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Topic: Ability to select from dual audio tracks from files
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A "dual audio media file" is a video or audio file that contains two separate audio tracks, usually representing different languages, allowing the viewer or listener to choose which language they want to hear while playing the media.

Could we please get dual track audio selection? I've been asking for this feature for over 4 years now and when it finally is implemented I will spend the money and upgrade my subscription. I'm getting frustrated with VirtualDJ for being obstinate about implementing this feature year-after-year as it seems VirtualDJ doesn't want to modernize to function as well as (free)media players like VLC Media Player and Media Player Classic.
 
Posted Sat 25 Jan 25 @ 5:14 pm
Been using laptops and audio files to DJ with since 1999 and never ever heard of this. That's how popular it is.

Probably meant for movies, podcasts etc rather than files DJs would play.
 
I was going to say the same thing.

VDJ is DJ software. DJs typically play audio or video that contains one stereo audio track.

What are you trying to play?

I found this post of yours from two years ago which mentions VobSub, which seems to be something for subtitles.
 
kradcliffe wrote :
Been using laptops and audio files to DJ with since 1999 and never ever heard of this. That's how popular it is.

Probably meant for movies, podcasts etc rather than files DJs would play.


'99? Then you must have a lot of DVDs and Blu-Rays. Well I do and converted them all to MKV and I like to watch them through VDJ because VDJ has very good indexing and "last play" features which keeps me from guessing what I watched last.

I don't see any good reason in gate keeping VDJ for DJ services only, if that's your point. As a DJ you could pull samples from a video with dual audio which is a edge case but would be possible. More generally, offering VDJ to people who will use it to just to watch video would increase the available customer base for VDJ and a increased income would improve the quality at which the parent company can operate.
 
user23795482 wrote :

I don't see any good reason in gate keeping VDJ for DJ services only, if that's your point.


VirtualDJ is literally software made for DJ services - its name and website says this directly, so this comment is very confusing.

It was not meant to be used as your media player (as everyone else here already said) - there are tools dedicated to that purpose (as you have already described), and I don't believe I've ever met someone who would pay for a licence for DJ software to watch videos.

Could this be useful? Yes (maybe).

Is it required to be DJ software? No.

Virtually all DJs work with a one-to-one mapping of a video file to expected audio, and if they want different audio, they would probably just get a different video file.

Not to say it can't be done to extend use cases, but you have to be realistic with this - this is a super fringe/niche use case (the use case you've described didn't even sound like DJing for an audience but I guess it could be) vs other potential features.
 
DJ VinylTouch wrote :
user23795482 wrote :

I don't see any good reason in gate keeping VDJ for DJ services only, if that's your point.


VirtualDJ is literally software made for DJ services - its name and website says this directly, so this comment is very confusing.

It was not meant to be used as your media player (as everyone else here already said) - there are tools dedicated to that purpose (as you have already described), and I don't believe I've ever met someone who would pay for a licence for DJ software to watch videos.

Could this be useful? Yes (maybe).

Is it required to be DJ software? No.

Virtually all DJs work with a one-to-one mapping of a video file to expected audio, and if they want different audio, they would probably just get a different video file.

Not to say it can't be done to extend use cases, but you have to be realistic with this - this is a super fringe/niche use case (the use case you've described didn't even sound like DJing for an audience but I guess it could be) vs other potential features.


I don't care I'm a paying customer this is a feature I want and it's probably of more use than all of last year's updates put together. Infact here's a list for you to point to some of the *new* features you use.
 
Before this turns personal, I should remind to all of you that neither of you desides what gets to added to the software or not.

That being said, there's a team behind the software development, and that team judges whether or not a function is usefull to a DJ software.

PS: Yes, VirtualDJ is a DJ software and will remain such.
If Atomix ever decides to release a "generic" media player, it will have a different name.

Keep it polite, or this will get locked.
 
PhantomDeejay wrote :
Yes, VirtualDJ is a DJ software and will remain such.
If Atomix ever decides to release a "generic" media player, it will have a different name.

Cool, in that case all I'm asking for is to let me use Combined Community Codec Pack to decode video in VDJ instead of what VDJ is using which is obviously inferior(for a paid product.. Versus a free community made package. Make sense of that.).