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Is there an app that will let me sequence and play my own tracks?
I'm trying to map out a sequence for my album. I don't know of an app that would allow me to sequence a list of tracks and then play them uninterrupted from beginning to end. Anyone know if there's anything out there like that?
I know I could paste the songs on a track in a DAW, but that's a bit fiddly. iTunes is even more fiddly.
Thanks, in advance, for any advice on this.
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Well iTunes or a DAW would be my first choices. Maybe an app like dropbox you could put your songs in a folder and give them a numerical prefix to play with track order until you come up with the the right order. Or just transfers the songs to a desktop system to play with song order and then recreate order on the iPad. Or maybe this https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartplaylist/id326071802?mt=8
Also imho since so many people (hopefully) will be listening on a Desktop system It would be a good idea to listen to all the tracks on it anyway so might as well take care of the track order there.
I love cloud beats player, I use it constantly to download from cloud services and check mixes, learn songs for weddings, etc. One of the most useful apps I've ever purchased.
CloudBeats Pro - Cloud Music Player for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Amazon Cloud Drive by Willengale Solutions Ltd.
https://appsto.re/us/JGJkI.i
Can be a PITA compared to a dedicated music player but an app like Auria will also allow you to manipulate fades, track spacing, etc plus mastering if you're going to try that yourself. Also, very easy random access to any point in the sequence whereas most playlist apps will only let you jump to starts—tough if you want to test transitions and the like.
Can't remember if Auria ever got ripple editing (aka 'slip editing', I believe). If so, definitely look into it as it'll help when you go to rearrange stuff.
+1 for cloudbeats
@hacked_to_pieces, @mrufino1, @syrupcore, @ecamburn
Thank you, gentlemen. I actually contacted Jonatan Liljedahl about adding this feature to AudioShare awhile back, but I was hoping for something simple just to test how the songs flowed. I'll just use AudioShare as is. Thanks again.
Does seem a funny hole I the iOS musician market—the ability to make playlists of your own stuff. Something with Audioshare integration and a few musician friendly features (like replace) would, I imagine, be an easy sell.
@supanorton. The excellent app MusicStreamer by Stratospherix will let you playlist tracks from a NAS drive, among other sources, and stream them out to anything that has Air Play.
I seem to remember a friend of mine saying he dj'ed(?) at a pub with Traktor on a PC laptop. Said he set up a play list and went to the bar. Does Traktor DJ on iOS have this feature?
@supanorton I've used "Fileapp" (from DigiDNA) for exactly this purpose. I've had this app for a long time and it's been an all around good file manager with nice extras (but no cloud interface).
Did Cloudbeats not meet the need? I make play lists all the time with it. The cool part is that you're not restricted to one cloud service, you can link up anything with it and make playlists regardless of the source. And you can download them for offline listening. I believe there's a free version too, I don't know its limitations, if any, because I bought it along time ago.
Looks like a great app. Will it import directly from AudioShare?
@Nkersov @Jocphone @TozBourne
Thank you for the recommendations.
Alas, MusicStreamer does not play directly from AudioShare, yet. But the devs may add this, so it might be worth asking them direct.
If you also have your tracks on a PC, Mac or NAS drive, this is far and away the best Streamer I've found. I have it working via 5 different pieces of hardware, from 5 separate manufacturers and it never lets me down.
You can import tracks right onto the decks of djay 2 with open in from audioshare if this is what your after?
No, you have to put it in Dropbox, box.com, Google Drive, etc, from Audioshare then it will.
You can use "open in" from AudioShare and add your song files to the queue of the current session in djay 2. You can then create a new session in djay 2 and rename your last session to whatever you want. The problem is that djay 2 can not open the audio files once you close djay 2 and try to reload them because djay 2 can't open AudioShare files (neither can Dropbox).
The Google Drive and Documents apps do allow djay 2 to open audio files directly just as djay 2 can with the audio files in the Music app. With the Documents app you can zip a folder of audio files in AudioShare and use open in to transfer them over to Documents, unzip the file in Documents and load audio files into the queue within djay 2 and then save the session. The files will be available in djay 2 the next time you open it. If you don't want two sets of audio files on your iPad all of the time (one in AudioShare and another in Documents) you can upload the files to Google Drive or Drop Box as a zip file and download them into Documents using open in. Your setup in djay 2 will remain the same and work so long as you have the audio files available in Documents. When not needed, delete the audio files from Documents.
Why not use Google Drive directly? You have to load files one by one into the Google Drive app from AudioShare unless you zip them but the Google Drive app can't unzip files.
I'm sure this is far from the simple test workflow @supanorton was looking for but if @j_liljedahl were to add the same functionality to AudioShare as Google Drive and Documents have to be able to load audio files directly into djay 2, it could be.
M3U style playlists seem like a reasonable 'on the list' feature request for Audioshare. Could be extended to include files on dropbox or google drive so that those M3Us could be shared externally.
Oh. Requires uploading but you could use a soundcloud playlist for this. Just set all of the tracks to private if you're not ready to share. http://uploadandmanage.help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/2166979-rearranging-tracks-in-a-playlist
Maybe MultitrackDAW is a better option?
i have used musconv tool from musconv.com. it was great and fun.
Anytune should do it... (I have Pro, so dunno about the free version)
You probably won't spend that much, but Multitracker may be worth trying (free demo)
It's quite sophisticated and targeted to multichannel live playbacks.
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/multitracker/id1107736294?mt=8
A bit fiddly, but I have used the beat offset in Aum file player, to segue a few tracks...
@Telefunky and @id_23
Thank you. AudioShare has since introduced this feature, and I went with that.
oops, didn't notice the date of the original request...
@walter_nerk
Thanks for responding. I went with AudioShare.