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Timecode vinyl checker
What features would you like to see in Serato software?

Timecode vinyl checker

edocronian 1:13 PM - 9 July, 2012
Idea: Check the vinyl within SSL for skips, cue burn, errors etc.

How: Drop needle, hit start, compare ideal vs received timecode. show report in pretty colours.

Why: So I can tell which of my many timecodes are good to go, and which ones to recycle, without listening to the tone myself and guessing.


I'm guessing there is the possibility of doing as many decks at a time as the SLx will allow, since this isn't really doing anything new internally, just aggregating the TC data and compiling a report from it.
phatbob 1:40 PM - 9 July, 2012
That's a really cool idea, and one I haven't heard before.

+1
Sporadik Styles 11:32 PM - 9 July, 2012
+1

That should've been built in all along. Saddens me the ideas I read in these forums that the USER shouldn't have to think of. Seems like for a product my by DJs for DJs many basic things are missing. Love serato but damn, step it up bruh
PatrickL 8:38 PM - 29 July, 2012
+1
djambesa 9:38 PM - 29 July, 2012
+1
s3kn0tr0n1c 12:01 PM - 31 July, 2012
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That's a really cool idea, and one I haven't heard before.

+1

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s3k0nded
Sporadik Styles 1:58 AM - 1 October, 2012
Bump

I had an issue on tour where one of my red control vinyls was messed up (although barely ever used and with 44-7). I even cleaned it before that show. My issue isn't with why the vinyl didn't last very long (black ones seem to last longer I've noticed), I couldn't care less, but there should be a vinyl checker built in to the program. I gladly would check my control records after every soundcheck if it had this important feature.

Right now it seems the only way to find out is the hard way
BERTO 2:52 AM - 1 October, 2012
+1
sinesthetix 12:30 AM - 3 October, 2012
+1
-Niko 1:22 PM - 6 October, 2012
+1 cool!
Sporadik Styles 10:03 PM - 6 October, 2012
I forgot to add it would be cool if it could do all decks at the same time to speed things up a bit
Dj Wunder 2:00 AM - 10 October, 2012
Wow. +1 like a mutha. Like, of course this should have been included from v1.0!

All the data is there, just spit out a little report that says: "Vinyl good to go" or "vinyl damaged at 3:33 mark"
Sporadik Styles 2:40 AM - 10 October, 2012
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Wow. +1 like a mutha. Like, of course this should have been included from v1.0!

All the data is there, just spit out a little report that says: "Vinyl good to go" or "vinyl damaged at 3:33 mark"


Exactly the same thing I thought (and I'm sure everyone else on this thread) *smh*
icb 6:13 AM - 11 October, 2012
How can software know if you burned your vinyl at 3:33 mark? You can see vinyl burn when looking at the scopes, but that's pretty much it. I don't see any other option to be available tbh.
Dj Wunder 6:23 AM - 11 October, 2012
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How can software know if you burned your vinyl at 3:33 mark? You can see vinyl burn when looking at the scopes, but that's pretty much it. I don't see any other option to be available tbh.


Serato's noisemap tells the software exactly where the needle is, that's how Absolute Mode works
icb 2:31 PM - 11 October, 2012
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How can software know if you burned your vinyl at 3:33 mark? You can see vinyl burn when looking at the scopes, but that's pretty much it. I don't see any other option to be available tbh.


Serato's noisemap tells the software exactly where the needle is, that's how Absolute Mode works


Well, ofcourse... but my point is: You come to party and bring your vinyl and how will software tell you if it is burned, you would have to play the entire record to check it (even for software to do it). That's the equivalent of looking at the scopes as they can tell you the same thing.

Get my point ?
Sporadik Styles 3:44 PM - 11 October, 2012
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How can software know if you burned your vinyl at 3:33 mark? You can see vinyl burn when looking at the scopes, but that's pretty much it. I don't see any other option to be available tbh.


Serato's noisemap tells the software exactly where the needle is, that's how Absolute Mode works


Well, ofcourse... but my point is: You come to party and bring your vinyl and how will software tell you if it is burned, you would have to play the entire record to check it (even for software to do it). That's the equivalent of looking at the scopes as they can tell you the same thing.

Get my point ?


You still don't get it.

We could throw 2 vinyls on and go do other stuff, grab a drink and come back when its complete, not starring at the scope screen and I hope I don't blink if or when the numbers flicker, for 7 minutes. This should totally be in the software and not done manually.
Dj Wunder 4:00 PM - 11 October, 2012
^this^
icb 5:40 PM - 11 October, 2012
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How can software know if you burned your vinyl at 3:33 mark? You can see vinyl burn when looking at the scopes, but that's pretty much it. I don't see any other option to be available tbh.


Serato's noisemap tells the software exactly where the needle is, that's how Absolute Mode works


Well, ofcourse... but my point is: You come to party and bring your vinyl and how will software tell you if it is burned, you would have to play the entire record to check it (even for software to do it). That's the equivalent of looking at the scopes as they can tell you the same thing.

Get my point ?


You still don't get it.

We could throw 2 vinyls on and go do other stuff, grab a drink and come back when its complete, not starring at the scope screen and I hope I don't blink if or when the numbers flicker, for 7 minutes. This should totally be in the software and not done manually.


Hm, ye. My bad.
edocronian 7:33 PM - 21 October, 2012
"You come to party and bring your vinyl and how will software tell you if it is burned, you would have to play the entire record to check it (even for software to do it). That's the equivalent of looking at the scopes as they can tell you the same thing."


No, you don't do this AT the party, you do this BEFORE the party.

The scopes are useful for making sure the signal is clean at the time, but the whole point of a checker utility is to remove the need to stare at the scopes.
Dub D 3:46 AM - 1 April, 2013
This sounds awesome!! I always carry extra vinyl with me just in case, but I also have tons of old vinyl laying around. Obviously Serato wants to sell more control vinyl so this could seem counterintuitive, but a feature like this could be trivial to implement and go a long ways as far as customer relations go!!

I am wholeheartedly behind this feature request!!

+1
BERTO 3:35 PM - 5 April, 2013
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This sounds awesome!! I always carry extra vinyl with me just in case, but I also have tons of old vinyl laying around. Obviously Serato wants to sell more control vinyl so this could seem counterintuitive, but a feature like this could be trivial to implement and go a long ways as far as customer relations go!!

I am wholeheartedly behind this feature request!!

+1


I think the opposite, u would buy more control vinyl if ur ish wasnt up to par...
Dub D 9:19 PM - 5 April, 2013
I guess I could see it both ways.
BERTO 5:02 PM - 6 April, 2013
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I guess I could see it both ways.

Specially with the super serious users that have spares for everything
Dj D.ONE 6:28 AM - 24 May, 2013
+1
Laz219 7:24 AM - 24 May, 2013
I was thinking about this, there are probably too many variables to really state the vinyl specifically needs replacing. If people were using it, heading out to buy new vinyl and then getting the same result, they wouldn't be happy with serato.
Dj D.ONE 1:35 AM - 29 May, 2013
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I was thinking about this, there are probably too many variables to really state the vinyl specifically needs replacing.


Not really... Its not that hard te make software "know" if there is too much noize in the signal..
Laz219 9:13 AM - 29 May, 2013
Considering how much time people spent trying to pinpoint sources of minor interference in the help forum, there's still a lot of things that could be causing it besides just vinyl.
DJMark 9:31 AM - 29 May, 2013
This is one of the more interesting ideas I've seen in recent years.

Obviously not a WHOLE CV troubleshooting solution, but an excellent addition to available troubleshooting tools.