@turtle it is wild! and difficult! hence why i have not done it yet lol but at least i won't be at the mercy of a predatory business model anymore
@turtle yeahhh Alpha Theta is crafty like that.
they also seem to be positioning themselves to make old CDJ hardware obsolete soon. They've started pushing a new USB format called "Library Plus" that you need to use for new devices.
Once they stop supporting the original "Library (not plus)" format, old devices will be bricked permanently.
They haven't said that they're gonna do this, but it's pretty obvious.
@turtle my response to this? Skip the CDJs and just do live eurorack performance. Have I successfully done this yet? No. 😭
@turtle I would definitely dump Rekordbox for Mixxx if I could stick to DJing with Controllers. but you need to have a Rekordbox formatted USB stick to use the Pioneer CDJs they usually have at clubs.
Pioneer really has professional DJs by the you know whats
@alandvalonline @kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
i've heard good things about Mixxx! sadly I need to prep USBs to work with CDJs at clubs. Alpha Theta's little racket is very effective in this regard. No matter how bad Rekordbox gets, you will still need to use it to play in clubs that use CDJs. 😭
The second this stops being true, I'm switching
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social also, the only reason i have Windows AT ALL is because Rekordbox (dj software) does not run on Linux. if it did, i would delete windows forever and never look back.
Rekordbox is also one of those softwares that i wish i didnt need to use at all.
im seeing a pattern here…
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I have a Windows 11 / Kubuntu dual boot setup.
Windows 11 crashes about 1x per hour.
Kubuntu has never crashed.
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@turtle None that I'm aware of. And part of the problem is that almost all clubs use Pioneer. And when you perform you gotta use what they have, especially if you are part of a lineup.