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Author Topic: Playing music on a party with MC12  (Read 1236 times)

ChrisRainman

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Playing music on a party with MC12
« on: September 10, 2007, 03:40:59 pm »

Last weekend I dared to act as a DJ on a marriage with MC12.

Yes, I love MC - but using it as a DJ software it's far away from being acceptable! My experience was quite bad...

MC12.318 crashed 4 times that evening. The situations seemed random. After playing 1 or two hours, actions like "locate artist" or choosing view schemes let MC crash. Luckily, I could play the songs until end then I needed to restart - so the breaks were not more than 10 seconds.

I like the option to start more than one instance of MC12. My plan was to use the first instance to entertain the guests - zone 1- and to use the second to prelisten songs via headphone - zone 2. At first, it seemed to work perfect. After playing some tracks, suddenly no more output.  After some seconds I realized that the zones synchronized themselves so the music was played via headphone only. This was an awkward thing. I tried it some more times and most times I was quick enough with prelistening and then closing the second instance to prevent another disaster. I hoped the two instances could be handled separately! ( I know I could have used two zones in one instance but 1. switching is slower, 2. I forgot this function)

Also the views get synchronized after clicking in both instances. I used the tabbed view for instance 1 and the column view for instance 2. After switching between them and clicking around they were the same.

Other problems:

- When trying to use one view for the "playing now" playlist and the other one to find new tracks the search term entries always impacts all views => the playing now list gets empty
- Very often I accidentally lost the playing now view because I had the focus on it before I clicked on a playlist or view scheme
- The transition between songs is very static. If songs have a hard end I want no smooth blending out - in other cases this is nice. So at least I want to have easy access to control this. Best case would be if I could store the transition after a song individually.
- Moving the track sequence is circumstantial with mouse. Is there a way to change the sequence without mouse (e.g. alt+cursorUpDown)?

There were some more minor issues - but the above described are the most critical.

One more wish: I would like to assign actions to keyboard shortcuts. E.g. adding songs to certain playlists, adding songs as next to play or to end, ...

I hope you will have a look on such features sooner or later. I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who is looking forward to such improvements!

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Re: Playing music on a party with MC12
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2007, 12:04:11 am »

Thx for that report.. I'm asking for some "live" features since a few years in this forum. I intend to use mc in my pub but unless there is no "one button prelisten feature" I'm still using traktor. I'm sad that there seems to be no possibility to build this function in, cause with the option of "zones" half the work is yet done.
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Re: Playing music on a party with MC12
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2007, 06:57:01 am »

If you have a crash, please take a look at the log.  Look for the word "crash".
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