silvercue: DJ Pools are pools that distribute music for DJs.
First thing they require you to do is to prove to them that you are indeed a DJ playing publicly, so you cannot just signup.
Then you play a monthly fee and for that you can download (most of them do it like that) as much songs as you like. The thing is that most of them offer different styles and quality of music selection as there are quite a few out there.
The other thing is, the pool has to pay fees to the labels and hence your subscription is not cheap, most good quality pools cost at least 20 to 30 bucks a month.
Now using them is a bit of controversy in the DJ community. Of course using one is quite convenient as you can simply download the newest songs every month and no need to worry what is really good…
Then there are other DJs who feel that less is more, they limit themselves to the songs that are 100% only the best tracks to DJ with in their opinion. Which often comes down to 2-10 songs per month. With most songs being around 1 dollar that is 10-15 dollars spent a month on iTunes or beatport, which is significantly less than a DJ pool subscription…
You have to decide on your own what type of DJ you are, in my experience younger DJs love pools as they love huge amounts of music… Older DJs already have too much music and are more focused on quality…
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