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Beatport Hacked

Syrian Electronic Army hacked Beatport, as well as a number of other high profile sites: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102222249#.

I don't know enough about electronics to know if visiting Beatport is bad for you, I'm hoping it's not since I discovered it was hacked by visting it, but I'd suggest Juno or another service if you need some music today

Steal my credit card number, steal my identity, but please, whatever you do, don't clear out my hold bin(s).

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost Steal my credit card number, steal my identity, but please, whatever you do, don't clear out my hold bin(s).

Ha, tell me about it. One feature I wish Beatport would implement is some way of filtering your Hold Bin. My ambient finds get buried by the techno finds which get buried by the drum 'n bass finds. Would it really be so hard to put in the kind of filter they have for every artist or label catalogue?

My hold bin is still intact.

Beatport hasn't been hacked. Gigya was. Beatport uses Gigya. Other platforms affected were owned by Microsoft, Dell, Forbes, The Guardian, The Telegraph, La Repubblica and more.

Technically all Gigya traffic has been rerouted by the Syrian Electronic army for not too long.

If you got the message be sure to run a scan in case they planted some malicious content.

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Originally posted by Storyteller If you got the message be sure to run a scan in case they planted some malicious content.

Yeah, I panicked, shut off my computer, then ran a scan when I turned it back on. Came up clean, so hopefully no problems. I did lose the notes I was working on, though. Best excuse I've ever given: I lost my homework because of the Syrian Electronic Army. My professor couldn't stop laughing

IM ON A MAC !

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Ha, tell me about it. One feature I wish Beatport would implement is some way of filtering your Hold Bin. My ambient finds get buried by the techno finds which get buried by the drum 'n bass finds. Would it really be so hard to put in the kind of filter they have for every artist or label catalogue?

At least they made the biggest and best possible improvement to the hold bin by giving it unlimited capacity. Up until maybe a year ago (?) I remember the hold bin being capped at around 200 tracks, but it would never actually issue an alert that you had filled it to capacity. Instead, you'd add tracks to the hold bin, and discover that you had reached your limit when those tracks leave your cart and disappear into nowhere. Very frustrating, and I'm always just a little on edge over Beatport's glitchiness, which is why I every so often take screen shots of my cart and hold bin just be safe.

Only 200 tracks? Are you sure? Mine is currently at 953 tracks and has been well over 200 for several years. I've never noticed tracks vanishing - I've still got stuff in there I remember crating in 2010. Although the fact those tracks are still in there nearly 5 years on doesn't bode well for me ever actually buying them.

By the way, why do you never post any mixes? You clearly dig for a hell of a lot of music, but where does it all go?

Oh, maybe there was no cap then, and I just had some seriously bad technical luck. I started combing Beatprt at around mid 2009, when I was ambitious but broke, so I'd ship all my tracks to my hold bin when my crate was full. I noticed one day that the quantity of my hold bin wasn't changing, despite adding to it from my cart; it was stuck at some specific number like 173, or something. That's when I decided I needed to create separate accounts if I want to keep crating, which to date has taken me to four.

Relatedly, yeah, I haven't recorded a mix since I sold all my gear for Christmas presents three years ago. Once you unload your entire workstation, it's difficult to financially and psychologically motivate yourself to invest into an entirely new setup (especially if you don't want to take a step back in quality). I still buy out a small amount of my crate and hold bin, but really, most of my music just sits there for if and when I get around to mixing it.

I search the hard way of going through every single sample of all the genres I'm interested in for every single month, and while I know you disagree with this method from a productivity standpoint, it's left no stone unturned, and me with a crap ton of great music I'm sure I would have otherwise missed. Do you ever actually wonder what you would do with all that (what has become) back catalogue music if you suddenly decided to buy it all? I think I'd be too overwhelmed with options to sort it all out into a mix I was totally satisfied with.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost Do you ever actually wonder what you would do with all that (what has become) back catalogue music if you suddenly decided to buy it all? I think I'd be too overwhelmed with options to sort it all out into a mix I was totally satisfied with.

I do periodically go back and use tracks I've had crated for years - one or two from my recent Detroit techno mix had been gathering dust in the Hold Bin for 3-4 years. A lot of the oldest stuff is just 2010-11 era progressive house that doesn't really fit what I'm playing these days. Maybe I should make a Clearing Out The Crates mix to use some of these tracks.

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