Tango DJ-ing

itwillhappen said:
If you leave the simplicity and limitations of a streaming service, there are many new freedoms, but also many new tasks, in the medium term.

You could at least have plans for how to:
1) Organize your music files?
2) Organize your metadata?
3) Check the structure of your playlists and tandas?
4) Prelisten over headphones?
5) Adjust the sound?
6) Insert breaks between songs?
7) Make backups?
8) Mirror to backup devices (smartphone, tablet)?
9) Maybe also visualize information?
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There are many, many more, but a journey has to start somewhere.

I could add legality - both copyright and public performance (and that depends on your locale and your own moral approach).

You can never have too many backups or contingency plans - and I'd never risk streaming music from the internet in some locations.

Interesting comment about the metadata and visualisation. I quite like 'visualisation' to provide the details. A couple of DJs here put up cards with details of the current tanda (orchestra, type, date, etc) and the next tanda. I have seen (and put together) software which extracted the track/playlist metadata and displayed it on a separate screen.

But it's really all about providing danceable music.
 
TTanguero said:
This is the one I wish more DJs would do! One or two DJs project the specific songs playing, which can save some Shazamming when I discover a new one I like, but the single most useful thing is to know the orchestra for the next tanda.
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Me too, because I got now the senior execute lead ("the one and only") developer of such a software project with a long history:

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Bitbucket

www.beam-project.com www.beam-project.com
 
Rabbit said:
I am not sure whether projecting this information about the next tanda is a good idea. It encourages people to invite during the cortinas or start thinking about their next partner while they're still dancing with their current one.
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Where I will use the software next are half of the invites during the cortina, however.
And I will implement a display timer for the next version, which hides the text again after x seconds to prevent distraction while dancing.
 
Looks perfect! I don't find it distracting personally (I don't have enough spare brain capacity while dancing to think about my next tanda!), but I do like it in the cortina.
 
Rabbit said:
I am not sure whether projecting this information about the next tanda is a good idea. It encourages people to invite during the cortinas or start thinking about their next partner while they're still dancing with their current one.
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It works well. At least you don't have people standing around blocking the floor. And it gives a time for a sensible cabeceo.
 
Brummbaer said:
I could add legality - both copyright and public performance (and that depends on your locale and your own moral approach).
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In Germany this is more of a legal than a moral issue as there is no agreement with Argentina regarding copyright fees so these go into a pool for local musicans. Well, it distorts competition with other organizers.
 
itwillhappen said:
In Germany this is more of a legal than a moral issue as there is no agreement with Argentina regarding copyright fees so these go into a pool for local musicans. Well, it distorts competition with other organizers.
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It also depends who owns the copyright, which can be complex. It's not necessarily in Argentina and Amazon bought up a whole load - and that may have extended them. Of course, if you use modern recordings by contemporary bands, that's another matter.

I tend to feel that the worker (musician) deserves their wage.

It can be more complicated in other countries - and generally the feeling is that many GA era recordings are out of copyright and nobody is going to bother about a small event in a village hall, which may or may not be true depending how many tracks have been downloaded.
 
Brummbaer said:
..many GA era recordings are out of copyright and nobody is going to bother about a small event in a village hall, which may or may not be true depending how many tracks have been downloaded.
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The big labels already consider the digitization and filtering of GA pieces as a new production, which resets the expiration date to zero. The protection of copyrights is handled differently in each country. In Germany, the traveling DJs are not so much in focus, but rather the dance studios and commercial organizers. I asked the organization that collects royalties in Germany about the downloads. They replied that the fees are collected immediately with every physical or streamed download.
 
Brummbaer said:
and generally the feeling is that many GA era recordings are out of copyright and nobody is going to bother about a small event in a village hall, which may or may not be true depending how many tracks have been downloaded.
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Depends. Many of those CDs being issued are copyrighted by the labels that produce them. I don't think you can assume that they are out of copyright across the board. In the US, commercial venues that play music at events have to pay an annual licensing fee for that music. Not all of venues demand it but many do. It can amount to several hundred dollars a year for a small space.
 
The difference in time between "something from the streaming service" and "the best available version of the song with unified tagging" is quite significant, I would estimate in the end at least a factor of ten.
And if you "only" buy 300 good quality files online to start, you'll need $300-$500.

I'm currently busy adding the album cover to the tracks for the next dj set. It ends up taking hours and is a job for someone who killed his father and mother.
 
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