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I don’t know if the file sharing is still a thing since all the big ones were dmca’d but for the longest time all the DJs here had a thing where they took a request of anything you could think of no matter what it was and I couldn’t figure out how until I made a request and watched him until he played it … he just downloaded it off of kazaa++(the hacked no ads/spyware version) and played it on an version of napster that had the mp3 player and when the song was over he just deleted the file for the next one … dude had 40 songs dling at once …
Ive also been told that at the DJ contest in ny/la some places have a no digital music rule … meaning you still have to do it the old way …
BeeGee
February 11, 2018, 11:40pm
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Horatio_Hellpop:
Here in Korea, it’s getting harder and harder to find stores that sell physical CDs and DVDs. It’s a much different game than 8 years ago. Here’s why that’s a problem: I’ve just begun to notice that a lot of albums I bought through iTunes have tracks missing. Some (“Wind Beneath my Wings” from Bette Midler’s It’s the Girls ) I don’t give a crap about. Others (The Roches’ “Hammond Song,” from both** The Roches** and one of those Oxford American compilations) were probably deleted by Clean My Mac. Anyway, think twice about ditching your old discs en masse ; you never know what you’ll wish you could still dupe onto your computer.
Hammond Song is definitely available on Amazon. I download top my kindle and use the Bluetooth connection in my car for long road trips.
Egnu_Cledge:
Check out the Flaming Lips’ Gummy Skull . A nine pound, life size skull made out of gummy bear candy that you chew through to retrieve a USB stick containing the music, nestled in its “brain”. I don’t think it was cheap, though.
Wow, pretty awesome, even if it was expensive.
jz78817:
still, people seem to think 3D printing is this magical, do-anything solution to every problem. it’s good for things like prototyping, or where you only need a few pieces of something. Because it’s incredibly slow. in contrast, depending on how many cavities the die has, you can injection mold a few hundred thumb drive cases while the 3D printer is still warming up.
Yeah, I was thinking about that when I wrote it. 3D printing would be best for one-offs that you could change procedurally.
DPRK
February 12, 2018, 6:38am
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nightshadea:
missed the edit timer …
I don’t know if the file sharing is still a thing since all the big ones were dmca’d but for the longest time all the DJs here had a thing where they took a request of anything you could think of no matter what it was and I couldn’t figure out how until I made a request and watched him until he played it … he just downloaded it off of kazaa++(the hacked no ads/spyware version) and played it on an version of napster that had the mp3 player and when the song was over he just deleted the file for the next one … dude had 40 songs dling at once …
Ive also been told that at the DJ contest in ny/la some places have a no digital music rule … meaning you still have to do it the old way …
DJs are supposed to pay licensing fees for the right to do this. This isn’t downloading music off the Internet for personal use.
There is always the possibility an individual DJ doesn’t pay, but then they can theoretically get busted.
Thudlow_Boink:
I can believe that a DJ might play substandard audio tracks off a laptop. But I can also believe that what Ellis Aponte Jr. was hearing had nothing to do with that and was instead due to something unrelated, like a bad sound system or poor acoustics or poorly-mastered music or even purely subjective hearing what he expected to hear.
My guess would be that they were using an inexpensive PA without the watts or speakers to move low frequencies. Highly compressed audio files are going to create crazy artifacts in the high end before they’re going to start losing bass.