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great! thanks Terry

This really sounds cool. I think that a combo of (free) whitelabel with Serato gear + paid Amazon Prime (Music) sounds like a really good solution.

One last question if you don’t mind please Terry.

As far as music exploration and suggestions in Amazon Music player you mentioned. How does it work exactly?
I mean, the Amazon Music is an app that has to be installed on the laptop (Macbook in my case) in order to use or is also available on the amazon website after having logged in or both are possible?
Then when happens? Say you search for a track on Amazon and play/cue it in Amazon Music player (which is installed on a laptop or on the website kind of a player) and when it finishes to play the player with automatically play suggestions based on that track or something?

many thanks for detailed feedback
much appreciated

thanks for opinion guys

It seems to me that Serato has gone a bit too restrictive with this 64 thing- I mean common. If one has a verified account on Serato after buying their product, it should be ok for me to listen to music from white label in hight quality where I want e.g. in the car or from a mobile player while on the go and not only when ‘physical controller is connected’. They must have had their reasons I suppose (probably were afraid of people abusing white label free music resource).

Thanks for the tip on Prime Music Terry – may be very handy. I wouldn’t have thought of this resource tbh.
This the ‘Prime Music’ part comes under the ‘Amazon Prime’ membership or does one have to pay for it extra apart from paying for Prime?
So all in all, Prime Music is a really good player and suggestion tool right? There is no music available ‘for free’ when signed up to this service right?

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Mega, thanks Terry for an update.

1. Great feedback. Good to know that white label can and should be used as supplementary source of (free and legal) music. Also the fact that there is some stuff that is not available elsewhere is quite an intriguing thing. I guess my question was boiling down to the fact if one use whitelabel as the only source of music – which you clarified, many thanks. When you are logged to this portal/resource can you actually preview play tunes on there by clicking ‘Play’ on there?

2. Thanks for your tip on how to go around the 64 issue. Great idea. Also, I understand that these files have different extension (wl.mp3) – can I download these tracks to a computer, then copy them to a mobile player (cowon J3) and play them there with headphones while for example running ? (obviously in 64 quality)

Yeah, it surprises me that few people talk about this feature of Serato ecosystem (or even know about it). I think that Serato is not marketing it properly with their software. Didn’t Traktor have similar feature with beatport by any chance?
8-15 bucks per month + utilizing whitelabel sounds very reasonable! thanks for tip Terry
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I want to agree with you but I just can’t.

This is because the examples you give are examples of minor niggles (‘bugs’) which simply cannot be found/recognized in testing before releasing the product.
Engine crashing and not analyzing songs properly are not minor niggles by a long shot. It would come up in every beta testing before releasing the product. They are also major problems which are seriously compromising the use of the product and not minor niggles – imagine a car which during testing loses power or simply turns off –> do you think that this car manufacturer would release the car like that and thought: ‘we’ll deal with it later on/after car has been released with a major recall/engine ECU update?’ Nah…
Now tell me I’m wrong.

Which also brings me to conclusion that….Denon must have known about these major issues? And still release it? I just cannot comprehend that…

Todd, what I think they didn’t thought thru is the way XDJ-RX handles recording. It also has 2 usb slots and when you want to record you simply press record on the other usb/memory stick.
MCX8000 has 2 USBs – why on earth they didn’t implement that?

Vintage,
I understand that changing built in effects in hardware mixers is not done. That is fairly understandable (although I can see a company willing to implement that by using firmware – simply hook up laptop to mixer and change the effects. Yes, they physical writings on the mixer will not match but a user will know that and will be able to recognize which effects are where).
But here we have a display (and heavy software reliance) where names of effects are displayed above ‘generic knobs’
so it wouldn’t be hard at all to implement that functionality, don’t you think? Just start up Denon MCX8000 management on a laptop, hook up usb cable, and exchange the effect to your liking – which you would download from Denon’s website). Or am I just thinking wrong?

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