Mitch

updated thread title to reflect being sold

Yer i still delete the original after it's copied into iTunes. It's the equivalent of just putting it in your music folder really - I just like having iTunes sorting it into its folders automatically

Once upon a time we had a rep system. We just haven't been able to integrate it again since we upgraded the backend a couple of years ago.

Listening to this (again) https://soundcloud.com/flightfacilities/ff2002-2012decade Tracklist: 2002 1. Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar 2. Chicken Lips - He Not In 3. Justus Kohncke - 2 After 909 4. Metro Area - Miura 5. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Palladium 6. Cassius - The Sound of Violence 2003 7. Tok Tok vs Soffie O - Day Of Mine (Turntablerocker Remix) / Tiga - Burning Down 8. Seelenluft - Manila (Ewan Pearson Remix) 9. DJ T - Freemind 2004 10. Sharam Jay - Feel Nobody 11. Annie - Chewing Gum (Headman Remix) 12. Chromeo - Needy Girl 13. Cut Copy - Saturdays 14. Mylo - Otto's Journey 15. Zoot Woman - Taken It All (Le Knight Club Remix) 16. The Rapture - Sister Saviour (DFA Remix) 2005 17. Les Rythmes Digitales - What's That Sound? (LRD Remix) 18. Mylo - Muscle Car (Tiga Remix) 19. Digitalism - Zdarlight 20. Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Edition) 21. Van She - Kelly (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix) 22. Gorillaz - Dare (Soulwax Remix) / Whomadewho - Out The Door (Superdiscount Remix) 23. Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Mylo Remix) 24. The Presets - The Girl and The Sea 25. AC/OT - Acid Is Back / Switch - A Bit Patchy 26. Soulwax - NY Excuse 27. Daft Punk - Technologic / Human After All / On/Off 2006 28. Tiga - Welcome to Planet Sexor // Far From Home 29. Hot Chip - Over & Over (Maurice Fulton Remix) 30. The Rapture - Get Myself Into It (Prince Language Disco Edit) 31. Riot In Belgium - The Acid Never Lies / La Musique 32. Nicky Van She vs Dangerous Dan - Around The World 33. Etienne De Crecy - Fuck 34. I Am Finn - I Love You (Van She Tech Remix) 35. The Futureheads - Worry About It Later (Switch Remix) 36. Tiga - You Gonna Want Me 37. New Young Pony Club - Get Dancey 38. Booka Shade - Night Falls 39. Para One - Dudun Dun 2007 40. DJ Mehdi - Lucky Boy (Outlines Remix) 41. Metric - Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix) 42. Chemical Brothers - Saturate 43. Klaxons - Golden Skans (Erol Alkan Ekstra Spektral Remix) 44. Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows 45. Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix) 46. Lifelike - So Electric 47. MGMT - Kids 48. LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix) 49. Holy Ghost! - Hold On 50. Justice - D.A.N.C.E 2008 51. Sebastien Tellier - Roche 52. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix) / Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor 53. Presets - This Boy's In Love 54. DJ-Mehdi - Pocket Piano (Joakim Remix) 55. The Bumblebeez - Rio! 56. PNAU - Baby (Breakbot Remix) 57. Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix) / Hearts On Fire 58. Tiga - Mind Dimension 2 (Soulwax Version) 59. Kim - Party Machini (Tomboy Remix) 60. Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) 2009 61. Yacht - Psychic City (Classixx Remix) 62. Damn Arms - Destination 63. Phoenix - Lisztomania (Holy Ghost! Remix) 64. Tiga - Love Don't Dance Here Anymore 65. Shazam - Pool Party 2009 66. Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Shazam Remix) 67. DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Crazy P Remix) 2010 68. Tensnake - Coma Cat 69. Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix) 70. Flight Facilities - Crave You feat. Giselle 71. The Swiss - Bubble Bath 72. Chilly Gonzales - Ivory Tower 73. Light Year - His Or Hers 74. Storm Queen - Look Right Through 2011 75. Flight Facilities - Foreign Language feat. Jess 76. Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way 77. Jagwar Ma - Come Save Me 2012 78. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse 79. Miike Snow - The Wave 80. Flight Facilities - With You feat. Grovesnor 81. Van She - Jamaica 82. Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune feat. Christine Hoberg

Bump + updated OP with latest firmware versions + added CDJ 2000 NXS + added variants of the other models into titles

Different type of sound. Not really what i play but kinda cool

Lives on 2 dollars a day. Nek minute cdj 2000s

Following up after killer remixes for local Australian talent Mike Metro & Benson (In The Ghetto - Jump to This Records), as well as Sydney producer Danny T (Sex Tonight - Sweat it Out! Music), Belgium house producer Bongo has smashed out a new EP. Featuring his own signature deep house synth sound, this 2 track EP is one you don't want to miss. https://soundcloud.com/bongomusic/bongo-reality-ep Coming soon on Antelope records, keep an eye out for it While you're waiting for that to come out, check out his remix for Mike Metro & Benson here: https://soundcloud.com/bongomusic/mike-metro-benson-in-the Also check out the remix for Danny T. Slop Rock (TOMY on the forum) also got in on the remixes for this one: https://soundcloud.com/bongomusic/danny-t-sex-tonight-bongo

Added converting the ID3 tags to v2.4 (Part B step 4) which i forgot to put in there originally

Well it now outputs to AIFF or FLAC which makes it worth it IMO, so much easier to process and maintain those tracks. Also probably a bit more stable - I had the odd track which didn't encode properly on 3, haven't had that trouble in 4

See here for how-to post everything ->> viewtopic.php?f=54&t=12659

Also note you can apply the similar steps for use with traktor / serato, as they both also integrate with itunes

PRO TIP ALERT Most DJs suck at organising music. Nothing makes me cringe more than seeing "Track 1 - Uknown Artist" in someone's collection. I have never met anyone more OCD than myself for keeping my music collection perfectly tagged & sorted (Gandy would come close/equal), so I thought I'd share how i do all of this. I have devised this method around DJing in clubs using Pioneer CDJ players with USB functionality. This assumes you are using MP3 files, however is still applicable to using WAV or AIFF, just a couple of extra steps Software I use: -Platinum notes 4: to equalise the volume of all the tracks -Mixed in Key 5: write the key of each track to the song tag -iTunes: library management, playlist creation & general listening -Rekordbox: exporting to USB ---------------------------------- PART A: configuring program preferences/settings (Initial configuration - only need to do once) 1 - Platinum Notes I have platinum notes write to a predefined folder in my Music Folder (~/PN Analysed). Every file I scan through Platinum Notes gets saved to this folder. To do this -Open platinum notes - Click personalise - Output location -> specific folder -> select the "PN Analysed" folder you've created 2 - Mixed in Key (MIK) I have MIK overwrite to my comments field for easy viewing in iTunes, as well as the key field for easy browsing and sorting on my CDJs & rekordbox. To configure this: -Open MIK -Click personalise -Update tags -> copy settings as per pic below 3 - iTunes I have iTunes copy files into its folder when adding files to library, as well as self-sort all music into the folder structure "[Artist] -> [Album] -> [tracknumber] [Tracktitle].mp3". This allows for easy retrieval of files and saves the worry of manually creating folders and moving files around inside your music folder. To configure this (assumes using iTunes 11): -Open iTunes -Open preferences (command + , on mac || edit menu -> preferences on windows) -Advanced tab -> tick "Keep iTunes Media folder organised" & "Copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library" -Click OK -view Menu -> Show sidebar -view Menu -> column browser -> show column browser -view Menu -> view options -> ensure artist, album, genre, year, beats per minute, time and comments are ticked Your iTunes now looks more like it was in previous versions, with the playlists on the side. Now - for each genre of music you will be adding/Using -file -> add playlist folder -> name it as the genre -inside each folder, create a playlist in the format "yyyy-mm" (e.g. 2013-05 for May 2013). This ensures they show up in correct order when sorted in alphabetic order -Create a folder called "unsorted" with a playlist inside it You should now have a list of genres as folders on the left hand side of your iTunes, + an "unsorted" playlist folder (I also have a mixes playlist folder I export to my iPod). 4 - Rekordbox I essentially only use rekordbox as an interface to get the tunes onto USB so they are nicely formatted for use on the players. Also set predefined cues/hot cues & loops so they are ready for when you load the tracks up on your player. To configure rekordbox: -Open rekordbox -file -> preferences -on the GENERAL tab -> make sure you UNTICK "enable key analysis on import" - this is so rekordbox won't overwrite the camelot key you just spent adding in using MIK with a standard notation key -on the EXPORT tab -> CATEGORY sub-tab -> ensure artist, album, playlist, key, genre, year, bpm, track, history, search and folder are in the active categories -On the EXPORT tab -> SORT sub-tab -> Ensure Artist, Album, BPM, Key, Genre & Time are in the active categories -On the EXPORT tab -> COLUMN sub-tab -> select key as item shown next to track name on CDJ -On the EXPORT tab -> my settings sub-tab -> select settings as to how you like to use the players. I personally like to ensure master tempo & vinyl mode are on in there settings Setting all those allows for nice browsing by key and playlist on the players -Go to playlists -Right click on playlists and create a playlist folder for each genre you wish to import/play Now check you've configured rekordbox, for each USB you're going to use: -Insert USB -Give them an appropriate name in Windows Explorer/Mac Finder (e.g. DEEPHOUSE-1) -Open rekordbox -Say yes to any prompts regarding importing your settings to the usb. -Open devices screen in rekordbox -Click your USB. -Give your usb a device name - This will be what shows up when you're using link and have multiple devices to choose from -Go to category tab on the right, and check to see you have the following. Arrange them into whatever order you'd like them to show up as on the usb OK, the hardest Part is done! now for Part B.... ---------------------------------- PART B: Processing / Sorting Music (Do this each time you download a bunch of dope new tunes) 1 - Downloading the tracks -Tracks go to your downloads folder -You can move them to another folder inside your downloads folder, such as "new music". You can also set up scripts to do this automatically if you're really keen (like me). 2 - Analysing through platinum notes -Open platinum notes -Drag all tracks you just downloaded into the window and click "Start Processing" -Wait a few minutes, and all your tracks will now have a new copy of them in the "PN Analysed" folder we created earlier. -You can now archive / delete the original copy you downloaded. I used to keep the original downloaded copy until i'd listened through the files to make sure platinum notes had made no mistakes - however I don't bother anymore as the program is a lot more stable. 3 - Analysing with Mixed in Key -Open your "PN analysed" folder -Open Mixed in Key -Drag all the songs you just analysed from PN into the mixed in key window -Wait a few minutes until all of those are processed -Quit MIK 4 - Adding to iTunes & sorting -Open your "PN analysed" folder -Drag all the songs you just analysed into the playlist you created inside the "Unsorted" playlist folder. -If you are using MP3 files -> highlight all tracks you just imported (command + a for mac, control + a for windows) -> right click -> convert ID3 tags -> choose 2.4 -> click OK. This updates the tags so they are all standard, can solve some compatibility issues and strange tag encoding on some tracks. -FIX ALL THE LABELLING ON THE TRACKS - it is important you do this now, for a number of reasons. 1) if you don't do it now, you never will. 2) it makes you listen / familiarise yourself with the tracks (even if you only skim through and listen to parts of it). 3)if you fix the tags at a later date, iTunes moves them into a different folder as per the automatic sorting rules, making them show up as missing files in rekordbox -After you've labellled all your tracks, sort the playlist by genre -Batch highlight and move each genre into the current month's playlist (e.g. highlight all deep house tracks and move into the deep house folder -> 2013-05 playlist) -Remove all the tracks you just sorted from the "unsorted" playlist 5 - Adding to Rekordbox -Open rekordbox -Open iTunes -For each genre you added tracks to in iTunes -> create a playlist inside the genre folder you created earlier (essentially mirror iTunes playlist structure). see below: -For each genre, click on the current month's playlist, select all (command + a for mac, control + a for windows), then drag the tracks into the corresponding playlist in recordbox **NOTE: IT IS IMPORTANT YOU DON'T USE THE BRIDGE FUNCTIONALITY OF REKORDBOX, AND PERFORM THIS STEP AS STATED. IF YOU DO USE THE BRIDGE FUNCTIONALITY, THE CAMELOT KEYS WILL NOT DISPLAY IN THE KEY FIELD CORRECTLY**** See below as example for what i mean as how to do this: 6 - Exporting to USB I personally have 3 usbs for each genre - This is mainly due to me owning 3 850s and this makes it easier to manage. If you always use 900s or 2000s with the larger screen and link, you could get away with 3 usbs in total (always carry more usbs than you need, so you have backup in the unlikely event one doesn't work). -Plug in USB -Expand playlists folder -drag the playlist folders you want onto the usb -say yes to overwrite the old folder and update the playlists -Let songs copy, eject your usb from within rekordbox & enjoy

Agreed wot

http://store.apple.com/au/product/MD464 ... re-adaptor Seems to work fine as long as any power hungry devices have external power, and aren't powered by the port only

Also note if you already own PN3 - upgrading is half price

http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2013/05/pl ... -answered/

Firewire and thunderbolt are two separate things. Firewire has been around for as long as I can remember. Thunderbolt is fairly new in its field (been around a few years). Used for a bunch of external devices that are ridiculously expensive and nobody has purchased (a lot of the devices aren't even available here yet). However it is stable. Also, you don't even have to use it

I do. Find it good for getting all your tracks at same / similar volume for when playing

New version of platinum notes is out. Can now export to AIFF, Apple Lossless, WAV and FLAC (v3 only had WAV) which means lossless files without losing tags http://www.platinumnotes.com/

https://soundcloud.com/blakeblakeblake/afro-child-blake-remix-peggy Local Melbourne talent tearing it up. Coming out on Hi-Tech (Tomy's label). Get amongst it.

you can do it bra