I do live mash ups using stems occasionally; hard to shazam either or giving only “semi true” results
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This strikes me as terrible and while the OP is calling people out for being inexperienced I am seriously questioning his experience overall for the simple fact he thought this could even be possible based on how shazam works.
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Shazam is one the greatest tool created for DJ’s and the entertainment industry.
We the human race all use it to identify a genre we hear and like. The job of a DJ is to research and bring genre to the community that are not normally heard.
DJ’s are always on the job listening to other DJ’s and other sources of music to continue to improve their playlists and will hear songs that they want to add to their playlists but don’t know the name or no one present to ask, the next best thing is Shazam.
The only way to accomplish your goal is for you to produce all your own music, don’t share it with anyone and play only your own music.
I have no issue sharing or someone Shazam my playlist.
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PK gave the best response. But if you want rare tracks that can’t be tagged, buy obscure vinyl and then convert them to digital files.
Would be hard to be more patronising.
You can save the typing for me as well.
If you are afraid of shazam you have much bigger problems.
Instead you should publish your tracklists in 1001tracklists, if you are actually listed there.
To the Djay team: do not spend a single moment with this request.
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Best answer , and … It works
Be like Trump, and slap a tax on everyone that comes to your gig that “maybe competition”. That will stop em.
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If someone can hear music, they can shazam it. Shazam cannot be on/offed, or blocked, no matter whence the music is emitted.
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agree, i’ve even shared my entire dj playlists with friends and people who are just getting into djing to give them some stuff to work with. exchanging track recommendations and networking with other djs and musicians will get you farther than this isolationist mentality.
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Mmmm… So you don’t want others to leech the music you play, but you’d be fine with limiting exposure for the artists whose music you play in the first place. The very people who hardly sell music anymore in this digital age, and are hoping DJs might be kind and generous enough to help their music see some light of day. Sir, the leech here doesn’t seem to be the “wanna be DJs”.
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No man, I simply would like to have the option to be able and not let anyone get the ids of the tracks that I discover, for a short period of time, so they do not gain my hard work’s results and so I can have my unique moments during my sets and after a while to let the ids be discoverable so everyone can have it and to support the artists and their creations. I hope you can get that, for example is like a cook is making all the preparations to create a dish and finally after his research of the market the producers the stores the ingredients and the raw material some people simply appear and steal all and the next day sell them with no sweat. What people should do is go to the open market and do their preparations and all the work !!! You may disagree but I stand for this as some do the work to find new releases and hidden gems etc and of course after a while it will be a pleasure to spread around so the artists get what they deserve as it is their creations and do not forget we are the ones that promote it in our gigs and make people love them. So for a short period it would be great to simply earn my unique time of presenting them to the crowd and maybe is also a good marketing plan to create some buzz when people will start talking about the tracks and will try to find and later they will be able to Shazam them plus and better they could put their selves into effort to get to work and search to find them as we all do checking hundreds of releases daily plus looking into old productions to discover things we did not have the chance to be familiar with or to know their existence . Just that . Thank you for your reply and thoughts
Hi again @John_Stergiou, did you see this suggestion above? Seems like this could be a good workaround for your situation?
John Stergiou @John_Stergiou
I’ll ask you a question - are you a producer / composer DJ? Are you a DJ who creates mixes / bootlegs / mashups and plays live at a party?
If you are the person from the first question, I would understand your frustration because you will not get money - royalties from playing your songs.
If you are the person from the second question - which is suggested by the content of your statements, I do not see any basis for such claims - after all, you play songs from other artists and you have limited rights to them, you certainly do not even know about all of the rights under which they were made available and you want to “manage” their copyrights, etc.
Personally, I am an amateur DJ, mixing for fun or for a group of family and friends for free, sometimes I put something on the internet but with a list of songs. I have never mixed in public like a real DJ supporting himself from his occupation and even if it happened, I would not dare to make such demands to the audience because I would not have the rights to it. I also create music that I do not intend to sell or charge royalties to companies that only take money, I would be happy if someone approached me and asked what song it is, just like when a friend asks “I know this song, it’s a hit from 20 years ago in this version, I haven’t heard it before, can you remind me of the artist?”
Don’t lie that if something catches your ear, you will use everything to find the artist, title and source - you yourself mentioned that you search for some “gems”.
The only thing that I need to mention my dear friend is that the royalties and the copyrights are unfortunately not for the artists mainly, except some times some of the the very big stars maybe but for the companies that they drain all the big part of royalties money . Think a world were would be no DJs and No radio stations how would they promote their music !!! We play in clubs and radio stations and we all pay royalties my friend even for a simple mix set on Youtube so please do not talk to me about copyrights and all.
I see you’re trying your very best to justify it, but if you prevent people from knowing what tracks you’re playing, then nobody gets any royalties, because you’re denying people the opportunity to purchase the music.
You say the artists don’t get much, but if you had your way, they would get nothing at all.
Artists and labels do not rely totally on DJs to promote their music. This is a common excuse made by some DJs (that the industry would not survive without them). They’ll do just fine without you.
As for YouTube, it’s not you that’s paying the royalties to the artist, it’s YouTube - because so many people wrongly upload copyrighted material that it’s easier for the rights holders to take their fees from YouTube than to come directly after the uploaders.
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Pk man I am not trying to prove anything to yourself and the rest that support your opinion, I am simply expressing my thoughts! You are the one that’s trying hard here ! Keep up man, all best ! PS. and yes the industry would not have the half of what they got without DJs , now talking about "dis’ like yourself for sure as I do not think you are a pro .
Alright guys. I think we have exhausted the constructive discussion in this topic and everyone has had a chance to share their opinions and some potential workarounds. So, I think it’s time to close this topic. Thanks everyone!
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