Mashup Tutorial

In order to make mashups, you just need:

To create a mashup

Go to https://rave.dj/mix
Search for the two songs you want to mash or paste direct YouTube URL (see minimum requirements)
Click "Create Mashup"
After a short time of waiting in a queue and generating, the mashup (video) will play

That's all you need to get started and addicted to making mashups.

More Info

When you mix two songs together, Rave.DJ generates a unique and permanent URL that you can bookmark and share with people.
Later if you or anyone else tries to enter the same two songs, they'll just get redirected to the existing mashup URL.
The Rave.DJ system my delete a video if it goes unwatched for a long enough time, but the URL will remain the same, and navigating to it again even after video as deleted will just queue the same video to be created (as if mixed for first time).
You can make an account on Rave.DJ, and set up a permanent URL and profile picture. You may then 'star' or promote any of your mashups so they appear prominently on your profile page.

Known Limitations

Rave.DJ publishing system only remember your last 50 or so promoted mashups. When you go to revisit your older mashups by URL later, they won't show your name /icon next to them anymore, but they will still be listenable for those with direct link, or who guess the same combination of mashups.
No control of the play order of promoted songs that play on your Rave.DJ profile (it's not quite a shuffle, seems to play in order of published)
there's no table/list format of all your mashups
there is no native export to mp3 option
no way to re-name your mashups or fine-tune the balancing between songs, or any other parameters - you get what you get
no way to bulk create mashups
no way to rate yours or others mashups
no way to query for mashups that include a specific source song, artist, or genre, among songs you mashed/promoted
Rave.DJ seems to limit/throttle after about 10 or 15 mashups from any given IP (per hour or so) - with error: "Sorry, there was an error creating your mix."
When a song is in queue in another tab, it starts playing by default when its ready, which sounds horrible if you're already listening something else, like another mashup.

This remainder of this guide explains how to work around these limitations.

For industrial strength mashup processing, you will need:

1) Excel or similar spreadsheet software

to organize:

The actual mashups, use this to track personal rating of mashups, and be able to search/report
source songs that go into mashups - I track down to album/genre/, which helps for researching potential mashups down the road based on success of previous combinations
If you have Microsoft Office, you can just copy the excel file in my Slightly Epic Mashup resources section (could clear our the rows and keep the charts) - I will reference this excel file when working through the end to end process below.

2) VPN Subscription/Software to change your IP on demand (e.g. Nord VPN)

Rave.DJ seems to limit/throttle after about 10 or 15 mashups from a given IP (per hour or so), experiment and eventually see "Sorry, there was an error creating your mix." error).. changing your IP fixes this nicely, don't even need to refresh the page, just change IP, wait a few seconds, then click "create mashup" again.

3) macros for opening 'new mashup' URL quickly

and/or multiple times: https://rave.dj/mix (the URL to make a new mashup)

I did this in windows by creating .bat files, and then adding a shortcut to them to my desktop, and then finally going into the properties of those shortcuts and binding them to a key combo.

4) Software to convert video to MP3

You can download your mashup AS VIDEOS directly via the following website, but then it's up to you how you convert to mp3. https://ravedjdownloader.neocities.org/
I used a free plugin for FireFox called 'Convert to MP3' at first, but once it got to bulk conversion, switched over to "any video converter"

5) A way to Stop unexpected auto-playing mashups

At first I used a plugin to default-mute all my tabs (Firefox),
but then graduated to just bookmarking tracks to a listen later folder, and not leaving the tab open while the track is generating.

6) An exploration, creation, and publishing Process

Mashup Tutorial (The Slightly Epic Method)