Solco: Stop Preparing Your Tracks, Start Preparing Your Gigs

Some of you may not know this, but I’m a DJ in my free time. I founded Floppy Disco, a music collective to bring the magic of Disco and House to Berlin, and I’ve played clubs all over here and in other places in Europe. I love DJing, and my favourite part is finding new music and playing it for people. Preparing my tracks, however, has never been truly fun. It rather felt like admin: fixing beat grids that were often wrong, fighting clunky software like rekordbox, building playlists by hand, correcting tags and genres, updating playlists, and deciding whether ratings or colours should stand for energy, mood or vocals. So I said enough, and built Solco to do that work for me. Today it opens as a private beta. What it does You drop your music in. Solco grids every track, finds its key and loudness, hears its genre and character (energy, drive, dance, vocals and more, each from 0 to 100), fixes its tags and finds your duplicates by their sound. Then it writes the USB drive your Pioneer…