Music Players for DJs? 17
David Balazic asks "I'm looking for a program to play music (mostly mp3) at parties. What I want most is to be able to prelisten to next song(s) while the current one is still playing. I have a 4 channel sound card (sounblaster 64PCI) and I plan to hook up output 1 to an amplifier and output 2 to headphones. Is there a program for Windows or Linux that can use the four channels (for playing two independent stereo songs , not some "lame" 3D tricks)?"
Not exact, but check it out........ (Score:1)
Virtual turntables (Score:1)
Do it in perl with mpg123 (Score:1)
Although, if you are trying to sync things up so they play into eachother nicely, it may be more difficult. But I am sure there are ways of starting part way into a song and getting the timing. Actually, when you kill mpg123, it says how many seconds it played. Therefore, you could get that with a bit of regex, as long as you could start the song on that second.
Unfortunetly, you would only get a resolution of 1 beat per second, which isn't fine enough (considering house is generally played at 2 beats per second, and most electronica stuff just goes up from there.)
Then again, the source is there: do with it what you like.
It's for Windows, but... (Score:1)
Oolaboola (Score:1)
maybe this is what you're looking for:
http://www.hyperreal.org/~est/oolaboola/ [hyperreal.org]
(It hasn't got mp3 support yet, but I think it's coming soon.)
Re:As a related issue.... (Score:1)
As a related issue.... (Score:1)
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Another DJ plugin for Win Amp (Score:1)
It's called SweetMixxPro and it seems pretty cool. I just rembered seeing this post, so I submitted this.
Re:As a related issue.... (Score:1)
Works great for rap/rock, but crossfading techno gets kinda yucky as it doesn't beatmatch.
Use that in conjuction with Pitchfork, also for Winamp, and you can do some pretty nice DJing.
I personally use 2 turntables (Technic 1200's, of course) running into a Gemini mixer, with my laptop also running into my mixer. So I have the versatility of turntables for techno, and still am able to play popular rap/rock shit if requested.
Re:BeOS is much better in this then Win and Linux (Score:1)
But having played with BeOS lately.. I would have to agree it is much better for this type of application than Windows or Linux.
OSS sound drivers may be for you? (Score:1)
This is probably not going to help you much but I did notice that OpenSound [opensound.com] ship drivers (that are not free) that provide the ability to share the sound card device between multiple apps and mix the results.
This is for example, running two MP3 players at the one time, each one not aware of the other, but both playing out of the same device. This would probably allow you to use/write something with XAudio to do the job
Regards,
Jamz
I think i know what you are looking for (Score:1)
BeOS is much better in this then Win and Linux (Score:1)
multiple mp3 mixing and pitch, volume, equalizer controls Starting with first SoundPlay (first ever reverse pitch controled mp3 player) .
look for more on http://www.be.com/beware/
or http://www.bebits.com/
BeOS is just greatest for semiprofesionall audio and getting in audio proffesionals market with releses of Peak and Nuendo in early 2000.
Does it have to be Free toBeGood?1anyway it is ... (Score:1)