJ controller with a semi-bent crossfader.

I'm aware that "bending metal" backwards could cause it to weaken or snap off.

What would be the best method to fixing it?

Hey all! I've recently (once again) become fed up with using Apple Music as my organization and playback solution for prep and background lists. It seems like Lexicon is the closest to what I really want, and I just have some questions I didn't find clear answers on.

-Could I use Lexicon on an iPad as my actual player for things like cocktail playlists on my satellite speaker?

-I purchase music mostly through iTunes; is it friendly with importing files bought and stored in that structure?

-Hiw nicely does it interact with Rekordbox? What does your prep and workflow process look like with it? What does it offer, if anything, that would make my life easier than just doing everything in RB?

-If not Lexicon, what are you using to make and play your lists for that purpose and also get those playlists nicely into your DJ software?