Problems with Nexus 7
Posted: 15 Mar 2014, 20:35
I really want to use this app as it seems the best option for us Android users...however there are some issues that are preventing me from doing so. Maybe someone can enlighten me....fyi, I have about 650 songs on my tablet.
The biggest thing I'm not happy with is when I have a song playing and I load another song on the other turntable I experience audio dropouts, stuttering and sometimes the song that's playing completely stops for a second or two. I have plenty of memory on my tablet so I'm wondering if it's the Android latency issues that we've all heard about that might be affecting it. However I thought that the latency was at an acceptable level where this wouldn't be an issue.
Another thing that drives me crazy is the automix feature. As a wedding/bar DJ there are times where I want to turn it on while I'm playing a song NOT in automix and it will suddenly fade to the other side and start playing songs. Inserting a song manually during automix is nearly impossible. The only way I can see that automix can be somewhat controlled playing the music I want is to make a playlist beforehand and this is not always possible.
Searching by Artist - give me the option to turn off the album art! I don't need it...and it just takes up space. Allow me to view as a list.
And what is it that not one piece of tablet DJ software (not even Djay for iPad I think) won't let us search by bmp?
I really love the layout and gui but if I have audio dropouts and songs that stop while a new one is loading (and yes, I've analyzed all of my songs) then it's crap to me.
This is what I've found so far in the different Android DJ programs that seem somewhat acceptable to use at a show:
Cross DJ - see above
DJ Studio 5 - the biggest rival to Cross DJ but scrolling through songs on the song search page is horrible. Extremely slow. Hard to imagine that 600 songs would cause the slow scrolling. I wish that it also had an option to turn off the thumbnail album art as I don't think this is helping the scrolling problem.
DJPad - simple enough for my use but few options to search for songs other then artist-song. And when you "click" on a song it doesn't highlight it so you're not sure if it's the right one to load. There are also volume issues when using the slider.
eDJing - a surprisingly good piece of software that seems to run very smooth but setting cue points is a bit of a PITA....but it's free!
My biggest hope though is to get the Cross DJ - which I paid $10 - to work smoothly on my tablet because it has all the features that I can use (with exceptions to what I already mentioned which I can work around for now)...any help would be great.
The biggest thing I'm not happy with is when I have a song playing and I load another song on the other turntable I experience audio dropouts, stuttering and sometimes the song that's playing completely stops for a second or two. I have plenty of memory on my tablet so I'm wondering if it's the Android latency issues that we've all heard about that might be affecting it. However I thought that the latency was at an acceptable level where this wouldn't be an issue.
Another thing that drives me crazy is the automix feature. As a wedding/bar DJ there are times where I want to turn it on while I'm playing a song NOT in automix and it will suddenly fade to the other side and start playing songs. Inserting a song manually during automix is nearly impossible. The only way I can see that automix can be somewhat controlled playing the music I want is to make a playlist beforehand and this is not always possible.
Searching by Artist - give me the option to turn off the album art! I don't need it...and it just takes up space. Allow me to view as a list.
And what is it that not one piece of tablet DJ software (not even Djay for iPad I think) won't let us search by bmp?
I really love the layout and gui but if I have audio dropouts and songs that stop while a new one is loading (and yes, I've analyzed all of my songs) then it's crap to me.
This is what I've found so far in the different Android DJ programs that seem somewhat acceptable to use at a show:
Cross DJ - see above
DJ Studio 5 - the biggest rival to Cross DJ but scrolling through songs on the song search page is horrible. Extremely slow. Hard to imagine that 600 songs would cause the slow scrolling. I wish that it also had an option to turn off the thumbnail album art as I don't think this is helping the scrolling problem.
DJPad - simple enough for my use but few options to search for songs other then artist-song. And when you "click" on a song it doesn't highlight it so you're not sure if it's the right one to load. There are also volume issues when using the slider.
eDJing - a surprisingly good piece of software that seems to run very smooth but setting cue points is a bit of a PITA....but it's free!
My biggest hope though is to get the Cross DJ - which I paid $10 - to work smoothly on my tablet because it has all the features that I can use (with exceptions to what I already mentioned which I can work around for now)...any help would be great.