First Dance Foibles
I DJ’ed weddings on Saturday and Sunday this past weekend. On Sunday, the bride and groom showed up as expected, and the groom handed me the promised CD of their first dance song. They insisted I play the version of the song they were to provide, as they had prepared a routine to it, so I arrived ready to oblige them.
I took the CD and just to be sure I popped it in the CD player. No response. So I popped it into my computer and looked for it in iTunes. Nothing. Next I double-clicked the CD icon and looked inside. Aha! The groom must have taken it for granted that I’d have a laptop with me (even though very few DJs bring one) as he saved the songs as mp3s. I dragged it into Traktor, my mp3 DJ software. Still nothing. A closer inspection of the alleged mp3 revealed it to actually be an m4p. Okay, not a problem, time to open Quicktime. I dragged that pesky m4p into Quicktime and it opened right up. Their particular version of “Fly Me to the Moon” ready and a-rarin’ to go.
The bride and groom take the floor and embrace in preparation for their routine. The guests are a-quiver with anticipation. I click play.
This computer is not authorized to play “11 Fly Me to the Moon.m4p.”
Turns out the groom had purchased the song online at the Apple Music Store and did not know the appropriate trick for playing it on multiple machines, nor did he know his password info to authorize the song on my computer.
Today’s Question: Do you know that trick?
All was not lost. I regaled the guests with jokes about Napster, the R.I.A.A. and the groom’s honesty in actually paying for the song while he ran to his suite to get his own laptop. In all it turned out to be a pretty humorous and hopefully memorable situation. I was just glad I could come up with enough schtick to cover it all. In the end, a good time was had by all when the song played and the newlyweds performed their exciting dance routine.
Wow, I would have paniced, you so rawk.
Nice recovery.
One time I had a friend send me a couple songs she downloaded but never listened to. Two of them said I needed permission to play them on my computer. My computer asked if I wanted the rights to play them. On one, I got the rights to play it, but with the other, it said the host could not be contacted, so I was denied the rights.
THAT IS SWEET. You really are a professional. Not tht I ever doubted it. But still … all the tricks necessary to knw, in order to be a professional. Stressful. Altho, I wonder … why did the groom bring his laptop to the wedding? Nerd. CUTE ! ;) ~PK
BTW – I noticed P’s blogs are steadily bcmg few & far between. Wht the deal? ~PK