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ittigger said:
Video is AWESOME on a Mac! :)

I don't use Crates - I use the iTunes index. ;)

BTW, I don't know anyone on here that has had to anything but install and play - right after install on a Mac. Additionally, I have several versions of Itch and DJ loaded on my Mac - and can utilize them all. Try that on a Win machine. :)

When a new version comes out, I can install and play with it .. but still use the old one for shows until I am ready to go primetime with the new one.

Perhaps the biggest reason I use the iTunes index is because every DJ software can use it. I don't have to reinvent the wheel every time.

If you recall, I'm an IT guy so I actively use and play with alot of OS' and not just Mac. That said .. one HUGE benefit to Mac .. you can use one from today just as easily as one from 1984.
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You IT guys ... ;)
 
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There are horses for courses. First comes workflow. If you're into effects, you should probably run Traktor. If you've really got your library set up with multiple que's in each song, energy levels color coded, key matching, serious mixing, then Serato is the answer. Video along with a lot of autoplay, probably VDJ8. However, this is for another discussion and certainly deserves it's own thread. Before we throw the baby out with the bathwater, let's see if we can get what the OP presently has working, before he goes out and gets another computer.
 
Horses for courses? Wtf?

I agree, lets see if we can get what he has working - try Itch. He already has DJ, so Itch is free.
 
If I happen to wander into a McD's - it's for the Sweet Tea and every once in awhile, an order of fries.

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Finally got a chance to mess around with it again today and....eureka! I replaced the USB cable and also went and installed the drivers, which my kid apparently overlooked when he did the firmware. Thanks to you guys for your assistance. I'll probably have more questions as I go along but for now, we are up and running!
 
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What's a com-poo-tor ?
 
I will say that when I got my Computer Engineering degree .. DJing with one would have been a pipe dream unless music was on punch cards or on miles of 1/2" tape.

Back in '83, we sold a 10Mb hard drive for about $6000 that would now hold a single MP3 file .. and those were shared by multiple users.
 
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steve149 said:
I will say that when I got my Computer Engineering degree .. DJing with one would have been a pipe dream unless music was on punch cards or on miles of 1/2" tape.
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Same on this end. Because of the techie in me (and the issues I have seen), the last thing I dreamt of doing was putting my music on a computer and using it.
 
ittigger said:
Same on this end. Because of the techie in me (and the issues I have seen), the last thing I dreamt of doing was putting my music on a computer and using it.
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I'm not sure back then there was much of a way. I actually took an electronic music course (one of the electives) and the music was either live through an analog synth, dubbed via tape, or was a recording of an actual sound. Digital processing might have started, but it wasn't until the intro of the CD and writeable optical drives that it was practical.

Since I had access to larger drives than most of the public did, I had a small library of ripped CDs in the very early 90s (.wav format) on my work system, but not enough to be practical.
 
Removable hard-packs in disk drives, cpu's producing so much heat they were water cooled with 4" pipe going to heat exchangers outside the building, tape drives the size of a refrigerator, hurricane under a raised floor, bus and tag cables you could lift a car with, totally introverted machine level programmers with pocket protectors. Those were the days, not this wimp crap we have now!
 
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Handinon said:
Removable hard-packs in disk drives, cpu's producing so much heat they were water cooled with 4" pipe going to heat exchangers outside the building, tape drives the size of a refrigerator, totally introverted machine level programmers with pocket protectors. Those were the days, not this wimp crap we have now!
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I work for one of the companies that still makes water-cooled computers. Tape drives, though, are pretty passe .. it's mostly RAID and cloud backup now.

I did totally rock the pocket protector back in the day.
 
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steve149 said:
I'm not sure back then there was much of a way. I actually took an electronic music course (one of the electives) and the music was either live through an analog synth, dubbed via tape, or was a recording of an actual sound. Digital processing might have started, but it wasn't until the intro of the CD and writeable optical drives that it was practical.

Since I had access to larger drives than most of the public did, I had a small library of ripped CDs in the very early 90s (.wav format) on my work system, but not enough to be practical.
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Same here - I was ripping in the mid 90's with L3Enc (L3enc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
 
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