Good reminder to start cancelling services I barely use. DJEP will probably go first since I plan all timelines and music with the client anyway. Always value your recommendations. Thank you!
Couldn't agree more. I'm guessing as new, younger DJ's come on board, that have never had to buy vinyl, a CD or an MP3 in their life, have no choice but to stream. The concept of owning music is alien to Gen-Z's. I started DJing to feed my vinyl habit. I was buying more and more music and needed a way to fund it. And I found out people would pay me to play music at their house parties and it went from there! Also, when did it becomes a required to have access to every song on the planet? Before streaming, if we didn't have it in our crates/collection, we didn't play it. I still swear by this! If the client requires any specific song(s), they are talked about and purchased in advance. Otherwise - tough! And that includes playing random ish from UA-cam!
I'm going to say what most DJ's won't and may hate me for : I'm glad I quit. I Dj'd for years and I used to love it, but then it became a game and a hunt for cash. I Went from getting great money and making a lot of people happy to dealing with paying more than what I was receiving, (growing up/living in and Setting business in a small city/town) having to up my prices which pissed a lot of people off and then also dealing with the saturation of young kids coming in claiming they're "dj's".
It’s getting to be ridiculous, record pools are looking better and better again. Maybe we need to get back the old days when you may not have a certain record in your crate..it’s too easy to pull up a request on a streaming service. Good call on cutting the cable, I did it 15ish years ago!
I use a DJ service for my tunes. Talked to another DJ in a music store who says he just uses Spotify! He records Spotify songs onto CD and loads them into his music library. Highly illegal, by the way! He claims nobody cares or checks! How do you compete against that?
Bought the Serato DJ Pro Suite years ago and haven't looked back. Other than that, I buy everything from the Apple Music Store, or whatever it's called these days. Haven't used a record pool since 2004 or so and it's worked out pretty well for me. I hate subscriptions!
Believe it or not...thats why i still by CDs. I have a hard copy i can put on a computer and the quality is better. Some music pools that give you permanent access to zongs also better than monthly subscriptions.
I don’t watch tv. My husband and daughter do. I kept telling my husband that it’s a car payment. Finally a year ago he too cut it, but… we have Netflix and Prime or whatever it is. 🙄 I can truly do without tv, but not internet. Get one or two really good music subscriptions and get rid of the rest. 😬 As for planning software, it is nice, but I hear your take on it. Thank you for this! Minds are churning now. 😄
I bought my DJ software 17 years ago, and it hasn't cost me a penny since. DJs now have it easy when they can access over 100 million tracks for less than a dollar per day. Buying vinyl (when that was the only format) cost a LOT more than $20 per month.
You hit a lot of good points... There are pro's and con's to each scenario. I personally like to own my apps and music... Have a LOT invested in it. Cut off the internet, I can DJ just fine... no worries. I am not afraid of saying, sorry, don't have that song... would you like something similar. I also subscribed to planning apps - didn't work for me and my clients.. Yup, the one you were sponsored by.. :) Technically, you didn't "cut the cable" - you just stopped using it for cable television.. that cord is still connected and sucking up $$$ - just less than it used to. Peace Brother!
I believe that the club DJ is a ding of the past more or less, and bedroom and mobile DJs are mainstream now and very popular. Everyone's a djay I believe this is why subscription services have gone up in price. You're getting regular folks wanting to use djay software And copyrighted music yes we cut the cord on cable too and I have to say I miss it but I don't miss the price. It would be great if subscription services would bring to price down but they know we like the builds and whistles and they got us by the Bwalls😂
No one should get angry about this topic! Collectively all people should normalize not paying for redundant bills in our lives that dont really earn/give us much value/joy.
So. To those in strong agreement here... This is the Era of programing. Coding. W/E you want to dish it up as. Learn how things work. That's when you can get your music without paying again. They wanna be money hungry? I'm gonna be a thief right back.
Some people absolutely love it & it's helped them grow their business. It's not for everybody, though. It's not for me with what I'm doing right now ether. If you ever see or hear about anything at all that's not for you, or does not make sense for you on my channel (or anywhere else), that's totally cool!
@@briansredd It seems like a great app which is why I was willing to consider it; until i learned the price. DJs who use this have got to work A LOT OF WEDDINGS for it to make sense. I DJ about 100 days per year but only 4-5 are weddings. The saddest part is that I'm sure they could easily have 10x more customers and 3x more profits $$$ if they reduced the price to 30$/month like a dj pool. But instead of helping more DJs and more couples to create more amazing moments they chose elitist high prices, and excluded most of our community.
@@briansredd ok seems like either youtube or you deleted my reply ... i know youtube blocks a lot stuff now, i didn't think my reply was very controversial though... btw
Streaming though alows the less commited dj access to millions of songs without the overhead. They do not deserve ownership when their subscription expires. Like you, I too have subscribed to a promo service since 1995! 30 years worth of cds and digital. For pennies. My investment for my future.
Like everything else; it’s the cost of doing business. I’m more pissed at the ridiculously expensive high end controllers. Paying over a grand for a controller is outrageous.
I know djs that still have and actively using rane 57sl with cdj 800 on a basic old school windows laptop and it works! I'm at the point where as soon as my main software (serato) goes full subscription I'm gonna just freeze my equipment right there! A fully functional 2012 laptop with 2012 Operating system, 2012 version of DJ software & a 2012 DJ setup that you're comfortable with can last up to 15 years if you are careful enough. So in theory a 2024 DJ setup could last till 2034-39 with minor maintenance needed.
Maybe it's time to go back to cdj and CDs. Or straight up turntables. I hear ya on the Cable we are thinking about cutting satellite TV. Too costly not enough on TV.
Having access to requests or just songs you want when you think about it in the fly when you want it is a hiuuuge plus!! Running out of space sucks. Get songs you actually play!
I switched to the Denon Prime Go…because it includes Engine DJ. It also works with Virtual DJ…which I can buy for $300. I have Tidal DJ…which is $20 a month and I was just given a hard drive with 83K songs on it. I am going to start buying songs from iTunes every month and I tend to look into a Record pool….
I will often temporarily cancel a subscription if I know I'm not going to use it for a month or more. I used to do that with some record pools but they started having limits on how many times you can cancel then rejoin. With things like Tidal, Soundiz, Canva, etc I will just pay for the months that I know I will actually be using them. It can be a bit of a task to keep up with all of the subscriptions but it's a necessary evil to avoid paying for services that you are not using.
You can get an unlimited subscription for 12.99 on some which isn’t bad. I think it cost less now for music then ever before a CD used to be 19$ for one album now I can get all the music I want for less then price of a cd per month and all modern DJ controllers come with the software free. Go buy ten CDs you could pay for the music service for the year. So I’m Not understanding this theory ??
I used Traktor for DECADES. Subscriptions were one of the big reasons I stayed for as long as I did. I switched to Virtual DJ last year in part because I could buy it outright $300 - at $20/mo, I am already more than 70% paid off.
Wait, so we preach about raising prices constantly, but we don't think everyone else has a right? Go back to the days of paying per album, per 45 single, gas, time. Many don't realize how good they have it. If $50 more bucks a month is a problem then get busier or charge more.
I understand what you are saying, and I hope I don't preach about raising prices! What I do try to advocate for is knowing what your expenses are, recoup that & then pay yourself. At any rate, I think what I'm trying to express here is that with so many new subscription based services popping up & in some cases, those subscription prices on the rise, some of us may want to consider what's necessary & what isn't. If an extra $50 is a necessary expense, then that's the cost of doing business & should be added to your operating budget. If after evaluation, it's about as useful as Cable TV was for me, then maybe you don't really need it.
I just cancelled Beatsource. Thinking about getting rid of Tidal as well. I was on the $13 plan and I enjoyed it. Then I noticed a lot of tracks were “unavailable “. I not talking about the intro and outros. Tidal is ripping us off. They claimed it’s the record labels. Yet, beatsource, SoundCloud, Deezer still allowed stems to function just fine.
Good reminder to start cancelling services I barely use. DJEP will probably go first since I plan all timelines and music with the client anyway. Always value your recommendations. Thank you!
Couldn't agree more.
I'm guessing as new, younger DJ's come on board, that have never had to buy vinyl, a CD or an MP3 in their life, have no choice but to stream.
The concept of owning music is alien to Gen-Z's.
I started DJing to feed my vinyl habit. I was buying more and more music and needed a way to fund it. And I found out people would pay me to play music at their house parties and it went from there!
Also, when did it becomes a required to have access to every song on the planet?
Before streaming, if we didn't have it in our crates/collection, we didn't play it. I still swear by this!
If the client requires any specific song(s), they are talked about and purchased in advance. Otherwise - tough!
And that includes playing random ish from UA-cam!
I'm going to say what most DJ's won't and may hate me for : I'm glad I quit. I Dj'd for years and I used to love it, but then it became a game and a hunt for cash. I Went from getting great money and making a lot of people happy to dealing with paying more than what I was receiving, (growing up/living in and Setting business in a small city/town) having to up my prices which pissed a lot of people off and then also dealing with the saturation of young kids coming in claiming they're "dj's".
It’s getting to be ridiculous, record pools are looking better and better again. Maybe we need to get back the old days when you may not have a certain record in your crate..it’s too easy to pull up a request on a streaming service.
Good call on cutting the cable, I did it 15ish years ago!
I use a DJ service for my tunes.
Talked to another DJ in a music store who says he just uses Spotify! He records Spotify songs onto CD and loads them into his music library. Highly illegal, by the way!
He claims nobody cares or checks!
How do you compete against that?
Vdj has been the most affordable software that I have used . One time fee and they continue to upgrade ans make it better all the time
Bought the Serato DJ Pro Suite years ago and haven't looked back. Other than that, I buy everything from the Apple Music Store, or whatever it's called these days. Haven't used a record pool since 2004 or so and it's worked out pretty well for me. I hate subscriptions!
Believe it or not...thats why i still by CDs. I have a hard copy i can put on a computer and the quality is better. Some music pools that give you permanent access to zongs also better than monthly subscriptions.
I don’t watch tv. My husband and daughter do. I kept telling my husband that it’s a car payment. Finally a year ago he too cut it, but… we have Netflix and Prime or whatever it is. 🙄 I can truly do without tv, but not internet.
Get one or two really good music subscriptions and get rid of the rest. 😬 As for planning software, it is nice, but I hear your take on it. Thank you for this! Minds are churning now. 😄
Thanks for Sharing another Great Video.. You cover everything from point A to Z!!
I bought my DJ software 17 years ago, and it hasn't cost me a penny since. DJs now have it easy when they can access over 100 million tracks for less than a dollar per day. Buying vinyl (when that was the only format) cost a LOT more than $20 per month.
Power To Thr DJ"S
You hit a lot of good points... There are pro's and con's to each scenario.
I personally like to own my apps and music... Have a LOT invested in it.
Cut off the internet, I can DJ just fine... no worries.
I am not afraid of saying, sorry, don't have that song... would you like something similar.
I also subscribed to planning apps - didn't work for me and my clients.. Yup, the one you were sponsored by.. :)
Technically, you didn't "cut the cable" - you just stopped using it for cable television.. that cord is still connected and sucking up $$$ - just less than it used to.
Peace Brother!
I believe that the club DJ is a ding of the past more or less, and bedroom and mobile DJs are mainstream now and very popular. Everyone's a djay I believe this is why subscription services have gone up in price. You're getting regular folks wanting to use djay software And copyrighted music yes we cut the cord on cable too and I have to say I miss it but I don't miss the price. It would be great if subscription services would bring to price down but they know we like the builds and whistles and they got us by the Bwalls😂
No one should get angry about this topic! Collectively all people should normalize not paying for redundant bills in our lives that dont really earn/give us much value/joy.
You nailed it once again great job
So. To those in strong agreement here...
This is the Era of programing. Coding. W/E you want to dish it up as.
Learn how things work. That's when you can get your music without paying again.
They wanna be money hungry? I'm gonna be a thief right back.
Tidal...if you don't have it...tidal does..one subscription
Tidal have recently increased prices. As a DJ you need an additional subscription - so it’s almost double what it was!
What about that 100$/month VIBO dj planning app you regularly advertised? 1200 $ USD per year for an app subscription service is bonkers!
Some people absolutely love it & it's helped them grow their business. It's not for everybody, though. It's not for me with what I'm doing right now ether. If you ever see or hear about anything at all that's not for you, or does not make sense for you on my channel (or anywhere else), that's totally cool!
@@briansredd It seems like a great app which is why I was willing to consider it; until i learned the price. DJs who use this have got to work A LOT OF WEDDINGS for it to make sense. I DJ about 100 days per year but only 4-5 are weddings. The saddest part is that I'm sure they could easily have 10x more customers and 3x more profits $$$ if they reduced the price to 30$/month like a dj pool. But instead of helping more DJs and more couples to create more amazing moments they chose elitist high prices, and excluded most of our community.
@@briansredd ok seems like either youtube or you deleted my reply ... i know youtube blocks a lot stuff now, i didn't think my reply was very controversial though... btw
Streaming though alows the less commited dj access to millions of songs without the overhead. They do not deserve ownership when their subscription expires. Like you, I too have subscribed to a promo service since 1995! 30 years worth of cds and digital. For pennies. My investment for my future.
Like everything else; it’s the cost of doing business. I’m more pissed at the ridiculously expensive high end controllers. Paying over a grand for a controller is outrageous.
I know djs that still have and actively using rane 57sl with cdj 800 on a basic old school windows laptop and it works!
I'm at the point where as soon as my main software (serato) goes full subscription I'm gonna just freeze my equipment right there!
A fully functional 2012 laptop with 2012 Operating system, 2012 version of DJ software & a 2012 DJ setup that you're comfortable with can last up to 15 years if you are careful enough.
So in theory a 2024 DJ setup could last till 2034-39 with minor maintenance needed.
You advertised for Vibo a lot. I’m surprised you don’t use it. 🤔
Maybe it's time to go back to cdj and CDs. Or straight up turntables. I hear ya on the Cable we are thinking about cutting satellite TV. Too costly not enough on TV.
Having access to requests or just songs you want when you think about it in the fly when you want it is a hiuuuge plus!! Running out of space sucks. Get songs you actually play!
I switched to the Denon Prime Go…because it includes Engine DJ. It also works with Virtual DJ…which I can buy for $300. I have Tidal DJ…which is $20 a month and I was just given a hard drive with 83K songs on it. I am going to start buying songs from iTunes every month and I tend to look into a Record pool….
Love that small controller as well!
@@MrJFunk It is really nice!
Buying from iTunes is the best way to go because you not going to need 36 songs a month point blank
I will often temporarily cancel a subscription if I know I'm not going to use it for a month or more. I used to do that with some record pools but they started having limits on how many times you can cancel then rejoin. With things like Tidal, Soundiz, Canva, etc I will just pay for the months that I know I will actually be using them. It can be a bit of a task to keep up with all of the subscriptions but it's a necessary evil to avoid paying for services that you are not using.
software and hardware is heading down that route.
Apple will be leader in everything in the cloud.
We need to stop allowing every company doing subscriptions. Enough is enough. I'm done with them
You can get an unlimited subscription for 12.99 on some which isn’t bad. I think it cost less now for music then ever before a CD used to be 19$ for one album now I can get all the music I want for less then price of a cd per month and all modern DJ controllers come with the software free. Go buy ten CDs you could pay for the music service for the year. So I’m
Not understanding this theory ??
Most pro gear gives you serato pro.
Honestly who needs new music from 2020 and forward? People want to hear what they know so just buy dirt cheap CD's, rip them and you only pay once.
More subscriptions should drive the price down
I used Traktor for DECADES. Subscriptions were one of the big reasons I stayed for as long as I did.
I switched to Virtual DJ last year in part because I could buy it outright $300 - at $20/mo, I am already more than 70% paid off.
just say no
Wait, so we preach about raising prices constantly, but we don't think everyone else has a right? Go back to the days of paying per album, per 45 single, gas, time. Many don't realize how good they have it. If $50 more bucks a month is a problem then get busier or charge more.
I understand what you are saying, and I hope I don't preach about raising prices! What I do try to advocate for is knowing what your expenses are, recoup that & then pay yourself. At any rate, I think what I'm trying to express here is that with so many new subscription based services popping up & in some cases, those subscription prices on the rise, some of us may want to consider what's necessary & what isn't. If an extra $50 is a necessary expense, then that's the cost of doing business & should be added to your operating budget. If after evaluation, it's about as useful as Cable TV was for me, then maybe you don't really need it.
I just cancelled Beatsource. Thinking about getting rid of Tidal as well.
I was on the $13 plan and I enjoyed it. Then I noticed a lot of tracks were “unavailable “. I not talking about the intro and outros.
Tidal is ripping us off. They claimed it’s the record labels. Yet, beatsource, SoundCloud, Deezer still allowed stems to function just fine.
Esstart.. 300 annual
Nosongrequest 50 annual
Djep 20 per month
Promo only hasn't raised my rate yet (thank you)