After using this software in a party last Saturday, here are some wishes :
- make it more stable and speed it up (wandering through the folders/playlist is very slow on my Athlon 650Mhz/256Mb PC)
- provide a more convenient folder & playlist management : how to handle several folders at a same time, several play list, browse a list of playlists in a tree manner)
- When "previewing" a song on the second deck with headphones, the song disappears from the playlist as it seems to be considered as "already played". This is bothering me, because I try several songs before choosing the next one to be played. And all of them disappear, so I have to reload the play list ! (but maybe I was wrong, and there is already a way to avoid that).
Apart of that, marvellous tool, thanks !
- make it more stable and speed it up (wandering through the folders/playlist is very slow on my Athlon 650Mhz/256Mb PC)
- provide a more convenient folder & playlist management : how to handle several folders at a same time, several play list, browse a list of playlists in a tree manner)
- When "previewing" a song on the second deck with headphones, the song disappears from the playlist as it seems to be considered as "already played". This is bothering me, because I try several songs before choosing the next one to be played. And all of them disappear, so I have to reload the play list ! (but maybe I was wrong, and there is already a way to avoid that).
Apart of that, marvellous tool, thanks !
Posted Tue 18 Jun 02 @ 11:43 am
Tommy_2Tall
I agree with the anon:
*setting up several "favorite" folders has already been requested and sounds very practical
*Managing the playlist-window and playlistfiles is a pain in the a** just as the anon' illustrated with the "song dissappears just because it's previewed(/dropped somewhere by mistake)".. a way to choose between entire list (including previously played tracks) would be good, maybe the Only New Songs-button should be a toggle-switch which gives you the option to see all the played tracks (with the red x's)
*I would also like a little more functionality put into the browser-window.. for example PCDJ(a totally shitty proggie judging from what I've heard at clubs that use it) have an extensive right-click menu when you click folders (enque/analyse entire folder and subfolders for example).
The scrollwheel on my mouse is just collecting dust as it isn't used/implemented in the browser-panes...
AND selecting multiple files should be just like in Windows' Explorer: Shift and Ctrl-clicks work like the shoul (to select an entire span and add/remove from selection) BUT it should be possible to select a span by marking one file and then use Shift+Arrowkeys to select a span of files.
How about auto-scroll if there's a vertical scroll-bar and the cursor is in the top/bottom of the pane just like in ordinary Windows-windows?
I've said enough for now but my head is full of ideas.. too bad I probably won't be one of the beta-testers as I won't have the $$$ to become Junior any time soon...
*setting up several "favorite" folders has already been requested and sounds very practical
*Managing the playlist-window and playlistfiles is a pain in the a** just as the anon' illustrated with the "song dissappears just because it's previewed(/dropped somewhere by mistake)".. a way to choose between entire list (including previously played tracks) would be good, maybe the Only New Songs-button should be a toggle-switch which gives you the option to see all the played tracks (with the red x's)
*I would also like a little more functionality put into the browser-window.. for example PCDJ(a totally shitty proggie judging from what I've heard at clubs that use it) have an extensive right-click menu when you click folders (enque/analyse entire folder and subfolders for example).
The scrollwheel on my mouse is just collecting dust as it isn't used/implemented in the browser-panes...
AND selecting multiple files should be just like in Windows' Explorer: Shift and Ctrl-clicks work like the shoul (to select an entire span and add/remove from selection) BUT it should be possible to select a span by marking one file and then use Shift+Arrowkeys to select a span of files.
How about auto-scroll if there's a vertical scroll-bar and the cursor is in the top/bottom of the pane just like in ordinary Windows-windows?
I've said enough for now but my head is full of ideas.. too bad I probably won't be one of the beta-testers as I won't have the $$$ to become Junior any time soon...
Posted Tue 18 Jun 02 @ 2:41 pm
Tommy_2Tall
OH!!.. just two more little things about the file-list/browsers:
*Being able to type in a name to find it in a folder would be very usable.
I know there's a Search window but what if you're already in the right folder, just at the wrong end of the file-list.. 3-4 characters would get you to the right song and if you have really large folders perhaps PageUp/PageDown would come in handy.. But there's a little problem with this idea: how do you inactivate the shortcuts? At present time you can't even type in a plugin-window (Vis-plugins and the Shoutcast-plugin in particular) because the shortcuts are still active even when the pluginwindow has focus... and disbling them just because the cursor is over the browser-part is kinda risky when mixing live. :oP
*I've mentioned this before but just want to give the idea some fresh air: more (selectable) fields in the different filelists such as Bitrate(+separate VBR/CBR-indicator field) and Duration that can be selected and rearranged sort of like in MS Outlook (not just hidden with 0 width 'cause then they are still present in terms of memory usage)
*Being able to type in a name to find it in a folder would be very usable.
I know there's a Search window but what if you're already in the right folder, just at the wrong end of the file-list.. 3-4 characters would get you to the right song and if you have really large folders perhaps PageUp/PageDown would come in handy.. But there's a little problem with this idea: how do you inactivate the shortcuts? At present time you can't even type in a plugin-window (Vis-plugins and the Shoutcast-plugin in particular) because the shortcuts are still active even when the pluginwindow has focus... and disbling them just because the cursor is over the browser-part is kinda risky when mixing live. :oP
*I've mentioned this before but just want to give the idea some fresh air: more (selectable) fields in the different filelists such as Bitrate(+separate VBR/CBR-indicator field) and Duration that can be selected and rearranged sort of like in MS Outlook (not just hidden with 0 width 'cause then they are still present in terms of memory usage)
Posted Tue 18 Jun 02 @ 3:00 pm
what clubs are you talking about?
Ministry of sound in london uses PCDJ red, as do nicky holloway, rabbit in the moon, Monk, Kerri chandler, and ltj bukem. It's a rock solid performance software....and feature by feature crushes atomix. Which in my opinion is geared much more towards the bedroom or consumer dj.
Ministry of sound in london uses PCDJ red, as do nicky holloway, rabbit in the moon, Monk, Kerri chandler, and ltj bukem. It's a rock solid performance software....and feature by feature crushes atomix. Which in my opinion is geared much more towards the bedroom or consumer dj.
Posted Wed 23 Oct 02 @ 6:58 pm