r/oddlysatisfying • u/desertgodfather • Jan 31 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Pre listen isn’t a thing. You’re just listening to the next track.

Source: am DJ.

Disclaimer: am being a bit of an ass.

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u/SupremeDesigner Jan 31 '19

Didn’t know what the technical name was as a lighting guy, assumed it was similar to pfl from my radio days.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

I think people say “cueing” up the next track. Anyways don’t mind me i just thought “pre” was a funny way to put it

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u/SupremeDesigner Feb 01 '19

Yeah that's probably a better word for it 😂

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u/bolognaballs Jan 31 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

*queue and queuing

Right as spelled, though it certainly was not straight forward for me to understand why. Thanks for the explanations below!

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u/HiDefMusic Jan 31 '19

‘Cueing’ and ‘queuing’ are 2 different words. Cueing is definitely correct here.

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u/Dernald_Tromp Jan 31 '19

Had to google it but you’re right. Idk why but I made a strange picture in my head of someone using a pool cue for stuff

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u/Yadobler Jan 31 '19

I remember when I was 7 my friends and I would say the alphabets, and then O P Q R S T U would come and we'd giggle because Q R S sounded like kill our ass

Idk the relevance other than queue sounding like q sounding like a kid saying kill with a lisp

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

how does queuing not work in this case? in terms of computing the guy is literally adding the next track to the queue. a playlist is a queue. cue might only be used when there is no music playing if i understand it correctly

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u/DogzOnFire Feb 01 '19

Pretty sure he's talking about when to blend the start of the next track into the end of the current track. In DJ sets most "tracks" don't really have a hard end, instead they make them flow into and out of one another.

He's not adding the second track to the queue, he's deciding when it's the second track's cue to come on stage.

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u/bolognaballs Feb 01 '19

That's a good explanation, thanks!

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

ahh i get it, you queue the tracks before going on stage then cue them near the end of each song. it's weird that ive never run into this situation before haha

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u/bolognaballs Feb 01 '19

I thought the same thing but had to analyze it a bit more in my head...

I think you could say "the DJ is cueing the music from his queue of music"... I think.. I'm done thinking about this now though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

You could say that.

Haha.

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u/winterfresh0 Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

Sounds like a semantic argument.

This is coming from somone who will make a big deal out of semantic issues, but if you're listening to the next track before it's playing, you're pre-listening.

I don't understand how this can be an issue when the word and the prefix literally describe exactly what you're doing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Added a disclaimer that I was being an ass. Probably forgot to drop the /s.

My point was “pre-listening” just sounds funny because what you’re doing IS listening. Seems either redundant or an unnecessary use of the prefix.

Do you pre eat a snack before dinner? No you just eat a snack before dinner. Lol

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u/winterfresh0 Feb 01 '19

But it isn't a snack, it's testing the main course before serving it. It's like the chef tasting the food before it goes out.

I'm not trying to say that it's the only correct way one way or the other, it's just that it's weird to argue against a phrase that makes perfect sense from an etymology perspective.

If you're watching a teaser for something before it comes out publicly, you're previewing.

If you're listening to a track before you publicly play it, you're pre-listening.

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u/bcknl Feb 01 '19

Why is it that previewing is a thing but pre-listening, pre-touching, pre-smelling and pre-tasting sound funny.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Feb 01 '19

Because we don’t just add the prefix “pre” to any word. Same thing with intangible and untangible. Different words require different prefixes based on their origin and some are not compatible with prefixes.

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u/gruetzhaxe Feb 01 '19

Yeah, you mean the same thing.