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NOTE: The audio doesn't start until 0:53 seconds into the video. Also, this video was captured directly from my screen using a screen capture utility. My computer isn't all that fast so the video can be jerky and the interface can seem sluggish at times as a result of doing both screen capture and audio playback.

Here is a quick demo of some of the features of Data Jockey. I hope to soon add a voice over.

There is a website about data jockey here:
x37v.info/datajockey/

Data Jockey is a Free/Open Source software project for digital DJing that I've been working on for some time. This software allows its users to associate songs with meta-data (textual "tags" and numerical "descriptors") which I hope will help users discover new relationships between there music, allow users to manage a large library of music with ease, and explore their music more deeply in a creative way. The software can automatically beat match songs, but doesn't require it. I demonstrate both beat matched and non beat matched playback in this demo.

Brief overview of the video [basically what will go into a voice over]:

First I show the audio database [on the right], there is a detail view of the selected audio work [lower left] with the tags that are associated with that song.

Next I show a list of tags that can be associated with a song [this list is user defined and editable by the user]. Then I select a tag "demo," and filter the database to only display works that have this "demo" tag.

Finally I select a work, "122 BPM" by Jive Rhythm Trax, load it into the first mixer and play it on the main outputs.

I then load "Clear" by Cybotron into the second mixer. Off camera I am advancing the song to a desirable location for mixing into the first song, I am listening to "Clear" on separate cue/headphone outputs [which you don't hear on the video].

Once I have cued "Clear" I toggle the output location [hit the little headphone button] so that it goes to the main outputs. You don't yet hear the second song because I have the cross fader [the horizontal slider on the bottom], all the way to the left. At about 1:35 I cross fade to "Clear".

At about 2:28 I demonstrate a simple "automatic" cross fade which is the result of loading a script and executing it in the ruby interpreter.

I then demonstrate how you can tag songs, create your own tags, sort your library by various song attributes, etc.

Finally, at about 4:35, I demonstrate how to play a song without syncing it to another song as I fade out "We Are The Jonzun Crew".

Thanks to Charles Buckingham for helping me edit and render this video.