It happens to me too. It happens to every mobile DJ too, I am sure.
The importance is on managing the audience expectations. If the audience get why they want at the snap of their fingers, they’ll expect it every where, every time.
There’s nothing wrong with accepting the request, carry on with the rest of the playing song and the song which you already had cued up for playing next after, and finding their request as part of your natural workflow, not theirs.
Remember always that it is YOU the DJ, not them in the crowd. If they give you requests, tell them it will get played later on. The idea isn’t to get their request playing by the time they turn and walk from you to the dance floor.
Pamper the crowd too much and they will start thinking every DJ is lousy if their request isn’t played instantly. Some of them are already like that with their games of “play it now mister, we’re leaving in 10 minutes “
It’s the “instant gratification”, 3 sec. span of attention generation. Being 57 years old, I don’t get it either, but the world will keep spinning, with or without me.
DJs need more self confidence in their own choices of music and need to assert themselves politely when dealing with requests that are spat at them over the DJ booth boundaries, not just crumble, not just abandon their own Dj choices of what they were going to play next. But keep the flexibility of taking requests, if it’s that sort of gathering, but offer to fit the newly received request in, sometime later not promise to play the new request in 5 or 10 seconds
i can not believe it !!! We are talking about a workaround that works for every “computer based” softeware eg record box (with which I have been working for years) and Traktor & Serato works fine and now the “Shitstorm” does not work so well with Dernon in its “stand alone system” important is ???
for all we love, we live in 2019 … that should and “must” that simply work … I’ve paid the device expensive and I just expect things like that just run …
Otherwise, I can also put back my 1210 MKII and do it like “earlier”
FWIW. My current “collection” on my external SSD is about a tenth (9200) of yours. Search is instant with every character I type in; not 10 seconds, so I cannot confirm or deny the problem. Both on the Prime4 and on my SC5000’s.
Yes, 10 seconds is long, perhaps too long, but if that hinders your professional DJ life and the suggested 3 seconds do not… I just find it hard to believe there would be no time left, if that’s really the argument.
Could you try 1.4 public beta2 and report back on how that goes?
Think its because of the amount of tracks. I have around 60K tracks and its somewhere between 3-5 seconds to search now with the ssd.
Before it could take like 15-20 sec.
It is an issue that I see more often (especially on social media). For me personally, it is certainly an issue and I fully understand what you encounter
It is a problem that some users will never worry about, and others will be very annoyed. For me personally, the search speed of larger collections is the biggest annoyance of the Prime 4. Wrote on the mentioned treat above before:
I know there are ways to increase the search speed and I have a good hope somewhere that someday something will be done with this matter, but I honestly don’t think it will be soon. Of course I can be wrong, I cannot look into the schedule of development