The first day in the life of RjDj
RjDj was born as an iphone application on a friday, october 10, 2008 about 2pm gmt. The first day was naturally quite exciting. Before going into details, let us give you some links so you know who RjDj is.
- Meet RjDj, go ahead and download via Itunes
- Read more about RjDj
- See some pictures of little RjDj
- Watch more videos of RjDj scenes
First of all we were really happy about the many reactions we got. Peter Kirn’s excellent article and his interview on the creative digital media blog deserves some special mentioning. Peter really managed to point out that RjDj is not born to be yet another iphone app. What we really want to achieve is to be the driving force behind a new music genre.
We also got a lot of requests for new features. The main topics were recordings download and scenes download. Both topics are on our radar. If you are one of those people who do not want to wait until new features are done but rather do them yourselfes, you came to the right place. Please let us know and drop us a line at info at rjdj.me. E.g. we need django people who are able to help us on the web framework. I guess later this week we will also release more info about the open source angle of RjDj.
A lot of requests were about more RjDj scenes. There is a whole bunch of really talented musicians/programmers working on that already and we hope we can attract more. This morning Mike Dixon who learned about RjDj on friday just uploaded a new scene…. that is the right spirit!! If you are interested in creating more scenes, read on.
Some people were trying to install RjDj on their Ipod touch, which does not work because we currently only support the iPhone (we are working on an iPod touch 2g version too….) Others tried to use RjDj without headset microphone. In theory that should work but only in theory. Ask Paul who spent countless nights on the audio driver how much he cursed over the Apple SDK…
A few people also reported one nasty problem that really twisted the mind of Paul and Guenter: RjDj crashed right after launch. We are working on this but are still trying to find a way to reproduce this error. If it happens to you, read the bug report and send us an email.
All in all it was a wonderful first day. Thanks again to everyone who is involved with RjDj. Whatever scene you are listening to, take care and enjoy your mind twisting hearing sensations.
PS: don’t forget to leave your review, on this site or directly in the store.
If you want to link to our website, you could just copy paste the following little piece of code:
<a href="http://more.rjdj.me/do-you-rjdj-me/"><img src="http://more.rjdj.me/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/doyourjdjme.png"/></a>
October 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Is there any way to play my recordings on the pc? :)
October 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Hi Marian,
No way to upload the recordings yet, unless you know you way through ssh. We will add this feature real soon now.
Thanks, piem
October 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Hi!
I resently bought RjDj and I like it, but I miss many of the scenes you have shown here (e.g. Ping Pong).
WHERE ARE THE MISSING SCENES?
October 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
[...] creators of interactive iPhone music app RjDj have posted a quick update on their blog answering a number of questions readers have raised here. The easiest fix: if you can’t hear [...]
October 12th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Like Schiko said.. I see like 30 scenes which jailbreakers can download.. But what’s up with the paid version? Will it be like updates or something??
October 13th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Hi, this is a wonderful concept, I was very excited to hear about it.
I own a 2G iPod Touch, so haven’t tried it yet… Very glad to hear Touch support is planned.
Question: will it eventually be possible to send Pd patches directly to run on a non-jailbroken iPod/iPhone?
October 13th, 2008 at 5:28 am
I wish this app could be used while using another app on the iPhone. I’d love to be hearing this while I play Scrabble or something.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:48 am
@Lennart: Perhaps I’m a little bit blind, but where did you found this “about 30 scenes” and to which folder on my iPhone do I have to put them?
October 13th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
On the demonstration video there is much more scenes than in the paid version which has just 6 scenes. What with other scenes, may I load them somehow?
October 13th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
If you have read older post from this site they said they would only put 6 scenes in the version they were going to release, and the other scenes will come later in an update or so. Just be patient, they will come if they wanted to release this app with all scenes this app wouldn’t have been released yet.
For the makers of RjDj:
- I’d like to maybe see an option where you can play your recordings using the build in speaker.
- As everybody else of course more scenes (but I know you’re working on releasing them)
- Better explanation of scenes because I still don’t know how to use some scenes
- A loading screen/splash screen because when you start it you see for 3 seconds only the two black bars and it is more nice to see a picture those 3 seconds.
- Running the application on the background, like you use RjDj in stead of the ipod application, but I don’t think apple will allow to let RjDj run as a background application but it would be nice if it was possible.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I love this app. I will be using it live this saturday together with Ableton Live. I hope you don’t mind…
October 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
PingPong.rj doesnt work and i was really looking forward to that and its not transferred to the not finished section so it must be finished can you plz look into that thanks and for the rest you guys rock .
October 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
@Clark: sure feel free to spread the love! :-)
@Jantjuh: thanks, done, we will try to fix it quickly
October 16th, 2008 at 5:54 am
I bought the full version after watching the demo video. Where are all the other scenes? Like the Amen one for instance? Feeling a bit ripped off here!
October 16th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I love the concept of RJDJ and the demo videos rock … is there any way to use it on a 1.1.1 iphone ?
October 19th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
http://soifran.blogspot.com/2008/10/un-peu-de-feedback.html
unfortunately i can’t compose til now, but this day will come, i can share some feedback from france…
big up to all the team
October 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
re-hi boys !
just to say i had to correct the quotes on your lil piece of code when pasting it on my blog (there http://soifran.blogspot.com/2008/10/rjdj-le-lien.html ) to get it functionnal
cheers
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:24 am
Why can’t I buy the RjDj album here in iTunes Store Brazil? :(
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
@soifran: thanks! should be fixed now
@marcos: strange, you should be able to, RjDj is available world wide.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
@piem: it’s unavailable on iTs BR. take a look: http://img78.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rdjditsbrix4.jpg
:(
October 25th, 2008 at 5:50 am
RJDJ was just featured on G4TV on Attack Of The Show! That’s awesome! Hopefully you’ll get more buyers because of it.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Hi All,
I love this app! I’ve been having fun with it all day!
It is possible to get the recordings off the phone, but only if you have it Jailbroken, and have SSH installed. If you have both these things, connect to your iPhone in the usual way, and navigate to the following directory…
/Private/Var/Mobile/Applications/5CCEF923-0692-441E-A669-8D5603754A06/Documents/recordings/
I’m assuming the “5CCEF923…” bit is the same for everyone, but it might not be. You’ll be able to tell if you’re in the correct directory, because it will have “RjDj_Album.app” in it.
Incidentally… I also found that disabling “auto lock” and playing music on shuffle helped when transferring the files. This is because, for some reason, when the phone went into auto lock mode, SSH transfers stopped! This might just be something on my own phone, and your experience may differ!
Good luck,
n_sonic
ps. I take no responsibility for anyone making a mess of their iPhone whilst doing this… :)
November 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
RjDj – Interaktive Musik für’s Iphone…
U-Bahn, Fußgängerzone, Joggingstrecke, Urinal, Vorlesung, Auto, Volkspark Stadion Block C -fast überall hat der musikbegeisterte Hörer seinen IPOD Mp3 Player dabei. Jedoch ist es oft so das trotz Unmengen an Alben das passige nicht…
November 17th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Very cool app. I played with the Single version for only a few minutes before buying the Album.
I’ve put together a slapdash podcast of my experiments if you’re interested:
http://sounddistractions.blogspot.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoundDistractions or feed://feeds.feedburner.com/SoundDistractions
I’d love feedback on what you folks think. I hope to put more up soon. I had made quite a few recordings while playing the clarinet, but RJDJ only recorded silence for the entire session.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Hello,
have registered at music.rjdj.me
when i grab the free scenes its just: You own this scene. Download it from RjDj.
how can i get it onto the iThing ?
there is no download tab in rjdj ? or is it then pleae help i cant find it, just the Edit Button, and there i also dont know for hat it is…
Please help, wanna enjoy more scenes :)