Now you should be able to at least transfer your libraries around the assorted DJ apps with relative ease. It might be a small stand, but now he’s made his industry-leading software free, the barriers to library migration have come tumbling down. He just echoes what we all think, but actually has some power to do something about it. Seems that Damien is pretty clear about his intentions. The complete and evolving statement and thread can be found on the Rekord Buddy forum. Join me and let’s make it fulfill its motto and stay the one and only “by DJs, for DJs” app out there. Without revenue, I’ll continue to support and develop it more as a labour of love, but user support will minimal and sporadic. By selling Record Buddy as a product and then as a service, I’m profiting from the poor practices of the DJ industry, albeit in a bid to provide a solution to this bad practice.Īs of October 9th 2020 Rekord Buddy is a free app and will become open source software, free for anyone to use and modify as they wish, before the end of the year. It was the first to market and enjoyed enough success that I could make it my full time gig.īut recently I’ve been struggling with something, and that’s how my beliefs conflict with my actions. This has been a labour of love over many years. I find this approach to be unacceptable, which is why I made Rekord Buddy. It’s nothing more than a way to tie paying customers to their respective products, and offers no real feature advantage, nor does it encourage the innovation our industry badly needs. The restrictive walled garden approach to library management benefits only the industry. On Mac and Windows.Ī press release follows, but in reality, is more like a statement: But now after a huge amount of soul searching, Damien is releasing it into the open-source realm. Then, as is becoming standard, it became a subscription-based service. So enterprising people like Damien Sirkis at Next Audio felt compelled to knock holes in the walls and allow you to transport your libraries in more or less any direction you pleased via his Rekord Buddy software.Īt first, it was a paid app. ![]() Like casinos, they trap you inside their windowless world and give you no glimpse of the outside for fear of being distracted. PLEASE REPORT posts and comments that violate the above rules or just suck.It would be fair to say that the DJ community is universally pissed off at the industry for their approach to DJ software music libraries. Posts asking “what should I play for this gig?”.Obvious spam for youtube channels/gig logs/blogs/advertisements.Support the people who make your hobby/career possible. Posts discussing music piracy (in the sense of people asking how where or how to pirate music, if you want to have an actual discussion on piracy and how it pertains to the industry, by all means).Self-promotion posts including mixes, tunes, events, companies, etc.The following topics are against sub rules and will be deleted: Gig pictures/Stories - should be posted in the weekly gigs thread We will also allow high profile posts - say if a regular user gets a feature mix on DJCity or a Serato sponsored set or a established DJ set. Mixes - Most mix posts will be deleted although short routines, showcasing of interesting technique, and videos that shows off the poster doing something cool is fine. Meme/Humor/crappy image posts belong in /r/DJsCircleJerk. Please ensure you are posting to the correct subredditĪny and all beginner questions and posts should be made in /r/Beatmatch. ![]() ![]()
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