[pabloarteel]

> I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting

Oh, no... The art of djing is playing the right track at the right time, if you drop a track that you don't really know, even if based on previous processing of it, you're no different than an recommendation engine...

Long live the real djs that really know their library, and play tracks consciously depending on context.

[mtoohig]

That assumes there's no mixing involved to call it a recommendation engine. I just don't have time to know all songs from beginning to end by title alone anymore or to have a curated playlist ready for every occasion so it helps me find "recent songs I rated highly and downloaded within the last month" or find "a song with a vocal and in X,Y or Z key of a certain genre". I don't want to clash two vocal songs together by accident or I want to be aware of some other note I left on a song before I cue it so I can filter more easily.