Handling Requests App?

Sure you want every drunk ….. on the floor to have your mobile phone number?

Think having them tweet their request would be wiser in that respect.

The thing is, if you actively seek requests, people are gonna assume and expect you to actually play most of them.

I think I would pass on the idea really.

Greetinx,
C.

Generally, I don’t encourage requests. If someone is keen and they come up to talk and ask in a reasonable manner I try to accommodate them, especially if their request is within the vibe I’m playing that night. But Friday night passed, I did a small bar full of international backpackers and had the same wanker come up half the night demanding that I play Macklemore “NOW” because “Everyone will dance to it, trust me”. He even sent up his friends to ask as well. I told him from the first request that I didn’t have it and he tried to demand that I play it from youtube instead. Eventually, I had to offer a thinly veiled threat to get him to leave me alone.

DJ EENGENIOUS, post: 41316, member: 14 wrote: I like the idea of the hashtag. What about an app that allows you to log in with twitter, set up a hashtag, and then automaticaally/dynamically sort tweets as they come in? Multiple song requests could be tallied and put at the top of the queue, and you could swipe to delete once you played the song or something

Yeah bring a 12 by 16 foot LED wall with you, hook it up to display the tweets and the scorelist! Have an interface with your DJ software (that is also connected live to different online music stores), have a macro that automatically loads the highest ranking 20 tracks into your preparation list. Based on key, energy level and BPM it will then sort the best play order. With faultless beatgridding and a new algorithm to figure out where the intro, outro and breaks are, the fuzzy logic in your DJ software can now determine the correct in and out mix points. Set the whole thing to autoplay and come back to the place when it closes to pick up your cheque.

Sounds like my kind of way of making music … oh no, WAIT! I like standing in front of an audience and try to figure out what is the best way to get and keep them in the groove …

Greetinx,
C.

Ummm technologically this app doesnt seem like a problem to make. It is practical problem. It is just bad idea for djs because then you can just make an app which gonna play the songs with greatest demand and sync them one into another. Mission accomplished! -NOT. DJ is here to entertain the crown in a way he thinks that gonna work. If he succeed in doing it hes good if he doesnt hes bad or just inexperienced.

There will never be an app replacing entertainment in Djing. Period.

Have you ever looked into how Sky Radio and it’s brethren do their thing? Not a human involved anymore. They just organised the heck out of their collection (year, genre and such) and then set their format. Now the computer selects the tunes and plays them, they throw in the ads everyday that also get played at the designated spots.

Great technology :-).

Greetinx,
C.

VDJ have a plug in that allow patrons to text. Not to many people use it as is expencive.