Best place to buy commercial digital music

I’d assume iTunes, unless they’re totally about cloud/streaming now.

For older stuff, I’d check into remix services, or even just buying and encoding them yourself from 2nd-hand records and CDs.

If you search the forums you should find quite a few posts over the last couple of years on this topic.

I cannot offer you statistics so much as a concern to be aware of – if you wish to use Mixed in Key to determine the key and energy level of your track, I understand iTunes protects the music too much for you to be able to do that in-situ. According to what I’ve read on the MiK forum, you need to burn-n-rip if you plan to run MiK against iTunes tracks, which is a pretty big PitA.

The thing is … too much stickies and the new posts don’t even show up on the first result page anymore. Not practical.

Terry spent quite some time and effort on making (supersticky) in making a number of video’s with FAQ topics.
Not everything is in there of course.

As moderators we are volunteers and already spend quite a bit of time on keeping this forum clean and the friendliest on the web. With busy real life jobs and active DJ-ing careers as well (Terry more than me), there just isn’t enough time to keep track of how often a subject comes up and if it comes up often enough, to collect all the relevant data and put it in a sticky. And then there is the subject of keeping things actual.

Good thing we have the blog for that! And of course the search function. It may not be beautiful, but it does work.

But we are open for suggestions on topics for the next set of videos.

I visited the charity shop this afternoon and picked up 4 compilation albums (each containing 2 or 3 CDs), three of which were released last year with a total of 160 songs for £15, and I’ve spent the evening ripping them to my laptop, so I’d say hit the 2nd hand shops and get ripping.

Just don’t fall for the digital DJ trap of hoarding tracks!

230 tracks, that is about half of Phil’s entire collection!

It’s why we say, be VERY picky about what you let into your collection and once your collection has the right size for you (not counting mobile DJs, different story, but even they should have a core and a request collection), typically between 500-1500 tracks, toss one out for every track you put in.

The 12k+ tracks is my entire music collection, both for personal use (it’s rare that you’ll ever find me not listening to music, hence why I enjoy working security in the clubs) and which will be used if I ever DJ live, at which point I’d create specific playlists to take out with me.

As for the whole ripping music laws, I wasn’t aware it had been changed (again?). Really can’t make up their minds, can they?

The search feature can definitely be your friend. If you haven’t done so already, do a search on “music pools” and you’ll find a plethora of topics. To get you started in your search; however, I’ve provided a few that are pretty popular with many folks on the site… of course there are plenty of others.

DJ City (http://www.djcity.com/)
* Promo Only (http://www.promoonly.com/)
* DirectMusicService (http://www.directmusicservice.com/)
* iDJPool (http://www.idjpool.com/)