• • Associated acts, Website Members McFly are an English band formed in in 2003. The band took its name from the character. The band consists of (lead vocals, guitar and piano), (lead vocals, harmonica and guitar), (bass guitar) and (drums). They were signed to from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label,. McFly rose to fame after fellow band helped launch them by inviting them to tour in 2004. In 2005, they won the for Best British Pop Act. McFly's debut album debuted at number 1 in the and is certified as; this led to them becoming known as the youngest band ever to have an album debut at number one—a title taken from. A month after the album was released, the band had their first UK headlining tour. The band's second album,, which was released in 2005, also charted at number 1 in the UK making them the youngest band to have topped the UK album charts twice. Their third album,, was released on 6 November 2006 and charted at number 6 in the UK. McFly released their compilation album on 5 November 2007, which charted at number 4 in the UK. The band's fourth studio album,, was given away for free as a supplement in the on 20 July 2008, before being released in the conventional manner (via physical release) on 2 September 2008. Fifth album was released in November 2010 and charted at number 20. As of 2016, McFly have had 18 consecutive UK top 20 singles, seven of which reached number one in the and seventeen of which were consecutive top ten singles. The band have currently, based on certifications, sold a minimum of 1.5 million records in the UK alone and more than 10 million records worldwide. In 2006, McFly appeared as themselves in the film, starring and. They released a US album, Just My Luck, which was also used as the film's soundtrack. They have also performed at various charity projects such as,,, and. In November 2013, it was announced that McFly would be joining forces with Busted to form the 'supergroup'. They played a 34-date tour with both Busted and McFly songs. The only member of the original groups not to participate in the new lineup was former Busted singer. After Simpson's return to Busted in November 2015, McFly made a return and sold out their Anthology Tour in September 2016. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] 2002–2004: Formation and Room on the 3rd Floor [ ] In 2001, auditioned for, but lost out on the place to. Fletcher was originally accepted as part of Busted's line-up, but went on to reassess the situation and eventually decided to have the band as a three-piece rather than a four-piece. Though the record label decided against offering Fletcher a place in Busted, they were intrigued by his songwriting talents and later offered him a place on Busted's songwriting 'team', alongside band member (and already accomplished songwriter); Fletcher has since stated that it was Bourne who taught him how to 'properly' structure songs and how to 'come up with good, poppy melodies'. [ ] While writing Busted's second album,, Fletcher was asked by the record label if he was available to film auditions for a new band,. Future of Forestry is an EP released by Future of Forestry. It was released on August 15, 2006 as a teaser for their album, Twilight. Track listing[edit]. 'Open Wide' - 3:55; 'Renovation' - 3:57; 'All I Want' - 4:13; 'Untitled' - 1:08; 'Stilled' - 3:57; 'Twilight' - 4:55. V t e Future of Forestry. Eric Owyoung. Studio albums. DIRECT FROM BROADWAY! As “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. It was at this time that and Fletcher met for the first time; Jones went to the audition mistaking the band to be an instrumental band rather than the conventional, all-singing, all-dancing boyband, for which they were intended. Fletcher was impressed with Jones' unique style and so approached and invited him to write with himself and Bourne. When writing projects for Busted had come to an end, the two began collaborating for their own (yet unnamed) band and, eventually, moved into the in London for two months, (while still receiving help from Bourne) to concentrate on writing together. Bassist and drummer were subsequently recruited via a classified advertisement in the magazine. The pair, both Essex lads, coincidentally turned up at the same audition and got to talking over their shared appreciation of the band, after Poynter noticed their name and logo was printed on Judd's T-shirt. McFly's early sound was surf/pop rock. Their debut single, ', released 29 March 2004, entered the at number 1 in April 2004 and stayed there the following week. In July 2004 their second single, ', also topped the charts. This was followed by the album debuting at number 1 in the. It would go on to be certified by the. The album broke records, as McFly earned an award from for being the youngest band to have a debut album enter the charts in the top position, a distinction previously held. The idea for the album name came from where Jones and Fletcher wrote most of the songs for the album: room 363 in the InterContinental Hotel in London. The third single, ', was released on 6 September 2004, placing at number 3. The fourth single,, the album's title track, was released on 15 November 2004 and reached number 5. McFly supported Busted on their nationwide arena tour along with V in February 2004 and then had their first headlining tour in September 2004. 2004–2007: Wonderland and Motion in the Ocean [ ]. The soundtrack for was made up entirely of songs from McFly's first two albums, and, with the exception of the brand new track ', which was recorded especially for the film. In March 2005, McFly released a of ' from their second album,, which featured a 60-piece orchestra. The single reached number 1 for a week on 13 March 2005, with all profits donated to. The video for 'You've Got a Friend' was shot in Uganda, Africa, which McFly visited for to raise awareness for the cause. Several months later, on 2 July, McFly co-headlined, with and and also took part in the. The second single from Wonderland, ', was released in the UK on 15 August 2005 and scored them their fourth UK number 1. The album itself was released on 29 August 2005 entering at number 1. The third single from Wonderland, ', was released on 17 October 2005 with an unknown song Easy Way Out on the single and it gave them their 6th top 3 single. Their fourth and final single, ' from Wonderland was released on 12 December 2005 and reached number 9. McFly headlined their Wonderland Arena Tour, which started on 15 September 2005, supported by and Famous Last Words. A DVD of the tour, recorded live at the in Manchester, was released on 28 November. The band also played at the 2005., an inverted roller coaster at the theme park was renamed Wonderland for a month in 2005 to celebrate the album's release. The band were filmed riding Nemesis with competition winners by music show. In 2006, McFly turned their attentions to the United States, appearing in the movie, released on 12 May, three days after the soundtrack of the movie, which comprised McFly songs taken from both Room on the 3rd Floor and Wonderland, as well as a new version of 'Five Colours in Her Hair'. The band played several gigs in Los Angeles and New York, as well as attending the American premiere of Just My Luck in. Of McFly performs onstage at Nottingham Arena during McFly's Motion in the Ocean Tour in 2006. McFly's first single of 2006 was ', released in the UK as a double A-side with a cover of the hit ' on 17 July as the official song for. It reached number 1 in the UK charts on 23 July, making it the band's fifth number 1 single of their career. On 14 September 2006, it was confirmed via an email newsletter from McFly's official website that the third album would be called. The album was released on 6 November 2006 and reached number 6. The second release from the album, ' was released on 23 October 2006, to promote the album. 'Star Girl' reached number 1 in its first week. The third release from the album, ', was released on 18 December 2006, and reached number 3 in the UK singles charts. 'Friday Night' is featured in the movie, which was released on 22 December 2006, in Canada and the US and 26 December 2006, in the UK. Their next single, ', was released on 7 May 2007, becoming the band's seventh number 1. The original single release date was due to be 26 February, but the band took up the offer to return at that time to the town of Kamwokya in Uganda, which they previously visited for in 2005. Until 1 January 2016,'Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania' held the record for the biggest fall from number one for a non-limited edition single. It fell from number 1 to number 20 after a week, matching a limited edition single, 'One Night'. This record was broken by the 2015 charity single; after becoming the on 25 December 2015, the single fell to Number 29 the following week. McFly held their Motion in the Ocean tour from 17 September 2006 and were supported by and. They also held their McFly Up Close and Personal tour, supported by, which started on 20 March 2007, and consisted of performing in twenty four locations not covered by their arena tours over thirty four dates. Motion in the Ocean was re-released as a double disc edition with 'Baby's Coming Back' and DVD from the Wembley show on 14 May 2007 and reached number 14. 2007–2009: All the Greatest Hits, touring and Radio:Active [ ] McFly's compilation album was released on 5 November 2007 and reached number 4 in the charts. The first single from the album,, which reached number 3 in the UK singles chart, was premiered at the in August. The album also featured two new songs alongside 'The Heart Never Lies', 'The Way You Make Me Feel' and 'Don't Wake Me Up'. The band went on a 26-date Greatest Hits tour for a month, starting near the end of November 2007 supported by and, to promote the album. On 23 February and 1 March 2008, they performed two small gigs at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney, Australia while recording Radio:Active. They performed the same set list as for their Greatest Hits tour. It was here where they recorded the crowd singing 'we don't care' which was later used on their single 'One for the Radio'. [ ] A compilation album of B-Sides was also released on 3 December 2007,, which contains 12 B-sides of their UK singles. On 20 May 2008, McFly confirmed that their fourth studio album would be titled (typeset as Radio:ACTIVE). It was recorded in Australia, and given away for free as a supplement in on 20 July 2008. It was subsequently released in stores on 22 September 2008 with four additional tracks, a DVD and a 32-page booklet. The album was announced after McFly confirmed that they had left as they were unhappy with some of the decisions that the label was making for them. Since announcing the launch of their new record label, the band have said that they 'won't rule out' signing other acts, but that for the moment they're just concentrating on releasing their 'own stuff'. Radio:Active mixes their love of vintage rock with a British twist on the modern pop-rock sound. And at HMV Hammersmith Apollo, 1st May 2009. The first single released from the Radio:Active album was ', a song about as the band's 'constant struggle for critical acceptance'. The single was premiered on 's with on 1 June 2008 and was released on 14 July 2008. As of 25 June 2008, 'One for the Radio' was included in Radio 2's A list, meaning that it receives primary airplay during the daytime. The single charted at number 2 in the charts. The album was recorded, and produced in Australia. McFly performed a showcase concert on 10 July 2008 at and performed another concert at on 24 July 2008 as part of the iTunes Live Festival '08. An EP of the performance, released 4 August 2008, was made available to download from the. The second single from the album, ' was released on 15 September 2008 and reached number 4 in the charts. McFly embarked on their sixth arena tour in 2008, starting from 7 November 2008, attending 14 dates, supported by manufactured pop band and Indie pop rock band Reemer. They also performed four concerts in Brazil from 5 October 2008 to 11 October 2008. The third single from the album was ', released 23 November 2008. The song was released in aid of 2008's and reached number 18 in the, the lowest charting position of any of their singles to date, and their first single not to reach Top 10. In 2009 McFly decided to once again arrange a tour to situate smaller venues, this time being called Up Close. And This Time It's Personal starting on 18 April in. They then did 14 dates in the UK before going on to do 7 dates in South America including Brasil, Argentina and Chile., the runner up, supported them on their UK stint. They were due to also play in Mexico although this was cancelled due to the pandemic which started in this country. McFly achieved their third number 1 album, Radio:Active, with the Tour DVD on 17 May 2009. The Up Close. And This Time It's Personal tour ended on 9 June. Later this month Mcfly did 3 shows for the forestry commission, which are concerts that take place every year to raise awareness of the UK forests. They were supported by indie-rock band Vagabond. Also in June, McFly made a surprise appearance at the ' show at on 15 June, joining them on stage to sing '. 2010–2012: Above the Noise and Memory Lane. Best of McFly [ ] In Autumn 2010, McFly re-signed and partnered with their previous Label (Island Records) to create and launch an interactive website, Super City, which provided fans with unprecedented access to the band. Subscribers would be able to download CDs before they were sold in stores. They would also gain access to video streams, web-chats, VIP access at gigs, and first call on tickets. This website was developed in a hope to combat any leaks (piracy) and gain loyalty from their fans, as they would have access to any new materials before they could be leaked. The website had about 50,000 visitors the first day, causing the site to shut down for two weeks. The first single from their fifth album, ', was written in with. It premiered on 14 July on and was released on 5 September and reached number 6 in the UK charts. The 'Party Girl' music video was voted number 1 by fans, in the Video Honours of 2010. [ ] The album,, was released on 15 November. It debuted at number 20 in the album charts & reached number 7 in the album download charts. The second single released from the album was ', a song penned with. 'Shine a Light' reached number 3 in the UK charts. The third single, ', was released on 6 March 2011. The band made a mini 30-minute-long movie titled which featured a vampire theme along with a sex scene involving Harry Judd. The 'Party Girl' video was taken from the movie. This was released on DVD on 29 November exclusively to stores. Backstage at McFly's Tour In August 2011, McFly announced that they will be doing a tour consisting of 26 dates around the UK in March/April 2012. On 1 November McFly teamed up with Gioia Jewellery to release their first official jewellery range designs include each member's SuperCity logo and more coming soon. On 4 December, Dougie won the of. On 17 December, Harry won the of. On the band's latest tour, entitled Keep Calm and Play Louder Tour, they showcased three brand new songs entitled 'Do Whatcha', 'Red' and 'Touch the Rain', all of which will be on their sixth studio album. Judd was invited to carry the as part of the Olympic Torch Relay Run for the. On 4 August 2012, McFly played for a crowd of 50,000 people at an outdoor show in as part of the Olympic BTLondonLive celebration. In September 2012, McFly played four shows in America. S famed Roxy and two at New York's legendary Gramercy Theatre. All four shows sold out in less than a minute and fans lined up hours before the shows. On the American shows, they premiered another brand new song entitled '. In 2012, it was announced an autobiography entitled Unsaid Things: Our Story would be due for release on Amazon Stores in October 2012 and to coincide with the autobiography, the band also announced that they would be releasing another Greatest Hits album. Fletcher announced on Twitter that their next single would be 'Red' as it had been so well received on the tour but this was later changed to 'Love Is Easy', which was released on 11 November 2012, a week before the new Greatest Hits compilation. In September 2012, for the final Chris Moyles Show, the band put together a special video for Chris's feature McFly day, where he would normally play Star Girl every Friday (since January 2010), this latest edition was called Star Boy as a tribute, thanking Chris Moyles for playing 'Star Girl' every week. In October 2012, it was announced that they would release a greatest hits which is titled featuring most of the band's hits and 3 brand new songs,, 'Do Whatcha' and 'Cherry Cola'. The album was released on 26 November 2012 and the new single 'Love Is Easy' was released on 18 November 2012. It debuted at number 10, with the album following at number 21. A few weeks before 'Love Is Easy' was due to go on sale, McFly announced that they would bring the release date forward a week, meaning that the new release date would be 11 November 2012. In November 2012, they also announced that they would be doing 18 tour dates in the UK between April and May 2013 in support of the album. On 11 October 2012, McFly published their first autobiography, Unsaid Things: Our Story, named after a song from their first album. The book was a tell-all story which featured exclusive information that they revealed for the first time from the band's start to their present. They shared stories about their childhoods, the band's rise to fame and even the challenges they faced along the way. 2013–2015: Planned sixth studio album and McBusted [ ] McFly confirmed that they would embark an original 18-date tour (21 later) to promote their 2012 album which would run from April–May. They were joined for some for these dates. McFly have been on several writing trips for the writing stage of this album and have worked with and in writing. Titles for songs confirmed are 'Hyperion', 'Break Me', ', 'Do Watcha', 'Cherry Cola', 'Red', ' and 'Touch the Rain'. 'Love Is Easy' was released as a single in 2012 while 'Do Watcha' and 'Cherry Cola' were both featured on Memory Lane: The Best of McFly. 'Red' and 'Touch the Rain' were both previewed during McFly's Keep Calm and Play Louder tour in 2012. 'Love Is on the Radio' was previewed during McFly's 10th anniversary shows at the in 2013. 'Love Is on the Radio', the first single taken from their new album, was released on 24 November. The album was due to be released in the northern spring of 2014, but this has been put on hold. In the McBusted biography by Jennifer Parker it was hinted that the sixth album was abandoned in favour of. In November 2013, the band wrote and performed the new theme tune to. McFly have expressed their interest in a possible collaboration with but have made no official plans. The album could possibly feature Bourne and Willis. McBusted performing in 2014 In late January 2013, McFly went on a writing trip with Bourne and wrote five songs. In early April, McFly uploaded a video of an acoustic live demo called 'My TVR' to their official YouTube account. The song was written with Bourne. It is unknown whether this track will be on the new McFly album. On 19 May the band announced via their Twitter page that they would also be playing a two-date special concert at the in celebration of their 10th anniversary as a band. Due to huge demand, two extra dates were announced. In addition, the Saturday show was streamed live from the band's website for fans who couldn't attend. During an interview with the Big Top 40 Webchat, Tom described the shows as his 'favourite shows we've ever played'. All four shows were held in September and featured, a surprise collaboration between McFly and Busted, minus. Following the shows with Busted, the two bands announced a 30-date UK arena tour as McBusted. The McBusted Tour was the biggest tour of 2014. In 2015, they embarked on a second McBusted tour,. They also released a DVD following the tour. On 21 June, a solo interview by Fletcher was published by Fabulous magazine in time for Father's Day. Fletcher stated that 'McBusted was an opportunity to have fun without knowing where it would take us, but McFly is for life. McBusted has been amazing fun, but it's not where our passion is. McFly is more than a band, we live and breathe it. We want to make album number six.' On a documentary with, Jones confirmed that McFly have three unreleased albums. The band are currently on a hiatus but hint on a future reunion, with Jones stating 'It's really nice to have a bit of breathing space after 12½ years with McFly. We've never really had this time off, so we'll give it a few months and see how we feel. When we're all refreshed, we'll go and smash an album.' 2016–2017: Return as McFly, The Anthology and sixth album [ ] On 25 April 2016, the band announced that they would be going back on tour in June 2016, where they would be playing all five albums and including some original new songs for a potential new album over three dates in each of four chosen cities: Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and London, with the tour called 'The Anthology'. Talking to 1883 Magazine, Fletcher said: 'After doing two massive Arena tours with McBusted, we really wanted to do something different for this tour to herald the return of McFly. So we're playing some iconic rock venues that will allow our fans to experience the songs in a much more up close and personal environment.' Jones added: 'We're going to play every song from every album over three nights in each city, plus some surprises. So it's a mammoth set to rehearse, but really exciting!' They also revealed that they'll be making new music after the tour, with Judd stating, 'We all agreed to go on tour first and then that will be the catalyst of what's to come.' On 25 May 2016, it was announced the band would have to postpone the Anthology Tour due to Judd herniating a disc in his neck. McFly eventually toured in September 2016. After the tour, the band revealed that they had scrapped two albums worth of songs recorded since Above the Noise. Fletcher said: 'After a certain amount of time, you feel like that was where you were at, at a moment[.]If we released stuff we recorded three years ago, we wouldn't be 100 per cent behind it any more. We still love the songs but we'd be excited about doing new things.' The following day, they announced that they would finally begin recording new material in January 2017. In December 2016, Judd revealed that the -recorded song would have appeared on the band's scrapped album. Super Records [ ] Ltd. Is an independent label operated and owned by McFly. Initially, McFly were signed to major record outlet. Although they have left Universal, McFly's singles are distributed by a company named 'Absolute' who also distribute for acts like and and are part of the Universal Group. Super Records was created after McFly decided to leave Island, Universal Records at the end of 2007. They returned to Island, Universal for their fifth album (2010). Television and film appearances [ ] Throughout the early years, McFly were regular guests on and. In January 2005, the band guest-starred in an episode of the long-running British drama series. In May 2006, they starred in the teen comedy film with and, which was released in the US on 12 May 2006 and in the UK on 30 June 2006. They play themselves in the film and the soundtrack features a variety of their songs from their first two albums. The band also recorded another song, 'Just My Luck', which was to be included on the US-only album release of the same name. McFly held a concert at the London on 19 May 2005 which was used in the film. The UK premiere of the film took place on 28 June 2006 in London. The film generally did not receive good reviews, gaining a 13% rating on. On 16 March 2007, McFly guest starred in the comic relief show, where they were given a challenge to come up with a song from scratch without using the words 'love', 'baby', or 'heart', and including the words 'sofa', 'administration', and 'Hyundai'. Near the end of the show they performed the song they named 'The Top Gear Blues'. It was later renamed 'Sofa, Hyundai, Administration' and placed as a on ' single. On 23 June 2007, McFly made a in an episode of the science fiction series. The episode ', saw the band appearing in a spoof, which featured from British celebrities such as McFly and showing their support and trying to encourage others to 'Vote Saxon!' In support of ( played by ) to become. On 22 October 2007, McFly hosted the first annual. McFly also appeared on the show in 2007. On 27 May 2008, McFly appeared on 's as the celebrity guests and cooked a three course meal for 50 customers. Their score was that 115 out of 150 dishes were paid for. On 20 July 2008, McFly also played at in Weston-super-Mare. McFly's performance at on 24 July 2008, as part of the iTunes Live Festival '08, was broadcast at cinemas across the UK on the same day. On 25 August 2008, McFly performed at the London 2012 Olympic Visa Party. On 14 December, they were the headline music act for in South Africa, which had a predicted worldwide audience of over 2 billion viewers. Their hits '5 Colours in Her Hair' and 'Lies' were played during the show. They appeared in teen soap on on Friday, 8 May 2009 performing in the SU Bar with The Somethings as a support group. On 31 May 2009, McFly performed at the biggest TV show in Brazil which had a predicted audience of over 30 million viewers. In June and July 2009, they did a Woodland tour, performing at forest venues around the UK. In October 2008 McFly performed on the 50th birthday episode of, live outside BBC Television Centre. McFly made a cameo appearance in 's Enigma tour in 2009–2010. A recording of the live stage show first aired on Channel 4 on 6 January 2011. McFly made a return to in July 2011. Fletcher took on in a celebrity special in the 3rd season and walked away with £100,000. Judd won the 9th series of with his dance partner. Poynter won the 11th series of the UK TV series. Poynter and Judd appeared on the 'Hunks Special' of on 1 March 2012. Jones also participated in 2010's, placing 5th. The band had their own McFly on the Wall documentary series in 2011. It followed the band as they embarked on their latest UK tour. It ran for 6 episodes. The first episode aired on on 11 May, and the last episode aired on 15 June. In 2012 McFly appeared on the celebrity edition of in which they won £10,000 for their chosen charities. On 8 December 2012, McFly appeared as themselves on in a one-off special called The McFly Show. It featured special guests, comedy sketches and the band performing their hit songs. On 23 March 2013, McFly performed a one-off concert as part of an event organised by (WWF) for 2013 which was broadcast live via YouTube. On 21 September 2013, McFly were the guest band on the show When Miranda Met Bruce with and. Since 2017, has appeared as a coach on. This is aired on. Legacy and influence [ ] McFly have been cited as having influenced a number of high-profile musicians in various different ways. Of particular note are and of, who have credited McFly as the opening act of the first concert they had ever attended. Speaking about meeting with the group, Jones said 'it turned out that Niall and Louis were at one of our first ever shows. And they were all like, 'we copied your haircuts, and you made us want to play guitar', which is really amazing to hear. They're the biggest band in the world right now. And their favourite band was us! We influenced them. It's really strange, because you feel like a veteran!' Reviews for One Direction's debut album had credited McFly as a notable influence, and Horan stated the group were very happy to have such a comparison noted. McFly had contributed song-writing to the first three studio albums that the group released. The group's debut featured the Fletcher-penned track I Want, while the group's 2nd album featured the song I Would penned by Fletcher, Jones and Poynter. Deluxe editions of the album also featured Irresistible, a track penned by all 5 members of One Direction alongside Fletcher, Jones and Poynter. This track marked the first time Jones was credited as the producer of any McFly-penned song for the group, with this trait continuing for later songs. Horan has since established a professional relationship with McFly, co-writing a number of album tracks for One Direction with Fletcher, Jones and Poynter, including the song Don't Forget Where You Belong from their 3rd album, having previously credited them for teaching the group songwriting techniques. Horan, Fletcher, Jones and Poynter had written three songs together for the group's 4th album, due for release in late 2014. Despite this, none of the tracks were chosen for the release, marking the first time the band were not featured on the group's songwriting credits on any studio album. However, Horan has returned to work with the band for the group's 5th studio album in 2015, penning two tracks with Fletcher and Jones which are presently in production. On 16 June 2014, Horan told the group's audience at the in Denmark that supporting the group was 'something special' because 'they were a lot of our favourite bands when we were growing up'. One Direction have also praised McFly as role models for longevity, having stayed together as a band for over a decade. Tomlinson said 'Oh, they're great role models. They've been through it, so it was really nice to have the chance to talk to them about their experiences. They've been so successful because they've managed to be themselves from the start. There aren't any egos, you know? I think that's really important in a band.' Also citing McFly as influences are British pop rock band, who supported McFly on their 2013. Guitarist and vocalist stated 'McFly is a band we love to be compared to over other bands, simply for the fact of their good musicianship. They write very well and they're very energetic on stage, which is something we try to replicate in our own performances.' Drummer also spoke of the band, explaining 'McFly were an influence on me wanting to get into music and we feel like the next generation of their take on pop,' while bassist continued 'They're chilled-out and we hope we can have that calm attitude if we ever get that successful.' Frontman also referred to McFly when asked about influences, stating 'Their debut album was a first in all of our collections'. The band credited their support slot as providing an opportunity to observe the band's skills for their own development. Simpson said 'How to provide more energy to our performance and move around the stage was a massive one.McFly have been doing it for years and the little things we picked up have really improved our live performance.' McVey also referred to the band's influence on performances by the Vamps, stating 'Before I had seen them in concert, I would never have performed as we do now.' The Vamps have covered several songs by McFly in a series of YouTube videos including Love Is Easy, performed alongside Fletcher's sister, 'That Girl', filmed as a recreation of the music video including appearances from Poynter, and finally 'Five Colours in Her Hair', which featured on the digital EP for their second single '. Their debut album, featured the song 'High Hopes' which was co-written by Fletcher, Jones and Poynter and produced by Jones. When The Vamps were compared to Australian band, Simpson said 'We both have a shared admiration for McFly. They've shaped the music of our generation. We find ourselves going to the same minor guitar chords like McFly would.' 5 Seconds of Summer have themselves confirmed that McFly are an influence on their music on a number of occasions, while they have also been compared to McFly in reviews. Fletcher is credited as having co-written the 5 Seconds of Summer track 'Try Hard'. The song was originally released onto YouTube on 1 June 2013, and in 2014 featured as a B-Side to their hit single '. The band had written with McFly during a 6-month stay in London, and Guitarist and vocalist, had mentioned a second song called 'Take It Away' that was penned with McFly for their debut album. Despite this, the track did not feature on the release. Especially in their early years pop-rock band cited McFly as a big influence, and were a favourite of oldest band member and bassist, mentioning them in multiple interviews, as well as covering their songs as part of interviews as well as during soundchecks and early concerts, which included covers of McFly's That Girl and All About You. Plus Riker sang a cover of Obviously while on the Glee Live tour to which McFly member commented, and covers of Love is Easy, Star Girl and All About You with fans at a event after learning of the passing of castmate. When UK pop/R&B group were asked which bands they had looked up to when they were younger, said 'I listened to a lot of McFly when I was growing up. I was a part of that era.' He continued 'these guys came out with instruments and they played and wrote all their own stuff and I was like, that's great – I want to do that.' Band member agreed, saying 'McFly was a huge part of my life.' Roche's mother, English singer and TV presenter, said 'To me he's still that little boy I watched singing and dancing around to McFly records.I took him to their show in Manchester when he was nine or 10 and he said to me, 'Mum, one day that will be me up there.' ' Other acts to cite McFly as musical influences include. Asked about influencing a new generation of bands, Jones stated 'There's a few bands, like the 1D boys, and they're all getting to that age where or McFly was the first gig they ever went to. It's really nice to see that bands are taking influence from what you do.' 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The global market for exchange-traded currency options was notionally valued by the Bank for International Settlements at $158.3 trillion in 2005 For example, a GBPUSD contract could give the owner the right to sell?1,000,000 and buy $2,000,000 on December 31. In this case the pre-agreed exchange rate, or strike price, is 2.0000 USD per GBP (or GBP/USD 2.00 as it is typically quoted) and the notional amounts (notionals) are?1,000,000 and $2,000,000. This type of contract is both a call on dollars and a put on sterling, and is typically called a GBPUSD put, as it is a put on the exchange rate; although it could equally be called a USDGBP call. If the rate is lower than 2.0000 on December 31 (say 1.9000), meaning that the dollar is stronger and the pound is weaker, then the option is exercised, allowing the owner to sell GBP at 2.0000 and immediately buy it back in the spot market at 1.9000, making a profit of (2.0000 GBPUSD? 1.9000 GBPUSD)? 1,000,000 GBP = 100,000 USD in the process. If instead they take the profit in GBP (by selling the USD on the spot market) this amounts to 100,000 / 1.9000 = 52,632 GBP. Although FX options are more widely used today than ever before, few multinationals act as if they truly understand when and why these instruments can add to shareholder value. To the contrary, much of the time corporates seem to use FX options to paper over accounting problems, or to disguise the true cost of speculative positioning, or sometimes to solve internal control problems. The standard clich? About currency options affirms without elaboration their power to provide a company with upside potential while limiting the downside risk. Options are typically portrayed as a form of financial insurance, no less useful than property and casualty insurance. This glossy rationale masks the reality: if it is insurance then a currency option is akin to buying theft insurance to protect against flood risk. The truth is that the range of truly non-speculative uses for currency options, arising from the normal operations of a company, is quite small. In reality currency options do provide excellent vehicles for corporates' speculative positioning in the guise of hedging. Corporates would go better if they didn't believe the disguise was real. Let's start with six of the most common myths about the benefits of FX options to the international corporation -- myths that damage shareholder values. Historically, the currency derivative pricing literature and the macroeconomics literature on FX determination have progressed separately. In this Chapter I argue the joint study of these two strands of literature and give an overview of FX option pricing concepts and terminology crucial for this interdisciplinary study. I also explain the three sources of information about market expectations and perception of risk that can be extracted from FX option prices and review empirical methods for extracting option-implied densities of future exchange rates. As an illustration, I conclude the Chapter by investigating time series dynamics of option-implied measures of FX risk vis-a-vis market events and US government policy actions during the period January 2007 to December 2008. Chapter 2: This Chapter proposes using foreign exchange (FX) options with different strike prices and maturities to capture both FX expectations and risks. We show that exchange rate movements, which are notoriously difficult to model empirically, are well-explained by the term structures of forward premia and options-based measures of FX expectations and risk. Although this finding is to be expected, expectations and risk have been largely ignored in empirical exchange rate modeling. Using daily options data for six major currency pairs, we first show that the cross section options-implied standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis consistently explain not only the conditional mean but also the entire conditional distribution of subsequent currency excess returns for horizons ranging from one week to twelve months. At June 30 and September 30, the value of the portfolio was?1,050,000. Note, however, that the notional amount of Ridgeway's hedging instrument was only?1,000,000. Therefore, subsequent to the increase in the value of the pound (which is assumed to have occurred on June 30), a portion of Ridgeway's foreign currency exchange risk was not hedged. For the three-month period ending September 30, exchange rates caused the value of the portfolio to decline by $52,500. Of that amount, only $50,000 was offset by changes in the value of the currency put option. The difference between those amounts ($2,500) represents the exchange rate loss on the unhedged portion of the portfolio (i.e., the 'additional'?50,000 of fair value that arose through increased share prices after entering into the currency hedge). At June 30, the additional?50,000 of stock value had a U.S. Dollar fair value of $45,000. At September 30, using the spot rate of 0.85:1, the fair value of this additional portion of the portfolio declined to $42,500. Ridge way will exclude from its assessment of hedge effectiveness the portion of the fair value of the put option attributable to time value. That is, Ridgeway will recognize changes in that portion of the put option's fair value in earnings but will not consider those changes to represent ineffectiveness. Aitan Goelman, the CFTC’s Director of Enforcement, stated: “The setting of a benchmark rate is not simply another opportunity for banks to earn a profit. Countless individuals and companies around the world rely on these rates to settle financial contracts, and this reliance is premised on faith in the fundamental integrity of these benchmarks. The market only works if people have confidence that the process of setting these benchmarks is fair, not corrupted by manipulation by some of the biggest banks in the world.” The Commission finalized rules to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act regarding Regulation of Off-Exchange Retail Foreign Exchange Transactions and Intermediaries. The Commission also finalized Conforming Changes to existing Retail Foreign Exchange Regulations in response to the Dodd-Frank Act. Additional information regarding these final rules is provided below, including rules, factsheets, and details of meetings held between CFTC Staff and outside parties.
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On one day the world of science fiction was as ignorant of the name “Richard Matheson” as of the name of the owner of your corner delicatessen; on the next the name ranked in. Her white brassiere, underneath her young breast—a heart. Mother words drumming at her; the needle making her. List of the most beautiful girls in the world beautiful woman women in Australia Austria Belgium Canada Ireland Germany Netherland New Zealand Norway Sweden. Jean-Michel Basquiat Born ( 1960-12-22)December 22, 1960,,, U.S. Died August 12, 1988 ( 1988-08-12) (aged 27), New York City, New York, U.S. Style, Movement, Website Jean-Michel Basquiat ( French:; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic in the cultural hotbed of the of during the late 1970s where the,, and movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on 'suggestive dichotomies', such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image,,, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. Basquiat used in his paintings as a 'springboard to deeper truths about the individual', as well as attacks on and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely and direct in their criticism of and support for. He died of a at his art studio. On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby's auction, Basquiat's 1982 painting, also Untitled, created with oil stick and spray paint and depicting a skull, set a new record high for any U.S. Artist at auction, selling for $110,500,000. SAMO color work at A's, Arleen Schloss, 1979 In 1976, Basquiat and friend Al Diaz began spray painting on buildings in, working under the pseudonym. The designs featured inscribed messages such as 'Plush safe he think. SAMO' and 'SAMO as an escape clause'. In 1978, Basquiat worked for the Unique Clothing Warehouse in their art department at 718 Broadway in and at night he began 'SAMO' painting his original graffiti art on neighborhood buildings. Unique's founder Harvey Russack discovered Basquiat painting a building one night, they became friends, and he offered him a day job. On December 11, 1978, published an article about the graffiti. When Basquiat and Diaz ended their friendship, The SAMO project ended with the epitaph 'SAMO IS DEAD', inscribed on the walls of buildings in 1979. In 1979, Basquiat appeared on the live show hosted by, and the two started a friendship. Basquiat made regular appearances on the show over the next few years. That same year, Basquiat formed the band Test Pattern – which was later renamed Gray – which played at 's open space, 'Wednesdays at A's', where in October 1979 Basquiat showed, among others, his SAMO color Xerox work. Gray also consisted of Shannon Dawson,, Nick Taylor, Wayne Clifford and, and the band performed at nightclubs such as,, and the. In 1980, Basquiat starred in O'Brien's, originally titled New York Beat. That same year, Basquiat met at a restaurant. Basquiat presented to Warhol samples of his work, and Warhol was stunned by Basquiat's genius and allure. [ ] The two artists later collaborated. Downtown 81 featured some of Gray's recordings on its soundtrack. Basquiat also appeared in the 1981 music video ',' in a role originally intended for, as a nightclub disc jockey. Scull (1981) The early 1980s were Basquiat's breakthrough as a solo artist. In June 1980, Basquiat participated in The Times Square Show, a multi-artist exhibition sponsored by (Colab) and. In September of the same year, Basquiat joined the Annina Nosei gallery and worked in a basement below the gallery toward his first one-man show, which took place in March 1981 with great success. [ ] In December 1981, published 'The Radiant Child' in magazine, which brought Basquiat to the attention of the art world. In March 1982 he worked in, Italy, and from November, Basquiat worked from the ground-floor display and studio space had built below his, California, home and commenced a series of paintings for a 1983 show, his second at, then in West Hollywood. He brought along his girlfriend, then unknown aspiring singer. Gagosian recalls, “Everything was going along fine. Jean-Michel was making paintings, I was selling them, and we were having a lot of fun. But then one day Jean-Michel said, ‘My girlfriend is coming to stay with me.’ I was a little concerned-one too many eggs can spoil an omelet, you know? So I said, ‘Well, what’s she like?’ And he said, He said, ‘Her name is Madonna and she’s going to be huge.’ I’ll never forget that he said that. So Madonna came out and stayed for a few months and we all got along like one big, happy family.” During this time he took considerable interest in the work that was producing at in West Hollywood, visiting him on several occasions and finding inspiration in the accomplishments of the painter. In 1982, Basquiat worked briefly with musician and artist. [ ] In 1983, Basquiat produced a single featuring artists and. Billed as Rammellzee vs. K-Rob, the single contained two versions of the same track: ' on side one with vocals and 'Beat Bop' on side two as an instrumental. The single was pressed in limited quantities on the one-off Tartown Record Company label. The single's cover featured Basquiat's artwork, making the pressing highly desirable among both record and art collectors. At the suggestion of Swiss dealer, Warhol and Basquiat worked on a series of collaborative paintings between 1983 and 1985. In the case of Olympic Rings (1985), Warhol made several variations of the Olympic five-ring symbol, rendered in the original primary colors. Basquiat responded to the abstract, stylized logos with his oppositional graffiti style. Basquiat often painted in expensive suits and would even appear in public in the same paint-splattered clothes. Artistic styles [ ] 'Basquiat's canon revolves around single heroic figures: athletes, prophets, warriors, cops, musicians, kings and the artist himself. In these images the head is often a central focus, topped by crowns, hats, and halos. In this way the intellect is emphasized, lifted up to notice, privileged over the body and the physicality of these figures (i.e. Black men) commonly represent in the world.' Jean-Michel Basquiat, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York By 1986, Basquiat had left the Annina Nosei gallery and was showing at the gallery in SoHo. On February 10, 1985, he appeared on the cover of in a feature titled 'New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist'. He was a successful artist in this period, but his growing heroin addiction began to interfere with his personal relationships. Despite an attempt at during a trip to,, he died on August 12, 1988, of a at his art studio on in Manhattan's neighborhood. He was 27 years old. Basquiat was interred in Brooklyn's, where made a speech at the graveside. Among those speaking at Basquiat's memorial held at Saint Peter's Church on November 3, 1988, were Ingrid Sischy who, as the editor of in the 1980s, got to know the artist well and commissioned a number of articles that introduced his work to the wider world. Suzanne Mallouk recited sections of 's 'Poem for Basquiat' and read a poem. The 300 guests included musicians and; artist; poet;, a writer; Fab 5 Freddy; and members of the band Gray, which Basquiat led in the late 1970s. In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat (1988). Legacy [ ] Basquiat speaks articulately while dodging the full impact of clarity like a. We can read his pictures without strenuous effort—the words, the images, the colors and the construction—but we cannot quite fathom the point they belabor. Keeping us in this state of half-knowing, of mystery-within-familiarity, had been the core technique of his brand of communication since his adolescent days as the graffiti poet SAMO. To enjoy them, we are not meant to analyze the pictures too carefully. Quantifying the encyclopedic breadth of his research certainly results in an interesting inventory, but the sum cannot adequately explain his pictures, which requires an effort outside the purview of. He painted a calculated incoherence, calibrating the mystery of what such apparently meaning-laden pictures might ultimately mean. Announcing Serato DJ 1.8, the next major software update for Serato DJs. This update adds key detection and display, an update to Pitch ‘n Time DJ allowing key shifting and key sync, user hardware remapping as well as a number of important performance and stability updates. Serato DJ 1.8 will be a free update for all DJs with supported Serato DJ hardware or licenses, and will be available end of October. KEY DETECTION • Analyse the root key of your tracks in the Serato DJ Offline Player, a free download. • Organize your Serato DJ library by key. • Coloured key display in the Serato DJ library for quick and easy recognition and key matching. • Choose one format to display key for all your tracks, whether analysed in Serato DJ or elsewhere. Display Camelot, Open Key, Musical Key notation or Original Tag (what’s already in your files). • Key is written to your track. View this info in any other music software that supports ID3 tags. • Serato DJ key analysis is developed by Serato. Serato Key analysis will be available for all Serato DJ users in Serato DJ 1.8. PITCH ‘N TIME DJ UPDATE • Key shift, match and key sync. • Find the key that fits. Visual representation of compatible track keys on deck for harmonic mixing. • Manually match key for the track you are mixing, key sync automatically or choose between various compatible keys. • Studio quality algorithm, used by post-production professionals, audio engineers and producers worldwide. • Speed up or slow down your track to extreme tempo values while maintaining its key perfectly, with the highest quality and definition of any available software. Sanremo 2018. Sanremo 2018, ecco i Big: da Elio a Fogli e Facchinetti, meno talent.Ecco i big in gara a Sanremo 2018. Free for current Pitch ‘n Time DJ users updating to Serato DJ 1.8. For new users, Pitch ‘n Time DJ can be purchased in-app or on the Serato Online Store for 29USD. HARDWARE REMAPPING Supported hardware* is being opened up for user remapping of Serato DJ features. For advanced users wanting custom control, remap parts of your controller for quick access to features you use regularly. *Official Serato Accessories do not support remapping at this stage. *There are some limitations for specific hardware. For specific information on remapping your controller, refer to individual controller quickstart guide. Serato DJ 1.8 will be available end of October for all Serato DJ users! If you have any questions, ask us in the comments section below:). Quote: This is great news! Good bye to Mixed In Key! Ut my question is will I have to re-analyze all of my songs for Serato DJ to adds it`s own key information, or will it detect the current key information already on the file that MIK put in? It will detect and display any previous key info that is in your tags. You can then just choose to analyse only the music in your library without key info, or re-analyse everything. It's up to you. If you have different key tags throughout your library, our key display will be helpful too as it will let you display everything in one single format, depending on what you like to use:) sam. It's about time! Been waiting for this feature for over 6 years! It's really frustrating anylsing songs with a different software and manually type in the key for every track, it was so annyoying to the point where I was considering just using Usbs and have my whole library on rekord box as its much easier to create playlists on there. I'm really glad that u guys have finally made it happen:) If you could create a feature similar to the rekord box one that lets you play tracks without loading them and also lets you play two tracks at the same time without any hardware plugged. It would be very convinient and essential to have that feature for preparing playlists. Many thanks ?. Quote: Will this update eliminate the need for third party software 'Mixed in Key'? When you say 'online player', will you need to reanalyze your entire library to have the key noted? Will a library that has been keyed by other software translate into Serato without issue? Yes you will no longer need other software to detect the key. If you have files that have had key detected from other software, then yes it will still show up and work correctly in your Serato DJ library. You can go into the setup screen and change what your key displays as between Camelot, Open Key, Classical Key and Original Tag (just displays whatever's written to the tag). Quote: Great idea, its about time! Quick question, what if I already have keys already typed into the key column.Will Serato overwrite what's already in that column?? LETS HOPE SO. Yes if Serato DJ analyzes a file with an existing key and you have the 'Set Key' option ticked, it will re-write with the new SDJ key information. If your files have already been analyzed you will need to re-analyze them so it gets the key. If you DON'T want to overwrite your existing keys then make sure 'Set Key' is unticked. Quote: Can i have Serato Scratch Live and Serato DJ in the same mac? Im still using Serato SL with the TTM57-SL i only use Serato DJ to set cue points and to edit the beatgrids. I been using MIK for the last 2 years, so now if i reanalyze my files with Serato DJ it is going to overwrite the key? Or i am going to keep both? Yes, Scratch Live and Serato DJ are separate applications but they share the same library and many preferences. If you re-analyze your files with Serato DJ you can choose to either overwrite your existing keys (make sure 'Set Key' is turned on) or you can choose to not write any new key and keep your existing ones (make sure 'Set Key' is turned off). If you are happy with the existing key tags that MIK has written to your files then don't re-analyze and all your keys will show up and work correctly in SDJ already:). Guys most of you are asking the same question so I'm going to say it again one more time: • If you have existing key tags (from MIK or some other application) these will show and work fine in Serato DJ 1.8. You don't need to do anything. • If you want Serato DJ to overwrite these then re-analyze them in Serato DJ with 'Set Key' ticked. Analyzing with 'Set Key' ticked will always re-write and add the SDJ key to your files. • If you don't want Serato DJ to overwrite these then make sure you don't analyze them in Serato DJ with 'Set Key' ticked • If you want to analyze your music to get key information but you don't want it to change your BPM/Beatgrids then simply untick 'Set BPM/Beatgrid' and tick 'Set Key' before you Analyze. Hope that helps. Quote: This is an awesome update. How accurate is the Key detection? I use a combination of MIK, Rekordbox and Beatport for my key detection. And from the general consensus, MIK is the most accurate. If that is the case, what will make me want to sway into using the built-in key detection? We'll let you guys decide what you think is best. We're confident our key analysis is very high quality and we've put a lot of work into this. If you enjoy using a third party application currently there's no reason you need to stop using that. The new key features in Serato DJ will read and display any key info analysed in any software and display it in the format you wish. Why any working DJ have the urge to upgrade to an early version of an upgraded OS when the main company with the software being use to DJ and (possibly also make money out of) sent out a warning note on the same day of El Capitan NOT to update? Serato did, Native Instruments did, Pioneer did! So, wouldn't that give a pause and have it sunk for a minute and not do it? And if all three leading DJ companies have problems with this OS upgrade, doesn't it means the fault is a little bit more on Apple side? I'll take the 1.8 upgrade happily and feeling just a tad bit of remorse for the ones who blindly upgraded to El Capitan. #notpoliticallycorrect, I know! Anyway, Serato thanks for the update and keep up the good work. Hi Joe, You will be able to choose a format for displaying your Key for all your tracks, whether analysed in Serato DJ or elsewhere. You will be able to display Camelot, Open Key, Musical Key notation or Original Tag (what’s already in your files). @DJ Surda, We think our analyzation accuracy is pretty good! I don't have any stats for you, but it has been consistent in testing. In the end I guess you will be the judge:) @Matt, What is your ticket number? I will get the Support Team to contact you tomorrow. Quote: Hi Joe, You will be able to choose a format for displaying your Key for all your tracks, whether analysed in Serato DJ or elsewhere. You will be able to display Camelot, Open Key, Musical Key notation or Original Tag (what’s already in your files). Cheers Thanks for getting back to me Scott, but it doesn't really answer my question. I get that I can choose the format for key display. What I'm asking is, if I choose to display Musical Key, when SDJ analyzes the key of the track, will it write the musical key using sharps or flats? Will it write 'C#m' or 'Dbm' in the key tag? Can I choose which one to display? Quote: Excellent news. & for some of you who have mentioned Windows 10, I've been running DJ on it for about a week and it's fine. I played a four hour set last Saturday night, and it was smooth, no glitches or hiccups. Had FX running, and recorded it too, with zero problems. One Love Agreed. I've got two machines on Win 10 and they are both flawless. Surprising that Mac have the on-going issues with audio going back a while now. I hope they nail it soon. Windows has been rock solid for me since Win 7, dropout free. Quote: How does the key detection algorithm compare to that of Mixed In Key's? We think it's pretty good - and hopefully up to par with other key detection software. I don't have any stats for you right now, but has been pretty accurate for us so far! Yes Mixed and Key have been in the key detection game for a long time, so they definitely have some tricks up their sleeves when it comes to setting the perfect key. Wait until Serato DJ 1.8 gets released at the end of October and you can try it out for yourself:) Kind regards. Quote: My question is this. It says that this new update will allow us to be able to remap functions of our controllers but then there's a footnote that says it's not available to Serato supported contollers. I have an original Vestax VCI-300 that I really like but when Serato DJ came out I lost the use of half of my buttons and some of the others don't do the same thing anymore. Does this mean because my controller is an official Serato controller I won't be able to remap those functions? Official Serato Accessories will not support remapping at this stage. There are also some limitations for specific hardware. If you have a VCI-300 and you are using it as your primary Serato DJ controller (the one to activate Serato DJ) then yes, you will be able to use the hardware remapping feature. The footnote you talk about mentions no support for our Official Serato Accessories. These are things like Pioneer CDJs, Reloop Neon, Akai AFX etc (more on this page ). We hope to bring remapping support for the Official Serato Accessories soon, however it will not be available with this update. There are a few disclaimers and some things that won't be possible with the mappings at this stage, but more information will be available once the update is out at the end of October:) Hold tight! Quote: Is the new key detection feature part of SDJ 1.8 a free upgrade to SDJ licence holders, or will I have to buy 'Pitch n Time' to get the new key detection feature to work in SDJ 1.8? Key detection will be built into Serato DJ, so will not require any Expansion Pack. However, if you want to use Key Shift (moving the track's key up and down) or Key Sync (automatically matching compatible keys) you will need to purchase the Pitch 'n Time Expansion Pack as it uses our amazing Pitch 'n Time algorithm to do such crazy things:). Quote: Hello to all serato team! And thanks a lot for this update I was wishing for years now!:) I feel like it's my birthday! I have a few questions about key analysis: - when we do the key detection, will it be a parameter to scan all library and erase previous tag in order to have the same algorithm working for the whole library? - will it be longer to scan a track (bpm+key)? - will it work on all formats supported by serato? - when will be release the user manual? - You can choose to erase the original key and put the new Serato DJ key in the key tag, or keep your original key if you already have one. You can choose to analyze the files with or without key detection enabled. So it is up to you:) - We haven't noticed any increase in the time it takes to analyse files with key enabled - Yes, all supported formats that allow tags to be written (unlike.WAV files). MP3 usually yields the best results. - The Serato DJ 1.8 software manual will be available after the software is released. There will also be a helpful article for you to read that should explain how to use everything, also out once the software is released.:) Thanks. Quote: WAV files do not allow tags to be written to them, so no, it will not detect the Key for WAV files. This is a limitation of the file itself and we recommend you use iTunes or something similar to convert to MP3 if you need key data or tag information:) Lets not encourage the use of MP3's please;-) These things should have died with dial up internet. Maybe consider the flac format? It's lossless like wavs and allows tagging. I cant understand why this wouldnt be a more sensible option. I know currently after scanning in MIK 320's do display the key but flacs and wavs dont. Am I missing something here? Quote: Nice work Serato team. Will the Camelot code system insert a zero in front of the code for 1A-9A and 1B-9B, ie 01A, 01B, 02A, 02B, 03A, 03B etc. That will prevent 10A, 10B, 11A, 11B, 12A and 12B from being placed between 1B and 2A in a list of tracks sorted by key – which is not where they belong. They should go between 09B and 01A No, it will not insert a zero in front of a camelot key. However, we have thought about this, and our Key column is smart enough to not get confused by 10A and 1A - it should still order them correctly in order of Key if you choose to sort by Key in the library. Hopefully this helps! Quote: Nice work Serato team. Will the Camelot code system insert a zero in front of the code for 1A-9A and 1B-9B, ie 01A, 01B, 02A, 02B, 03A, 03B etc. That will prevent 10A, 10B, 11A, 11B, 12A and 12B from being placed between 1B and 2A in a list of tracks sorted by key – which is not where they belong. They should go between 09B and 01A No, it will not insert a zero in front of a camelot key. However, we have thought about this, and our Key column is smart enough to not get confused by 10A and 1A - it should still order them correctly in order of Key if you choose to sort by Key in the library. Hopefully this helps! Cheers Fantastic. Keep up the great work. SL1 and SL4 user since 2006 and still happy:o). Quote: The up coming up grade sound promesing, but how about individual control of sample deck per say deck A or C sample deck is independant from the sample deck B or D. So you can set vocal on one side of the deck and loops on the other side. By the way, I have the DDJ-SX2 and the touch strip is disable during deck play, why not enable another function when in deck play instead of just have a dead space there. I am positive that you can please your followers with this simple request. Check your pref tab in serato probably you 'tick' disable needle search;). Quote: The up coming up grade sound promesing, but how about individual control of sample deck per say deck A or C sample deck is independant from the sample deck B or D. So you can set vocal on one side of the deck and loops on the other side. By the way, I have the DDJ-SX2 and the touch strip is disable during deck play, why not enable another function when in deck play instead of just have a dead space there. I am positive that you can please your followers with this simple request. Check your pref tab in serato probably you 'tick' disable needle search;) Yes, you were correct it was checked. Know I believe that function was added to the save guard the playing track from accidentally touching the strip when playing around with the Efx. If these is true, can it have a second function while the deck is active. It will be a very nice. I do not think that when you touch the strip on an active playing deck the jump is quantize or is it. Quote: Thanks first for the forthcoming update! How will the mapping gonna work, just like it already does with a few new options, or will you also offer to type in code to programm things like shift buttons aswell? I´d love to map things for the perfect workflow, that´s what I always been missing workink with SDJ. You will only be able to remap your primary Serato DJ device for now (the one that activates Serato DJ - whether controller, interface or mixer). Official Serato Accessories do not support remapping at this stage. No SHIFT remapping with this first update. There will be some limitations for specific hardware but we will let you guys know once the software is out. We also plan to keep working on this feature to make it as easy (or as complex - if thats's how you like it) for you guys as possible:). Quote: It's ok for ddj sx???? Yep, the DDJ-SX is a Serato DJ Enabled controller:) sam. Hey Sam.tricky question for you in regards to the Official Accessories to be supported on a future release.To give you an understanding, Imagine i use a ddj sb2 and an sp1 I d like to be using both the main unit hardware and an accessory at the same time (no custom map anywhere).but to be able to set a different performance layer to each other.I might want the ddj-SP1 to be on Hot Cue mode and the DDj SB2 to be on the Autoloop layer.Currently they just mirror each others setting. Let me know if you can confirm that this will be possible after remapping wil be supported for accesories Cheers Nik. Quote: It's ok for ddj sx???? Yep, the DDJ-SX is a Serato DJ Enabled controller:) sam. Hey Sam.tricky question for you in regards to the Official Accessories to be supported on a future release.To give you an understanding, Imagine i use a ddj sb2 and an sp1 I d like to be using both the main unit hardware and an accessory at the same time (no custom map anywhere).but to be able to set a different performance layer to each other.I might want the ddj-SP1 to be on Hot Cue mode and the DDj SB2 to be on the Autoloop layer.Currently they just mirror each others setting. Let me know if you can confirm that this will be possible after remapping wil be supported for accesories Cheers Nik Exactly what I was asking. Quote: I own the sz and sp1. Will I be able to have the pads on the sp1 control, say, loop roll AT THE SAME TIME that the pads on the sz control, say, hot cues? I want to do this so bad. Like SOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!! Thats my dream system at the moment. But serato said before but it doesnt work like that. They or pioneer got lazy in programming. If you switch what the pads are controller on the DDJ it also changes it on the sp1 and vice versa. Yeah, this would be great but if I remember all the Pio gear send the same signal on those performance pads from their range. I'm not sure if it lies with Pio? Either way it would be sweet. Quote: I own the sz and sp1. Will I be able to have the pads on the sp1 control, say, loop roll AT THE SAME TIME that the pads on the sz control, say, hot cues? I want to do this so bad. Like SOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!! Thats my dream system at the moment. But serato said before but it doesnt work like that. They or pioneer got lazy in programming. If you switch what the pads are controller on the DDJ it also changes it on the sp1 and vice versa. Yeah, this would be great but if I remember all the Pio gear send the same signal on those performance pads from their range. I'm not sure if it lies with Pio? Either way it would be sweet. Actually, I think the Twitch changes too. Quote: I own the sz and sp1. Will I be able to have the pads on the sp1 control, say, loop roll AT THE SAME TIME that the pads on the sz control, say, hot cues? I want to do this so bad. Like SOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!! Thats my dream system at the moment. But serato said before but it doesnt work like that. They or pioneer got lazy in programming. If you switch what the pads are controller on the DDJ it also changes it on the sp1 and vice versa. Yeah, this would be great but if I remember all the Pio gear send the same signal on those performance pads from their range. I'm not sure if it lies with Pio? Either way it would be sweet. You are probably right about that.I think they currently are on the same channel and notes.However i am sure they can change the sp1s transmission channels via firmware and add another layer.it already has an additional mode which is transmitting things differently for SL and for general mapping from day 1.i wouldn't also be surprised if there might even be another layer inside it already, that we don't know about. However regardless of the sp1 there is a bunch of other accessories to benefit from those combo options.Hopefully someone will give us an official answer Cheers Nik. Quote: Will the mixer section on Akai AMX be able to be remapped at some point? We could combine the High and Mid eq like an old scratch mixer on the mid eq knob and use the High eq knob to be a proper Gains knob (using the endless encoders only for pitch). Will this ever be an option for the AMX and remapping function on DJ? Cheers Nik The AMX is remappable so should be good to go. It's just the AFX that isn't just yet. How would you map the mid/high in software? Would you lose the high and just have EQ on the mid? Quote: Will the mixer section on Akai AMX be able to be remapped at some point? We could combine the High and Mid eq like an old scratch mixer on the mid eq knob and use the High eq knob to be a proper Gains knob (using the endless encoders only for pitch). Will this ever be an option for the AMX and remapping function on DJ? Cheers Nik The AMX is remappable so should be good to go. It's just the AFX that isn't just yet. How would you map the mid/high in software? Would you lose the high and just have EQ on the mid? You are right.i meant to map the bass and the mids together on one single knob.You wouldn't be loosing anything.you d just have a single control knob for both bass and mid.i just dont want my channel gain to be on an endless rotary encoder That said of course only if they decide to open up the eq & gain controls for mapping on the GUI midi panel.or if they provide us with the command lines for the xml. Downloading the OS X Mavericks Installer from the OS X El Capitan App Store: To be able to find the Mavericks and Yosemite installer app, you must have downloaded it at some point with the same Apple ID you are using to access the App Store. If you never previously downloaded it or installed it on a Mac, you will not find the installer available on that account. 1)- Go to the Apple menu and choose “App Store”. 2)- Click on the “Purchases” tab and log in to your Apple ID if you haven’t done so already. 3)- Scroll through the list of purchased / downloaded apps and find 'OS X Mavericks' or 'OSX Yosemite', then click the “Download” button next to its name. 4)- Re-download the OS X Mavericks or Yosemite installer from the App Store. 5)- Confirm that you want to download the installer for OS X Mavericks (10.9) or Yosemite (10.10), despite running a newer version of OS X (10.11). 6)- Confirm downloading OS X 10.9 or 10.10 from OS X 10.11. 7)- Downloading Mavericks/Yosemite from App Store. The familiar “Install OS X Mavericks” or/and “Install OS X Yosemite”app will appear in the /Applications/ folder of the Mac when it has finished downloading. At this point you can do whatever your original intention was with the installer app, whether it’s simply copying it to another older Mac to upgrade it to a newer OS (but not to El Capitan), make a bootable installer drive, format and run a clean install of the OS X 10.9/10.10, or whatever your plan was. For what it’s worth, this process works to download any other older version of the OS X installer app that is attached to your App Store account, as well as re-downloading the installers of currently active versions of OS X, including the install application for OS X Yosemite. Use the DiskMaker X to build your key for a fresh install: Good Lucky! Quote: I have been running Serato DJ with my Pioneer DDJ SR with windows 10 for weeks. This shouldn't be working? It seems to be working well.had more troubles with 8.that's why I switched. But is it odd that it is working? Just because we don't provide official support for Windows 10 doesn't mean that it wouldn't work at all. We just haven't completed official testing for this OS so can't guarantee that it will be stable and ready for performance situations. We have a lot of users on Windows 10 already with no problems:) Hopefully Windows 10 support will be available soon. Quote: I d like to be using both the main unit hardware and an accessory at the same time (no custom map anywhere).but to be able to set a different performance layer to each other.I might want the ddj-SP1 to be on Hot Cue mode and the DDj SB2 to be on the Autoloop layer.Currently they just mirror each others setting. Hey Nik sorry this won't be available with this first release of hardware user remapping. We are looking into the current limitations (which will be outlined further once the feature is available) and hopefully we can release an update further down the line that addresses issues like this:) We would love to offer further customizability of performance pad features, shift functions etc so hopefully it will come in a future update! Quote: Pleeeeeeeease!!! I am a party DJ can not use Serato DJ for my DDJ SZ after updated onto OS X EI capitan.need your help as soon as possible! We do not currently support OS X El Capitan as some compatibility issues have emerged with hardware driver connection and audio. Your best bet is to roll back your operating system to OS X Yosemite > If you are a professional DJ who requires stable software you will need to stay on a supported operating system until the issues with OS X El Capitan are ironed out - especially if you require Serato DJ to get paid! Im Using the 1.8 beta and really happy with the TTM57MKII's open midi mapping.thank you!! Is there a way to midi map the loop dial next to Loop roll button on the TTM57MKII so that it can be used to select the next or previous loop 'saved' and then just use the loop roll button to turn any loop selected on and off?.can only figure out the loop roll button to turn on and off with the (>) button next to In & Out.just wondering is there anyway to use the dial as a selection tool between 1 loop to the next loop saved.2.3.4.etc? My Dj Equipment that have Serato DJ Licenses was Rane SL2. Pioneer DDJ SR and the other one is Numark Mixtrack Pro. I used them alternate when i Djing into the Club. And sometime when I have gigs to the other or definitely invited for some Events and Festivals. Those messages that i mentioned and i send last time here in serato forum. I'm just hopping that you could fix that matter or issues. Please advice. Can you please send me a link of Serato Beta 1.8. I'm just trying to use or to mapping to my house, and know more about it. And to prove if those other messages here forum is true. To educate also the fellow Club and Mobile DJ around the globe the are using Serato DJ software. More Power Serato. No problem DJ HOUSE C, If you find any issues related to the 1.8 beta please make sure you post about your findings in the beta area. It's good to keep all 1.8 beta talk in that place so we can monitor it correctly:) I've had a look at your account and noticed you don't yet have a Pitch 'n Time DJ licence. Without this you will only be able to use the free Key Detection inside Serato DJ 1.8. If you do purchase the Pitch 'n Time DJ expansion pack you will be able to take advantage of Key Shift (moving the key of the track up or down semitones) and Key Sync (automatically matching keys). Take it easy! Great new features, specially the sync KEY feature. BUT bring back the Tempo Matching Display. BIG BIG mistake to delete it from the Horisontal view setup. Let us who use it have an option in settings to turn it on. Not all of us DJ's are playing quantised drum machine tracks or do scratch shows and therefore we rely heavily on this Tempo Matching Display. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, load a few tracks from the 70's or 80's or some latin music and do a mix that goes on for aprox 15 - 60 seconds and you'll see why the Tempo Matching Display is such a lifesaver. Quote: How do I reanalyze all songs currently added to serato? To reanalyze all songs go through steps below: 1. Select 'All' from left sidebar. Click on any song to select it. Press 'Cmd + A' to select all songs. Drag selected songs and drop them on 'Analyze Files' Button (visible only when controller is NOT connected) 5. Wait for process to finish:) There is also a button next to the 'Analyze Files' option to control Beat Gird/BPM and Key detection during analyze/reanalyzing so that you don't change existing BPM's just to add Key's to files. Quote: Is there any reason why, there is no fade into next track or some option for that. Me and many dj's in my area want this. My cd player ten years ago had this option. I'm sure its a simple thing to have. (And please don't say to mix dinner music. That is not an option for mobile dj's. I cannot dj for 10 hours, for background music) I agree I need this added to your Continuous Play. Now I have take time to log out of Serato to use iTunes auto Crossfade Song feature under their Playback options (1-12 sec option) for a continuous auto crossfade play. NOT for DJ'ing dance, but for professional background music play. EX for dinners, mood music, pre-Wedding, cocktail hour, etc. Quote: Is there any reason why, there is no fade into next track or some option for that. Me and many dj's in my area want this. My cd player ten years ago had this option. I'm sure its a simple thing to have. (And please don't say to mix dinner music. That is not an option for mobile dj's. I cannot dj for 10 hours, for background music) I agree I need this added to your Continuous Play. Now I have take time to log out of Serato to use iTunes auto Crossfade Song feature under their Playback options (1-12 sec option) for a continuous auto crossfade play. NOT for DJ'ing dance, but for professional background music play. EX for dinners, mood music, pre-Wedding, cocktail hour, etc. I do this by routing an extra mini jack to RCA cable from my Macs audio output, to a mixers dedicated channel.i preferably use Virtual djs automix for it.or itunes is fine also.I know its not what you looking for but at the cost of a single cable, its very convenient for this kind of simply playing background music, while you may be occupied doing other stuff e.g a sound check or a break to eat or anything. I just use Serato when i intend to mix.but i always do have a vdj shortcut handy and laptops output cabled to the mixer as such.for any-case.VDj loads very fast and can save you on a distress there. Till they implement what you asking for.you got no other option (unless you play a recorded session). Never had any issues using both programs like that, but still i always shut down VDj after i am done with it Cheers Nik. Still no bridge, still a CPU hog. A few bells and whistles has got a lot of people hyped for what? Pitch 'n Time DJ (rocks no complaints what so ever). Is it just me? I feel left out in the cold, bamboozled if you will. I bought Ableton live suite 8 and an APC 40 controller rocked my sets @ a few gigs. Now I have Serato DJ I'm a dinosaur already? No compatibility? No love for loyal customers? I still have my SL1 love the sound and flexibility on my SL4 will be buried with my TTM's (yes boys and girls ) Mark I & II. Considering S9 to soon to tell. Okay I'm ranting. That's my two cents.. No actually they don't. Waves don't tell you when your tempos are lined up. Especially if your using tables. If they drift it will show up right away. I was just reading another form about it. A lot of people are saying they want it back but if serato took it out just make it an option so people can decide on there own to use it or not. As for the 99.9 that's not 100 and some tracks like transition ones have different bpms. Now you can go into the beat grid and change that but that's time I don't want to waste when I could just adjust on the fly. As for the 99.9 that's not 100 and some tracks like transition ones have different bpms. SDJ has an option for 2 decimal places in the BPM display which is one of the reasons the tempo match display was removed. I fail to see how adding two decimals would be a reason to remove the tempo display. The two decimals do not show up when using turntables and it actually makes it worse. I always go back to ssl bc of that. The tempo display actually helps if you hear something is off and need to make that quick adjustment while loading another track plus doing a long mix over three tracks. All I'm saying is there are some people that never use it and I hear you. I glance at it here and there and I didn't notice it till I used 1.8 at a wedding where a tracks bpm was off and I heard it and wanted to make the quick adjustment while talking to someone so the visual would have been nice. During dinner I deleted 1.8 and went back to 1.7.8. I do like the key shifts but it's not ready to play out yet. Tracks freezing and speed ups jumps as well as audio cut outs. I just annoyed they took out something that is useful to myself and many others. Not everyone but there are enough that they could place it in as an option. Quote: Hey guys As Serato DJ 1.8 is now out the door, it's probably best to put any feedback you have on tempo matching in the feature suggestion area. The products team keep an eye on this area and are always keen to gather feedback. Luis.S has started a thread on this feature already; so it would be as good a place as any to to say your piece. Thanks, Aaron Feature suggestion for something that Serato removed. This is not like we are asking for a new feature. Just put the Tempo Matching Thingy back. The normal way to do stuff is to conduct a transparent poll before removing essential features. I'm on 1.7.8 I don't use '4 decks' I don't use 'sync on load' I don't use the '2 decimal points' I don't use 'Key Matching' I don't use so many features in Serato that were added on post the Scratch Live Era, but i ve never complained or ask why such features were added. Its like Serato wants every one to DJ the same way. Peoples work flow are different. Some Beat-match by ear, others use sync, others the wave whilst i use a combo of everything including Tempo Matching Display. Some comments here mentioned about how its 'good riddance' 'and they have more real estate' etc, can i ask what you want Serato to put in that tiny space vacated? Quote: Hey guys As Serato DJ 1.8 is now out the door, it's probably best to put any feedback you have on tempo matching in the feature suggestion area. The products team keep an eye on this area and are always keen to gather feedback. Luis.S has started a thread on this feature already; so it would be as good a place as any to to say your piece. Thanks, Aaron I agree to 100% to all Feature suggestion for something that Serato removed. This is not like we are asking for a new feature. Just put the Tempo Matching Thingy back. The normal way to do stuff is to conduct a transparent poll before removing essential features. I'm on 1.7.8 I don't use '4 decks' I don't use 'sync on load' I don't use the '2 decimal points' I don't use 'Key Matching' I don't use so many features in Serato that were added on post the Scratch Live Era, but i ve never complained or ask why such features were added. Its like Serato wants every one to DJ the same way. Peoples work flow are different. Some Beat-match by ear, others use sync, others the wave whilst i use a combo of everything including Tempo Matching Display. Some comments here mentioned about how its 'good riddance' 'and they have more real estate' etc, can i ask what you want Serato to put in that tiny space vacated? Quote: Hey guys As Serato DJ 1.8 is now out the door, it's probably best to put any feedback you have on tempo matching in the feature suggestion area. The products team keep an eye on this area and are always keen to gather feedback. Luis.S has started a thread on this feature already; so it would be as good a place as any to to say your piece. Thanks, Aaron Feature suggestion for something that Serato removed. This is not like we are asking for a new feature. Just put the Tempo Matching Thingy back. The normal way to do stuff is to conduct a transparent poll before removing essential features. I'm on 1.7.8 I don't use '4 decks' I don't use 'sync on load' I don't use the '2 decimal points' I don't use 'Key Matching' I don't use so many features in Serato that were added on post the Scratch Live Era, but i ve never complained or ask why such features were added. Its like Serato wants every one to DJ the same way. Peoples work flow are different. Some Beat-match by ear, others use sync, others the wave whilst i use a combo of everything including Tempo Matching Display. Some comments here mentioned about how its 'good riddance' 'and they have more real estate' etc, can i ask what you want Serato to put in that tiny space vacated? I agree too 100% to all. I am getting rather annoyed with these posts, I started DJing 20 years ago on two belt drive decks and a bad mixer, after a few years I bought 2 1210's and a pioneer mixer and my DJing was so much better, then played out for years. 5 years ago I took the step into Digital DJing and after a lot of research found that Serato Live was the closest thing I could find to be like playing on real decks. The 1.8 version of DJ is absolutely awesome, I don't need wave forms, just my ears, but the instant way this works is so much like playing on real decks, if you can't beat match or key match with your ears, then get a grip and love these people for giving us this, rant over! Quote: I am getting rather annoyed with these posts, I started DJing 20 years ago on two belt drive decks and a bad mixer, after a few years I bought 2 1210's and a pioneer mixer and my DJing was so much better, then played out for years. 5 years ago I took the step into Digital DJing and after a lot of research found that Serato Live was the closest thing I could find to be like playing on real decks. The 1.8 version of DJ is absolutely awesome, I don't need wave forms, just my ears, but the instant way this works is so much like playing on real decks, if you can't beat match or key match with your ears, then get a grip and love these people for giving us this, rant over! Since this doesn't affect you in anyway you should be happy and there is no need for the 'rant' ? Just be happy that Serato DJ as it is now is the way you want it to be until they remove something that is important to you. Maybe the +/- pitch bending button is the next thing on the way out as there is a pitch slider and most people have jog wheels to nudge yeah. It's about workflow. This is not a toy, people earn a living using this software solution. I used the 1.8 extensively to see if I'm actually overreacting, but it just ain't right for me without the Tempo thing. It's a professional software for professionals and amateurs and I believe the opinions of the loyal customers should be sought before removing what's already present. I don't mind the incessant addition of new features which I may or may not use, but to remove what many are used to is bordering on a paternalistic approach by Serato. A suggestion is that Serato should have polls of new features being considered and old features they are looking at axing. I will be okay if they make it an option. Quote: It will be compatible with OS X El Capitan? No this release will not officially support Mac OS X El Capitan. We're currently working together with our hardware partners to investigate the connection and audio issues being reported so these can be resolved for another upcoming Serato DJ release. When, How Long, Waiting time????? Expect 6 months. It should be way less but OS updates should never be done as soon as they come out. It takes time for Apple and software company's to work out all the compatibility issues. Hello I haven't analyzed my tracks with serato dj but i can see keys as if it is already analyzed (until today i used Mixed in Key). That means Serato DJ new key option detect the keys from another analyzer softwares? And aslo, that if i dont want to deletet this metadatadas i don't have to selct the Set Key option in Analysis Settings? I am correct? Nice uptadate but also think about these easy features: - authomatic fade in/out (useful when you just play an authomatic playlist) - erase the blue mark color of a track played (not all the library, just selected tracks), - panoramic audio option. Quote: Hello I haven't analyzed my tracks with serato dj but i can see keys as if it is already analyzed (until today i used Mixed in Key). That means Serato DJ new key option detect the keys from another analyzer softwares? And aslo, that if i dont want to deletet this metadatadas i don't have to selct the Set Key option in Analysis Settings? I am correct? You can view the original tags for the files that were analyzed with MIK by going to the Setup menu, then Library + Display, then the box that says Show Key As. Select Original Tag. To answer your second question, yes. Quote: the new update 1.8 for serato dj is flawed its not smooth theres lots of glitches. Why would serato release an update thats not ready? My mac exceeds all the minimum requirements needed. But this update can't be used with confidence. When will 1.8 be ready for full use? Hi dj-fozzy, are you having an issue with audio drop outs or just visual glitches/slow graphics performance? There is a known issue with the waveforms stuttering a little more on some higher spec Mac computers and hardware configurations. We are looking into this and hopefully can equal out graphics performance across all configurations in an future update. If you are having audio issues please contact our Support Team and we will try to see what is causing the problem. Quote: Hello I haven't analyzed my tracks with serato dj but i can see keys as if it is already analyzed (until today i used Mixed in Key). That means Serato DJ new key option detect the keys from another analyzer softwares? And aslo, that if i dont want to deletet this metadatadas i don't have to selct the Set Key option in Analysis Settings? Hi DJ Surda, yes Serato DJ can see Key tags written by other software (Mixed In Key). You can change the key display options in the SETUP screen of Serato DJ. If you choose 'Original Tag', it will only show the tag that was on the song file before Serato DJ analyzed it. Hope this helps! If you do use Mixed In Key to get your songs key, make sure you deselect the 'Set Key' option in the Analysis Settings menu before analysing with Serato DJ - otherwise your key tag will be rewritten. Review: Serato DJ 1.8 With 1.8 only just becoming public a few weeks ago, this is easily the newest key detection algorithm in the industry. We were impressed at a strong initial showing from Serato in this roundup. With the addition of the Pitch’n’Time DJ key shifting in 1.8, Serato have a major win for harmonic mixing DJs on their hands. Major/Minor Triad Test: 67% – eight incorrect. # of correct tracks (vs human volunteer consensus): 46 (70% correct) # of Major / Minor misreads: Only 1 – this doesn’t seem to be an issue for Serato DJ. Scott it does stutter for every track the sound drops also and serato video don't work as well. Every time i try to use serato video the 3 small displays in the center is completely blank. There is absolutely no type of video only a empty space. I completely removed serato dj 1.8 from my mac and I'm curently using 1.7.8 until a permeant fix is released. Also since scratch live is still more reliable and stable then serato dj will it still be available with el captain? If not theres no point of updating my machine. Hi dj-fozzy, we are currently working on El Capitan support, but you are having any issues with 1.8 and a supported operating system I suggest you get in touch with Support as they will be able to help troubleshoot your issue! If you have blank menus in Serato Video, you might need to remove your Serato Video preference files in Macintosh HD > System > Library > Extensions. Remove any Serato Video related.kext files. Then restart your computer and reinstall Serato DJ again - this should reinstall the.kext files again and might resolve your issue. Hope this helps! Quote: hi, Usually I arrange by 3 methods, bpm, name & number of tracks, depends on music genre or the latest downloaded. BUT since i've installed the 1.8 i've a problem with arranging my tracks in the library crates, i only can arrange them by 1 way either by bpm, or name, or tracks number!!!! Any solution that can help me to arrange my crates as it used to be b4???? Are you talking about having the ability to do a 'secondary sort' i.e. Sort by BPM, then have the BPM sort remain while sorting by key etc? If so, I'm afraid we have never had this functionality in our library system. It's a really cool idea and something we would like to bring in though. Quote: Has Anybody had any problems with the RIGHT DECK 'Speeding Up' on its ownafter they UPGRADED to the 1.8.0 version using the Denon MC-2000? And also, when are you guys gonna 'ALLOW' us dj's the ability to be able to record your 'MIC INPUT' while i record my set? Definitely open a help request with the support team about the 'speeding up' if you haven't already. You can get in touch here: Being able to record the MIC input is hardware dependent and due to the mix architecture of the MC2000, recording the MIC is not possible. Your best bet would be to run the master out to your laptop and record using a third party app like audacity. Check this article for how to get it done. Quote: hi, Usually I arrange by 3 methods, bpm, name & number of tracks, depends on music genre or the latest downloaded. BUT since i've installed the 1.8 i've a problem with arranging my tracks in the library crates, i only can arrange them by 1 way either by bpm, or name, or tracks number!!!! Any solution that can help me to arrange my crates as it used to be b4???? Actually i am an open format dj so for my hip hop crates i arrange them by bpm but for the house tracks i arrange them in alphabet order from A to Z,,, once i installed the 1.8 when i arrange by bpm i see all the crates automatically are arranged in bpm, same thing when i arrange with alphabet, i see all the crates are arranged the same. Is there a solution to arrange each crate as i want, either by key, bpm, or alphabet???? Thank you Are you talking about having the ability to do a 'secondary sort' i.e. Sort by BPM, then have the BPM sort remain while sorting by key etc? If so, I'm afraid we have never had this functionality in our library system. It's a really cool idea and something we would like to bring in though. Quote: Has Anybody had any problems with the RIGHT DECK 'Speeding Up' on its ownafter they UPGRADED to the 1.8.0 version using the Denon MC-2000? And also, when are you guys gonna 'ALLOW' us dj's the ability to be able to record your 'MIC INPUT' while i record my set? Definitely open a help request with the support team about the 'speeding up' if you haven't already. You can get in touch here: Being able to record the MIC input is hardware dependent and due to the mix architecture of the MC2000, recording the MIC is not possible. Your best bet would be to run the master out to your laptop and record using a third party app like audacity. Check this article for how to get it done. Quote: actually i am an open format dj so for my hip hop crates i arrange them by bpm but for the house tracks i arrange them in alphabet order from A to Z,,, once i installed the 1.8 when i arrange by bpm i see all the crates automatically are arranged in bpm, same thing when i arrange with alphabet, i see all the crates are arranged the same. Is there a solution to arrange each crate as i want, either by key, bpm, or alphabet???? To get this done, you just need to go into Setup > Library + Display and select 'Custom Crate Columns'. This will allow you to have different sorting preferences for different crates. I'm not sure why this changed for you when you installed SDJ 1.8 - your preferences file must have been reset somehow. Cheers, Aaron. Thumps up to this key detection feature, goodbye Mixed In Key. KEY DETECTION ON MP4 files would be greatly appreciated. DJing is advancing and VJing is becoming more and more popular. My whole music library is turning into mp4 coz am adding custom visuals to tracks and the link feature does not sync video sequence to the music accurately, so pre rendered mp4 files are the best to maintain video sync and stability while scratching videos. Serato, give us key detection on mp4 files or better yet on all file types that play in Serato DJ. Hello All, Class compliant Numark DJ controllers should have no issue connecting to Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and are supported. As a reminder, we do not recommend updating to OS X 10.11 El Capitan until your Numark product is listed as compatible from this article - As for our older Numark products that require a driver download, Numark is currently testing out the latest El Capitan drivers for your Numark controllers. Now that all that current Numark products are supported, NS6 support is currently our top priority then followed closely by the NS7, 4TRAK and V7, based most importantly on the number of users out there. We're currently active in our third round of testing. As always, as soon as the driver is ready, we will post the driver on the appropriate product pages. I'm so happy and very proud to be with Serato DJ for many years. Many has subject to chance for many reasons. Us un update. Last week my cousin gave me a Numark M6 USB 4 channel Mixer as a gift for my birthday. I was wondering and I know that the hardware that i mentioned are not supported with our serato dj software. I just wanna used it for my gigs, in my club or maybe on the out side bookings. I hope you guys that it can maybe or you can discuss it with our support team. And advance Happy New Year!;). Quote: im a beginner, i have a Numark mixtrack pro it works great with the Serato DJ intro and i wanted to try the Serato DJ 1.8 and everything work except the headphone i can hear the song that is playing but not the second song that i want to mix in??? Hello DJ Oli, Thanks for the post! We can certainly help you out! If you can headphone cue properly in Serato DJ Intro, you can headphone cue in Serato DJ. That wouldn't change. Are you using the 1st generation Mixtrack Pro? If so, to properly headphone cue with the Mixtrack Pro, you'll need to connect powered speakers to your RCA Master Output. Make sure you're hitting the CUE button on the deck that you wish to hear in your headphones. Turn your CUE MIX knob all the way to the left. If you are using a Windows computer and your hardware doesn't connect then you should: 1. Close all applications 2. Navigate to Start Menu> Control Panel > Sound 3. Select your computer's internal soundcard or speakers as the default Playback device 4. Select your computer's internal soundcard or microphone as the default Recording device 5. Check the Communications tab to see if you need to set the internal soundcard as the default device. (this is not always necessary, as with some Windows versions there is no option to set a device in this tab) 6. 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It’s the critical process than manages password changes and authentication. The fact that the password is encrypted doesn’t really mean anything when you realize it’s implementation depends on two basic Win32 functions: • (The encryption function) • (The decryption function) There’s a hole in the implementation that makes it easy for someone to steal the encrypted passwords from memory and use the LsaUnprotectMemory function to decrypt and display the password in plaintext. The disquieting part is the entire exploit took me less than 5 minutes to pull off. This is how I did it. Poaching Passwords Go to and download the latest mimikatz binary. The blog is in French but it’s pretty obvious where the binary lives. Plus, this might be a good opportunity for you to learn a new language. So don’t complain – French is the sexiest language on earth so learning this will probably get you a hot wife. Download, extract and execute the file: mimikatz.exe Now we need to use PowerShell to dump the contents of memory related to LSASS.exe – but we can’t do that because Windows has no default Cmdlet for pulling this off. Oh what to do? Import Matthew Graeber’s from Github. Peruse the code by clicking the link so you get a basic understanding about what it does. The first thing you should do is analyze the PS1 file in detail. The file is littered with comments to make it easier to understand. I just want you to see why this works rather then just telling you how it works. Read and proceed. After you get an idea about what happening, right click the link, choose Save link as from the context menu and make sure you save it with the PS1 File (.ps1) file extension. It won’t work if you save it as a.txt file. Okay, now we need to import the script into Powershell so we can do our memory dump dance. Open PowerShell as an Administrator by pressing the Windows Logo Key + q and typing: powershell Since PowerShell scripts can completely nuke your system, Windows sagaciously disables such scripts by default. To change this, we need to temporarily set the Execution Policy to Unrestricted. By the way, after running the script you should change the execution policy back to Restricted. Type: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Then import the script by typing a dot followed by the path to your PS1.. C: Users vhudson Documents Scripts PowerShell Out-Minidump.ps1 In geek speak this is known as “Dot Sourcing” the script and it’s one way to import functions into PowerShell. You’ll see a fusillade of security warnings – which is good. But that’s why I told you to examine the script first. Never wantonly execute a scripts that you find online. Always investigate the code first so you can have some idea what it does. Press “r” to run the script and then perform the memory dump: Get-Process lsass| Out-Minidump The dump is hanging out in%WINDIR%System32 but we need to move it to a different location so we can view it. Use the Copy-Item Cmdlet to do that. Lsass_516.dmp C: Users Vonnie Documents Scripts PowerShell Great now we’re ready to rock. Flip back over to the mimikatz terminal and load in the LSASS dump we captured in PowerShell. Sekurlsa::minidump C: Users Vonnie Documents Scripts PowerShell lsass_516.dmp It should switch to the MINIDUMP file so now we can view the passwords Now punch in: sekurlsa::logonPasswords full Ladies and Gentlemen what you have before your eyes is my actual Microsoft account password. (the username is just two lines up). In plaintext. Vulnerable and exposed. 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She not even trying to help the situation. I replied to her in the email they gave me. Only one month reimbursement because they didn't have the proof that they took my money. She has no clue and is no help. If you talk or get an email from her you might as well call and talk to someone else. I told her 1 complimentary month does not make up for what they took from me. I will also be filing a complaint with the BBB. Do not put your credit card on their site. It's best to buy off amazon. It should be all this to get back money or reimbursement for something they took without your knowledge. That's called stealing especially if your telling customers there is nothing you can do. BEWARE OF THE XBOX SITE. I called to cancel XBOX Live and amount was deducted anyway, that was in May, seven calls, three supervisors and two and a half months later still no refund. They keeping reading from a script: must be banks fault and to file claims through my bank. Although bank shows no record or info regarding refund. Last month, took ANOTHER 59.99 out and say the refund is coming but no sign of it nor does my bank see it. Four calls later, still nothing and they say same thing, must be a bank issue, they cannot help and contact bank. No one help, they keep the refund and cancel Xbox Live. My kids are each selling their Xboxs out of principle because we will NOT support a company that conducts business like this and KEEPS the money. I too will be joining the class action! I phoned and their rep was really great, she even transferred me to the billing department. The rep said, back in May he was charged, then he was charged again and it was declined. So, they were billing him again today for that declined charged. I argued with the rep and told her that you cannot bill a card that was declined. Declined means no money. He got some money in the bank yesterday, then Xbox charged him. They won't allow you to remove your debit card so you can cancel your account. You have to pay another $9.99 to cancel your card. Which is unethical, IMO. I will be filling a complaint with the BBB and demanding that they fix their billing system. It's wrong!!! Do NOT use your debit card for an XBox Live subscription. The console itself is fine, just don't use the debit card to purchase your subscription. Use the game cards, if they offer them via Gamestop or whatever game store you have. Or wherever you can purchase game cards,. Please do not use your debit cards for XBox subscription. I would like to also note, the one rep that I spoke to was very rude. Wish I could get a job like that, get paid good money, to talk nasty to customers and get away with it. No right to charge me without my agreement. My friend brought Xbox 360 to my kids, but it caused us a lot of headache! Since last year around June until now, I had been charge from XBox 360 over $250 without our knowing. It records down our card information when I buy Xbox product for my son. Then it used my cards information to keeps on charging us. That is totally wrong and make me so upset. We already have finance problem. We are busy in work, no time to check our bank account that often. When we found out so late, they might be overdraw from our account already! I have to complain somewhere else about what your company do. And I will think to stop using Xbox game and products too. Hope that they stop doing it to all their customers. I've been an Xbox gold holder for many years. Cheaters, glitches, I complained a couple times. Recently my communication privilege was suspended for one week. Due to hearsay. I was told by message that I made a racist remark online. THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE. I was playing Tanks with a few friends. There were NO racial slurs or hate speech from anyone. I sent a message to administer for help. I found a phone # called. Waited a while. Explaining what was going on. Was I hacked? They have records? Where was the complaint from the time etc? The rep could not answer Because there was NO slurs. Was this a spiteful twist from an opponent? All I asked is that this be looked into. They could not be bothered. I needed to contact xbox because my live account would not renew so I tried contacting through their site and that didn't work so I called them and the callback would be 20-35 mins. I got a call back about an hour and a half later. The mechanic voice told me to press 1 to speak to a representative and 2 to speak to the specific member. Neither button worked and kept telling me it was invalid and got to attempt 3 and hung up on me. They called me back again and it did the same thing. I pressed every single button on the phone but still nothing worked. Really not happy at all with the customer support because I can't even speak to anyone. Been trying for 30 days on and off now so I give up on xbox. You lost a customer. I called them and told them that I have noticed repeated transaction for large amounts in consecutive days and now that my checking account is in the whole by well over $300.00. My son doesn't make transactions without my notification and 2 he has to have a verification code in order to do anything. Since January of 2015 I have had well over $800.00 taken out of my account and they say it is coming from his device. Saying someone must be coming over and getting things and charging it to my account. On 6/16/2015, someone tried to download assassin's creed 6 times!!!! But they say my son is the one doing all of this, yet he wasn't home on that day at all!!! These people refuse to compromise and do anything about the last money because they say his account has not been comprised, apparently they don't know how good hackers are and can get into the account and take any information they want then use it. And it go to their account that they are hacking and can't be traced!! I'm a single mother raising 2 kids living on social security because I can't work a job due to numerous head injuries. What kind of jackwagons are these people?? They love to take money but by golly they refuse to not give it back and will find anyway they can not to give the money back!!! Microsoft sucks and they can kiss my white American butt!!!! My Son constantly encounters hackers, cheaters, & inappropriate user generated content while using Xbox live on his Xbox 360. Watch the following video on YouTube for an example of an actual hacker playing COD Ghosts: 'COD Ghosts 'Dumbest hacker ever' exposed!!! Cheater Trolling.' In this video someone recorded a hacker & posted it on YouTube. This type of hacking is illegal in the United States, yet it happens on a regular basis. Users also use cheat glitches, etc to cheat, & there are websites & YouTube videos that teach users these methods of cheating. Xbox live is also loaded with inappropriate gamertags & user generated content (images, etc) like the calling cards in COD Black Ops 2; there are hundreds if not thousands of gamertags, calling cards, etc that are sexual,or promote illegal drug use, or the use of alcohol, as well as some that are intended to insult anyone who sees them with insulting or offensive words or phrases. We are constantly reporting these things on Xbox live. On 5/22/15 at approximately 8:07 EST my son was suspended from using Xbox live. The reason given was for abusing the complaint system, & the duration of the suspension is stated as being 24 Hours. I'm especially offended by this because if Xbox enforcement was doing their jobs then complaints wouldn't need to be submitted in the first place. To make it worse, the suspension began on 5/22/15 at 8:07 pm EST, yet the Xbox live enforcement staff dated the suspension into the future, saying that the suspension is for 24 hrs, from 5/23/15 12:05 am - 5/24/15 12:05 am! This just rubs salt in the wound. So my son has been suspended for filing complaints for reasons described above. I also noticed that our Xbox live memberships always expire 2 days prior to the expiration date, for example if it's a 90 day gold membership it expires on the 88th day. Finally, today, we got it back! My kids were so excited! We plug it in, start the setup, and a zap comes out of the console! It completely shuts down on us! I decided to try it a second time. The second time gave us a different sound, but the same result. It turned off again on its own. I looked up the warranty, and noticed that it had the option to request a refund. I called Xbox customer service, and after being hung up on, finally got a woman that tried to help me. After an hour and a half, I was told to either send it BACK to them again for a repair, or nothing at all. Even though I already played by their rules, and even though they FURTHER damaged my sons system, and even though I now have a possible fire hazard on my hands, I was told in exact words 'it ain't happening'. I have always been a loyal Microsoft buyer. I will never again purchase another thing from this company. Absolutely no responsibility taken on their part. I purchased Xbox One from States and brought to Doha, Qatar. Me used to play one game that came along with Xbox One. Later, I purchased a new game and when I installed the device, went on setting up online and till now the Green Screen is not there. System is halt. I went Xbox One website and tried their given solutions to reboot but unfortunately it is same. I am really upset with this problem and Xbox One is useless. Even the warranty does not cover other countries. I am not happy with Xbox One. To top it off I can't play multiplayer in any game for a few bad reports in the last month in 1 of my 40 games. This is pathetic and chat agents refer you to an 'enforcement team' made up of fellow gamers (ya they can be trusted pfft) who don't even respond to my countless inquiries regarding the flawed system. Again, no accountability, no fix, no customer support and the run around from every dept. I talk to Chat center, 'talk to Xbox support', Xbox support, 'talk to enforcement team', enforcement team, 'can ignore and delete whatever post for whatever reason they want even if it doesn't violate the TOS' (obviously because my post is legit and doesn't violate their TOS). What MS is doing to paying customers is WRONG on so many levels, avoid this company like the plague. Now I have to go through the process of selling all this junk hardware (2 Xbox ones) and switching over to PSN because they have got to treat their customers better than this. This is unimaginable, the kind of customer support set in place for this big of a company. The call agents will literally get mad at you and talk to you in a belittled tone when you try to get ahold of someone from enforcement team over the phone. Pathetic with a capital P! I bought a Brand New Limited Edition, COD Xbox One for my kid's big Christmas gift. I hooked it up and the system would not boot. I called support, I took into Microsoft Store as well. I was forced to mail it in under warranty repair service. I left the protective clear plastic in place on the pristine collector's item and mailed it off. When I finally received a replacement it was not the same console! The one they sent back to me was used, very scratched and had sticky food residue on the front! I expected a new console as that is what I was told I would get. I sent them a brand new $550 dollar console to begin with! I called and complained obviously. I started a new service request and sent it back with a letter explaining the situation. And that I would like the very first one I sent to be repaired and sent back to me in the same condition I sent it to them in. They just wiped off the sticky stuff and mailed it back! I called support again who told me 'that's how it is.' I asked them why Microsoft didn't manufacture extra Limited Edition Consoles that were reserved for warranty situations like this? He said 'I have no clue because that makes perfect sense.' We hike on the phone with support, I plug this awful replacement in and discover that it will not wirelessly sync the wireless controllers! If I am being robbed of my brand new console and being sent one refurbished, second hand console then the thing should at least function properly! I am switching to PlayStation 4. I am done with Microsoft. On xbox servers, is it xbox live or game servers? I've been playing video games for years without many issues on gaming console lockups; that is until recently. I began playing the plagued with issues Gears of War 3. Those of us that play the GOW games know that they're notorious for resetting gamer data and for locking up repeatedly. We have contacted Epic Games and xbox live about these issues to no avail. Here is my story on the subject; as I've found that this issue is not only affecting Gears of War 3, but also many other 360 games (left for dead it's a given that you will be booted/locked up and have to eject your disc and reload the game losing all of your work), and with destiny (although it's a rarity and also happens on the PS system as well). I thought perhaps the issue might be my hard drive for the xbox 360 due to the massive amounts of data that I had stored (250gb hard drive, 56gb free). I bought a new xbox with a 500gb hard drive, brought it home and set it up and moved all of my Gears of War 3 data to the new hard drive; except for the updates and the (unknown player) data. I began playing hoping that would solve the issue but no; once again I locked up as per the norm. I checked the Epic online forums, this issue has been happening since 2011, at the games release. I tried calling Epic Games, but they no longer give support for Gears of War. The option they gave was to phone xbox live. I called, the tech had me go through the usual, redownload my profile, reset my modem/router, clear the cache, do the left/right bumper X trick 3 times combo 'fix', etc., etc. I was told to try playing it again after all of the work and they would call me in a couple of days to find the result. Again, gears locked up after a few rousing games, and also locked up in beast mode (which is not normal, it's usually horde that locks). I began asking people about their issues with not only gears but with other games as well and found that across the board, this is an issue with pretty much all multiplayer games for the 360 console (I haven't had any issues myself except with gears and gtav; but I'm not a big multiplayer gamer). I began taking notes on other peoples issues; who their ISP's were, what types of routers/modems they were using, what games they were having issues with on which maps and at what points they were having the issues. What I began noticing was that this was not a user issue, but a game server or xbox live server issue. Xbox live did call me back, we spoke for hours and I gave them my 4 full pages of data that I had learned from 4 hours playing online (I spoke with friends and random people; all had something to say about the issue at hand, many of them detailed). The tech spoke with their superior and the superior stated that it was my connection (wireless), ordered me to wire my connection directly to the modem and use a flashdrive. I am to be called back after doing this in the next 5 days. For this I had to purchase an ethernet cable, and a sandisc 'official' xbox 360 16gb flashdrive (I tried the regular flashdrive and configured it on the xbox; with the error message that it did not meet xbox's requirements so in order to be in compliance I bought the sandisc xbox model). (Sidenote on this: I contacted sandisc about these models asking what the differences were, but tech support was unable to give me the information on the differences, and when I say 'in compliance' I really mean give them no room for excuses.) Again I played (directly hooked up to my modem via ethernet cable, and with that xbox official sandisc flashdrive) and again I locked up in horde and beast. We all knew that I would. Today it's going to be left 4 dead that I will get locked out of as I intend fully on checking other known to lock games (and the not known to lock ones such as gearbox's borderlands). So here's the problem that we all have with xbox's corporate. I'm sure a fair number of people have called xbox personally (I know of many that have) to detail their experiences dealing with this issue; and perhaps in some cases many times, and all of us with the same result. We get sent to a lower tier tech who cannot escalate the ticket without going through extended rigmarole. In my case I was willing to go the extra mile so this issue is finally properly addressed. I was given well wishes (i.e. 'good luck on that!' From many people. They've been through this long before me and know how xbox will respond). Now to xbox: there is an issue with either your servers, or the gaming servers that apparently a lot of companies are following. Is it a line of code that they are all using that is dysfunctional? Is it that your servers are outdated or contain too much data to handle? Is it that the gaming companies servers are? Is it that you are trying to stop support for the xbox 360 (that's my guess); but not informing the public of it so we are stuck playing broken games before we submit and buy the next gen console? The non-backwards compatible xbox one (that I have not bought due to that very problem). I would be satisfied with an answer to these questions and I say to xbox and the gaming companies that if you are not going to support anymore 360 games, it would be prudent of you to inform the public of it. I also say to you (and for the millions of gamers out there) Please Fix This Issue! I placed an order for an XBox One on Saturday for a birthday on Friday. On Monday morning, I realized that without having paid for upgraded shipping it was not going to get here on time. A quick check of their FAQs said to call customer service to cancel an item that had not yet been shipped. I called and got a customer service rep who seemed to have an attitude from the get go. I told him I was calling to check the status of an order, because I wanted to cancel if it had not yet been shipped. He made me repeat myself three times, saying he didn't understand what I was asking. His tone of voice while doing so made it clear I was just bothering him. He did check the status of my order and it showed it hadn't been released to ship. More than once, he said he didn't know why it hadn't been released yet, and he couldn't find out. I asked again to cancel it. He said that option was not available, but if I called back in a couple of days, maybe they could cancel it for me. I asked, in as many different ways as I could think of, did that mean my order wasn't going to ship for at least 2 more days? Trying to get him to understand what I was asking was painful, and I don't think he ever did. He just kept repeating himself. I said I wanted to speak with someone who had more information, or would be more able to get something done. He put me on old for a few minutes and when he came back on, his attitude was even worse. He said he had been 'conferring with (his) supervisor.' Putting aside whether or not I even believe that, he snippily informed me that they were well within the described the time frame for shipping and nothing was late. I never once complained about my item not having shipped yet. That was the point. I knew it hadn't shipped yet and so I wanted to try and cancel it. He kept saying that they couldn't cancel it now, but I could call back in 'a couple of days' and 'maybe' they could cancel it then. I told him that didn't make any sense at all, informed him I would never order from the Microsoft store again, sarcastically thanked him for his help and ended the call. I think the extreme frustration of feeling like he never even understood exactly what I was asking combined with his tone of voice in speaking to me led to the angry me. I'm not happy with that, but this man was impossible to deal with. I am a gamer. I enjoy it as a hobby/pass time. I have been a Microsoft customer for years using their product the Xbox 360. The Microsoft's Xbox division has a notorious history for being rather greedy and unreliable when it comes to their customers. I had not really experienced anything like this until recently. My second Xbox 360 was purchased at a pawn shop used. It had worked for many years until it started to overheat. When it became too unstable I decided to purchase a used slim model off of eBay. When it came in I wanted to transfer all of my previously downloaded content over to my new Xbox 360. I decided to activate my license transfer and download it all onto my new console. A few days later when some of my games were fully downloaded my brother wanted to play A Kingdom for Keflings. He had played it previously on my previous Xbox. When he began to play it it was a trial version. I decided to try playing on my account and it was the full version. Confused and slightly aggravated I went to Xbox 360's customer support site and got on a chat with an agent. I explained the problem and he answered about five minutes later, 'Devin, I believe I understand what happened here.' From this context I believe this is a common problem. He then explained it was because I did not have the license to let all the players on my console play it like I previously did. So basically even if I had purchased any digital property with real currency and downloaded it if I wanted it to be on another console my ownership of the purchased property is limited. I asked if there was any solution and he said that all I could do is purchase it again. This made me absolutely livid. The only reason I wanted to do a license transfer in the first place is so I would not have to purchase the game again. At this point I started to question him and all I got was passive aggressiveness. In short it's just Microsoft being greedy and unfair to their customers. The worst part about this is that I have purchased many, many downloadable content from Xbox Live and now not only am I stripped of full ownership of my purchased content but also I feel as if I cannot trust any type of virtual purchases. I have a 14 year old foster son who took my credit card and input it into Xbox 360 without my permission. Once I saw my statement I contacted them and was told they would remove the card and refund my money. 3 times this account has been reactivated with thus card. Now they are saying because the account is in the 14 year old's name they can't discuss it with me until they get his pass code and the email associated with it. He made up the email acct. So we can't access it. I have now spent 5 hours trying to get my money back and still nothing. I tried to get a phone number for corporate but it's all robo and no way to connect to anyone. I am so frustrated and angry. They find this acct. Every month to charge MY card but they can't refund the money or talk to me. There has to be something illegal about this. I am so frustrated with Xbox One. I've never been able to enjoy the experience of Xbox Live. We have paid for two annual subscriptions at the household costing £80 and we have never had a stable connection. Keep getting kick from games and joining empty lobbies. I have fiber optic broadband and have had Virgin Media round to investigate, but this does not seem to relate to the broadband service provider as it only loses connection on the console. Fed up now to the point I don't even bother to switch on the console. Feel ripped off as I have paid for a service twice and been unable to use Xbox Live 90% of the time. Thinking of getting a PS4, but shouldn't have to. Can't see Microsoft taking my complaint seriously. I have been going back and forth with Xbox for two weeks via phone and email!! I let my grandson use my card to purchase a game and started noticing several charges that he did not put on my card!! I called my bank, explained this, they filed a complaint and Xbox claimed because I let him use my card in the past they wouldn't take charges off!!! I called Xbox, was assured that all 50 charges would be credited to my bank. Now I am getting the runaround!! The person I first spoke with isn't there anymore and two supervisors later still no resolve!! Does anyone have a suggestion or have had this problem??? I will go to my bank again tomorrow. Hope they can help. Basically brought the day one edition Xbox one console on launch day. After 3 months, the left thumb stick fad shattered on the day, one controller plus in this time the controller kept randomly disconnecting and becoming unresponsive when I switched controller back on. Thought the thumb stick was my fault so went out and brought a new controller. This new controller also kept randomly disconnecting and becoming unresponsive, then a week after, the headset I got with the console stopped working. So I went out and brought a Stereo headset, after about 3 months this head set stopped working, I could hear people through it but no one could hear me, I checked all my privacy settings, this weren't the problem, again I thought it was something I'd done. So I went out and brought a new stereo headset, this was the third headset I've own. The controller still kept disconnecting and became very regularly, every tens minutes or so, so about two weeks ago I couldn't put up with this controller anymore, so went out and brought a third controller. Got it home and the same thing happened with this brand new controller. So I contacted Xbox support, they told me to master reset console, that didn't changed any thing, then they told me clear my MAC address, this helped but I have to clear MAC address every time I turn console on. Then in a space of a few days the third head set stopped working, same issues as previous head set. Again I contacted Xbox support and they weren't really listening to what I was saying, just kept going on about the controller. Anyway, I said this must be an issue with the console, so they agreed to send me a replacement console and that I had to send them my current console within 14 days, they said they would 281 dollars (around 185) of my money if they didn't receive my console in that time space. I agreed with this as it was a verbal agreement and they say said I'd receive a confirmation email about this, I didn't so the next day I checked my Xbox service account, and they had cancelled the order without telling me why. I contacted Xbox support straight away. Told me they didn't know why it was cancelled and that they don't really like replacing consoles as it sounds like I have faulty accessories. Now their idea is me to test my accessories on a friends console, but the thing is my warranty for the console runs out in 4 days. I'm really not happy with the way Xbox support have treated me, I've been a loyal customer with them for years, this really isn't fair. Your use of this site constitutes acceptance of the Advertisements on this site are placed and controlled by outside advertising networks. ConsumerAffairs.com does not evaluate or endorse the products and services advertised. See the for more information. The information on this Web site is general in nature and is not intended as a substitute for competent legal advice. ConsumerAffairs.com makes no representation as to the accuracy of the information herein provided and assumes no liability for any damages or loss arising from the use thereof. Copyright © 2017 Consumers Unified LLC. All Rights Reserved. The contents of this site may not be republished, reprinted, rewritten or recirculated without written permission. Aug 22, 2012. How much does it cost? Licenses for DirectSmile software start from around €35,000 (£27,000). At Drupa alone, DirectSmile sold a number of copies of Cross Media v5 and interest in the product and its many benefits continues beyond the show, according to the company. Today, Cross Media installations. This DirectSmile personalised sample is for a wedding hire shop. Would you like to get into variable data but you're put off by the complexity and expense? Nessan Cleary looks at some of the entry level systems on offer. The ability to handle variable data remains at the very heart of digital printing and is essential to several applications, such as transactional and transpromo printing. Countless studies have shown that nothing helps a marketing campaign quite like personalised print, preferably with some colour mixed in. These days, print is only one part of the marketing mix, so any variable data solution has to be able to handle mobile and web platforms as well as social media. But another side of variable data printing (VDP) is the ability to centralise document printing. This can include anything from a corporate mail room to a commercial hybrid mailing solution, which can use economies of scale to offer good rates on both the printing and mailing out of documents and marketing campaigns. Some of this sort of thing can be handled via a web to print program, and certainly many of these do offer companies the ability to order documents from templates with variable content, while many others have now evolved into marketing campaign tools. Basic beginnings Microsoft Word and similar word processors will usually have a basic mail merge facility which is suitable for pulling names and addresses from a list, spreadsheet or database and adding these to a simple layout, such as a letter or an envelope. For more sophisticated page designs, Adobe InDesign also has a basic mail merge facility, though this hasn't been updated for several versions now. If you want anything more sophisticated, then you'll need a dedicated VDP program. For many applications this may be enough, but true variable data is much more sophisticated than this and usually means being able to vary just about any element on a page, including pictures. There are quite a few solutions around and they're not all pricey and complex high end content management systems. Some, such a Objectif Lune's Printshop Mail, Kodak's Darwin, Meadows Publishing Solutions' DesignMerge Pro or the entry level Desktop version of XMPie, are very affordable and designed for ease of use. These all work as plug-ins for Adobe InDesign (and DesignMerge is also available for QuarkXPress), taking advantage of its sophisticated layout features but adding the ability to set up variable content containers and set up rules for filling from lists or databases. Most of these include some form of rules-based logic so that the content itself dictates the layout of the document, and the template can accommodate variations from one record to the next, with some having a lot of text, and others hardly any. Objectif Lune's PrintShop Mail is one of the most widely used entry level VDP composition tools, with a starting price below £800. It's fairly simple to use, and has become quite popular. Rather than working as a plug-in to something else, it provides its own layout tool. Users simply drag and drop text and images to make a design and then merge this with a database. It outputs a variety of formats from PPML, VIPP and VPS up to PDF and PDF/VT. It can be used as a central server and the resulting files can be printed on any device, or transferred for remote printing. It's designed primarily for printing documents out locally, thus reducing postal costs. The company also sells PlanetPress Suite, a higher end document management system. It can take in documents created in any Windows application and convert these to templates with variable elements. It can also extract information from print streams, databases or XML sources and map these to the templates. The new version 7.5 includes intelligent character recognition in its Capture module, which interprets scanned handwriting and understands how to use information, such as an address or phone number. Meadows Publishing's DesignMerge Pro (for either InDesign or XPress) competes with Kodak Darwin and lets designers work with familiar design tools when constructing marketing documents. It's entirely cross platform and has also been used by other vendors including Canon and Xeikon. It uses a fairly simple menu-driven process to pick out elements that you want to use as variable items. Prices start at around £430 with a basic feature set for PostScript, PDF, Creo VPS and PPML output, with modules including CopyFit (which deals with overflow of variable text by changing factors such as the text size or leading); Rules (which perform specific functions based on conditional logic); and GroupPicture (which effectively allows you to save individual templates as a picture and then add multiple GroupPictures to other designs). Darwin's evolution One of the earliest variable data programs was Darwin, developed initially by Scitex, which itself mutated into Creo. Today Creo is owned by Kodak but still operates as a standalone company. Darwin has an excellent reputation and integrates directly with Creo's colour servers. It's a cross platform solution that integrates with Adobe InDesign. It uses rules based logic so no scripting or coding is needed. The Pro version allows users to write their own JavaScript and offers more variable elements, such as barcodes, charts and personalised images created via Photoshop. XMPie, which is owned by Xerox, offers a number of variable data solutions. These include uDirect, a set of desktop plug-ins for InDesign that exploit all of its considerable layout features such as putting text on a curve and adding transparency effects. There's also a series of server products, called PersonalEffect, available as a single server or a cluster of multiple servers, which offer cross media, web to print and marketing analytics. There are additional modules for these: uImages, for personalised graphics; uChart, for dynamic charts; uStore, for e-commerce; and uProduce for marketing campaigns. DirectSmile tends to still be mainly associated with novelty personalised greetings cards, but also develops 'serious' VDP, cross media and web to print software. Its entry level VDP Studio costs £5995. It works with InDesign and can be used to personalise images as well as text. It includes Design Editor for creating personalised image sets and character styles. Rule-based logic is used to determine how data is applied to documents without any coding. It also includes its own imposition tool. Transeomedia is the UK distributor. GMC recently revamped its PrintNet Communications Suite, renaming it as Inspire. PrintNet sold well into the transactional and transpromo markets. Inspire builds on this heritage and also adds the ability to be operated from a private or hosted Cloud server. It can also be integrated with other cloud-based solutions, such as databases or CRM tools. The remake incorporates mobile and web platforms as well as print. It also plays nicely with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. A new Inspire HybridMail module can take individual documents from a desktop computer, sorting these and then sending them to a central production facility for printing and posting. It can track where each document is, and report on the costs incurred. PTI, formerly known as Printable Technologies, recently launched FusionPro VDP Suite 8.0. There are three options: VDP Creator, a desktop design and composition tool; VDP Producer, a high speed composition server; and FusionPro Producer, which is a more flexible composition server. It supports HTML output as well as print. It can take designs from different programs including InDesign and Quark. There's a new list cleansing feature for integration with mailing workflows. It's sold as Software as a Service. It's also available through Ricoh. Infigo Software has developed its own Infigo VDP, which comes in two parts. The core part is Infigo VDP itself, which can recognise variable data fields within a document template and link those to databases. The templates are designed in the second element, Infigo Designer, a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat that can convert existing text in a PDF into an editable field. It adjusts font size to make copy fit, and you can add native Photoshop files. The VDP program runs on a single PC but the plug-in can be used on any number of computers, Mac or PC. The templates can also be used with Infigo's web to print program. Quark has a variable data module for its web to print product, but it's hardly an entry level solution. It works with QuarkXPress Server so that it can output print-ready PDFs. This does allow for all the design tools that people are familiar with from QuarkXPress. Any element on a page can be designated as a variable element and linked to a database or spreadsheet. It uses intelligent rules to vary the layout according to the size of the content. Garbage in, garbage out Finally, it should be noted that the biggest barrier to implementing variable data still remains the quality of the data itself. It's hard to overstate this, because personalisation only works if it is absolutely accurate, which anybody with a slightly unusual name will appreciate! The situation has improved considerably over the last decade, as more companies have learned how to collect good data. Supermarkets in particular have used loyalty card schemes to gather data on their customers and then target those customers with special offers and promotions, tailored around their normal shopping patterns. However, many companies have also learned to use social media to build better databases of potential customers and there are services that will clean up data, so that this shouldn't be such a problem now. Contacts Adobe: Creo Darwin: DirectSmile: DirectSmile UK: GMC: Infigo: Meadows: Objectif Lune: PTI: Quark: XMPie. |
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