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RekordBox is a well known piece of s** and it's great to see someone try to enter the arena. Now we need a legit competitor to the DJM / CDJ's which cost, all told, >$10k for a standard, club-ready setup.

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I didn't know it was well known but that's exactly how I felt when I recently tried to use it. My local bar bought an integrated 2 deck Pioneer DJ player, but turns out it doesn't store analyzed BPMs or waveforms and to get that you need to use RekordBox to analyze your tracks and export that to your USBs. When I tried to install the software it requires signing up for an account and a subscription and what not. I still couldn't get it to work and abandoned it. I won't be going back to it the experience isnt worth it. I'm instead having more fun just beatmatching by ear with the pitch fader :)

> When I tried to install the software it requires signing up for an account and a subscription and what not

No it does not. It will try to push it on you, but you can export to USB without account or subscription.

Create a playlist with your tracks, insert USB, right click on the playlist and export to USB.

Must have gone under my radar, there probably was some license included with the device my local bar bought too but I didn't have it on hand at the time.

Beatmatching by ear is great fun but you get rekorbox for free with any pioneer controller, which you should want for practicing anyway?

Yeah I just didn't have the license at hand at the time. I usually just practice with Mixxx at home and then just use my vanilla USBs with whatever equipment is at the venue. I can play with vinyls so pretty much any equipment works for me. I do like all the QoL features of modern gear though.

Mixxx has been around for over a decade, I was mixing with it back in 2011. Back then I also made a controller out of an old HDD, a cheap hall sensor IC, and an arduino and it worked well as a small portable CDJ knock off. I’ll try and resurrect it when I get some time later this year and post the GitHub link. I’m sure it could be made a lot fancier for even less these days.

It's never going to work. It would require all clubs in the world to throw away their expensive Pioneer gear.

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