Software question

[kaorder1999]

Ive been to basketball games where they would have a laptop at the scorers table and use it to play music during TO's and such. The ones Ive seen have a program where you can drag music over and play just seconds of it for TO's and other stuff. What program do they use?

[kaorder1999]

i guess this is it...

SOFTWARE (http://virtualcrowdcontrol.com/)

[kaorder1999]

thats 200 dollars...there has to be something else out there cheaper

[jason]

you can probably hook the laptop to whatever the music is coming from (like you plug in normal speakers) and just use windows media player or winamp and play a short part of it

[3afan]

thats what I was thinking ...... or even edit some songs and create 10-20-30 second pieces ... that would be easy

[3afan]

Originally posted by kaorder1999
thats 200 dollars...there has to be something else out there cheaper

for what it claims to do thats not a bad price ...

[District303aPastPlayer]

PCDJ has a good setup for cheap. Its free.

[sinton66]

Windows has a built in program called "Sound Recorder" that will allow you to record sections of audio. You have to "time" it manually, but it works and it's free. Levels are adjustable via the stereo volume control and with settings in the program. I built an interface cable that plugs into the mic input on the laptop and hooks up to the headset/speaker output on two way radios to record interferance and base station identifier codes directly off the air. Playback over stereos would require an additional cable that interfaces from the headset output of the laptop to the Aux input of the stereo. All the cabling and plugs are readily available at Radio Shack or other electronic hardware stores.