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DJ You Can Now Buy an MP4 for Less than an MP3 and Still Only Play the Audio if You Wish!

Lesson Beginner Stage 7: Software & Gear November 2018

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0:00 Shop and you used to buy

Alright, so you still buy MP3s. Well if you do, you're an absolute muppet. Let's go back to the 1980s. You used to go to a shop and you used to buy a piece of vinyl, a record, and that was it. It was yours and you couldn't really copy it unless, of course, you had a cassette player and you copied it to the cassette player and you copied it to the cassette player. But then no one could download it, no one could do anything like that because it was your vinyl. Nowadays though, on the other hand, you can just click and you've downloaded a track and it's cost you pretty much one of those. That is a UK pound. There it is. But you can pretty much only buy one track. Now, you're a muppet if you do that. You're an absolute idiot because did you know that you can, for less than a pound, get an MP4?

1:33 Maybe then you want to become a VJ

Which is the video of the track. Now, you're probably thinking, yeah but I don't play videos. I only play audio. Well, that's fair enough. But practically every single DJ software now will allow you to play the audio even if you have only downloaded the video. So what that means is that you could, for example, be at a wedding and be playing an ABBA track, MP3. And then all of a sudden... you mix in a Michael Jackson track that happens to be MP4. The people in the venue won't know the difference because they are still hearing the audio and you may have a little icon on your laptop playing the video of Michael Jackson. Now, let's imagine that you carry on buying MP4s for the next six months or a year.

Now all of a sudden you've got a great back catalogue of MP4s and you've got the classics 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s... Tamela, Motown, Northern Soul, Frunk, Rare Groove and also the 80s, 90s chart pop, The Works. Maybe then you want to become a VJ... a video... and I said virtual DJ... a video jock. Well guess what? You can now add another string to your bow because when people phone you up say we'd like to book you as a DJ you can say well yeah, I can do a regular disco. Alternatively if you want to I can take my flat screen TVs or take my projector with big screens, some scrims and I can play video as well. Now that is the deal. This is the future. It's video footage. Now check out WeMix. Now you may remember a guy called Mark who used to be at Mix Mash, an extender mix.

He is now the brainchild behind this site here. Now when I say you need to go and do it, it's entirely up to you but I believe this is sort of how it is. The lowest package, in other words if you log into the site and you pay a tiny amount each track, each mp4 will cost you about 88 pence. But if you go for the better package, guess what? Think... come on... think!

3:23 Each track will cost you about 33 pence

Each track will cost you about 33 pence. That's a video. So you can get three videos for one of those, a pound. Now that's not too bad is it? In fact that's downright amazing. So please do yourself a favour and very quickly as well I am not getting paid for this video. Mark is giving me zip money. It's not happening. Because I have known Mark for a very long time. He's a top bloke and his heart, his passion is giving people what they deserve which is good quality product at an affordable price. Now if you don't even visit the site and go and check it out, you're a muppet. On the other hand, if you would like to delve into the mp4 kind of thing then go and do it. And you will never ever look back. So remember, one pound will buy you maybe one track.

What would you prefer? One or three? Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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