Rekordbox & Kuvo - Streaming live playlists

Hi there,

So I'm a long time Serato user and I've just got a DJM-900 and a pair of XDJ-1000s. One of my well used features with Serato is the Live Playlists plugin. It allows you to broadcast what you're playing live to Serato.com.

I can see that Kuvo has some sort of Playlist streaming, but it seems to only be with clubs.

Can Rekordbox stream live histories to Kuvo from your home?

I'm interested if it can be done using Pro Link or RBDJ. So far, Pro Link seems to work a lot better than RBDJ for me. So I'd prefer Pro Link, but if it has to be RB DJ then I can make that work for me.

Would appreciate any help, as the whole Kuvo thing seems really slow/buggy/convoluted/not easily usable and I can't figure it out on my own.

Cheers,

Greg

Mr Brainz January 02, 2016 22:06

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Unfortunately without a KUVO box, there's no "to the internet" kind of functionality. Personally, I'd love to see that incorporated into rekordbox at some point in the future, but for the time being, it's not available for the end-user (only clubs, as you mention).

As @Beekir says, you could try and reverse-engineer it yourself - I know Armin van Buuren's technical team have built their own application that sends the data from Armin's rig to the front-of-house team so their lighting and video operators have programs that sync up to the beatgrid. It's really quite amazing, but also not something available to the public either.

I'm sure that Pioneer may ignore any personal projects of this nature but anything commercial may be pursued by legal.

Pulse January 07, 2016 05:57

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If you are a "DYI" computer nerd type, you can sniff the ProLink ethernet packets for this information. Especially using the DJM-900 "on air" capabilities, you could build a very accurate auto-broadcast + playlist tool that is similar to Kuvo.

You could actually build all sorts of useful stuff, including automated lighting control that's based on the hyper-accurate beat grid information. Other people have already released some of that functionality as open source libraries, but I've never actually used any of it.

If you are interested in some kind of pre-built solution, well I don't think any of those exist. It would take a considerable effort to build an unofficial 3rd-party Kuvo and would almost certainly draw the ire of Pioneer.

Beekir January 05, 2016 21:02 0 votes

Hi @Pulse,

Thanks for the official stance. It's a bit surprising to me that if someone built an application that complimented your offering (therefore making it more attractive) that it would bring the wrath of legal action if they tried to make money out of it. One of the main reasons Twitter grew exponentially was the original openness of their platform. Your core business is hardware, and from what I can tell you haven't cracked the web service side of it yet. I'd send back up the chain that you should be a little more open minded to things like this.

Why do I suddenly have an opinion on this? Well, maybe read between the lines.

I appreciate the official comment. It allows me to stay on my toes.

Cheers,

Greg

Mr Brainz January 07, 2016 08:37 0 votes