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I burnt Biab files onto a cd and use a cd player. I have an 8 measure intro for each song and that's enough time for me to get ready for the next tune. The downside is that someone asks for a request I have to stop everything to find it. I'm usually just doing back ground music so it's not that big a deal. For a dance gig I'd want something more flexible.



That's the up-side of using a computer. I can get any one of my 500+ songs up in less than 3 seconds. So if someone comes up and lays a $20.00 bill on me and says, "Can you play a Waltz Across Texas" (or anything else we know) I can do it immediately.

Plus I can go from song to song seamlessly, and I can decide what song to play next 5 seconds before the present song ends and still get to the next song with no dead air between the songs.

The technique is simple and explained at http://www.nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.html

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