VJ Meely

I’m not sure it has anything to do with the companies protecting anything. The task at hand is to simply manipulate data that I don’t believe is encrypted. VirtualDJ being the most transparent with all of its data in a clear simple XML file. Serato I think writes some stuff to a database file of sorts but most of the Cue point data right in the Encpsulated fields of the MP3s. I don’t know where it is for Traktor and the others, but the point is that the 3rd party like RekordBuddy is only manipulating the data….. why would this be so difficult? I’m just having a hard time understanding the difficulty.

Why would Serato not want DJs to easily migrate to it from other softwares? If they had an importer, more DJs might convert. Look at Chrome and Firefox browsers, they can import competitor data. Linux Open Office can read Microsoft office data etc. There are many examples….. I just don’t get it.

RekordBuddy 2.0 was promising to do this *I think*. Does anybody know what the hold up is?

This RekordBuddy 2.0 thing seems to hold the greatest promise for moving cues points between softwares but it seems much delayed in being released. Don’t understand why this is so difficult. I don’t think something like Serato writes Cue Point data in an encrypted form into the MP3 files.

Take VirtualDJ >> Serato for example. VirtualDJ has all of the cue point data clearly written in plain text in its XML database file. For a given track, why does it seem difficult for a utility to read the XML data and write equivalent (Serato compatible) data into the MP3 file of the same name? Mixed-In-Key for example knows how to write Serato cue point data into MP3s. Going the other way seems should be equally as easy.

Can anyone enlighten me??

Thx