How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. 2)

This is a mirror of a blog post that was published on the website of Mixxx, an open-source DJ software. You can read the original post over at mixxx.org.

In the last post, I explained how a basic relative-mode Digital Vinyl System (DVS) works. But there are two problems …

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How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. 1)

This is a mirror of a blog post that was published on the website of Mixxx, an open-source DJ software. You can read the original post over at mixxx.org.

Since the dawn of DJing, spinning vinyl records has never really gone out of fashion. Even when CDs became popular …

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Reversing Serato's GEOB tags

The popular DJ application Serato DJ Pro stores a lot data in GEOB-type ID3 tags of MP3 files. This way, users can share beatgrids, hot cue points, saved loops and more by just copying over an MP3 file.

Unfortunately, the format is not publicly documented. Thus, I figured it could …

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