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    Orgasmix
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    First of all, dirty ID3s and/or filenames (e.g. “[downloaded from shadymp3.net.cc]”) are a dead giveaway that you are a pirate AND an idiot.
    I’m so OCD about my ID3s that keeping them consistent is a significant part of my workflow when expanding my collection.

    Assuming they’re clean, there is no “easy” way for them to check whether it’s legit or not, apart from listing all tunes and asking for invoices. Might pick a few tracks at random to check and assume it’s a representative sample.

    Can’t claim being a saint about this, still have some illegal mp3s that I’m progressively buying. Priority is audio quality upgrade > play count.

    #2453901
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Most serious places you officially download from will provide you with proof of purchase/invoices. So keeping those in an administrative system is handy.

    If you are playing out, they won’t be too concerned about your tracks being bought officially (although they might investigate if they don’t trust things. They will be more concerned with whether or not your right to play tracks in public is legit. Depending on the country you live in the legislation on this will vary. There have been some previous posts on the subject, so I suggest using the search function to find out more.

    Generally this means you or the venue needs a license to play music in public. If that is in order, I am gonna guess they will go home satisfied (again if you don’t have 50.000 tracks in your collection, in which case they might take a closer look).

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    Mike Tyler
    Participant

    okey, thanks!

    #2456051
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Yep I have been checked twice last 5 years and all they wanted is the invoices. So I showed them (I store them all in my cloud storage) and after they went through a few they were OK with it. (I think if the amount of invoices is satisfactory for them, they let you off the hook hehe).

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