DJs post your mixes for download

mostly stuff picked up over the last couple of months

http://soundcloud.com/pushingit/september-2012

Riffs - I Don't Care
Mudimbi & Lorenzo - Tutto Esaurito (Arge Dislessic Remix)
Quality - Get a Lil' Stupid and Pump That Bass
Ginuwine - What's So Different (Reverend Dollars Edit)
Bwana - Baby Let Me Finish
Big Black Delta - Ifuckingloveyou (Throwing Snow Remix)
Mia Dora - Random Romantics
Dandaak - Night Breath
DJ Tray - Sending My Love
JC Him - Valid Like Salad (New Jersey Remix)
Klever - Weak (Roska Remix)
Jacki Zebraz + Erothug + Shamcocks - Mama
Sun People - Alphonze
Walter Ego - Rebounds
Carly Bond - Ain't Wastin' No Time (K's Pack Your Bags Remix)
Groove Armada feat. Slarta John - Pull Up
Frank Lucano - Mi Sombrero
Emma Lee Moss - Memorial (PBR Streetgang Remix)
Flapjackers - She's Gangsta (Bobby Breezy Secret Mix)
Todd Edwards - You Came To Me (I Believe In U version)
Mak - About You
Paul Marmota - Yohimbe
DJ Eskilate - Ice

I know this might not be the "right" thread but it certainly seems to be the most active one, so:

I'm about to rip several hundred of my own CDs for use w/ Traktor; what bitrate is ideal if I anticipate maybe someday playing them in a club? I'm torn btwn LAME V2 and V0 -- is anyone really going to notice the diff btwn the two?

And a follow-up: is EAC still the best ripper out there? I haven't done this in like 5 years.

320

just use itunes

if you're playing the *big room* at fabric you need wavs or flacs but otherwise ime doesn't matter

I've seen people use 224 vbr and even 192 in clubs for rips of scratchy-ass old detroit techno rarities

isn't 320 sorta overkill when v0 achieve essentially the same thing in a smaller filesize?

Also I've had bad experiences ripping w/ iTunes :-/

i don't know if 320 is overkill but it seems to be defacto standard

320 sounds *slightly* better to me than 256 and not any worse than 1411 wav so that's what i use

I don't really know the nerdy technical specifications and all that, but I prefer to have 320 if at all possible.

it just seems to be a sweet spot to my ears

i'm tots fine with 192.

I was about to ask almost the same question as Stevie on another thread. For files I already have on my hard drive I'll play em in Traktor down to 192 but new stuff I'll always rip at 320. but I was curious whether most people use iTunes to encode or something different. I saw someone on a forum saying that using LAME to encode instead of iTunes made more of a quality difference than the bitrate but tbh I don't even know what LAME or EAC is, just a separate piece of software you get? anyone else think this makes a difference?

I used to mainly DJ vinyl but lately I've been doing a bar gig that goes about 6 hours, usually by myself ... so have been leaning on Traktor more and more ... usually play about half vinyl, half mp3s.

if you're ripping to v0 or 320, i very much doubt it matters what codec you use.

anyway:
eac
lame
hydrogenaudio forums/knowledgebase

i can provide a 'recommended' eac config file if u want

awesome, thanks. yeah I may email you to follow up

Most everything of mine goes through iTunes, unless I digitize into Performer, then I save it as a WAV then use Max to convert to 196 or 320 depending on my mood and how much of a banger it is!

i spins pure bangers

320 or die

my tracks bang harder 320 and bang softly at 192

320 is plenty

isn't 320 sorta overkill when v0 achieve essentially the same thing in a smaller filesize?

fwiw some people say Traktor acts funny with VBR files. like it might have trouble beatgridding or calculating BPMs. I don't have enough VBR files to confirm or deny this.

true!!

not w/ every single one but sometimes it does

if a program has trouble with a vbr mp3, the mp3 probably has missing or broken headers. i'm sure there are other methods but mp3 diags should be able to fix them, among other things

24 bit FLAC, invest in a external drive and you're good to go.

Except that a lot of promotional music only gets released as an MP3, so I still have tons of those.

I guess I just prefer FLAC when say ripping fairly clean vinyl.

serato cant handle FLAC, p sure traktor cant either?

Both Ableton and Traktor can use FLAC, I'm not really a Serato guy.

If I was using Serato I would use AIFF files, because you can still tag those with artist names and other info.

I don't know why anyone would ever use WAVs.

My ideal setup is have to have my files in Traktor tagged with BPM, genre and key signature. But then I am a nerd.

at least you're not starring them

key signature? really?

Whatever you do don't feed Ableton a bunch of 192s and expect it to sound wonderful if you change the tempo +/- 10 bpm.

Yes, really. It's not really that hard, you can used Mixed in Key to do it for you automatically. It costs like 20 bucks.

i never try to mix in key, i'm impressed

Good for mashups, if you're into that kind of thing.

if it's too out of key i just slam it over

then again i do techno type stuff and not deep house

oh right, mashups, no i don't do that unless it's like w/ a dj tool

Whoah, I just checked the price for Mixed In Key and its gone up significantly. Wonder why?

If you've got enough musical training you can do it by ear but I'm nowhere near that level myself.

The people who blow my mind are Theo Parrish and co who do this all by ear, on the fly, using an isolator to pick out various parts of tracks.

I had no idea how he was able to go from a jazz song to some hard techno in a single mix, until I realized that he was mixing harmonically.

oh no kidding, no i can't do this at all

i guess it helps to be a trained musician

i can barely pick out whether a track is 110, 120 or 130 let alone hear what key its in.

What I really ought to do is set up a script that'll rip to both FLAC and MP3 simultaneously, seeing as I'm only ripping a small percentage of my CDs and not every single one of them

dmr: EAC is a CD ripper with some super crazy magic secure ripping mode that will not only let you know when a disc is scratched and has errors, but will reread the problem sectors until it gets a reliable (re: not-skippy) copy. It will often give you pristine rips of discs that skip in most other cd players, whereas iTunes will just blaze through them and give you garbled files

I do not have time to fully listen to every file I rip

when you play percussive bass / treble tracks at 192 really loud or 256 you get artifacts on the cymbals and shit but if its midrangey music (pop, etc) i think it sounds okay

http://soundcloud.com/newtownradio/wtbs-with-dj-speculator-and-2

spike golf channel
bebi doll rudi dance mix
amanda lear follow me
KLOVENHOOF takes over..playlist may be a little off.. but its pretty close:
landscape the doll's house
reinhard lakomy
kreidler rote wuste
tolouse low trax karaoke kalk
S U R V I V E floating cube
hermann hesse
nuclear waves where the sea stands still
ralph lundsten
S U R V I V E hourglass
Incantation on the wings of a condor
blues control love's a rondo
kim wilde child come away
kinho in our eyes
cleaners from venus only a shadow
nued photo
cerrone phonic
egyptian eyeliner anger and frustration
tanki tanki
enya evening fllas
philadelphia 5 not leaving without jerry
FG's Romance what's love today
corridor plateau GANG 1

http://www.mixcloud.com/josiahs1/babylon-sisterrr-mini-mix/

Man I really need to get back into practice. All my talk of ideal situations aside my files are a mess right now.