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Dj mixes rebooted…

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Counting from a few posts ago, I’ve been thinking…

A while ago I suggested to Mixcloud the concept of mobile playlists tailored for Mixes, but they didn’t really see the point. But recently I suggested the same thing to Dirty Si and he was a lot more receptive to the concept. Right now when I do a mix, I tend to create a piece of metadata to go with the mix. The NFO file (yep straight out of the darknet) contains the playlist order and any other metadata I feel is required. I would use PLS, M3U or even XSPF but I’ve just done something to scratch my own itch. I might switch to using XSPF with a namespace for my own metadata and add the SMIL namespace. There’s a whole bunch of hacking which needs to be done in this area…

Playlists do not equal mixes…

I’ve been thinking about this even more recently since Google and Amazon’s music locker systems.

Everyones been thinking about singles or albums. But I’m thinking way beyond that. What about mixes? Imagine if the necessary metadata was in place to create extra special experiences around mixes?

But why even mess around with the metadata when you can mess with the actual mix its self?

The Pacemaker (for example) right now, stores the actions of the dj and then recreates the mix using the tunes on the host machine. I’m wondering if you could grab that data and turn it into something like MIDI then you could really do some revolutionary things to dj mixes.

Would it be possible to setup a Amazon EC2/Google app instance which could read the midi data and use the raw tunes to create a stream in real time? What effect would this have on listen to mixes?

Once again, I’d really like to hack around with this stuff if I had the time.

Author IanforresterPosted on May 18, 2011April 29, 2019Categories italic+mixingTags amazon, dj, google, metadata, midi, mixes, pacemaker, playlist, xspf
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