Recently joined the forums to get some answers after never ending google searches and having no prevail of getting the answers im in search for. I hope this community can help
I recently bought a denon Prime 2 and a beatport link subscription and for a while now ive been in desperate need to setup cue points more quickly. However beatport recently released their own DJ browser app. Ive been playing around with it and have been setting up cue points / loops etc. In my belief i thought this would save them to my playlists to use on my prime 2. After long hours of setting up and booting it up for the final resultsā¦i didnt suceed
Am iām doing something wrong? am i supose to sync this somehow or was my method wrong entirely and only works through the app? doing all this is time consuming doing through the prime 2 itself and although i have fast internet connection, it takes time to load every track. Im hoping many of you out there have some sort of similar problem thast your facing or have resolved it. i donāt fancy buying any more subscritions or software unless its free to use
I donāt think that the cue points you created will work with your prime 2. Have you read about it, what software can read the cue points?
If you have a decent internet speed a song should load within 3-5 seconds. Thatās on my end for tidal / Beatsource. Connect the prime 2 with a wire to the internet as WiFi is often much slower.
So another words I kinda wasted a lot of time using it They really need to implement it to sync with playlists as the app was meant for organising your playlists etc. Maybe they will eventually make this change. I havenāt quite looked into other means of software as a lot of stuff out there are subscription based, which means more money
I use a USB to save my cue points while using my prime 2ās but I find it a bit more fiddly to use on the go while mixing, as I Donāt have the space in my home and have young children I donāt get much time to use them so pulling them out all the time to setup cue points can be awkward that way. Using my laptop is my only means and is a lot more efficient. Will definitely try and use wired connection though as it can take a little time to buffer and setup.
Yeah i get you Ravin, Really starting to frustrate me now. I even tried using rekordbox to organise it all but as you saidā¦ive exported the edited playlists onto USB but still no prevail as the playlists show up with nothing in them. You would think engine prime software would allow me to do this which was my first move, but the only playlists or collections i can bring up are those already owned on USB and not on beatport streaming. Honestly, either im missing something and its staring me in the face or theres just nothing i can do and juast give up with beatport entirly and start all over again somewhere else
You canāt use prime or rekordbox to organise streaming service tracks. Just allows you to use local ones you own on your harddrive.
If you want to have cue points from beatport put an SD card in and keep all data on that.
I donāt have a prime 2 or 4 but the way I use the sc6000 is to turn it on and select my SD first, then jump over to beatport and open a playlist or search for a track.
Then once the track is downloaded key in your hotcues with beat jump to assist. The data saves to the SD card selected when I turned on the device.
Next time play that track from beatport itās data is pulled up showing waveform grid and hotcues.
Its the only way and will be the only way from any streaming site.
For me anyway your explanation is really helpful as I didnāt realize that cue points on Beatport were saved to an SD. Thought they were only there while my Prime 2 was turned on and lost when turned off. Going to try that thanks.
What would be really useful in that case and donāt see why it couldnāt be done, is to allow logging in to the same streaming services in Engine Prime on the laptop, and saving to the SD connected to that. Then use that SD card on the Prime 2 with the cue point data.
Ive been saving the cue points manaually through the decks from the start, just ashame i have to keep bringing them out of storage to do it due to space in the house. One day iāll have my man cave when i finally get my own house and build oneā¦be a while waiting for that Maybe they will implement it into prime software but not holding my breathe on that. latest news on streaming services is affecting artists pretty hard and they get such a small portion of every stream made while record labels steal the majority of it, which is pretty unfair in my opinion. Wish i started djāing years ago and bought my music as i would of have a decent collection by now. As for the warning on streaming with the saved Cue points, you do get this if no USB or other external device is connected.
Good news. I emailed beatport a few days ago regarding there DJ app and they said itās not possible at the moment but they did say its on there agenda for next yearā¦have to wait a little while but the cards are on the table
Itās not a āgood thingā imo, thereās too much āunder-the-hoodā assistance for my liking. Probably 1 in 30 tracks, at least, seem to be ever so slightly āwarpedā to harmonically blend.
The only real use i have for it is Playlisting for later TID Charts & Buy Links, cos my Traktor Pro Dj 3 software has a fatal flaw in that it just loses the History & Prep folders the moment I exit the program. I am using Link more for quick clerical work than actually mixing.
Plus BPDJ claims to work with Traktor Kontrol Series but my S3 wonāt map. My M23 Komplete will, so i can use its 8 encoders forā¦ some stuff. The Party Mode could have been awesome if it was somehow integrated with a Social Platform for a period or something to make it possible for Listeners to listen on mobile app or browser, the fact it requires a PC & an accounts makes it too much work for someone wanting a vibe NOW.
They really need to implement it to sync with playlists as the app was meant for organising your playlists etc. Maybe they will eventually make this change. I havenāt quite looked into other means of software as a lot of stuff out there are subscription based, which means more money 
Maybe they will implement it into prime software but not holding my breathe on that. latest news on streaming services is affecting artists pretty hard and they get such a small portion of every stream made while record labels steal the majority of it, which is pretty unfair in my opinion. Wish i started djāing years ago and bought my music as i would of have a decent collection by now. As for the warning on streaming with the saved Cue points, you do get this if no USB or other external device is connected.
The Party Mode could have been awesome if it was somehow integrated with a Social Platform for a period or something to make it possible for Listeners to listen on mobile app or browser, the fact it requires a PC & an accounts makes it too much work for someone wanting a vibe NOW.