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