(Re-posting Filip's message in its entirety since his original didn't make it to the list, probably because he's not (yet) a member:)
On 12/04/2013 05:57 AM, Filip Hráček wrote: > Hi Sean, > > Thanks for your email! I'm excited to hear that Mixxx is thinking about > parsing DJ Notation! > > I have been postponing this for months now, but today, I finally got to > write down all the changes from the original specs. www.djnotation.org > <http://www.djnotation.org> now contains what I've been using for a long > time now (it's not a big change from version 1, though). Of course, feel > free to use in any way. > > One of our other developers wants to suggest using the asterisk (*) > to denote a "drop" where everything comes back in to the mix. > > > Interesting. So, for example, -#~-#= could be written as -#~-*=? If > that's the case, I don't understand the benefit. Am I missing the point? > Could you please clarify? > > > Also, would you consider making the location designators optionally > use measure numbers instead of elapsed time? This will work well > with the loop detection features we're kicking around. > > > Totally. I designed the timecode notation so people can fill in any > format they feel most useful inside the parenthesis. (Assuming the > format makes it immediately – and always – obvious this is not time in > minutes and seconds but something else.) > > I'm curious about the measures as means of tracking time. Is this user > facing? Do DJs out there really keep track of their position in a track > using measures? (Just curious. It would make a lot of sense, but I > haven't seen it yet.) > > FYI, I have been using time to end of track exclusively these past few > years (it's the default of all CDJs / music software I work with). > > > Thank you very much for your time and work! > > > Thank you! > Filip Hracek > "Philip Age" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
