Mobile/Party DJ dealing with requests you don't have. Solutions?

[ksandvik]

Might as well run Spotify for the whole event...

[joonmusic]

I used my Android phone with Grooveshark to pre-download all requests from the bride & groom before the wedding and "offlined" them to my SD card. Throughout the evening people came up with their requests, as usual. Then I would try to download a couple of them while I played music off Traktor. Then when a request ABSOLUTELY had to be played (BRIDEZILLA & Co.) I would put it into airplane mode and play it. It helps to have a mixer that allows a line input & phono input for each channel, that way you can see the levels - the volume output is so low on the phone I had. . .had to watch the gain like mad. This setup was also good for the dinner part of the wedding as I just picked the playlist the bride & groom wanted and let it rip on shuffle.

[VanGogo]

some old guy who listened to the dead milkmen in high school decided he now wants to hear it again at this wedding.

STFU ya whipper snapper, I resemble that remark (and it was college, not high school )

..........goes away singing

"Punk rock girl give me a chance
Punk rock girl let's go slamdance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl"

[dj matt blaze]

STFU ya whipper snapper, I resemble that remark (and it was college, not high school )

..........goes away singing

"Punk rock girl give me a chance
Punk rock girl let's go slamdance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl"

For me it was high School...lol

bitchin camaro, bitchin camaro...I ran over my neighbor.....

[Emery]

[DJ Abide]

Confidence is Key! You don't like "Erotic City" or "Goodbye Horses"? GTFO!

[dj matt blaze]

Don't tell Kid Capri what to play.....

[sobi]

^^^ That's been one of my all time favorite Youtube vids for a while now. heh.

[rdale]

STFU ya whipper snapper, I resemble that remark (and it was college, not high school )

..........goes away singing

"Punk rock girl give me a chance
Punk rock girl let's go slamdance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl"

+1 I was thinking Jelly Fish Heaven, it is a wedding after all.

[Street Knowledge]

I think it's a bad idea to charge for playing suggestions... Word would get round FAST.

Not every DJ is a club or rave DJ. My Main income is playing top40 at a strip club. Every bar, strip club, wedding or gig that doesnt have an isolated booth will have people offering money for requests. I have been tipped hundred dollar bills to play a request with the caveat to the guest that "ok but if people start leaving or complaining im changing it, agreed?"

As for the OP, if you are doing these kinds of gigs you are making enough money to afford a wireless card, easy enough to route another channel of your soundcard to another channel with one of the online streaming services. Dont use youtube, use a subscription based service. If its something that will piss off the bride or groom, tell them.

For those of you who are new to this, the average rate for wedding DJing is 150-300 and hour, plus tips. I have made $600 plus flight, booze and hotel to dj at a wedding for a few hours and I only charged such a low rate because they were friends of mine. The whole thing actually ended up being cheaper for them than hiring a local company.