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Is It Time To Jailbreak Your CDJs? (opens the original)
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Hi there Ortofon Orators,The AlphaTheta walled garden is finally crumbling. Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ll have seen across social media that DJs are starting to hack apart CDJs and rekordbox with the help of Claude and ChatGPT. We’ve already seen:an export mode only version of rekordbox with performance mode completely ripped outfirmware hacks to add long needed features like gated hot cues to older modelsonboard stems on CDJs and standalonesDenon gear running CDJ softw
The real test of your DJ library (opens the original)
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Hi there Album Artwork Advocators,When DJs come to me the main problem they struggle with isn’t that they haven’t tagged or organised their music. It’s that their tags don’t actually help them make decisions.Imagine you get asked to play a 3-hour set tonight. Would your library help you pull that together quickly and confidently or would it feel hard?Or imagine you’re on the decks and you need to find a fast way to pivot direction. Would you know where to look to get your best options?Often the
Stop making your intelligent playlists clever (opens the original)
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Hi there HD25 High Flyers,You’re probably already using intelligent playlists in your library. But the way you design them can be the difference between finding tracks fast or more endless scrolling.In this email I’m going to talk you through how to design them to get you to exactly the right tracks faster.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Sr7-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpu
Too many tags isn’t the problem (opens the original)
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Hi there 7” Vinyl Adaptor Avengers,I’ve been busy this week editing the first of the new library roasts. This particular library was the result of around 20 years of DJing. The tag system had become insane, and the DJ in question was finding it hard to find the tracks they needed.But when I was thinking about the best way to tackle it one thing really stood out to me.It was how much of that DJs musical vocabulary and decades of DJing was baked into the tag system itself. There’s no point buildin
The new way to crate dig (opens the original)
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Hi there Key Shift Samurais,Listening to a DJ set, a podcast or even just vibing on Spotify are all great opportunities to crate dig for new music. The problem is what happens when you hear something good.You Shazam it, think “I’ll come back to that later”. 5 years later after you’ve buried your dog of old age you realise it’s been buried too .Some of you may have been using my Banger Detect Ultimate Apple shortcut that I released a few years ago. It Shazams a tune and then gives you the option
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