What a nice, relaxing show with a bunch of new tracks by the likes of Kenny Palmer, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Hiromori Aso, Hel:sløwed & Ava Silver—wait a minute.

I don’t remember playing that one.

Turns out, I didn’t play it!

Story time: I keep my MP3s organized and neatly labeled; artist, track, and remix name all go into the file name. And while the colon (and the ø) of “Hel:sløwed” is a perfectly valid character for file names on macOS, it seems to have gotten lost on its way to the other macOS machine which is responsible for getting music onto the DJ console. Good ol’ rsync is used for that and it doesn’t seem to like the colon too much… and it turns it—seriously, of all the goddamn characters it could it into—a fucking slash! Which, to be fair, is also a valid character for files on macOS so why is this an issue? Because the Denon DJ software finally is the one who cannot handle it and the file has simply been missing, leading to me not being able to play it.

(Correction: rsync didn’t actually change anything, the file was still there, with a colon right in it. However, as you can read here, macOS at some point used the colon as a path separator and there are layers in macOS that change a colon to a slash, and there are other layers that change slashes to colons! Compatibility shit is really weird. Anyway, the final point of the analysis is still correct: the Denon software couldn’t handle the file and ignored it.)

I’ll make it up to you next time!

The next show will happen on Wednesday, March 15, at 19:00 CET/UTC+1.

Holy crap, tonight was exceptional! There were a number of names among the new entries that I was a bit excited about and I was totally not disappointed. I don’t think I ever marked as many tracks as “I like this!” (the ☆ icon on my trusty spreadsheet) as I did today, and I even discovered a few tracks I really liked among the tracks from last week! Apparently I didn’t pay enough attention then…

The next show will happen on Wednesday, March 8, at 19:00 CET/UTC+1.

So…

Did I? Did I not?

Who knows. It was a good show either way; there were new tracks by Yoshi & Razner, by Metta & Glyde, and even a new Ben Nicky & Distorted Dreams!

I’m not sure the third remix of “Adagio for Strings” within six months or so was really necessary but well, there it is.

And to answer that earlier question, yes, I did!

The next show will happen on Wednesday, March 1, at 19:00 CET/UTC+1.

It’s been a while since I forgot to hit the 🔴 Record button so it was bound to happen eventually! So… what do?

Okay, I could simply say, “oh, well, I guess you should have been there.” I mean, that’s still a possibility but maybe I can actually try to use…

Okay… so, Twitch keeps recordings of my latest shows. Maybe I can somehow get it from there? Okay, yeah, looks good, it’s giving me a 2.9 GiB video file. It even has audio in rather decent quality (though it has been reencoded)… but wait.

The gaps are from where Twitch has muted the audio because of copyright-protected tracks. I can kind of live with Twitch muting those when I publish the video but when I download it for private use I do expect to get the original, unmuted audio.

Okay… so, Twitch can also export the video to YouTube. Maybe, seeing that YouTube has all its own shit to deal with copyright-protected material, Twitch will actually export the original audio to YouTube? Alright, let’s check… oh, wait, YouTube first needs to process my video…

[30 minutes later…]

Okay… so, YouTube also only gets the muted audio from Twitch. Plus due to the low resolution of my video (I’m only streaming at 720p) YouTube has turned my video into pixel mush and my audio into a recording made inside a trash can (96 kbps AAC).

I guess you should have been there after all.

(Sorry! )

The next show will happen on Wednesday, February 22, at 19:00 CET/UTC+1. (And maybe I’ll even press the Record button!)

OKAY NO TIME TO WRITE ANYTHING GOTTA RUN KTHXBYE

The next show will happen on Wednesday, February 15, at 19:00 CET/UTC+1.