MegaSeg Pro could easily be labeled the kitchen sink of automation software as its creators, Fidelity Media, seem to have thrown every conceivable feature into this software package. Of course, it has to be versatile since it is designed to fill the needs of not only radio and television broadcasters but mobile deejays, VJs and businesses such as restaurants and retail that need programmed music. The software’s interface, at first glance, can seem daunting and is certainly unconventional when compared to most other broadcast automation software. But once you get used to working with it, the interface becomes intuitive and easy to use.
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Settings [is] where much of the “magic” of MegaSeg Pro occurs. Clicking on this button brings up the Preferences window which allows you to set the parameters for playback, devices, events, schedules, rules and logging.
The Events tab is where you set an action to occur at a particular time, date, day of the week or a trigger event (such as switching to a satellite or URL feed). You can insert a category of audio files, a playlist for a particular genre of music or music for certain “dayparts”, top of the hour ID’s or single audio files.
You can also instruct MegaSeg Pro to rotate files within a Category. For example, if you have a Category of PSAs, MegaSeg will pre-shuffle and sequentially play those PSAs either one at a designated time or multiple files.
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The Scheduler tab is where you generate playlists based on category. In this case, MegaSeg pre-shuffles the music within a specific category and randomly plays songs from that category.
The Rules tab is where you set restrictions as to how many times an artist or song is played in an hour or limit the number of tracks a particular album is to be aired in a given time block.
...I have really just touched on the basics of what all MegaSeg Pro 6 can do and tried to narrow the focus to just what is needed for broadcasting. But I haven’t mentioned all the file formats that MegaSeg Pro 6 is compatible with, its MIDI features, its waveform function or how it can display album art. And every function I’ve described will work equally well on audio and video files.
Thankfully, customer support (by email) has been great. At $199 MegaSeg Pro 6 is truly a bargain—costing hundreds and even thousands less than other automation packages—and it will run on older Mac iron (Intel only). I’ve been running MegaSeg Pro on a 2007 MacBook Pro without a hiccup for a couple of years. The learning curve is somewhat steep but, given its versatility, the rewards for using MegaSeg Pro 6 make the effort truly worth it.
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Digital DJ Tips reader Jaysyn writes: “My Apple Music trial just ended and now I have a decision to make: Spotify or Apple Music subscription? I know Spotify works natively with djay 2 software but I also know iTunes is supported as well. Do you know if Apple Music is supported and if so is it just like Spotify where I can access any song as long as I am a subscriber?
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“Keep in mind I am not a professional DJ in the least bit, I am trying to teach myself and am at the very beginning stages. I have to think a music subscription of some sort can only make things better for me in the long run (considering I have kids that use the services as well). I just know I do not need both services… I hope!”
Digital DJ Tips says:
Apple Music does indeed let you see the tunes you add to your “library” within iTunes, but no DJ software can currently play those. So if you want to subscribe to a streaming service in order to use it within your DJ software, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
Spotify is available within djay 2 and djay Pro (on iOS and Mac respectively), although you need to be online for it to work. Virtual DJ has a similar streaming subscription service, although it’s not one your family can use outside of the DJ software like Spotify is, and it’s the same story for the forthcoming Serato DJ/Pulselocker tie-in.
So judging by your needs (streaming service the whole family can use, that you can also use in your DJ software), as long as you’re happy to rely on having an internet connection, Spotify and djay 2 or djay Pro seems like the best choice.
The way we recommend streaming services be used currently for DJs, though, is as discovery services; we still recommend that once you find tunes you like, you buy them and add them to a genuine local collection. If you decide to follow this route, then frankly, any streaming service you like will do, as of course you’re not relying on it integrating with your DJ software at all.
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What streaming service do you use? Would you recommend it to other DJs? Please share your thoughts in the comments.