Comment 2 for bug 366091

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Nick (kousu) wrote : Re: [Bug 366091] [NEW] a way to monitor/listen files in library when playing

Well I guess I should put my foot in my mouth. Traktor 3 does have a
little pre-monitor-player. Seems irritating to me but I thought I'd
set the record straight.

On 24/04/2009, Nick Guenther <email address hidden> wrote:
> Do we really want this? I could see it being reasonable to make a
> track in the library track start playing on the headphone channel if
> it's clicked and held for a second but being able to scroll through it
> too?
>
> On vinyl or CDJs or traktor the standard way to figure out which track
> is which is to put it on and play it like normal. I mean, I'm saying
> that we should do something -just because- it's the convention, but
> sometimes conventions exist for good reasons.
>
> The better answer is N-deck support. Just use whichever deck you're
> not using to play out tracks or cue the next one as your 'scan through
> the library' deck (dependant on us figuring out a different UI style
> that stays as efficient as Mixxx is right now).
>