MAC-CT  I just cannot believe people when software starts off as free as it's developed and matures and then costs money (suprise suprise!). Comments like "it was great when it was free but now it costs money so shove it" just don't make any sense to me.

As for the HUGE cost of $50 - try taking a look at the other suggested software - cheapest is $80 and the most expensive is a whopping $529!!!!

I've been using djay for over a year now. It's given me and my friends a huge amount of pleasure (but annoyed some of the neighbors!) It's constantly being updated.

In a nutshell - go and raid your piggy-bank for the $50 kiddies - it's well worth it!!  
(Version 2.2.2)

CABERLIN  This new update is love at first sight! - Very cool and smooth effects, very natural sound.

I own a couple of software of this kind like DiscoXT Pro (buggy inteface) and MegaSeg (buggy iTunes tags sync) and Traktor (too complicated, if you don't spend all day with it).

I use it for private parties, so I need something easy to handle, something reliable and something affordable. And it should be fun to use and not rocket science.

I am totally happy with this software now.  
(Version 3.0)

SUSSED  Professional level mixer? Naa,nothing will replace the tactile feel you get from a full 'turn the knob' set up, but that said this is a great software mixer and a really good program to get your feet wet stringing tunes together.

...So yeah, go make that epic Trance mix you've always wanted and impress your friends!  
(Version 2.1.3)

DREAMER_UK  Ok so i fix computers for a living.

Djaying is not a hobby and i don't plan on doing it very often,

However, I was asked by a family friend to djay a 16th birthday party.

after the initial panic had worn off, i looked into ways of looking like i knew what i was doing.

After many demos windoze and osx software i came across DJay.

After 5 minutes i felt comfortable i could sound good and look professional. I'm writing this while doing my set (get me!)

Its alot of money for a couple of uses but what a difference over a basic itunes play list playing out.

if your a casual djay then this is a must. I am sure i am not using 10% of what it's capable of but i seem to be a success here.

oh and the support rocks!   
(Version 3.0.1)

MUCK-RAKER  It's always useful to get a grip on your limitations and talents before buying software. I've tried other "high-end" dj apps, and frankly, for my needs, they contain too many bells and whistles to be quickly useful to me. If you are a serious dj, with contracts and a need for a myriad of extras to wow your paying crowds, this may not be the one for you (give it a try first - you can be surprised). But, for we "occasional" platter pushers who have digitized and wish to play full songs and dances with some mixing and a little tweak to sound effects, DJay is the one. Price, stability, and simplicity are too much to resist.

Further, they respond quickly to problems, and had version 3 with fixes to problems I was having with the demo before I could get complaints out the door. No complaints here.  
(Version 3.0)

JANGLE  I've been using this for a while now and I must say it's an impressive application with many uses. I'm an occasional DJ who doesn't want to pay $400+ for some premium software which puts too many features under a cluttered interface, so I really appreciate the cleanness of djay.

Looking at the competition and the impressive list of features I also think it's a fair price.  
(Version 2.0.1)

MINMIN7  amazing, fantasic, wonderful...basically take all the positive adjectives you can think of and they sum up djay perfectly

fun, easy to use...great quality for a great price, I highly recommend it!  
(Version 2.0)

LOUKASH  Certainly this is not a bad app for a 1.0 freeware release. But there's still a long way to go.

For now it should be okay for hobby DJs who would like to go slightly beyond iTunes' Party-Shuffle. But if you deejay professionally, don't expect too much at the moment.

I've tested djay on a Powerbook G4/1.67/OS 10.4.6 which I use for deejaying regularly with the DJ-1800 software. Unfortunately djay doesn't run as smooth, especially if you use the Pitch and Tempo. (To be honest here, DJ-1800 needed some time as well to evolve to the rock solid DJ app that it is now...) And don't even try the Maximum Quality setting on a G4... (well, that's no surprise though and it's not djay's fault)

The interface has some good moments as well as some bad.

- iTunes integration is nice. But Artist/Song/Time columns are not enough, I would certainly need BPM/Genre/Year/Album/Comments/Grouping, even Composer as well. And Drag&Drop from iTunes playlists doesn't work, unlike with DJ-1800.

- Artwork is very nice, when it works, that is. And would be even nicer if the images wouldn't be mirrored...

- I don't understand the purpose of the black-to-gray background gradient. It's simply disturbing!

- All functions, sliders and buttons should have their keyboard shortcuts whenever possible: Start, Pause, FF, REW etc.

Hint: If you don't have a 4-channel output device, only a 2-channel iMic or similar, try to group it with the built-in audio I/O to an Aggregate Device using Audio Midi Setup utility. In theory this should work. (I don't have the iMic with me right now so I can't confirm it though.)  
(Version 1.0)

SHAWND  Sounds like a good piece of software. Guess I'll try the demo real quick.  
(Version 2.0.1)

SVOOP  Neither my BT nor my USB headset are working. I can choose them as monitor device, but nothing plays when I level up the volume in the cue window. Even if I use USB as master and built-in as monitor, it still plays master to built-in and ignores monitor. Not very useful this way I'm afraid. That's on Leo 10.5.1.  
(Version 2.0)