Best software for laptop mix CDs

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Looking for recommendations of software enabling me to produce smooth mixes from playlists of MP3s or Wavs. Ideally, it would have a simple interface, low cost, time stretching & pitch shifting, and ability to zoom in on segues to micromanage volume profiles. Any ideas?

― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Audacity?

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

nearly all multitrack audio editing programs have these facilities. try cool edit pro (now adobe audition) or just search google for a free audio editor with a few fx thrown in. try download.com or something like that, i'm sure they have a few on there that are free/cheap.

if you want something that resembles a conventional mixing setup there are a shitload of mp3 mixer programs around today. the best of the best probably being traktor dj.

google is your friend.

― TomTomGo!!! (TomTomGo!!!), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Be warned if you have an Intel Mac, Audacity doesn't currently work. I'm told their working on a universal binary.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

You might want to follow this link: http://www.pure-mac.com/audio html

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Slight screw up with the address, but it gets you there.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Try the Mixxx program-- it's been working pretty well for me at parties, though it depends on how wild you want to get...because it is free software, it has its kinks.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

i've used mix meister pro on XP

― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

bump

― john. a resident of chicago., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

ableton, bro

― winston, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

On a Mac. Doing mixes, not in realtime. Ableton seems geared to doing stuff, um, Live.

What I really want is Audacity with beatmatching and a slicker interface. ???

― ok star grumbles (lukas), Saturday, 17 October 2009 09:54 (sixteen years ago)

Use Traktor. It's great.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 17 October 2009 16:44 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Thanks, it is. But it !@#$%@# my iTunes tags! (eg, sets an album tag where I want it blank.) I'm going to have to either make copies of the files I want to use, or make my library read-only before I run Traktor. What do you do?

― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 5 November 2009 07:19 (sixteen years ago)

abandon itunes.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 5 November 2009 07:36 (sixteen years ago)

Doesn't matter what software I use to manage my library, I wants my id3 tags the way I wants them, and Traktor Pro fucks with that.

― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 5 November 2009 08:26 (sixteen years ago)

What are the other options for mac users apart from itunes? One of the reasons I've put off getting a mac is that I don't want to be tied to itunes.

― sam500, Thursday, 5 November 2009 08:44 (sixteen years ago)

songbird, doubletwist

songbird looks ehhhh, i know nothing about doubletwist.

― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 5 November 2009 09:10 (sixteen years ago)

cool, thanks.

― sam500, Thursday, 5 November 2009 09:23 (sixteen years ago)

songbird is great when it's stable. haven't tried it for a year or so but i liked it. check the Traktor forums for your issue sam, i'm sure you'll find a solution there.

my version of traktor reads my id3 tags perfectly and i'm on a mac + I use iTunes.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 5 November 2009 15:09 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it reads them fine, but it also re-writes them, which i wasn't so cool with. i dunno, i'll look into it more.

― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 5 November 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

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