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    Todd Oddity
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    I’ve never seen them listed out on a site – and it would be of very limited use anyway as you’d still have to look at the list, load your track, find the point they are talking about, and set the cue point. Not sure what time that would really save you, and with so many edits and remixes of songs out there, it would be hard to tell from a list if you were even looking at cue points from the same version that you have.

    Now something that IS more helpful – some record pools send out their tracks with a few cue points in them. DJ City for example has Serato points in their tracks. That can save some time.

    #2545191
    Craig
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    Mixed in Key will insert cue points when it scans for key, but like Todd said, much better to do them yourself.

    #2546091

    Yep, not a good idea. For one, figuring out where to put your cue points is gonna help you get acquainted (intimately) with your track and will give you an increasingly better understanding of song structures. It also makes you ask yourself the question why it is at a certain point that you would want a cue point. Is it because it has a nice low energy break that you could through an acapella over? Because the outro starts there? Because the track has a short outro and you want to place an end-of-track 8-bar loop there. It has a very long intro and you want the track to start 8-bars before the first drop for mix-in purposes.
    Or perhaps you like cue juggling and mashing up tracks that way.

    So, even if possible (MiK, DJ Pools or even -if they exist- lists with cue points), it’s like skipping an essential part of becoming a DJ.

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