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-- Suppose you are a digital music store employee who needs to make an audio preview...
Suppose you are a digital music store employee who needs to make an audio preview...
which part of the track would you preview for the consumers?
Funnily enough, this is my actual job. I work for Beatport, and my sole duty is to listen to thousands of tracks every day in order to determine which 2 minutes of each one should form the preview clip. I like to fit as much of the breakdown and as few of the beats in as possible, ideally cutting things off just as the breakdown is about to end so potential customers are completely unable to judge how useful a tune is on a dancefloor.
I didn't know that. It's nice that you brought context to an otherwise daft thread.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I work for Beatport, and my sole duty is to listen to thousands of tracks every day |
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Funnily enough, this is my actual job. I work for Beatport, and my sole duty is to listen to thousands of tracks every day in order to determine which 2 minutes of each one should form the preview clip. I like to fit as much of the breakdown and as few of the beats in as possible, ideally cutting things off just as the breakdown is about to end so potential customers are completely unable to judge how useful a tune is on a dancefloor. |
Matt has literally never got a joke in his life.
I was in a rush so I didn't take in the whole post properly. I get it now.
Serious answer: it's done automatically by an algorithm and always selects the exact middle of the tune, unless the track is short (IE: 4 minutes or under) in which case it seems to skew more towards the beginning of the track. It just has an unfortunate tendency on tunes with big breakdowns to result in a useless clip with no beats audible.
As someone who actually has spent time making a few hundred, 2 minute long audio clips of McProg, anthem house, eurotrance, hardstyle, and any number of other types of tunes with obnoxiously long breakdowns, builds, and drops, let me tell you many of them are almost factory designed to be unwieldy as such. You either end up showcasing the lead-up, then fading out during the breakdown, or start during the breakdown, giving only a small taster of the track's peak, sometimes which is half as short as the lead-in. But you almost always are forced to include some part of that got'dang beakdown/build/drop, always taking up at least 2/3rds of the track.
Of course, if the track has a 2 minute long breakdown/build (eg: Rank 1's Airwave), then I'd just use that for the whole clip.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Serious answer: it's done automatically by an algorithm and always selects the exact middle of the tune, unless the track is short (IE: 4 minutes or under) in which case it seems to skew more towards the beginning of the track. It just has an unfortunate tendency on tunes with big breakdowns to result in a useless clip with no beats audible. |
My taste in music isn't bad enough to work for Beatport.
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