DJing

ressources

• http://eng.tango.info/djays
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ

HowTo

• a list of labels might help to find music
• w:CD ripping is needed to bring CD on your PC
  • I use w:CDex, w:ExactAudioCopy might be better
  • Ripping results in an uncompressed w:WAV file. Assuming you have a 60 minute CD, the size of all of the raw tracks should be 605w:MiB — 1411.2Kbps x 60 minutes = 605MiB.
• w:Audio data compression can be used to save disk space. WAV files do not allow tagging, so conversion also helps to solve this.
  • w:Lossless compression
    • I use w:FLAC which is free and w:open source software and has support in software players and also some hardware support. Some tracks were compressed to 30% of original size. Data compression flac/wav on average was to 42%.
  • Lossy compression, some people use w:MP3, other hate it.
• Category:Audio editors - choose one if you wish to attach infos to your music files
  • once used http://entagged.sourceforge.net now use http://mp3tag.de
• Audio player (software)
  • w:Category:Media players, I use w:Winamp, with FLAC library plugin.
  • there is also DJ software that let's you use two sound cards, so you can listen to one song while playing another to the audience.
    • E.g.: w:Traktor
    • jr Media center
    • feel free to extend if you know more!
• w:Tanda (tango)

• Video
  • w:VLC media player
  • w:MPlayer