Albums mixed together
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Do you mean where each takes cross-fades to the next without the normal pause in between? If so, then it's usual for the descriptive text on the CD cover to use the phrase "continuous mix" somewhere.
I do a bit pub-djaying and one of my most played CDs is Disco Mix 96 which is two discs of beat-matched 70s disco tunes. Ideal early on in the evening get feet tapping without me doing much for an hour or so.
Interestingly, I put it on iPlayer but it splits the tracks and puts in a pause - only a tiny one but enough to notice it.
I do a bit pub-djaying and one of my most played CDs is Disco Mix 96 which is two discs of beat-matched 70s disco tunes. Ideal early on in the evening get feet tapping without me doing much for an hour or so.
Interestingly, I put it on iPlayer but it splits the tracks and puts in a pause - only a tiny one but enough to notice it.
audi321 said:
Yes that's right, where they cross fade into each other. I have an old dance album from the 90's which is mixed together which I bought by chance. Would love to know how to spot them, so thanks for the 'Continuous mix' info
Do you mean a continuous mix as in when you start playing track 5 for instance it will have part of the end of track 4 at the start and finish with the build up to track 6? I.e the songs are not the full-length versions (where each track plays from start to finish in it's entirety before the next song starts).Or do you mean a continuous mix in the sense that when you start playing it you cannot skip between tracks (like an hour long mix you download for example)?
If it is the first instance, an easy way to tell on Amazon's mp3 store (I assume iTunes is similar) is to look at the average track length.
A dance music album where the tracks are all 2-4 minutes long is likely to be all mixed. If the tracks are mostly 5-9 minutes long then they are likely all of the full length 'original mixes' and therefore not mixed.
These albums of full length versions will also often have a continuous mix of the tracks on each 'cd' as the last track on the album. So you get the best of both worlds for less than the price of the CD version.
For instance I bought a '2 CD' album mixed by Pete Tong as an mp3 download- this has approx 20 tracks on each 'CD'. So you get all 40 of the tracks in their original full length, unmixed forms (which is awesome as they are suitable for DJing with). But you also got the hour long mix of the first 20 tracks (as Pete Tong compiled them) as an additional mp3 file, and an hour long mix of the second 20 songs as another mp3 file.
With these 2 'mix' files you can't skip tracks but then it doesn't matter as you get the full length versions also! Where as if I'd have bought the CD copy I would only have got the 2 one-hour mixes but split up into tracks- but only 3-4mins of each and useless for DJing. And the CD would have been twice the price.
Hope some of that might make sense!
Squirrelofwoe said:
Do you mean a continuous mix as in when you start playing track 5 for instance it will have part of the end of track 4 at the start and finish with the build up to track 6? I.e the songs are not the full-length versions (where each track plays from start to finish in it's entirety before the next song starts).
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