Forum: Wishes and new features - Topic: Playlist calculation of time

In PCDJ Red I used to be able to load a bunch of songs into the playlist and the software would instantly tell me the time that the songs would last until. This coding was done 10 years ago.

In other words... if it was 8pm and I added 20 songs to the playlist, it would immediately display the time in which the songs would eventually run out.

This is a HUGE feature for a DJ that is trying to add enough songs for an event and have them timed to end at at the end of the event.

Is this possible in VDJ

It already gives you the run time of the playlist at the bottom of the playlist window.

I see that it gives run time. So... it should be easy to show the end time. If its 8pm and the run time is 1 hour. The end time can be shown at 9pm. This would make timing music to the exact end of an event so much easier.

Sure you can look at the run time, and then do the math to figure out when the list will end, but glancing over at an end time on the screen seems much easier.

I've been hoping for more VDJ programmers to do more work on the playlist features. In addition to a notation of what time the playlist will run out, I'd like to see a way to determine at what time a specific song will play or even a time-laspe of how long before a song will play in the playlist. For instance, If I'm DJ at a wedding and the the bride or groom requests that I play a certain song in 20 minutes, it would be nice to see a notation of that rather than having to figure it out by adding and subtracting. I'm told other DJ software has this ability. One that comes to mind is OTIS AV.

I would also like to see a feature by which you could program a playlist to fade earlier. Let's say that the client requests that the DJ should keep all songs to around three minutes in length. No problem if the DJ stands at the booth all night but hey, what about a food break or a bathroom break? Getting it done in 3 minutes isn't enough time sometimes and I personally can't afford to have an assistant with me at every gig.

One of your requests is already available;

Description:
WatchDog is a simple plug-in that currently will allow you to use automix with a predefined fixed time interval.
In other words you can now "force" automix to always mix to the next song after a fixed time interval. The time interval is configurable from 2 to 4 minutes.

Available here http://www.virtualdj.com/addons/12817/WatchDog.html