Hello,

This is my first post on the behemoth of a message board that is Tranceaddict.com! So first things first, I'm Tom and I'm currently studying at the University of Exeter in England. I've been DJing for about 8 years, and I have something for you that I hope you'll like. Please read on...

Earlier this year I remember getting frustrated at being unable to find tracklists for DJ sets that I'd heard on the radio or downloaded from websites. I found that for every radio guest mix and every genre of bootlegged set, I'd have to go to a different site to find a tracklist. Then, there would be the forum arguments about which track was which, what time they were played, which track were in fact two tracks, etc, etc (I'm sure you've all been there). Worse still, people would spend weeks creating full tracklistings, only for them to disappear off the end of Page 20 of the forum a few weeks later. So, in April, I decided to do something about it.

I envisaged a site in which people could search for a particular tracklist, or browse through a range of tracklists by a certain DJ, and then find a list of agreed tracks, in the right order, with the right track times, artist names, titles and record labels - and know that next time they visited, it would still be there. I then envisaged somebody listening to a mix and realising that they knew a track that hadn't been identified yet, and being able to add the track to the list interactively. In short, what I was thinking of was a collaborative tracklistings database.

Several days and nights of designing and coding later, I launched the first version of my site. I hosted it on my own machine over ADSL and invited the members of a couple of messageboards to test it and give me their reactions to the system. Happily, these reactions were universally positive, and so, after a couple of weeks of further testing and bug-fixing, I bought a domain name and a hosting package and launched Trainspotted.org, the system of which existed unchanged for many months, and a number of regular contributors began to add tracklistings to the database.

Very recently, I felt that enough use had been made of the site to warrant a revision of the system. Looking at the site, it was obvious that certain changes needed to be made to enhance the functionality of the site, to make it more user-friendly, and to raise it further above the concept of a tracklisting posted on a messageboard. I believe that the completion of my original vision is now very close.

I'd like to invite you to visit the revised site, which you can find at www.trainspotted.org, and to browse what the site has to offer. If you think that the system does what you feel is effective, I'd very much like it if you would register (which, might I add, is completely free) and contribute your own track-spotting expertise to the site. I hope you'll find that the site is easy to navigate and to use. Amongst the features, you'll find a forum dedicated to each mix posted on the site, as well as a general central discussion forum, and the very useful ability to download a CUE sheet for each mix with track times filled in.

Your comments and suggestions are paramount, as members of such a vast community, so I invite you to post them either as replies to this thread, or to the Trainspotted.org messageboard.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the site.

Best festive wishes,

Tom Allen
Trainspotted.org
webmaster-at-trainspotted-dot-org

I had a quick look.
I have a problem when you look at the tracklist there's no # for songs, so you get quickly lost. Like 1,2,3..
Other thing is that working out the cues is a nice idea but just too much work for so many sets, and honestly I've never been keen on audio cds, mp3 all the way, I know cue works for mp3 too but I'm not interested in that either.
And 3rd there's no Armin in your list
But for the reasons above I don't feel like straying away from TA.
Anyway good luck.

good idea

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Fresh Prince:

Thanks for your comments. Of course, I'm not expecting people to suddenly drop their message boards overnight. I don't intend to make such things redundant. I personally will be working to expand the database as much as possible, and hopefully the site will eventually reach a point where mainly brand new sets are added - and compiled by many people, not just one. It's going to be a huge job to add all the history of tracklists to the site, but there are people out there willing to contribute, whether it be one set or a hundred.

I've made a couple of changes based on your comments and tracklists now feature track numbers, although I personally feel that the location of a track in a set is a better identifier than the number of track that have come before it.

I apologise for the lack of Armin Van Buuren, but you could be the first person to put up one of his sets...!

Regards,

Tom
Trainspotted.org
webmaster-at-trainspotted-dot-org

mate do you know a guy called andrew welch at york uni?

Yes, he's coming over to mine in about half an hour

hahaha!!! damn dude! we should tag up!
i hade the same thought during Innercity, so i created
http://tracklists.no-ip.com/

Made a nifty search function and added a goodie backend system.
Only problem is, it's on my slow internet connection and sucky computer


Currently working on a design and some more stuff...

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Great stuff! I think a cue sheet import facility would be really useful. Something to work on, I think!

thats a nice idea

i found this pretty funny under Sasha's biography:

quote:

Biography: He's Welsh.

http://trainspotted.org/dj.php?d_id...b42bfa3bb1dff5b


edit: yea ive noticed some big djs missing from the list like Hernan Cattaneo and Carl Cox to name a few.

You can add new DJs to the site if they don't already exist

I'm going to enable updating of DJ biogs eventually, but it's not that big a deal - there are plenty of sites out there that deal with it

xpand_the_room: How do you know him, and how did you know I did?