iPod DJ software
iPods benefit for having their own software, in the form of iTunes. Whilst this is great for organizing your music on your iPod. In order to DJ with an iPod, you’ll also want to have some additional software, and while your at it, so DJ software on your computer as well (1. cause its fun and 2. to help support your DJing on an iPod).
Here are some very useful software that will help you to both organize music in a DJ -able format and help with you DJ on your iPod.
YamiPod 1.6 - This allows you to make backups of iTunes, one of the inherent problems with iTunes is that it only allows an iPod associated with that specific iTunes to sync, your mates iPod would sync and you wouldn’t be able to transfer their music to your iTunes, naturally this was put in place to prevent pirating of music. YamiPod is an open source iPod program that allows you to back up your iPod, so if your tracks are on your iPod and you end up with a new computer and a new iTunes, you can still transfer your music across quickly and easily with your iPod. To add to this, you can edit song information, import lyrics, read copy and edit playlists. One unique feature is the ‘repair iPod’ feature which allows you to restore the database of music on your iPod.
iTunes BPM inspector (when you get to the site click more and scroll down), this is a fantastic tool that helps you calculate BPM, which for any DJ is useful and to key your music organized on an iPod for DJing, this is invaluable. This works by tapping out the beat. Beatunes is another iPod software that does this as an automated process, however, whilst its good, there can be times when the BPM is not measured accurately, usually when the music is very complex with no obvious beat.
Beatport.com - beatport offer a download of their DJ software which is really a cut down version of Traktor, the great thing about this is that Beatport are great for downloading music for your iPod and they specialize in DJ music.
These iPod and iTunes compatible programs will help you to iPod DJ and keep your music in order.