Gary
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I rip copyrighted music tracks from vinyl and CD, and bring another copy of those tracks into existance on a hard drive. I perform using those ripped tracks - it's my choice however...convenience of not opening the CD flightcases to get to the originals at a gig unless I have to - eg: If someone tips a beer over my 3 hard drives. It sounds like a lot of other people rip copyright music too, and use that new copy in their business.
The back of pretty much each and every CD states that it is not permitted for me to do that action - eg: Rip copyright music from the CD. The Pro-Dub license stops me, and others from getting into trouble by dis-obeying the copyright conditions on the back of the cd case/inlay, which we're agreeing to when/by buying the cd.
I choose (my choice) to rip copyright music from the original formats I bought them in, I dont want to get into trouble with organisations, and dont want to be excluded from either venues which I've played at before, or might be booked to play at in the future, so I bought the Pro-Dub.
If professional music users choose to only use originals, they dont need the Pro Dub license.
I would air my concerns that going around, be it on a forum, or from a park bench or half-way up a lamppost yelling "Dont buy it" could be construed as Inciting others to flout copyright laws - which might in itself be wrong.
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Hi all can anyone tell me if there is any reviews of the cortex hd100
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,and 10... ah good. I've still got all my fingers and I'm planning on keeping it that way - so I wont mention any forum associations.
With regard to your enquiry about the Cortex unit(s). I think that you might mean the Cortex 1000 rather than a 100.
Like the other publically launched hard drive controllers, such as the Cortex 3000, the Denon DN-HD2500 and the now discontinued Numark Director/D2, the Cortex 1000 has had a number of firmware upgrades. The reason why I mention this is that any reviews which you might see about the Cortex 1000 could be from an earlier revision of firmware, so any shortfalls which an old review may have picked up on, may not be their now.
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I had a problem getting onto/thru the site a couple of months ago, but it was mainly just timeouts - eg: The pages were taking a very long time to load, and my browser was set to only wait so long. I up'ed those browser settings to double their original settings, and normally get onto the site most times now.
I still have occasional issues with the site behaving unusually, which usually results in a post being filled twice with the same thing - eg: If I type 2 paragraphs of text, they appear with two paragraphs duplicated below them.
I notice that the flood control, for page to page navigation has gone again, this time to 40 seconds, which is tiresome on the front screens, but doesnt affect normal read/post operations - I don't know enough about flood control to advise whether or not its a catalyst of your current issues, or a co-incidence.
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Or it could overheat live at a gig and switch itself off completely in the middle of a song.
That's certainly a possiblility. I spoke with several DJs at DJ Show North last Sunday who had been having issues (some which sounded heat related) with their lappys and were looking at more recent alternatives.
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It would be an apologetic "No" from me.
Yes, they could damage your kit - and depending on what they damage the rest of that gig, and your next few gigs could be affected.
However... have a look at a DJU thread along similar lines back in February.
What if they claim that your equipment damaged their items?
Also known as "It was working alright 'til I plugged it into 'is gear" syndrome...."The DJ broke it, I wanna new one" game. Just one up from the channel 4 adverts of "Had an accident which wasnt your fault?..."
This is likely to be what? Friend/family member of the hirer, bedroom DJ perhaps, probably hasn't plugged into more than a home hifi or PC speakers before, doesnt know he needs a Ground Loop Isolator, has just the laptops own internal sound card, it'll sound like a kazoo and he'll blame your rig for that.
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About a month ago I was doing a gig and had to do a complete reboot 3 times. Thankfully the crowd took it okayish.
The only thing I can think is different is that at home I'm pretty much playing tracks I want, were as live there are requests and I'll do a lot moe searches on the laptop. I think this is chipping away at the available resources in the laptop and this triggers the same old problem.
From what I've read this doesn't effect PC laptops as much but even then it can still happen.
Just out of interest, whats the reboot time like on a Mac? eg: Time to reboot and get the correct track playing again?
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I've not been taking gigs for this weekend as I'm at DJ Show North in Leeds on Sunday.
If you're going along, come along to the Denon DJ stand and say "Hi".
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Even if you're not having to share the generator, I'd recommend getting yourself a £30 Power conditioner.
I use one from Ebuyer, which is a battery backup AND a voltage regulator/power conditioner - with a nice little display on the front to let you know what its doing. The battery backup isnt really all that important for what you want to do, but the voltage regulator features will mean that as your lights flash, or the caterers switch on their tea-urn and hotplates etc, your gear will still get a standard 220volts, rather than wildly damaging voltages which could vary considerably from 220v (until the generator revs up, or idles off).
About the same size a small "Yellow Pages" and heavy, but a worthwhile bit of protection - especially when priced as less than the cost of most equipment repairs.
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If it happened to me, I'd be fumin'
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This has been rattling around for quite some time, well a few months maybe.
An important thing to note is that the ISP can obviously tell the difference between an UPloaded MP3 track, and a DOWNloaded MP3 track (as it wanders through the internet cloud).
So...miss T smith, aged 6...DOWNloading a track by following some dodgy link that she's either been sent or somehow stumbled across, is one thing....whereas Mr L J Silver or Mr R R Jimlad UPloading MP3 tracks out of their PC onto a filesharing site would show itself differently to the Internet Service Provider (ISP), as its an UPload to a filesharing service, rather than a DOWNload from a filesharing service.
OK, it could be discussed that both actions are wrong, but if the UPloaders are kicked off of the 'net, or have their home phone numbers "blackmarked" so that they can only get such a slow broadband that filesharing would be soooooooo tedious, then it would mean less music is in place to interest so many wouldbe downloaders.
And that's good news in my book.
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half the house
Crikey...she must've had a big trailer.
Sorry. Sorry to hear of your difficulties, but also glad to hear, well read, that you're all up and running with a new partner, new job and, what sounds like its going to be new a great new life for you and your daughter.
It's a great life, if you don't weaken...
...so...
Dont weaken
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OK then, another example. If a DJ who only used CDs makes a back-up copy of every CD in his collection in case the disc gets damaged/lost etc, why does (s)he not need an additional license? And how is that different from backing up on a hard drive?
They do. (grief! It sounds like I'm at a wedding...)
The Pro-dub covers those wishing to move all, or some of the tracks they have on CD (one format), to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+-R, DVD-+RW, which are all other formats - eg: MP3, WAV etc.
Many DJ's, myself included asked about this 3 or 4+ years ago when PPL prototyped the PPL Digital DJ license - but it's final version didn't cover CD-R variants, only Hard Drive storage of the tracks.
We all know that when we buy an album, it contains some fantastic "killer!" tracks, and some right ol' "filler" tracks. Many DJs back then, and still now, I suspect want to be able to create a CDR collection of discs just full of all their killer tracks, and no filler tracks - some of those DJs, and other users I suspect, also wanted to be able to compile all their CD singles onto CDR too - after all, its usually just the Radio Edit which we need from a CDR, not the DJ Bang-Bangs, rub-a-dub-dub-club-n-pub-boppy-boppy-ruined-and-nothing-like-the-original extended remix mix".
The Pro Dub license allows that sort of compilation making - which means that pro music users, be they DJ or Dancing/Aerobic intstructor, could carry around a fraction of the number of discs with them to, in and out of their venues.
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This is a fairly old post, relatively speaking, although the off-topic parts about avatars etc kept it bumped for a while.
With regards to the firmware (Version 1300) originally mentioned in the topic/thread title, it's no longer the current firmware. Users who are keen to have the latest firmware on their units may want to download version 1400 which is now available.
As general advice, almost all, if not in fact "all" the hard drive controllers such as the Cortex1000/3000/5000, the Denon 2500/5500/1200, the Numark D2 (and others) have had several firmware updates released for them since those units first became available.
If anyone is having any remaining concerns with their chosen make/model, it would be well worth their while checking their manufacturers websites to check what the latest firmware version numbers are, compared to what version of firmware each user has in their chosen Hard Drive Controller. There's usually a mixture of fixes, enhancements and brand new features in all the manufacturers firmware updates.
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I'm still amazed that people actually think that this license is ever going to be checked.
Are you confirming or indeed fully guaranteeing that it wont be? I dont think that any member of DJU is naive enough to expect that you are guaranteeing that. More the case perhaps that you are "betting" on the ratio of ripped music professional/business users Vs the percieved number of inspectors? eg: Along the lines of "I thinking of parking in this pay and display car park (which used to be free to park in), it's 4:59pm, I reckon that there's not that many traffic wardens around here, and besides they'll probably go home at 5:30. I'll risk it."
That gamble, be it parking wardens or PRS inspectors is obviously your gamble for you to decide whether you want to take it. If you are attempting to incite other members of the forum, and thanks to Google-bots, other web users, to take the risk - that could be something far more worrying.
One similar myth, or at least "unknown variable" about the PRS inspectors, who of course already exist and regularly visit venues who play music (anywhere from a hairdressers with a radio on the counter, to hotels and nightclubs etc), is that they are "just" 9 til 5'ers. This bit of wishful thinking was dispelled at a large DJ meeting last weekend, where the attendees were advised that a member had been in a venue at 9pm on a Friday night a few months ago, when the PRS inspector was led around the venue.
The license is, dependant on the way that each music user either works, or wants to work, optional. And that needs to be explained before anyone runs off with the idea of "oh well, if it's optional, I opt not too."
If a dance instructor, fitness instructor, DJ, aerobics trainer etc, opts to play their music from the format in which they bought it, then the don't need the license. If however they opt to move their music around from the original format to another format, for conveniences sake for example, then they would need the license, just the once, during the act of format shifting said music. Once shifted under license, the professional music user can play and play and play those tracks which were moved/dubbed under license for years to come, without further license for those same tracks.
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I am looking to transfer my karaoke collection over to my external Hard Drive
Where are the karaoke files currently? on the internal hard drive of a laptop/PC, or on DVDs/CDG discs?
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As long as you can get the message across clearly, is probably the key thing.
This is where perhaps, not only voice, but also mic selection and EQ comes into its own.
I'm reminded of a story (and I've no idea how true this is, or not) of a DJ with a reasonable voice, but a real cheap hollow plastic mic, being accused of saying a really bad swear word, when actually he was introducing a piece of classic jazz -funk- oooops.
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I generally intercept people before they get right behind the equipment, simply because it is a working area and space is at a premium.
Occasionally a child or teenager will wander right in behind, but they are tactfully propelled back the way they came.
Most people simply ask requests across the top of my 'bar', which works well.
Same for me. Depending on the venue and the set-up at said venues, I will sometimes block off the sides of the show with a row of chairs etc, so that even I have to move a chair out to get in/out.
For example, one venue which I do a few times a year has got 4 double powerpoints along the only obvious wall for a disco/band to set up along - BUT they've put all 4 double sockets right next to each other, slap dang in the very middle of the wall - which means I'm almost standing on the main leads, whenever I'm standing by my console, and that's with me being fully aware that they're there - if a guest came behind the equipment to talk to me, they'd probably pull a wire out of a plug by standing on it, or they'd trip over the couple of inches of cable which isnt safely embedded in one of my rubber (Anti) trip strips.
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Crap !
When a discussion falls into a reply having to start with vulgarity, it's sometimes indicadive an emotive subject. Fair enough..
how many people do you honestly believe know about it and are talking about it ??
In the last 27 hours – 140 people, DJs face-to-face, discussing the Pro Dub License with professional respect and courtesy, asking questions with professional respect and courtesy, and listening to the answers collectively and, yes maybe you guessed it… with professional respect and courtesy.
Within the next 8 days – over 1200 DJs are anticipated to attend DJ Show North, the first major DJ event since the license became live and a requirement for those wishing to format shift and earn money using the format shifted media. MCPS-PRS will be attending that show to answer face-to-face and, I suspect again with professional respect and courtesy, discuss the licence with any like-minded, and similarly professionals who wish to format shift as part of their business.
Almost immediately after that, including one on Mon 29th in fact, which I’m hoping to attend near me, there are numerous smaller face-to-face discussions taking place at regional NADJ meetings for DJs.
In October, several thousand DJs will be attending another industry show, and again MCPS-PRS have recently signed up for attending.
Given the demograph of those who absolutely require the Pro-Dub license in order to either start, or continue performing with format shifted media, slaaping a 30 second advert in the middle of Coronation Street, isn’t going to actually reach those who need to purchase the license. By attending industry related events and shows, I think that MCPS-PRS are making a very positive contribution to getting succinct information about the license to those who need it.
Also, from Sunday nights large meeting, we heard that PRS inspectors, the people who already tour music playing venues and other businesses, will be proffering information about the new pro-dub licence, expected to be by way of printed literature during their regular visits. Word of the licence is already spreading and will continue to do so amongst businesses.
Speaking of business, and the “other” forums of which you speak, last night it transpired that a very well known owner of another forum, and other DJs, myself included have purchased our pro dub licenses and are already using them as yet another business tool. How? Several of us have already contacted our various regular venues and have made them aware of the license, that we hold it, and that some format shifters may not. Various other DJs at last nights event agreed that the pro dub license was in fact more essential than PLI or PAT, both of which are only optional*, whereas Pro Dub is a requirement for those who perform from format shifted media.
*True, certain venues, such as some council owned venues will insist you have PLI to a certain £level, in order to perform at their venues, and usually PLI has a caveat in it which states that it’s only valid if you have current PAT.
The Pro-Dub licence, for UK professionals is not optional if they perform from format shifted media.
Since some members of this forum are using the Pro Dub license as part of their business methods, Those who are keen to make repeated attacks about license holders, should consider a certain section of the forum Code Of Conduct:
22) Do not publicly start threads or post questioning the business integrity of another colleague or member.I do not believe that certain aspects of referring to the growing number of Pro Dub license holders by derogatory names falls on the correct side of point 22 of this forums code of conduct.
Refering also to the code of conduct, there are several sections which cover the questioning of another members business ethics or integrity… Why do I mention this? Well, since the 9th of July 2008, user “Pro Dub” became as much a member of this forum and as such, I can find no reason with the DJU code of conduct why that member should be less protected by those rules, than any other member. With that in mind, I saw the words “or are you here just to Spy?” quoted in a post. Surely questioning both the business ethics and the integrity of a fellow DJU member, namely the one who joined our forum on the 9th.
Maintaining and upholding the forum rules and code of conduct has been, in my opinion, an important factor, which has enabled the forum moderation team to shape and nurture this forum to a level, in nearly all subjects, in terms of maturity of discussion which myself and other members feels usually elevates DJU above some other forums. The Pro-dub licence, like, I suppose any “old (free) habits die hard” change, is understandably quite an emotive subject for some and as such I feel that its discussion has not been the most straightforward topic for the moderation teams of various forums to stay on-top of. It’s a tough role, but somebody’s gotta do it.
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I think that Billie Jean is one of those tracks that, depending on the type of gig, you'd probably end up having to play the original. It's one of those that gets requested quite a lot - If any of the cover versions of it got played, there'd probably be those "funny looks" and requests for the original.
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say for instance you were to tell them the laptop is for the database search facilities only, then...
...then the PRS inspector just waits 3 minutes until the end of the current playing track and waits for:
a) The silence as you try not to go near the laptop, the PC or the Hard Drive Controller to cue the next track up.
b) You to quickly dash out to the van to drag in the crate/fabric case of dusty CDs
c) You to quickly dash out out to the van to drag in the crate/fabric case of dusty CD-Rs (oops).
Whilst I've witnessed first hand that PRS inspectors dont just work 9ish to 5ish...I would have thought that it would be extremely unlikely that they'll go anywhere near anyones kit on the night. Its far more likely, I'd have thought that they'll ask your details, if they haven't got them already from the venue, and give you a form to fill out and return within X or xx days about the equipment he/she's seen you using. All of the main Windows based "DJ" programs are pretty obvious, and 100% visually different to Excel or Access or most other mere on-screen databases, so I doubt any fibs about "Its just a database" would stand a chance.
As they say, "Tax inspectors go to weddings too..."
Who's to say that the next lady or gent who wanders up to you inbetween talk-overs/links and asks for a card isnt about to show you theirs, with MCPS-PRS at the top.
I have to say that I think the biggest hurdle that the license has, is that "everyone" has had a "rip" button, or a "record" button, and has been able to use that button with a hard drive or a CD-burner on the other end of it for upwards of a decade now, and quite simply, old habits die hard.
If the said "rip/record" button was just about to be released, and in all the adverts for it, there was a mention of "You'll need to buy this license at the same time", I don't think that we'd be hitting this albeit crumbling wall of relutance now.
The more that the Pro-Dub gets talked about face-to-face, without E-Warriors growling false objections through their mice, the more it seems that people are either already 100% aware or are quickly becoming aware of the requirement for the pro-dub license if they have already, or will be format shifting.
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You need to go back to school Gary ;-)
35% of people who voted,
In any vote, whether it's on a forum, a high street clipboard survey or any other sampling, we have to assume that however many people gave their answers, are a proportional representation of "all" - especially as there was a "no problems" poll option, which was presented to the same number of people who chose to vote that they had experienced serious problems. Any member who would have seen the one option, would have seen the other, so the polls percentages are accurate within the poll itself..
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Have YOU ever had a big problem with YOUR laptop over heating.Yes[ 6 ] http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/style_images/1/bar_left.gifhttp://www.dj-forum.co.uk/style_images/1/bar.gifhttp://www.dj-forum.co.uk/style_images/1/bar_right.gif [35.29%]
Crikey, that's over 8% higher than previous figures I've seen. AND the above figure is more upto date than those other figures.
I empathise with those 35%+ of DJU members who may have had to revert to their back-up music solutions for all, or some of, the remainder of the affected gig(s).
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(I've posted on the Denon forum).
Ymm I saw.your query there, and you've got a reply/suggestion there too. re: d-sync
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As I'm ripping waves, I was planning on using a single 1.5 or 2TB drive so that I don't have to remember which track are on which drive, or have to search each drive separately.
It's 1TB limit thus far. I've not heard of any test, successful or not, with anyone using a larger drive, however, I would suspect that if you hooked up a 2TB drive, the DN-HD2500 would "see" the first 1TB and not the remainder. To echo another members comment above, the odd one or two 2 TB drives which I've seen so far, have been 2 x 1TB drives, or 2 x 750GB drives in single external enclosure using some sort of proprietry disk array system or a bog-standard RAID interface inside. I've not known of any of these array devices used for DJing so far.
One thing which may be of interest to you Robbie, about you having to remember which tracks are on which drive etc. The new Hotlist feature, on V1300 firmware and above allows to to add tracks from any of your drives individual searches as normal. You do not need to swap source drives manually during playback from the Hotlist. So, your hotlist could comprise of tracks from the internal HDD, External drive 4, 3, 2 and 1 and you could play all/any of them without having to swap Source.
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Agreed, if that's what the leading post was suggesting, rather than "use ripped tracks, but dont buy the pro-dub".
It's down to interpretation of the leading post, which could be taken in more than one way. Much in the same way that I suspect the people who said they wouldnt pay their poll tax didn't actually take the required steps to no longer need to pay their poll tax, they carried on as before, still needed to pay, but didn't.
Those wishing to read all the comments that have already been to'ed and fro'ed about licensing, will find plenty of posts via the DJU Search facilities.
Good to hear!
Acknowledged. (for those not using 100% originals).
It's an immotive subject, but seems to be calming down as the word is spread.