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DJs Spinning Those Hard Drives

Posted by michael on from the kids-these-days dept.

Mipmap writes "Ben Kirkendoll leaves the records at home in favor of his iPods, Apple Computer's disk-based music player, which he simply plugs into an audio system's mixer. He's part of a small but growing number of DJs who have turned to MP3 music files for their accessibility and convenience..."

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  1. I hope they use some high-quality encoding by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd hate to walk into a club with a nice sound system and hear it pumping a 128 kbps mp3 encoded with Xing.

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    1. Re:I hope they use some high-quality encoding by DarkHelmet · · Score: 3, Funny
      I can see it now.

      "At club Perversion, all of our mp3s are ripped at 360k/sec. While you dine and dance with many of our Gothic Ravers, and sample some of our fine variety of blood viles, know that you get the highest quality remixes of Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, and Cradle of Filth."

      And people ask me why I stay at home so much...

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  2. what about the pops? by rovingeyes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope these guys don't show up with a mp3 that has that annoying bleeps. Guess what most idiots on the dance floor would consider that a new style and might actually become a new craze just like scratch!

  3. new spin on an old phrase by spongebobsquarepants · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...so instead of saying a good dj is 'bad', we can now say he is LAME!

  4. Now, what'd really be nice... by RinkSpringer · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...would be if DJ's would use Ogg Vorbis instead of MP3. That'd be news, and it'd convince a lot of people about what you can do with Ogg Vorbis.

  5. Re:You don't need DJ's is you go to crap clubs.... by Dthoma · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Makes me wonder how many slashdotters ever go to a decent dance club."

    I think we all know the answer to that question.

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  6. Re:Good... by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, he's posting on /. He doesn't HAVE a girl. Clean your glasses and realize that in the weird-ass club lights just because it has long hair doesn't mean that it's a girl.

  7. Re:Removable HDD's, psuedo DJ's. by raju1kabir · · Score: 3, Funny
    I know of one pub in Sydney and have heard about some more night clubs which have PC's set up playing huge MP3 play lists over and over off of MP3's on removable hard drives. DJ at home mixes music until his removable hdd is full, then takes it to the night club, swaps hdd's, goes home and does it all again to keep the mixes fresh.

    Yeah, I moonlight for one of those outfits. I don't know shit about music, but they pay me $25/hr to go to the club, stand behind a set of turntables that aren't connected to anything, fiddle with knobs, hold a headphone to the side of my head, turn my baseball cap around backwards, squint a lot, speak with a crap Manchester accent, draw fake needle tracks on my arms, and bop my head around as if I'm mixing the music. If anyone makes a request I just give them a withering look for being so uncool as to request such a tired song.

    Meanwhile the real DJ is at home programming the real sets, shooting the real heroin, and earning the other $75/hr.

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  8. Really? by devphil · · Score: 3, Funny
    No, you can't scratch with the old CDJ-500's,

    Are you sure? I've had no problems scratching my CDs...

    Er, wait, we're talking about two different things. Never mind. :-)

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