Unofficial DJ Software & Firmware: Should You Use It?

An hour and a half. That’s how long one DJ told me it took him to get 5,613 tracks onto a USB stick using Rekordbox. Then he did the same job, on the same computer with the same stick, in a minute and a half – using software he wrote himself.

He’s far from the only one. My inbox is full right now of DJs and developers building their own fixes for the official software and gear we all use, and some of it goes a lot further than faster USB sticks. There’s unofficial firmware doing the…