Who the F*** Chooses Beatports Samples?

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Posted by ultimate7 on Feb-11-2009 17:22:

Who the F*** Chooses Beatports Samples?

The amount of samples on beatport that stop right at the buildup of a breakdown is ridiculous. It seems like all the samples released since Beatport 4.0 are this way. Its makes the player almost pointless because I'll have to look at other sites to listen now. /rant.

Posted by woscar on Feb-11-2009 17:52:

It has ALWAYS been this way

Posted by sgb476 on Feb-11-2009 18:05:

because they've got music to sell, and they want to put the "best" bit of the track up in the sample. quite often it is the end of a breakdown that is the "best" part of the track anyway; leaving the punter wanting more, impulse buying etc..

thieves!

Posted by Shanez on Feb-11-2009 19:20:

I like cake

Posted by Owsey on Feb-11-2009 19:22:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
It has ALWAYS been this way

Posted by noikeee on Feb-11-2009 19:27:

Holy fuck, I just visited Beatport for the first time since they launched 4.0 and now I can't use it at all. I have no idea whether it's my browser, my internet connection, whatever. Half the buttons I click in don't change anything in the screen, neither give me feedback. I click on my crate, nothing happens. I click on a release, nothing happens. Fucking hell.

Posted by woscar on Feb-11-2009 20:29:

quote:
Originally posted by sgb476
because they've got music to sell, and they want to put the "best" bit of the track up in the sample. quite often it is the end of a breakdown that is the "best" part of the track anyway; leaving the punter wanting more, impulse buying etc..thieves!

What is the most annoying about this is that Beatport is supposed to be a store for DJs and by not allowing to preview the track properly they are actually doing DJs a disservice.

Posted by idoru on Feb-11-2009 20:34:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
It has ALWAYS been this way

Seriously.

Posted by ultimate7 on Feb-11-2009 20:47:

Yeah, it's definitely bothered me in the past too, but as of late it just seems to be a lot worse

Posted by Armitage on Feb-11-2009 21:52:

I'd imagine it's just the middle x% of the track.

Posted by Max Thomson on Feb-11-2009 22:11:

just do what I do, if you have even the slightest bit of doubt about how much you'll end up liking the tune, don't buy it. you'll end up with a lot fewer mediocre tunes and a lot more tunes that you're really excited about, although it may take longer to get as many of them. still, your library's level of quality will go way up.

dig son! and never settle!

Posted by woscar on Feb-11-2009 22:49:

quote:
Originally posted by Max Thomson
just do what I do, if you have even the slightest bit of doubt about how much you'll end up liking the tune, don't buy it. you'll end up with a lot fewer mediocre tunes and a lot more tunes that you're really excited about, although it may take longer to get as many of them. still, your library's level of quality will go way up.

dig son! and never settle!

Or look for samples in other stores, like DJ Download, that let you preview the whole track. Although, their selection is not as extensive as Beatport's.

Posted by Simcut on Feb-12-2009 12:51:

Posted by distant on Feb-13-2009 08:00:

maybe if trance buildups weren't fuckin 2 minutes long..

Posted by Johan (DJ Irish) on Feb-13-2009 13:06:

quote:
Originally posted by distant
maybe if trance buildups weren't fuckin 2 minutes long..

+1

Posted by daeus on Feb-16-2009 12:39:

Junodownload gives you a 1min 30sec preview and this isnt really long enough for tracks more than 6 mintues long which allot are.

Posted by nrjizer on Feb-17-2009 03:14:

The samples are automated. Go listen to any tune that has been released several times on different labels and at different dates, and you'll notice that the sample is the same each time. Do you really think they have humans chop samples out of all incoming tracks that they go through each day?

Also, you wouldn't be having this problem if you weren't shopping for trance

Posted by raunchy on Feb-17-2009 10:08:

I try to buy tracks elsewhere. Beatport's previews are misleading and the website takes forever to load these days.

Posted by Simcut on Feb-17-2009 12:34:

Beatport previews arent good considering they are trying to sell mp3s to people, its a bit like a car salesman just showing you the boot of a car ffs

Posted by Kris G on Feb-17-2009 19:48:

quote:
Originally posted by nrjizer
The samples are automated. Go listen to any tune that has been released several times on different labels and at different dates, and you'll notice that the sample is the same each time. Do you really think they have humans chop samples out of all incoming tracks that they go through each day?

Also, you wouldn't be having this problem if you weren't shopping for trance

Erm, what? It's not automated. They use the same sample for the same track, why would they re-do a different one just as it got released on an album or different label? Most samples always end right at the kick back from the break. Beatport like all sites have staff who's job it is to create these samples.