InternetDJ has always had DJ in the name. Now it has decks.
Try it HERE. Your crate is the record box In a real booth, a DJ works from a crate of vinyl. On InternetDJ, crates are the song collections members build and share, so every crate on the site is now a set waiting to be played. Open any crate and press DJ this crate, or go to Decks > Deck Control in the top menu and pick one. Your own crates come first, then the biggest public ones. The crate slides out beside the decks. Drag a record onto Deck A or Deck B, or use its Load buttons on a phone. Every record shows its tempo and its key, so you can see at a glance what will mix. While a record plays, the crate marks the ones that fit it by tempo and key with a Mixes tag. Records you've already played get a check mark, the way you'd know which sleeves are back in the box. Two decks and a mixer Each deck has what you'd expect from a club setup: Play and Cue. Set a cue point, then drop back to it and let the record go on the beat. Tempo fader. Speed up or slow down by 8% either way, or 16% with the range switch. It works like vinyl: faster also means higher. Sync. One button matches the other deck's tempo and locks onto its beats and bars. Loops. Loop 1, 2, 4 or 8 bars, snapped to the beat so they stay tight. Hot cues. Four color-coded pads to mark the drop, the breakdown, or the vocal, and jump straight to them mid-mix. Nudge. Hold to push or pull the record a touch when you're lining up beats by ear. Between the decks sits the mixer. Each channel has gain, high, mid and low EQ with full kills, a filter knob that sweeps a low pass one way and a high pass the other, and echo and reverb for color. Level meters and channel faders work just like the ones in the InternetDJ studio, and a crossfader takes you from one deck to the other. It finds the beat for you Beatmatching is the core DJ skill, and the Decks do the heavy lifting. When a record loads, InternetDJ maps where its beats fall, down to a few thousandths of a second across the whole track. Press Sync on the deck you're bringing in, and it snaps onto the other record's beat and bar, then follows along if the other deck's tempo changes. Loops and hot cues land on the beat even if you press a little early or late. Some records have a kick drum that doesn't hit every beat, like breakbeats and syncopated remixes. For those, the deck will tell you the beats are unclear. Sync still matches the tempo, and Nudge lets you line them up by ear, the old-fashioned way. The Decks also even out volume. Songs arrive at every loudness, so each record is measured as it loads and set to the same level. A quiet bedroom upload won't vanish under a loud club master. Every play on the decks counts When a record plays on the decks and people can hear it, it counts as a play for the artist, the same as anywhere else on InternetDJ. A record counts after about ten seconds with its fader and the crossfader open, so a track cued silently in the background doesn't count until the room hears it. That matters here. On InternetDJ, plays feed an artist's standing on the site and their share of IDJC, the site's coin, which is distributed according to how much each song is actually heard. So playing someone's track in your set is a way of supporting them. Prefer to just listen? The Decks menu has a second option: Auto DJ. It's the feature formerly known as Discover. It picks songs for you and plays them one after another, a lean-back mode for when you want to hear what's out there without touching a fader. What's next This is the first version, and more is on the way: key lock, so you can change tempo without changing pitch; mapping for DJ controllers; headphone cueing; and a third deck. Head to Decks > Deck Control, pick a crate, and start mixing. And if you haven't made a crate yet, build one from songs you love. Your next set starts there. Try it HERE.