Tape Music Hub | A phone companion for serious DJ libraries

DJ Software & Apps
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Hey there,

I’m Gordo. I’ve been DJing for years, and I’ve spent a lot of time fighting with the deeper problems around music products: metadata, discovery, playlists, folders, local files, and the personal history that ends up inside a serious music archive.

Electronic music libraries are not normal media folders. They are years of digging, broken metadata, edits, promos, purchases, references, old downloads, set memories, friends, exchanges, and decisions that only make sense because you made them.

For years I wanted a mobile experience that respected that archive instead of asking me to upload everything to a cloud catalog or rebuild my library in another system.

So I end up building Tape Music Hub:

It is a desktop hub app that acts as a server (Mac-only for now) + phone companion for the local music library you already maintain. Your computer stays as the hub. Your files stay on your computer. Your phone gets the same library so you can listen, review, prepare playlists, and keep working through your archive.

It is not a DJ performance software, and it is not trying to replace Rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, etc. It is a layer above them: a way to bring your local music with you, work on playlists from the phone, add context over time, and hand things back to the DJ software you use to play.

What is live today:

  • Mac app for your desktop library (you need a computer constantly on)
  • Phone companion for the same archive
  • Remote working on playlists and library from your phone.
  • Drag & drop a playlist back into the DJ software you use to play

I built this first because I wanted it for years for my own collection. The plan is to make Tape Music Hub the personal operating layer for serious local music libraries: ingestion, preparation, metadata enrichment, library intelligence, bring all this to your phone nicely, and clean and with an easy handoff back into the tools DJs already use. (Maybe, in the future direct to USB export, maybe)

There is many more to come for people using it. The rest of info in the website.
Thanks for checking, willing to know your views on it and connect your libraries.

The experience is free to use, I charge for the phone only-remote companion. It took me a while to think were and how to set up pricing. Open to ideas as well.

Gordo

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This is not something I need or want as I’m always at my computer when working on sets, but as a fellow DJ and app developer just wanted to say that the site is really nice, app and concept looks really cool and I can see how it would work for people that are out and about a lot and don’t want to be tied to their workstation. Nice work!

btw. For another [non-music related] app I am working on, I also faced the challenge of the Mac sleeping which stopped my app from working which was a pain. There are a few things you can do through MacOS settings re sleep, but you might want to also suggest to your users using the “Caffeine” or “Lungo” apps (I have no affiliation with either) - or you could try to build your own that does the same thing. I’m using Lungo personally and that works for me. For your more tech-savvy users moving their library and your server process to a NAS (or a Linux box) gets around the fact that MacOS doesn’t want to be a nice server without some work! I’ve moved mine to a NAS mainly for the capacity and reslience.

All the best for your project!

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Thanks mate, ;)) pushing the NAS version of this very soon. I received that request so many times already that I’m packaging for that already.

In app shows the steps for having your mac or windows version as a server all the time up. The idea is that you set it up like that during the setup, but seems there is a clear divergence on mac and windows user who use it this way and a few others who want the NAS (Docker server) version.

Serving them all. ;))

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Yup, testing the NAS / Docker version of this if anyone around wants to beta test it. :))

@FalconD ?

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Sure I can try it. Send me the details for install / promo codes / whatever.

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