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  • December 4, 2012 at 3:30 pm #33126
    Hee Won Jung
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    Pretty much sums up exactly what i do 😀

    well except the last part of storing everything on a external hard drive…another risky thing that doesnt REALLY need to be done.

    December 4, 2012 at 3:39 pm #33129
    DJ 2 Cut
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    I just threw that in there because I’ve had a laptop die one me right in between 2 gigs on night. Was able to go to Walmart at 1 AM and buy another laptop. Was back up and running in 20 min from powering it on.

    December 4, 2012 at 6:58 pm #33132
    Anonymous
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    iTunes Match! All the DJ music in the cloud. Laptop dies, no problems, download on another.

    December 4, 2012 at 7:25 pm #33134
    DJ 2 Cut
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    Kent Sandvik, post: 33288, member: 3967 wrote: iTunes Match! All the DJ music in the cloud. Laptop dies, no problems, download on another.

    Wouldn’t this cause you to lose your Cue’s, Grids, and Stripes? You would have reanalyze all your tracks and re cue them. If your in a time crunch that would be really bad. With a hard drive you plug it in. Map your software to the drive and your done as if nothing ever happened at all.

    I also like this because if I need to borrow a laptop from another DJ to get me through a gig i just launch Traktor, map the drive in the settings, restart Traktor and its done. Undo the changes when you done an its back to how it was before you ever turned it on.

    December 4, 2012 at 8:12 pm #33138
    Anonymous
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    If the iTunes Match is uploaded then all the internal MP3 information is intact. Not sure about matched, might be that the SW does not know of al the Traktor specific ID3 tags. If this is the case, it’s worth filing a bug report to Apple about this case for full sync of all ID3 tag info.

    I do have all my production work including all tracks (iTunes libraries) backed up by BackBlaze. For $5/month unlimited backup it’s a no-brainer for any producer to get that in place. The background backups are also pretty snappy with BackBlaze. Worst case I could download tracks from the BackBlaze cloud if needed.

    Anyway, as a third option I have music on a 16Gb USB drive in my wallet so that’s another option, too… You could get plenty of MP3/320k files on a 16Gb drive, enough for playing for a whole weekend.

    December 5, 2012 at 3:02 pm #33173
    Hee Won Jung
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    I use a cloud backup service as well to store all my music….however when it comes to gigging…i always have a secondary laptop with me along with CDs and my ipod with a pre-recorded mix that i have done.

    This way i am always prepared no matter what happens…laptop fails plug in ipod/CD to let me boot up my other laptop or do a restart if that is the big issue.

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