For some DJs, it is the fuel that drives them, and for others it’s the thing that drives them to despair. DJ Requests can be a blessing and a curse at the same time, but all DJs at some point have taken them, but all manner of methods. But RequestNow aims to make that process simple, without having to step away from the decks, or deal with hardcore drunks wanting U2 during your Hip Hop gig (true story). It’s all done via the wonder full medium of texting.
RequestNow is essentially a direct link from the punter to the booth, without having to interact directly with the great unwashed spoiling your flow. The basic premise is this — in RequestNow you set up an event, publish a phone number and people can simply text you their requests. Hardly rocket science, but the clever part comes in trying to decipher the requests. Built in to RequestNow is a parsing engine that will attempt to match sparse texts to actual songs. It’ll have no trouble with “umbrella by rihanna”, or indeed handle some spelling mistakes along the way. It might however struggle with “Yesterday” unless you qualify it with an artist, especially as there are a documented 2500 versions.
And it’s very much a 2 way thing as well, as RequestNow send back texts to people to confirm their choice, as well properly managing request lists rather than trying not to lose bits of paper. On top of that, you can add your own details to the return texts too, so that your audience is in no doubt who their DJ is.
Aside from making request management a whole lot easier, it does give an immediate air of professionalism to your DJ events, as well as letting the crowd feel like they’re part of the show as well. As a DJ, it could also make you feel like a jukebox of course, but I guess you’ll already have taken that into consideration if you’re even looking at this.
interesting, but can’t this exact thing be accomplished with a google voice account a literally a few lines of python?
I have no idea. Not everyone is a programmer.
Not a google voice account but a Twilio number (which is what is used)
I’ve used a google voice number with the serato video plugin for years with pretty good success… wouldnt see a point in a monthly subscription
Yikes! That shit aint cheap. Think ill go back to baracading myself in the booth and hoping nobody talks to me.
HAHA harlem bake.
I’ve been taking requests for years over twitter. Not sure this is worth the extra expense.
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I helped with development and implementation of a similar system that can be used with or without a screen and think this is just a crazy price with something that can be done with a 3G dongle and an unlimited text plan (very cheap).
The system is http://www.t2smobile.co.uk/ and is much cheaper and much more powerful than that system and as I helped fine-tune it I feel part of it (and no I’m not paid, I just like to see my ideas used by many!).
$49.99 per month for premium?? That price is just plain madness!
I’ll stick to drunken scribbles on pieces of paper thanks.
For that price they should include the song as attachment for free if you don’t have it in your playlist :)
That would be awesome!
There should be a Dikembe Mutombo No no no finger swag sent back to the requester when you don’t wanna play a song.
The ReQuestz App is way better than this…and they don’t charge DJ’s anything..I mean we are the ones taking the request correct?
iOS only, unfortunately.
I wonder if a simple twitter account could accomplish the same thing though. Actually, as a mobile DJ, I rather enjoy the crowd of scantily-clad ladies that make requests. I’m not sure that I want that to go away… Besides, you know that there’ll be trolls who will simply request crap non-stop. Yeah… I’m not sure about this.
You can use app DJ SONG REQUEST , it’s free.
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