I set up djay/Mac Main output to Soundflower2, set Soundflower2 as my input for Nicecast. Good setup, as when Nicecast is broadcasting to my Shoutcast stream, I can hear the music through my headphones (Built-In Audio).
(An long-ish aside: I need to set Nicecast to use Soundflower (2ch) as Audio Device, because the Mic on Djay is terrible. Low-qual sound that then deteriorates within about 10sec into a noisy/staticky mess. A very nice USB mic setup. So I send mic through GarageBand instead (where it sounds great), then GarageBand to Soundflower (2ch). I wish I could just use Djay as the AppSource in Nicecast – because Djay is mentioned as compatible with the broadcast of track info. But even when I do – using or not using Mic in Djay – tracks are not broadcast from Djay anyways. Track info broadcasts fine from iTunes. Sigh.)
Back to the error: I set Built-In Audio for Pre-Cuing in Djay while using Soundflower (2ch). It actually works for a while. I can lower the monitoring level on Nicecast to have Pre-Cueing stand out enough to precue quite nicely.
Then MIDI freaks out, and Pre-Cueing goes away (including the buttons above the track level sliders). The settings in Djay sound preferences haven’t changed. But when I go click on the headphones icon in the lower-right to activate pre-cueing again, I get the pop-up error:
[bold title] Pre-Cueing is not supported with your current audio device setup
[body text] An error occurred setting up your audio engine. Would you like djay to restore your audio setup?
[button options] ? Cancel OK
But neither brings Pre-Cueing back.
And the ?, which opens djay Help, brings me to a “Help Topic is not available” page. And, truth be told, almost all the links in djay Help fail this way.
Sigh.
