![]() ![]() PLEASE REPORT posts and comments that violate the above rules or just suck. Posts asking “what should I play for this gig?”.Obvious spam for youtube channels/gig logs/blogs/advertisements.Support the people who make your hobby/career possible. As of today, October 9th 2020, Rekord Buddy is a free app and will become open source software before the end of the year, free for anyone to use and modify as. Posts discussing music piracy (in the sense of people asking how where or how to pirate music, if you want to have an actual discussion on piracy and how it pertains to the industry, by all means). Rekord Buddy, the program that helps DJs to convert their music libraries between Serato DJ, Traktor and Rekordbox, is now free and open source, the developer has announced today.Self-promotion posts including mixes, tunes, events, companies, etc.The following topics are against sub rules and will be deleted: Gig pictures/Stories - should be posted in the weekly gigs thread We will also allow high profile posts - say if a regular user gets a feature mix on DJCity or a Serato sponsored set or a established DJ set. Mixes - Most mix posts will be deleted although short routines, showcasing of interesting technique, and videos that shows off the poster doing something cool is fine. Meme/Humor/crappy image posts belong in /r/DJsCircleJerk. Please ensure you are posting to the correct subredditĪny and all beginner questions and posts should be made in /r/Beatmatch. Trolling, slapfights, general assholery is not encouraged and it also goes without saying that racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic posts and language will not be tolerated at all.Please try to be polite, friendly and helpful when commenting.There is also an entire subreddit /r/Beatmatch dedicated to helping new DJs learn. ![]() If you are new and are interested in learning how to DJ please check out this thread first. ![]() ![]() Remember, Rekord Buddy is Mac only right now and can be grabbed from the App Store for $7.99/£5.49./r/DJs is a subreddit for general DJ discussion: equipment, techniques, news, music, etc. But I’m looking forward to hearing your experiences. I don’t know if Rekord Buddy does a perfect conversion just yet, as I don’t have a Rekordbox library of any note or size. So there you have it - one more barrier eliminated between opposing libraries. I did it, but in my own name, so I’m not expecting to win an iPad Mini, but simply offering a little help. It’s painless and quick, and simply asks a little about you (no names necessary) and what you do and don’t like about your current DJ software. In a bid to help shape future versions of Rekord Buddy, there’s a survey for you to take on the site where you have the chance to win an iPad Mini. Seems that Virtual DJ is missing from the translator game though, unless anyone can tell me otherwise. We’re a little way off that right now, but given that there are Traktor/Serato translators ( Alchimie Zinc is one, and NI’s own is here), it seems like Rekord Buddy should be able to do a 3-way translation soon enough. It could even go as far as bouncing changes in one automatically through all the others. But the increasing number of products like Rekord Buddy shows us that a time will come where there will be one product (that should be called Unity or Conduit or Ultimate DJ Library Translator Pro) that will allow you to repurpose your lovingly crafted library into another format at the press of a button. It’s not like the Traktor Library offers anything radical over the Rekordbox, Serato, VDJ or any other library for that matter. Ultimately, they all provide the same end result, deployed in more or less the same way. I understand why different software companies use their own libraries, but it’s not good for the end user. 6 different software libraries - 6 different and hostile formats. Well right now it is anyway - most things are just a matter of time. You’ll still have to generate waveforms internally of course, as that kind of thing is beyond the scope of data translation. You can choose tracks, playlists or whole libraries, and also decide exactly what metadata to shift across as well, including beat grids. This doesn’t appear to be some half -arsed conversion either. But what Rekord Buddy promises is a smooth 2-way conversion between Traktor and Rekordbox. Trying not going to re-rant over old ground again, but my core issue is that unless you use the basic library tools afforded to you by Apple’s iTunes, you have to commit wholeheartedly to a particular piece of software with little in the way of translation, other than the handful of 3rd party library wranglers. My displeasure with the plethora of library formats is well known, but it seems that Next Audio Lab’s Rekord Buddy may well smash down at least one wall - the one between Traktor and Rekordbox - with some style, provided you’re on a Mac. ![]()
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