So what does everybody use?

Back when I started, I used all cassettes. The invention of the dual tape deck was genius! I remember hours sitting in front of the tape deck hitting that play/record - pause combo... and it was sheer bliss. Then along came CDs, and my life changed.

The funny thing is, it wasn't until much later in life that I discovered vinyl, right around the time I was getting into computers. So at that point I was using an odd intermixture of all the tech available, and it didn't matter what the source was. It's all grist for the mill.

Today I use a wide variety of sources, but most of my mixes are strictly MP3, and I'm using the laptop for almost everything. I don't make tapes any more, mainly because the people I give mixes to don't have tape players. Just recently I started live mixing with Ableton Live, but I'm still waffling between all kinds of programs. Really, it comes down to whatever works for a particular mix, or what I'm in the mood to use. To be honest, I do a lot of experimenting with different programs. Hell, I recently (and finally!) found an audio program that I'm happy with using, MusicMonkey Gold. At last, I can get rid of WinAmp and iTunes and MediaPlayer Classic and Windows Media Player! Hurrah!

But I still don't own an iPod.

I'm pretty basic, just whatever media player I happen to have, though I did invest in Goldwave which does pretty much what I want to do. As my daughter gets more into mixing, I'm sure she'll drag me kicking and screaming towards more sophisticated mixware.

Gabe, I don't have an iPod either, you are not alone! I'm with doowad on the equipment/software though. Being close to computer dyslexic, I use what's installed. If I need to edit a song, I get a friend of mine to do it for me.

I just mentioned this in a thread for one of my recent mixes, but thought I'd bring it up in an appropriate thread as well. I will henceforth be using drop.io exclusively for uploading mixes, as I am really quite convinced that it beats megaupload, yousendit, sendspace and all those other sites by a very wide margin. First of all, no annoying ads. Secondly, allows you to stream as well as download (okay, divshare lets you do that too). Thirdly, much much less of a drag to upload files - you can really just drag and drop them onto the site, and keep adding new tracks to the same URL as you go along (convenient for exchanging files for collaborative mixes, too). And with two extra clicks, you can let the site create a zip archive for the individual files that you have uploaded for you. As a result, you have one URL where, depending upon your fancy, you can stream individual songs, download individual songs, or download the entire zip archive. Seems quite neat to me.

(I was not paid to write this post, I swear!)

I just mentioned this in a thread for one of my recent mixes, but thought I'd bring it up in an appropriate thread as well. I will henceforth be using drop.io exclusively for uploading mixes, as I am really quite convinced that it beats megaupload, yousendit, sendspace and all those other sites by a very wide margin. First of all, no annoying ads. Secondly, allows you to stream as well as download (okay, divshare lets you do that too). Thirdly, much much less of a drag to upload files - you can really just drag and drop them onto the site, and keep adding new tracks to the same URL as you go along (convenient for exchanging files for collaborative mixes, too). And with two extra clicks, you can let the site create a zip archive for the individual files that you have uploaded for you. As a result, you have one URL where, depending upon your fancy, you can stream individual songs, download individual songs, or download the entire zip archive. Seems quite neat to me.

(I was not paid to write this post, I swear!)

-collectedsilences

I'm a newly-made fan of drop.io as well, ever since you used it before and brought it to my attention; since then I've used it quite a bit for non-mix-related stuff. However, the only drawback I'm finding is that 100mb limit. :(