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Ask the DJ 2.0.3

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DJ/mix engine. Shareware ($29)

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Sylvain Demongeot

Ask the DJ is a DJ/mix engine which:

searches your mp3 library
analyses tracks
optimizes your play-list
skips intros and outros
matches and mixes beats
levels volume
all this automatically!

You just ask the DJ... and dance!

What's New

Version 2.0.3:

fixes an issue that prevented tracks from being dropped from iTunes 9.2.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

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Commercial $19.99

Your personal DJ for iTunes.

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Maxkdev reviewed on 11 Oct 2010

Love this app, happy to just find the update from a few months ago. I've trusted Ask the DJ with any number of weddings and events I've been ask to play music at. Only once has it ever missed a beat and crashed. The simplicity is great and the interface is fun, my only request would be to have a list view to manage the playlist - it can be a little tricky rearranging tracks in the middle of DJing an event.

[Version 2.0.3]

key-loreB commented on 05 Nov 2006

Since I got my MacBookPro and installed a fresh version of AsktheDJ, it no longer works. The songs load,bpm is displayed, when I start playing song they are garbeld and then just stop. I sent several e-mails 7 crash logs to "wildbits" w/o a reply, also on Apple's Support/Discussion site w/o any reply.

I'm not using protected songs from iTune store. If aanyone has a suggestion, advise.

[Version 1.6]

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MacUpdate Admin commented on 05 Nov 2006

MacBookPro = Intel

Ask the DJ = PPC only

Anonymous reviewed on 13 Oct 2005

this program worked ok when i had a smaller library. it labeled a percentage of the libraries bpm tags with results were (correct, half and double). i realize this is a very tricky thing to make work correctly.

also it doesn't export the readings to itunes with tags over 2.2

also i have had my lacie drives do the same thing as reported above, chugging and clicking, even after the app has stopped reading tracks.

all in all i say this is a piece of junk, slightly novel at best. the interface sucks, i can't believe i am going to say this but, couldn't you have made it a bit more standardized guys? for useabilities sake?

sadly this seems to be the best app on the market for inputing bpm tags to itunes.

someone could make a small fortune off of developing an itunes plug in that read tracks in the library and auto-filled in the bpm. even i would buy it.

[Version 1.6]

Anonymous reviewed on 13 Feb 2004

Yea I don't like the cartoon either. It would be cool if there were several options for how you can have the dancer look. For example, instead of a girl dancing, a guy break dancing.

[Version 1.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 10 Oct 2003

Very basic interface that can get the job done if you are trying to avoid someone messing up your iTunes settings/playlists (ie. set it up running on it's own as a self serve jukebox at a party). However, am I the only one that finds the cartoon girl on the interface really ugly/disturbing/vaguely racist?
Dave

[Version 1.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 28 Jun 2003

Unstable and too expensive. Just a toy to make noise.

[Version 1.2]

Anonymous reviewed on 27 Jun 2003

there once was a time in dance music when intros and outros were not the providence of the Devil... and a skillful DJ knew when to use them in a set

then again.... this was with vinyl, not mp3's where everything is formulaicly sequenced and a constant beat is considered High Art

Sad (and I have nothing against "new" media applications -- it's the user that's the issue

[Version 1.2]

Anonymous reviewed on 21 Jun 2003

Fat App! No crashes, no big calculation smooth running: iMac 1GHz / 1G-RAM. A little bit overpriced for shareware. BTW how to switch of the dancer, I'll do it now myself ;-)

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 22 Apr 2003

Slow interface on my G4/400 & iBook 700. Transition calculation is painfull.

Neat app, and does do a fairly good job on the transitions - although they could be a tad longer.

As Guifa said "MP3s claimed by iTunes are not recognized, only those claimed by QuickTime player!". Too bad I rip everything with iTunes. (Drag and drop 'iTunes' mp3's does work however).

All in all, I'd buy this app if it was a *reasonable* price, around $15 maybe. $30 is too much for it.

[Version 1.0]