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Purple Dave
03/27/09

In reply to Portable Cross Fadin' Cassette Will Make All Your Spontaneous DJ Dreams Come True
What's the point? As soon as I read the blurb on this article, I realized that all you really need is an iPod and a killer sound system. As long as you have everything ripped to the iPod, just keep a buffer of 2-3 songs queued up in the On-The-Go playlist, and it'll never stop playing. When someone comes up and makes a request, just add it to the end of the list, and it'll get played when the list advances to that point. Tada, no more need for crossfading, no more need for two devices, and certainly no more need to prep each track for playback.
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Tony Harrison
03/27/09

@Purple Dave: 'Cuz that sounds like a really fun night of DJing. Just standing there behind a table adding songs to a playlist that only fade like what, 3-5 seconds at the end (only at the end) of a song.
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Purple Dave
03/27/09

@Tony Harrison:
If you've got a huge gap between songs, then you obviously haven't explored all the settings that have been offered since iTunes 7 or 8. There's a setting that you can apply to individual tracks so they stream directly into each other. The upside is that when listening to albums where tracks actually do blend (The Beatles have several medleys where they actually recorded multiple songs as a single track, which were then broken up for CD releases). The downside is that if you pause a track within the last few seconds of playback, and then unpause it to play out, you'll register two plays instead of one.
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d_r_e
03/10/09

In reply to Video: Musical Exoskeleton Is a 'Nonsense Machine' From Maywa Denki
Maywa Denki on Gizmodo??!!

It's about fucking time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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