It has fucked me more than once, including last night.
Maybe it's a great program, it has certainly gotten good reviews, but it is almost impossible to figure out how to use. I don't feel like fucking around after work trying to learn--I just got done busting my ass, the last thing I want to do is strain my brain.
The manual I found was written in that godawful PDF format by some tech geek who has never communicated with fellow humans. I spent about an hour trying to read it and get something out of it, felt like throwing the laptop against a wall, and never looked at it again.
You cannot search for music at all, not without apparently entering your entire music library somehow I never tried figuring out.
If you change the name of a music file as I did last night, even if you aren't trying to play that song, but merely add it to a list, it will then crash mid-song, and keep repeatedly crashing in spite of several computer restarts, control panel access/program add/remove repair attempts.
This means you cannot enter any music from any folder anywhere near the folder containing the file you tried to rename, or the program will crash mid-song. I finally deleted the entire folder and it's OK now.
You cannot add songs to a dancer's folder directly, you have to laboriously add it to the 'active folder', then add it from that to the one you want. Then you have to carefully delete the song from the 'active folder', or you'll wind up playing AC/DC for a hip-hop girl eventually.
The worst thing of all, about 2 1/2 months ago it suddenly decided to spontaneously erase all my laboriously collected and compiled dancer folders, right as I was starting a friday night. With a 2 1/2 minute song length (or dancers running to the fucking mummy they called the senior owner bitching about 4-5 minute songs), this fucked me royally. I never did finish rebuilding the folders, before I left that club.
This may have been because I moved a large folder containing some songs I used frequently from my laptop to my external harddrive. Knowing it would be a pain in the ass to laboriously re-enter those songs, but never anticipating that I would have to repeat the entire process for each and every song I ever played for each and every dancer!
If I had known it would be anything nearthis bad, I never would have spent 100$ on it, but would have used the free fucking WinAmp program a DJ friend of mine in Daytona has been happily, easily using all this time.
Anyone tried Tractor? I'm buying a Mac laptop, a really good one, and the new club is getting a Mac with Tractor. I figured I might as well use the same program.



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