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| quote: | Originally posted by Apeattack
I think most people are getting frustrated because they are lamenting the long-term future of something they love or they cannot see far enough ahead to realize the inevitable truth.
All throughout this thread the term "DJ" implies that the person mixing will have some sort of audience. The ultimate future of DJing (given enough time) is that a person will no longer be required at clubs and house parties. Eventually, computer programmers will make software that can do the DJ's job far better than the DJ can and will be able to compose music on the fly to suit the audience's mood. Club owners will have no need for DJs at all. They can replace expensive DJs with less expensive effects and stage performers.
How long will it take for "Jukeboxes" to replace DJs at clubs and parties? Hard to tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 30 years. Producers' jobs likely will be safer for a longer period of time, but not forever.
I keep mentioning this because people are constantly defending their use of vinyl as if I was saying it was stupid to use anything other than CDs or mp3s. I don't know if they read the rest of the thread so I want to make my position clear to them.
As I have done many times in this thread, I use quotes around words that don't have any absolute meaning but are used as if they do by other people. I was not quoting you directly, but I can see how you thought that I did. My bad. Sorry for the confusion.
Many people in this thread are getting super emotional about a subject that is very dear to them - the future of DJing. I love to DJ... I love spending hours finding transitions that go well together, I love sharing music with others, I love being on stage in front of an audience, I love the feeling inside when I see people smiling because I put on a song they like. But I am a realist too.
My belief is that the future of playing music at a club or house party will become more and more automated until one day programmers will develop software that will replace people entirely. A natural consequence is most (not all) people will be far less motivated to buy expensive DJ equipment and learn to mix manually because there will be no audience for them. Instead, they will obtain DJ-in-a-box software that will learn what the buyer likes to hear and tailor the set accordingly from an enormous library of songs. While many in this thread have lamented this long-term (30+ years) vision, no one has made any kind of reasoned argument against it. Yes, some people will still manually DJ after the amazing DJ programs have been developed, but the numbers of human DJs will be orders of magnitude lower than today.
Regarding people's opinion of my DJing ability... if their opinions aren't based on the quality of my sets, then I don't care.
And I must say that this thread has been the most fun I've ever had in DJ Booth. Keep 'em coming fellas. |
Hope you have fun on that unemployment line. Time to trade in those 1200's and get a an allibi job. Oh, and tell these so called club owners they might as well close it up too, cause no one is gonna pay a $20 door charge, $10 for watered down drinks, and whatever for parking just to watch a machine DJ. What a Noob. 
Last edited by Brandt Slater on Nov-20-2010 at 23:43
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