![]() ![]() You want to do this stuff AND manage your DJ library elegantly? Not easy, not easy at all As a clean, focused music library app, it’s now so far from ideal to be almost unusable. Now it’s about films, TV programmes, home video, podcasts, audio books, online learning, app management, streaming music… It’s become this unwieldy catch-all that baffles most users and has been heading in the wrong direction for years. It’s become big and bloated – iTunes used to be about music downloads and sync, with iPod, with DJ software, to your phone.Why you should consider stopping using iTunes for your DJ music Nice for consumers, maybe, but it’s not fit for purpose as a DJ library program any more. But lately, iTunes has become less and less attractive. You could put your DJ playlists in your iPod too, and use them across multiple DJ programs if you liked.īecause iTunes established itself among DJs so universally, over the years we’ve found ways around its changes, foibles and stumbles. No matter what software you used, it was all there. You could download, organise, and prepare your music in iTunes, and open your DJ software to see all your hard work waiting for you. It worked on PC and Mac, and basically was universally loved.ĭJ program makers saw their cue, and built iTunes library viewing into their software. Meanwhile, when Apple launched the iPod, that device came with an elegant, clean, simple download store and file manager, called iTunes. ![]() ![]() Historically, DJ software generally came with file management features that, well, sucked. Indeed, for the first time ever, we are now – after a lot of deliberation – advising new DJs, or those not particularly committed to it, not to use iTunes at all. What was once the go-to app for organising DJ music libraries is now, frankly, a mess, and judging by what our readers are telling us, they’re voting with their feet. It’s ironic that at its Keynote last week, Apple chose to use DJ software (Algoriddim’s excellent djay Pro) to demo the computer’s new MacBook Pro Touch Bar, seeing as DJs appear to be abandoning Apple’s flagship music program, iTunes, in droves, and fewer new DJs are using it than ever. For the first time in our history, we are now advising new DJs not to use iTunes at all in their music discovery, organisation or preparation. ![]()
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