First,
Media Center 10 Kicks the Lama and anything else that has come along. I am a professional Moble Disc Jockey and need different features to make my gigs better as I work live and have little time "to think" and possible distractions come by the minute.
I am listing the following suggestions in desperation and with hope for your consideration and emplimentation:
1. Plug In: Tempo and Pitch (already available in the constant mode): Ability to do per song on the fly tempo change and possible store in tag. The next song would not be affected by the last adjustment.
2. Option: use the visualizations widow for Playing Now to allow for browsing of tree locations like Audio/Disc/folder in lower window and still see the Playing Now window. I have to pay attention to my gig and not be distracted by the beautiful visualizations.
3. Creation of 2nd Player Window to preview songs with a second sound card and the ability to choose the sound cards.
4. A Drag and Drop small window for must play song list while doing a gig, this could be opened with a click and be enabled to "add to playing now list" and it would be emptied upon exit of the program.
5. Cue feature of players: clicking once on the stop button would stop the song where it is while playing. clicking on play would play the song starting from that stopped point. Double clicking on stop while the song was playing would stop the song and return it to the begining of the song.
6. When using search it would search all audio files and not just the opened folder. It would search for any field information as BPM or Artist or etc.
7. Enable the tree window to be moved left or right with a scrol bar to open up more room to see more information in the browsing window.
8. Enable commands to be inserted into playing now for dj talk.
A. insert silence of 5, 10, or whatever seconds between songs for an annoucement or comment on the song coming up to be played.
B. insert a stop between songs for long talk between songs. This allows dj interaction with crowd away from the computer and in place to corrdinate an activity while returning to the computer to start the music again.
9. Faster rip (Music Match Plus will rip at 26x) to save time for the dj with thousands of songs and who is always in need of more time to get things done.
10. Quick Buttons that would allow a file like a special effect song to be played while the present song is being played. Just dragg and drop a file onto the button and then when the button is clicked on it would automaticlly play the file.
I HAVE SPENT HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS! AND TRIED OUT ALL AUDIO PROGRAMS UNDER $400.00 AVAILABLE IN THE LAST 2 YEARS. THERE ARE OVER 15,000 DISC JOCKEYS IN THE US ALONE AND WITH A PROFESSIONAL VERSION MEDIA CENTER WITH THE ABOVE FEATURES ADDED AND A SIMPLIFIED SCREEN DISPLAY MEDIA CENTER COULD BE THE BEST SELLING PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM FOR A LONG TIME.
Thank you for reading, hope you will consider the suggestions.
Respectfully Summitted,
Ted W. Patton
www.hmusicwt.comNashville, TN
President of Music City Mobile Disc Jockey Association
www.mcdja.com