I have been using Spotify for a a few years now and love it. I build up lots of playlists in different genres and then put them on shuffle mode when I am in the mood for that genre. Shuffle mode prevents the playlist from seeming repetitive as many of my lists are longer than the typical coast-to-coast flight. Spotify does a great job of cross-fading and leveling the tracks. It is even better than VDJ or MediaMonkey at this.
The more genres I add, the more I find I can use Spotify. Heck, as my father was on his death bed a couple of weeks ago, I started playing him big band and classical music (his favorite genres) from my phone and it seemed to calm him down. My GF always brings her BT speaker (fits in her purse) with her whenever we visit friends for cocktails because some never think of playing music and we always listen to music. No one has ever asked us to bring music but very time we have done this people profusely thank us for it. Over the next few weeks, we have been invited to numerous holiday cocktail/dinner parties with friends and of course, the BT speaker is coming with us.
This trend has me thinking this could be good and bad for the DJ industry.
Good: People are seeing how much better their own small events are with music. If they are planning bigger events, they may hire a DJ.
Bad: People are seeing how easy it is to just create a playlist and use a BT speaker to enhance a party and thus think they can forego a DJ at their next event.
It is hard to say at this point which will have a bigger impact.
Only once did we try to dance at a friends house to music from a BT speaker. We had fun but only because it wasn't a dance party. I discovered that every time someone used an iPhone to take a picture, it sent a pause command via BT to Spotify playing my phone. That was very random but quite consistent. Also, Spotify often has multiple versions of a song that are NOT the one you are used to. Finally, instead of taking requests, people just try to connect to the speaker directly and play the song from their phone. That gets really awkward when 4 people are doing this. At least we are all still friends. Maybe I should start a thread about the downsides of BT.
The more genres I add, the more I find I can use Spotify. Heck, as my father was on his death bed a couple of weeks ago, I started playing him big band and classical music (his favorite genres) from my phone and it seemed to calm him down. My GF always brings her BT speaker (fits in her purse) with her whenever we visit friends for cocktails because some never think of playing music and we always listen to music. No one has ever asked us to bring music but very time we have done this people profusely thank us for it. Over the next few weeks, we have been invited to numerous holiday cocktail/dinner parties with friends and of course, the BT speaker is coming with us.
This trend has me thinking this could be good and bad for the DJ industry.
Good: People are seeing how much better their own small events are with music. If they are planning bigger events, they may hire a DJ.
Bad: People are seeing how easy it is to just create a playlist and use a BT speaker to enhance a party and thus think they can forego a DJ at their next event.
It is hard to say at this point which will have a bigger impact.
Only once did we try to dance at a friends house to music from a BT speaker. We had fun but only because it wasn't a dance party. I discovered that every time someone used an iPhone to take a picture, it sent a pause command via BT to Spotify playing my phone. That was very random but quite consistent. Also, Spotify often has multiple versions of a song that are NOT the one you are used to. Finally, instead of taking requests, people just try to connect to the speaker directly and play the song from their phone. That gets really awkward when 4 people are doing this. At least we are all still friends. Maybe I should start a thread about the downsides of BT.