Upvote using our own WiFi streaming

[addie]

Although I will definitely carry backup for the time being, I certainly disagree with some of the above.

In the coming years, the internet will become as much a fact as power supply or water supply. Now you rely on your electricity supply for your set. I assume that you do not take a power generator every booking in case the power goes out.

In the case of the internet, you can easily bring this backup facility yourself by bringing a router with a SIM card. This allows you to use the wired internet connection of the location or event, as well as your own mobile connection. And then you also have your own phone as a hotspot as backup backup (could be a 3rd provider).

Then you can access your collection from multiple online sources (own files via different cloud partners, such as Google, Amazon, Dropbox … and on top streaming catalogs such as Tidal, Beatport etc …).

@addie

And whether or not this is a feature that you have been waiting for, it is a big, logical and very good development for the DJ industry. The generation that is coming now has never bought a record, cassette, CD, DAT, MiniDisk, DVD or paid download. A new generation of DJs is emerging (now) that is used to everything on demand, with a simple subscription. A generation that expects the same options and access on every device on every platform. And I applaud for Denon that they are already responding to this and am glad that they do not keep thinking in just the current ways. Change has happened so many times before, from vinyl to CD to mass storage. And now we are going (step by step) to the cloud.

It opens doors for a few more steps later, where you have access to your own music in your own Google Drive / Dropbox / OneDrive, for example, and you are happy to log in if your USBs are unexpectedly forgotten, stolen, defective or infected. Your database runs in the cloud, so your own local or online and streamed songs also all have all saved hot cues, loops and beat grids (and yes, also flexibly before that time). Changes on database are realtime… And that on every device, 100% in sync and backed up. More doors will open in the future with an online device and for the development of the device / software itself, that too can be improved more frequent with the recently assigned development team and online access.