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Converting Rekordbox History to Usable Text

One handy feature of the Pioneer DJ/Rekordbox ecosystem is the built in saved history of everything you play. This is really nice when you want to post a list of tracks you played in a set online. You can very easily export the history as a playlist in text format, but if you try to copy and paste that it comes out all garbled with a lot of extra characters. The problem comes down to the encoding of the text file.

The playlist export files are actually in utf-16le. Here’s a command that can be run in the macOS terminal (and most unix I imagine) to show you…

file -I BRC_2023_Fauxliage_Tues.txt
BRC_2023_Fauxliage_Tues.txt: text/plain; charset=utf-16le

And to use the content how we want, we need to convert it to another format. It can be converted to the very common utf-8 like using either iconv (included in macOS) or the simpler dos2unix command (install from homebrew).

iconv -f utf-16le -t utf-8 BRC_2023_Fauxliage_Tues.txt > BRC2023-utf8.txt; mv BRC2023-utf8.txt BRC_2023_Fauxliage_Tues.txt
dos2unix BRC_2023_Fauxliage_Tues.txt

That will get our file into the right format but we probably want to format it to show less information.

This clever command will output only the 2nd and 3rd columns (title and artist respectively) with a bit of text formatting …

awk -F'\t' '{ printf "\"%s\" by %s\n"  ,$2, $3 }' BRC_2023_Fauxliage_Tues.txt

The output is something like this…

"Track Title" by Artist
"Losing Ground (Extended Mix)" by Sultan + Shepard, Tishmal
"Enough to Believe (Jamie Jones Remix)" by Bob Moses
"Hate Street Dialogue (Original Mix)" by Rodriguez, The Avener
"Do It (Original Mix)" by D.Y.A
"Days Of Innocence (Dream Mix)" by Rhode & Brown, Benjamin Fröhlich

This saves a ton of time!

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Ciao 2021!

Pulling from tracks I’ve collected over the past few years, this is a lovely selection of musical treats for all ages and any occasion. This was our soundtrack for the final hours of 2021 as we bid a fond farewell to a year we won’t soon forget. It’s two parts light, one part dark, a splash of love, a sprinkling of admiration, mixed and shaken fiercely over ice.

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Chalk Art

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Halloween Find

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Orange Sky Sun

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Sanctuary Sound, July 3, 2020

We put together a live streamed “party” with 8 or so DJs, and made an afternoon and night of it. That sort of thing is more fun than one might think, but we’re still looking forward to when we can do it in person again.

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We’re ok, but not satisfied.

The world has fallen apart and we’re doing our best to keep the things most important to us together. The people closest to me are all doing ok, and I’m very grateful for that. Things could be much worse, but that’s not enough. The people we have elected and put in charge of our greater well being are letting us all down.

All that said, life moves on, and we are adapting to our terrible and ridiculous situation. We are learning how to be together from afar, and learning what and who are most important to us. I am happy that I’m able to share some music and bright some days.

The Battery in San Francisco invited me to do a live DJ stream through their Facebook page, along with my good friends Bósa. The video is up on Facebook and on Twitch, but this is the complete audio from that night. I had a great time, and was able to share some new music I’m excited about.

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A Party Apart

My good friend Nick Stene had to spend his birthday staying distant from his friends and loved ones. In his honor we had a party apart from one another with 6 live streamed DJs and a group of 40 or so friends.

This was my first live stream (video and audio went to Twitch) and I had a great time doing it. These are some of my favorite new tracks and I’m jazzed to share them.

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They’re Listening

My wife reports that the robots (Alexa, Siri in our lives) are listening to her when she doesn’t expect it more recently. Anyone else noticed that?

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Autumn Vines

Autumn Vines