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Serato (the download debate)

Post by Soiree » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:25 am

I just took the plunge, invested in Serato.
Seeking out cool music forums and blogs to download music to play out.
I'm still very dedicated to the art of Vinyl, it's just not as practical as Serato is.
"Wave of the future" and all that. Any tips and tricks of the trade?


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Post by Sexual_Chocolate » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:41 am

juno, digital, surus, beatport
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Post by gwa » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:44 am

i use beatport which is pricy but is generally really easy to use.
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Post by Soiree » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:57 am

Yea, cool. I'm hip to those.
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Post by wolf89 » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:02 am

vinyl is less practical??

I'm not complaining (about to buy serato myself, so I can play more tunes by doing digital more)

but surely putting a needle on a record is more practical than doing exactly that but having to nob around plugging in a laptop and a box and shit as well?

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Post by chenjesu » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:06 am

I have ethical issues with stealing music and then being paid to play it. And even if you don't have a conscience it is hard to find good quality WAV's for download. Support the artists that support you in your DJ endavours.

If you want free tunes for download then scour Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Theres always some fresh bootlegs available

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Post by wolf89 » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:08 am

Yeah I agree. I'm not for pirating tunes even at home particularly but pirating them and playing them out id taking the piss

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Post by sarajevo » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:22 am

chenjesu wrote: If you want free tunes for download then scour Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Theres always some fresh bootlegs available
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believe it or not you can get free tunes without being a tnuc and destroying the music you love.

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Post by collige » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:04 pm

wolf89 wrote: but surely putting a needle on a record is more practical than doing exactly that but having to nob around plugging in a laptop and a box and shit as well?
Once everything is set up it's literally 30 seconds of work in exchange for access to a lot more music and not having to go digging around through a box of records.
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The stores I use are Bleep, Juno, Boomkat and Beatport in that order. Bleep doesn't have the best selection, but the site and prices are top notch. As for free stuff, just search out free netlabels and bandcamps as well as XLR8R's free download section.
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Post by AxeD » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:36 pm

Soiree wrote: What's the best resource for downloading a fuckload of EDM???
collige wrote: The stores I use are Bleep, Juno, Boomkat and Beatport in that order. Bleep doesn't have the best selection, but the site and prices are top notch. As for free stuff, just search out free netlabels and bandcamps as well as XLR8R's free download section.
You could also illegally download your music but it doesn't work as well because often it's not properly tagged.
It's also way easier to download through sites like Juno because they have everything indexed neatly.
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Post by wolf89 » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:45 pm

If you buy downloads rather that pirate shit you'll be more likely to end up with quality music if you think about it too as all the music you own is stuff you thought was good enough to spend money on rather than anything vaugely good enough for you to bother downloading. This also means you're probably going to remember why you bought the tunes and remember buying them and be less likely to lose the tunes amongst a heap of crap on your hard drive. and so listen to them and appreciate and value them more.

Plus there's then the obvious thing that producing, mastering and distributing music costs money. Less music is going to be released if people aren't buying it.

Also it's nice to support someone whose giving you hours of entertainment. Sure they enjoy it and did it before they could make money on it anyway but I think I'm happier giving my money over to someone whose giving me something interesting like music than spending it on over priced clothes or drugs or some shit.

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Post by Krew » Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:01 pm

Beatport is the best i think for easy browsing then when you find stuff you like search for it on another site to maybe get a better price. Also why did you get Serato, I Don't know loads about the spec but I'm sure Traktor seems better & cheaper.

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Post by arktrix45hz » Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:06 pm

collige wrote:Once everything is set up it's literally 30 seconds of work in exchange for access to a lot more music and not having to go digging around through a box of records.
I'd rather dig. Limitation breeds creativity!
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Post by grimesceneinvestigation » Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:51 pm

arktrix wrote: I'd rather dig. Limitation breeds creativity!
and now that everyone's turning onto digital there's a lot to find while digging anyway, recent purchases for me, all at one euro have been stuff like this:




i thank all of you serato dj's :)

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Post by kidshuffle » Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:31 pm

i pretty much just use juno and occasionally beatport.

also, you should make sure your computer (if you have a PC) doesn't have an AMD processor. they are shit and serato will burn out your computer after a while
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Post by dubfordessert » Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:58 pm

buy the tunes ffs and if you're that cheap there's plenty of free wavs floating around
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Post by hayze99 » Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:59 pm

I always go to Boomkat first. Mainly because I love their interface, but also because they let you redownload tracks as many times as you want for as long as you want. None of this 1 download shit.

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Post by Marcus » Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:21 pm

kidshuffle wrote:i pretty much just use juno and occasionally beatport.

also, you should make sure your computer (if you have a PC) doesn't have an AMD processor. they are shit and serato will burn out your computer after a while
i hope you aren't being serious since AMD makes so many processors that exceed the requirements for serato.
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Post by minusworld » Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:32 pm

they're soo many great free tracks out there , you just have to find them
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Post by Today » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:22 pm

is this really a solicitation for pirating resources?
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