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That’s a little disappointing. You can use Tidal offline with Serato, Virtual DJ, and Rekordbox.
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Can I vote for this again? Why isn’t this a priority over VR DJ?!
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If the gigs are that important and frequent why not just purchase those important songs / playlists and not worry about it.
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Since when? I don’t think that’s accurate. Serato requires internet connection to use Tidal
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Nowadays, you shouldn’t have to worry about using streaming services either, especially if an extra fee is charged.
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As a professional dj being paid good money for event. You should keep your essentials local… especially now a days because streaming is not 100% reliable. I assume you are being paid for reliability also. Too easy to solve
Both of these problems would be solved by an offline locker - too easy 
There are other reasons for having a local music library, such as the permanent availability of tracks, extended versions, bootlegs, etc., but ultimately streaming will also become increasingly important in this area - and probably faster than many people think.
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I love streaming. No more 2tb hard drives to haul around! Now I just have my essentials which is around 80gb. Redundancy is key for avoiding problems and your music not playing because of streaming or hard drive crash is catastrophic. Streaming to back up the hard drive or the hard drive to back up Streaming. That’s my workflow
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In 2024 I had purchased 143 tracks for Weddings (mostly ceremony music) that I have purchased last year to play exactly once and likely will never play again. This is why I would like an offline locker.
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There are three popular venues where I do weddings with no WiFi. And no cel service in the building. The one you have to walk about 600 yards away from the facility to get one bar. Depending on streaming is not an option. I carry a ssd with 300k tracks. But algoiddim on iPad does not work well with huge libraries PS it is a 2TB iPad Pro with about 20k tracks on it.
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That sucks……. Guess a skydiver that pays for a back up chute and never got a chance to use it would be upset? Out of 30 yrs of dj’n and the many back up drives; back up gear,& back up plans I have gone thru just for a piece of mind, I have never thought it as a waste. It’s just too much trust to put all eggs in one basket. That off-line locker is not the ultimate save all and if I am getting paid $1500 for a wedding Im having a back up for everything😂. But the reason you want it may be different from the reason I want it but we do both want it.
I didn’t say I don’t have backups (I carry 2 iPad pros, and an iPad mini, plus my 1TB iPhone pro max all loaded with the requests the client asked for along with every other track I played since 2010. My point for asking for Tidal offline locker is for that one bride who wants the dog playing the flute version of I wanna be sedated for her processional. The one and only time it will ever be played.
As far as playing from my iPad. 20k songs are not a problem. Want to know how many of them have ever been played more than once since 2010? About 4000.
So take the 16k tracks played once x $1.29. That’s $20,640 I could have saved my company. By preloading them to an offline locker to play for that one event.
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Well, nobody works well with a library of 300k tracks, not even the DJ. A lot of choice doesn’t always make it easier, often enough the opposite is the case. I know how it is, these are structures and collections that have grown over the years, and you want to be prepared for everything. In the end, however, there are only 200 or 300 titles that you play (more or less) regularly. It’s not wrong to tidy up digitally either … but of course everyone has their own opinion and requirements.
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lol aren’t you technically dealing with a library of over 8 million tracks when you use a service like Todal. I didn’t mean I load those 300k tracks into the library. I mean when I get a request I don’t carry on the iPad. I search the ssd then load that one track. It is a very clunky process. It is basically my carry along version of tidal for the venues with no WiFi and no cell service. And we have many in the Pocono Mountains.
PS VDJ has all those tracks loaded into its library, and it flies. So yes some software has no issues with 300k tracks.
IMO if one has been booked for a wedding then one should have met in advance with the bride & groom, and ensured that any required tracks are “in the bank” without relying on a streaming/rental service - or even an offline cache of those files.
The question of whether it will ever get played again shouldn’t enter in to it. The client is paying you (usually at a premium) to provide a service. Why skimp? Why take the risk that it won’t play (which can also happen with cached files)? It’s their big day.
P.S. I’ve just scrolled back and seen your first post, and the way you’re currently doing it is IMO the way it should still be done - to quote Hicks, it’s the only way to be sure.
Remember to subtract 15 years of streaming subscription from the $20,640..!
That’s about 10%, which is significantly less. What’s more, for many people this is probably an expense that they have for private use anyway. But yes, if you do it correctly, you would probably have to take this into account (possibly proportionately).
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With any kind of personal collection there is an accumulation of “dead wood”. It just happens.
I’ll bet most people with tens of thousands of their own files could assign half of them to the trash and not miss them.
A full on dj suite with a downloadable cache would be a much cleaner, efficient and cheaper way of operating for a lot of djs, newcomers especially.
I do believe in a personal collection for sure and i do have one but at 52 years old I’ve no interest in building a huge one and i would pay good money for a full dj service through a provider.
