Gary

At the moment, it's only some of the legal download services which are geared up for adding the user account info into the music file headers. The good news is of course that since the Pro-dub license is only needed for tracks which have been format shifted - then tracks which were downloaded from a legal download site dont need to be counted under the pro-dub license - so, the more music files which include the User ID account info, the better for the user. Since music files with no User ID data could be counted by a MCPS-PRS inspector as "ripped" or "Format shifted tracks" as they dont b

True, but anyone can become a member - A non-DJing milkman, a non-DJing Inland Revenue Inspector, a non-DJing MCPS-PRS staff member, a non-DJing Bride-to-be (another one) - anyone. So...anyone can view this topic, once they're "in" - and apart from a few old, known troublemakers - nearly everyone has their DJU membership approved, as we're a friendly sorta forum. THat's one of the anonimity quagmires with the internet.... that newbie members "MC Super-Dave" from "Aberdeen "could actually be Shirley Smith from the Family Tax Credits Unit in deepest, darkest, Bournemouth.

I m buying one too (one too, testing, testing, one too, one too) I buy a TV License, even though I've never seen a TV detector van around here. Besides as I want to use a hard drive to store my "ripped from original CD" tracks on, from July 1st 2008, I HAVE to have one. Being honest isnt optional. "I rip, therefore I am" (going to buy a Pro-dub license).

That'll be included in a amnesty (bet I spelt that wrong) in the first license. So, If I've got say 12000 unique tracks and buy the 20000, tracks license, then rip 1000 tracks over the year that ticks by. I'll have 7000 dubs left. So...11 months and 29/30 days later, I'll just contact MCPS/PRS and register the fact that over that licensed year I used up 12000 "instantly" (already ripped), plus a further say 2000 rips over the 12 months of the license, so have got 7000 dubs left Then I guess I'll just register that balance, or buy some tiny/minimal number of dubs possible, type

That court case relates to a different country : so different rules - the country in question could be one of the ones with "fair use" regs for example. Plus, the case isnt music rights related, but the country difference is the more notable reason for it not applying to dubbing music in the UK

Maybe you could turn number 5 into a large printed Cue Card to hold up to the audience, so that they know their part. I welcome "unordered" playlists, and have had quite a few, some adding up to well over the duration of the gig itself - especially once any buffet break has been taken into account. Although, with some playlists, 30 minutes of background music for the buffet can be a blessing as it gives you the opportunity to play some of the less dancable items from the clients list. (phew!). I've not had any "strictly this order only" type playlists, except a couple

Just a quick update, I spoke yesterday with the same two people at MCPS/PRS who had been so forthcoming with providing me (verbally) the price banding and the "rollover" aspect of unused "dubs", which I reproduced on here a couple of days ago. I started relaying the more recent questions from DJU members to them, however on this occasion, neither member of MCPS/PRS staff was able to offer any additional information; instead, I was advised that a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) was being compiled and they've kindly offered to email a copy of those FAQs to me, when they are rea

Too many Balloons? I've seen accidents (well, one) happen thanks to balloons being used to cover a dancefloor to being about 50/50 balloons/parque flooring. Looked nice until the venue staff returned from the Kitchen with the freshly cut wedding cake slices...The floor was then covered with 32% balloons, 32% parque flooring, 32% wedding cake, 4% Waitress (star-shaped). If someone was particularly concerned about how to deal with excess balloons, and was recklessly unconcerned about the welfare of the surrounding guests, then there's this crazy, and probably PLI

Totally agree - and Paul is modest with it - when I've spoken with Paul/Vinnie either by phone or at various DJ events/Trade shows etc about the "whole licence thing" and the tremendous amount of time and effort that's been put into getting a better, fairer, alternative for DJs compared to the industrys first attempt eg: The now moth-balled "Digital DJ License" - Paul has always been extremely quick to mention all the efforts of his colleagues within the License Working Party (LWP), before his own. Perhaps not surprisingly, though, when I've spoken with the Pauls LWP colleagues, th

I'll pose these questions tomorrow later on today, when I speak with the guys at MCPS/PRS - I'll also ask about the "Do backups count toward the overall track count". I'll pose Dans/Dukesys questions about some form of corporate use - eg: What if an entertainment agency wants to send all its "DJs" out with the agencys "bog-standard" hard drive of "The publics 9999 top requests - ever!" - on this last point, I recall that the old "Digital DJ License" had some small print attached, to cover the fact that the licence holder, the dubber, and the end user must be one-and-the-same person - which s

Just a quick caveat here. I hope that Dan/Dukesy won't mind me just clarifying a turn-of-phrase used by him earlier; I'm not posting "on behalf" of any of the organisations related to the provision of the license. It's just me passing on information which I feel sure other DJU forum members will find of practical use. I spoke with two MCPS/PRS staff members this morning, albeit not via a totally public route, and obtained the price/dubbing quantity bands, and related info here. Some DJU members, with oooold DJU member accounts and/or good memories, will remember that before this Pro

That's the main hurdle in some peoples perceptions. The purchaser of any CD has only bought the CD and its contents in that format, not any actual rights or copyrights of the tracks on that CD, as per the smallprint on the inlay cover(s) of the CD. (Unless of course, the CD in question is "The Greatest Hits of The Police" and it's Sting who bought the CD from Woolies. See more or less every other thread about the old Digital DJ license, or this Pro-Dub Licence. With regard to "what of DJs (or any other pro dubbers - this ISNT a DJ license)? who are E-deaf, E-dumb, and E-b

In simple terms, it's a ONE OFF - as the license is to cover you for the physical ACT of the moving/copying/ripping of the tracks from their original medium to your newly chosen medium - the actual dubbing process. Buying the license to cover you for this act is the difference between dubbing and piracy (of that act/task) How many years after that dubbing process you actually use those dubbed tracks for does not matter - as the illegal task which you needed to be covered for was done in year 1 - eg: The moving/dubbing. This is a very good question, and the answer is abs

Good news ! I've just been in contact with the MCPS/PRS Alliance and have the latest details. The launch is set to be a week tomorrow - July 1st. - less than 8 days, and countin' Prices...(here were go). There are prices for those DJs wishing to dub/copy plain AUDIO tracks and then a Top-Up/Bolt-on costing for those DJs who have Karaoke tracks within their collection. 1 to 5000 tracks = £250 (audio only) or £300 (any mixture of audio and karaoke) 5001 to 10000 tracks = £300 (audio only) or £360 (any mixture of audio and karaok

As mentioned above by a DJU member - one of the organizations who have teamed up to introduce the well overdue Dubbing license is PRS. The member confirmed that the PRS visited his venue 2 or 3 times per annum. I would expect that these visits every 4 months would be an ideal opportunity for details of the PRS inspector to advise/remind each visited venue of any and all amendments and/or additions to the world of licensing and confirm both the venues obligation check their entertainers and in-house dub compliance. PRS certainly have teeth as previously fined venues would vouch for, and

My two home PCs are on XP and are both set to update automatically whenever Microsoft offer updates. I almost upgraded them both to "new" Windows Vista a couple of months back dispite all the non-compatibility issues that alot of Vista users have experienced but then I decided simply to ignore Vista altogether as Microsofts LATEST operating system; Microsoft "Vienna" is due out in 2009. I'll just wait for that, I think. Microsoft apparently intend to launch a new operating system every 2 years.

Absolutely right Tonsk. The problem with PC's and Laptops which the professional hard drive controllers, like the Denon, the Cortex, and the Numark all bypass is the pic'n'mix heirarchy which domestic stuff is based on: Having the operating system supplied by one place, the processor from somewhere else, the motherboard and its BIOS from yet another company, the sound card from some other place, "DJ" software from yet another place... every different supplier is just like another reel on a fruit machine. Everytime an upgrade goes through, everytime you add a new bit, everytime yo

Longstanding (not enough chairs in here?) DJU member and contributor Jimboylan is offering his new test site up for review. Jim advises that this is his second website, which he has developed in order to separate his wedding clients from the "usual" birthdays etc. Jim has also got a whole new domain for the site to go live on, but he's currently hosting the new site in a testing area, eagerly awaiting your positive and also your "constructive" comments. So, please click on www.prism-entertainments.co.uk/DreamCatchers/index.html, Have a good look

Do you mean that it sounds better than when connected with ordinary analogue leads, or better than your previous mixer with analogue leads? Either way, no, I don't think that it's just psycological, I too can hear a difference when using the same mixer and the same audio device, then connecting them up through digital coaxial connectors versus ordinary analogue connectors - even if using the same RCA leads - The current range of Denon DN-X rack mixers have earned themselves a reputation of being very clear and punchy sounding. Just one extra word of advice (

Some news - and it's not looking like a V1300 issue. I'll PM you. Tony - your PM box is either full, or off.

Why; indeed. Although it is slowly improving, some legit downloads are still only hovering around the 192 or 256kbps region. For this reason, I download only to fill in gaps of essential/popular tunes inbetween proper CD releases/arrivals, and, if up against the wire, I'll check around a number of highstreet download sites for specially pre-requested tracks such as a bride and grooms first dance, or other similar "must play" tune. ideally, I'd like one or more of the highstreet big-name legit download sites to start offering WAV quality, or at least 320kbps mp3 tracks

Rev, you saying something which is incorrect, repeatedly, doesn't pass it off as any less incorrect each time. The back of a cd cover says that its illegal to copy (dub) it. I have no reason to believe that I am somehow excempt from those words. Neither, I suspect, are you.

Indeed. On a shop bought CD the legalities of copying or dubbing it are shown on the CD packaging - it's that act of piracy which the dubbing license will cover the holder of the license (us) for doing. No-one can read those copyright details on the back of a CD and claim that "ho ho, those don't apply to me" - except if it were Paul McCartney reading the copyright printing on the back of a WINGS Greatest Hits CD maybe. When a track is downloaded from a legal "highstreet" type site - eg: HMV downloads, Woolworths downloads etc, that sites terms and conditions (the "smallprint") us

A good tune - but one that does make you wonder about how deparate (or not entirely sober) they were for some of the lyrics.... ("And drives an Ice Cream Van..."??? Poor ol' Tammy W.) I liked the KLF under their "Timelords" persona too - with those square cardboard daleks...

Its a good mixer, but only 2 channel, rather than a 4 channel, which was what was requested on the thread. Quite a few people have mentioned to me, when seeing the DN-X050, that they thing that there is one feature missing But the funny thing is...that one feature is different for each person that's said it. For one person, they'd like a 3rd mic channel, another would have liked to have seen an effects send/return loop etc. Still its a very desirable mixer...It nearly wandered off all by itself two or three times at the last demo night (tongue in cheek though...the w