Nadirect v0.5.5

Members find each other more reliably, Quit really quits, and DJ Sync gets you connected faster.

Connecting

• Members who couldn’t see each other connect again. A computer that answered slowly (on a hotspot, or busy) could be blocked by another member until that one restarted Nadirect. A slow answer never blocks anyone now.
• Nadirect waits longer for a slow connection before giving up, so members on a hotspot get through more often.

Two computers

• With your account on two computers, Quit Nadirect opened it again straight away. Now it closes, and your other computer takes over.

DJ Sync

• With Rekordbox or Traktor on your computer, Nadirect’s file is ready as soon as you open DJ Sync. You go straight to picking it in the app, then Check connection.

Also

• The Downloader’s first screen sits in the middle of the window again, instead of low down with a big gap above it.

Nadirect v0.5.2

Your Nadirect account, two computers with one library, and new tools: download from a link, convert, tidy names, and send My Library into Rekordbox, Serato or Traktor.

Your account

• Sign in once with Google or a code sent to your email. Everything you already have stays: your groups, friends, chat, My Library and settings join your account.
• Choose a 6-digit PIN. It locks a backup of your Nadirect keys, so on a new computer you sign in, type your PIN and your name, groups and friends come back. Nobody can open the backup without your PIN, not even Nadirect.

Two computers

• Sign in on your second computer too, and My Library is the same on both: folders, songs, names and covers. It’s sealed between your computers, so the server can’t read it.
• A song whose file is on your other computer shows greyed. Get brings it straight from that computer (Get all for a whole folder). If that computer is off, the song comes as soon as it’s on.
• Your groups stay on the first computer you signed in on. The second one has My Library and all the tools, and shows each computer by its own name. Lost your first computer? Move your groups to the new one in Settings.

Downloader

• Paste a link from YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or Mixcloud: a song, a playlist or an album. Pick the songs and a format (WAV unless you choose another) and they land in My Library, under Downloaded, with their cover, artist and album.
• Nadirect takes the best a site gives for free and saves it without squeezing it again. Each song shows its real bitrate. Most sites give no more than this for free; connecting SoundCloud or YouTube Music Premium for better quality is coming.
• A song that’s part of a playlist offers you the whole playlist. A link that doesn’t work says why, right in the link box.
• Only download music you have the right to. Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal can’t be downloaded (their songs are protected).

Converter

• Turn songs into WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3 (320 kbps), from My Library or your group. The cover and details come along, and WAV plays on CDJs.
• Click songs to tick them, Shift-click for a run, or right-click any song and choose Convert…. New files go to My Library, under Converted. Your originals stay as they are.

Tidy names

• In My Library, Tidy names suggests cleaner names for the folder you’re in: no “(Official Video)” or “[FREE DL]”, “Artist - Title” split in two, no track numbers or SHOUTING. Check them, change any, and rename.
• The new names go into the files too (MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC), so your DJ apps show them. Only the title and artist change: the sound, the cover and your cue points and beat grids stay exactly as they were, and the file keeps its name and place. Undo puts the old names back.

DJ Sync

• Send My Library into Rekordbox, Serato or Traktor as a Nadirect folder, with the same folders. Sync sends only what changed, and Keep it in sync by itself does it for you a few seconds after My Library changes. DJ Sync in the sidebar shows a small icon when there’s something to sync, and songs in a DJ app wear a small headphones mark.
• Your own library in the app is never changed: songs you already have there keep the names the app has for them, and cue points and beat grids are never touched.
• Each app shows the version on this computer and how many songs it has. A short guide with pictures sets Rekordbox up, and Check connection tells you which step is left before your first sync.
• After a sync, Serato shows the changes the next time it opens. In Rekordbox and Traktor, import the Nadirect playlist again (the guide shows where).
• Renamed a song Rekordbox already has? Rekordbox keeps its old name on import, so those songs wait in a Renamed playlist: select them all there and choose Reload Tag. The playlist empties once Rekordbox has the new names.

Everywhere

• A click plays a song in your libraries. Tick-to-pick is for the Converter and the Downloader’s playlists.
• A sound and a message when something finishes or goes wrong: a download, a conversion, new names, a sync. Change or turn off the sounds in Settings.
• Nadirect’s colours: picked songs and highlights wear its cyan-to-blue, with dark blue for icons and links.
• Updated Terms and Privacy for the Downloader and Converter: you’ll be asked to agree again once.

Nadirect v0.5.1

Your Nadirect account, two computers with one library, and new tools: download from a link, convert, tidy names, and send My Library into Rekordbox, Serato or Traktor.

Your account

• Sign in once with Google or a code sent to your email. Everything you already have stays: your groups, friends, chat, My Library and settings join your account.
• Choose a 6-digit PIN. It locks a backup of your Nadirect keys, so on a new computer you sign in, type your PIN and your name, groups and friends come back. Nobody can open the backup without your PIN, not even Nadirect.

Two computers

• Sign in on your second computer too, and My Library is the same on both: folders, songs, names and covers. It’s sealed between your computers, so the server can’t read it.
• A song whose file is on your other computer shows greyed. Get brings it straight from that computer (Get all for a whole folder). If that computer is off, the song comes as soon as it’s on.
• Your groups stay on the first computer you signed in on. The second one has My Library and all the tools, and shows each computer by its own name. Lost your first computer? Move your groups to the new one in Settings.

Downloader

• Paste a link from YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or Mixcloud: a song, a playlist or an album. Pick the songs and a format (WAV unless you choose another) and they land in My Library, under Downloaded, with their cover, artist and album.
• Nadirect takes the best a site gives for free and saves it without squeezing it again. Each song shows its real bitrate. Most sites give no more than this for free; connecting SoundCloud or YouTube Music Premium for better quality is coming.
• A song that’s part of a playlist offers you the whole playlist. A link that doesn’t work says why, right in the link box.
• Only download music you have the right to. Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal can’t be downloaded (their songs are protected).

Converter

• Turn songs into WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3 (320 kbps), from My Library or your group. The cover and details come along, and WAV plays on CDJs.
• Click songs to tick them, Shift-click for a run, or right-click any song and choose Convert…. New files go to My Library, under Converted. Your originals stay as they are.

Tidy names

• In My Library, Tidy names suggests cleaner names for the folder you’re in: no “(Official Video)” or “[FREE DL]”, “Artist - Title” split in two, no track numbers or SHOUTING. Check them, change any, and rename.
• The new names go into the files too (MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC), so your DJ apps show them. Only the title and artist change: the sound, the cover and your cue points and beat grids stay exactly as they were, and the file keeps its name and place. Undo puts the old names back.

DJ Sync

• Send My Library into Rekordbox, Serato or Traktor as a Nadirect folder, with the same folders. Sync sends only what changed, and Keep it in sync by itself does it for you a few seconds after My Library changes. DJ Sync in the sidebar shows a small icon when there’s something to sync, and songs in a DJ app wear a small headphones mark.
• Your own library in the app is never changed: songs you already have there keep the names the app has for them, and cue points and beat grids are never touched.
• Each app shows the version on this computer and how many songs it has. A short guide with pictures sets Rekordbox up, and Check connection tells you which step is left before your first sync.
• After a sync, Serato shows the changes the next time it opens. In Rekordbox and Traktor, import the Nadirect playlist again (the guide shows where).
• Renamed a song Rekordbox already has? Rekordbox keeps its old name on import, so those songs wait in a Renamed playlist: select them all there and choose Reload Tag. The playlist empties once Rekordbox has the new names.

Everywhere

• A click plays a song in your libraries. Tick-to-pick is for the Converter and the Downloader’s playlists.
• A sound and a message when something finishes or goes wrong: a download, a conversion, new names, a sync. Change or turn off the sounds in Settings.
• Nadirect’s colours: picked songs and highlights wear its cyan-to-blue, with dark blue for icons and links.
• Updated Terms and Privacy for the Downloader and Converter: you’ll be asked to agree again once.

Nadirect v0.5.0

Your Nadirect account, two computers with one library, and new tools: download from a link, convert, tidy names, and send My Library into Rekordbox, Serato or Traktor.

Your account

• Sign in once with Google or a code sent to your email. Everything you already have stays: your groups, friends, chat, My Library and settings join your account.
• Choose a 6-digit PIN. It locks a backup of your Nadirect keys, so on a new computer you sign in, type your PIN and your name, groups and friends come back. Nobody can open the backup without your PIN, not even Nadirect.

Two computers

• Sign in on your second computer too, and My Library is the same on both: folders, songs, names and covers. It’s sealed between your computers, so the server can’t read it.
• A song whose file is on your other computer shows greyed. Get brings it straight from that computer (Get all for a whole folder). If that computer is off, the song comes as soon as it’s on.
• Your groups stay on the first computer you signed in on. The second one has My Library and all the tools, and shows each computer by its own name. Lost your first computer? Move your groups to the new one in Settings.

Downloader

• Paste a link from YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or Mixcloud: a song, a playlist or an album. Pick the songs and a format (WAV unless you choose another) and they land in My Library, under Downloaded, with their cover, artist and album.
• Nadirect takes the best a site gives for free and saves it without squeezing it again. Each song shows its real bitrate. Most sites give no more than this for free; connecting SoundCloud or YouTube Music Premium for better quality is coming.
• A song that’s part of a playlist offers you the whole playlist. A link that doesn’t work says why, right in the link box.
• Only download music you have the right to. Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal can’t be downloaded (their songs are protected).

Converter

• Turn songs into WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3 (320 kbps), from My Library or your group. The cover and details come along, and WAV plays on CDJs.
• Click songs to tick them, Shift-click for a run, or right-click any song and choose Convert…. New files go to My Library, under Converted. Your originals stay as they are.

Tidy names

• In My Library, Tidy names suggests cleaner names for the folder you’re in: no “(Official Video)” or “[FREE DL]”, “Artist - Title” split in two, no track numbers or SHOUTING. Check them, change any, and rename.
• The new names go into the files too (MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC), so your DJ apps show them. Only the title and artist change: the sound, the cover and your cue points and beat grids stay exactly as they were, and the file keeps its name and place. Undo puts the old names back.

DJ Sync

• Send My Library into Rekordbox, Serato or Traktor as a Nadirect folder, with the same folders. Sync sends only what changed, and Keep it in sync by itself does it for you a few seconds after My Library changes. DJ Sync in the sidebar shows a small icon when there’s something to sync, and songs in a DJ app wear a small headphones mark.
• Your own library in the app is never changed: songs you already have there keep the names the app has for them, and cue points and beat grids are never touched.
• Each app shows the version on this computer and how many songs it has. A short guide with pictures sets Rekordbox up, and Check connection tells you which step is left before your first sync.
• After a sync, Serato shows the changes the next time it opens. In Rekordbox and Traktor, import the Nadirect playlist again (the guide shows where).
• Renamed a song Rekordbox already has? Rekordbox keeps its old name on import, so those songs wait in a Renamed playlist: select them all there and choose Reload Tag. The playlist empties once Rekordbox has the new names.

Everywhere

• A click plays a song in your libraries. Tick-to-pick is for the Converter and the Downloader’s playlists.
• A sound and a message when something finishes or goes wrong: a download, a conversion, new names, a sync. Change or turn off the sounds in Settings.
• Nadirect’s colours: picked songs and highlights wear its cyan-to-blue, with dark blue for icons and links.
• Updated Terms and Privacy for the Downloader and Converter: you’ll be asked to agree again once.

Nadirect v0.4.5

Send songs to one person, straight from your computer, and chats that feel alive.

Songs to one person

• In a private chat, the song button sends to them only: no group sees it. Pick as many songs as you like, they go as one box (Download all, or one by one).
• Right-click songs, Send to…, to send them to anyone you chat with. A song request’s Send it goes straight to them too (In the group shares it there instead).
• Play a song sent to you before downloading it, while they’re online. It comes with its cover, and lands in your My Library under From friends.
• Songs never go through Nadirect’s server: they come from the sender’s computer when you’re both online. A download that’s waiting can be cancelled.

Chat

• See when they’re typing, who’s online (the green dot) and when they’ve seen your message (two ticks).
• Someone who’s your friend and in a group with you is one chat now. Messages to a friend go straight between your computers while you’re both online, and wait on the server for them when you’re not.
• Short chats sit by the message box, and photos you send look right.

Songs and profiles

• Right-click any song for its file: format, bitrate, size, length and whether it plays on CDJs. Look it up opens YouTube, SoundCloud, Beatport, Spotify or Apple Music.
• Right-click a song in someone’s crate to ask for it or look it up.
• Apple Music on your profile, and each network’s own colours.

Mac

• ⌘Q closes the window and Nadirect keeps sharing from the menu bar. Quit Nadirect there to stop it.

Nadirect v0.4.4

Nadirect from the keyboard: pick several songs at once, and move around with the arrows.

Picking songs

• Click a song to pick it, Shift-click for a run of songs, Ctrl-click (⌘ on a Mac) to add or take one away. Double-click plays.
• ↑/↓ move (with Shift, pick more), Ctrl+A picks all, Esc none, Enter plays.
• Delete (⌘⌫ on a Mac) removes the songs you picked, after one question: from the group the ones you may remove, from My Library out of the folder you’re in. Ctrl+D downloads them, Ctrl+E shows the file.
• Drag one of the songs you picked and they all go.

Moving around

• Ctrl+1 to 9 (⌘ on a Mac) open the sidebar’s pages in the order you see them.
• In the sidebar ↑/↓ open the page above or below; → goes into the page (the genres, then the songs, or your chats, then the message box), ← comes back.
• The group card opens with → or Enter, ↑/↓ inside, ← or Esc to close.
• Ctrl+F goes to the search on the page. Chats have a search of their own now.
• A clearer ring shows where the keyboard is.

Nadirect v0.4.2

Edit your own songs in My Library, just like in the group.

My Library

• Right-click a song, Edit details and artwork: change its title, artist, album, folder and cover (choose a picture, drop one on it, or remove it).
• Only My Library changes: the file itself and your groups aren’t touched, and what you edit stays as you set it.

Nadirect v0.4.1

Dropping music works again, and My Library shows every song the way your group does.

Fixed

• Dropping files on a genre on the drop screen adds them again, sub-genres too (hold on a genre to open it, then drop).
• Songs in My Library show the cover, artist and album your group has for them, even when the file has none. Songs you added before fill in by themselves.
• A song in one group can be shared with another: right-click it in My Library, Share with Night Owls (or whichever group is open).

Small things

• Drop files on All music and you’re asked which genre they go in.
• A My Library song already in the open group says so in its menu.
• Click the pictures on a tip to see the next one.

Nadirect v0.4.0

Several groups, Friends, and a profile that’s yours: Nadirect gets social.

Several groups

• Be in as many groups as you like. Hover or click the group card to switch, join another with an invite code, or start your own (one each).
• Each group keeps its own music folder, and a song keeps playing when you switch.
• Removed from a group? You’re told straight away, and its page says so.

Friends

• Everyone has a Nadirect ID, like K7Q-2MX. Add a friend by their ID or find them by name, or right-click someone in your group.
• Invite a friend into a group you run: they click Join and they’re in, no waiting for approval.
• Message friends even when you share no group. Messages are locked on your computer before they leave, so only the two of you can read them.
• See who’s online right now. Requests, answers and messages arrive the moment they’re sent.

Your profile

• A page of your own: a banner, a bio, your top 3 genres, your socials, and a song on repeat that people can play.
• Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar to see it, or anyone’s name to see theirs.

Chat

• One chat for all your groups and friends. Someone in several of your groups is one conversation.
• Right-click a chat to pin it to the top, mute it, archive it or delete it.

Everywhere

• Songs without a cover get the Nadirect tile in their own colour.
• The Terms of Use changed (what Nadirect’s server sees, and blocking), so you’re asked to agree again.

Nadirect v0.3.4

My Library: your own music, your way. Plus your profile, group photos and sorting.

My Library

• A library of your own, only on this computer and never shared. Folders go inside folders as deep as you like, with your own names and colours.
• Songs stay where they are: My Library only remembers where you put them. A song can be in several folders, and a moved file is found again.
• Drop, paste or pick songs to add them. From the group’s Library, right-click Add to My Library (songs not downloaded yet are downloaded first). From My Library, right-click Share with the group.
• Right-click Fix for CDJs works here too, and Recently added lets you play your latest songs straight away.
• No group yet, or waiting to be approved? My Library works anyway.

You and your group

• Your profile: your name and photo, set once on the first page and used for every group you join. Already in a group? It was filled in for you.
• Admins can give the group a photo. It shows in the sidebar, on Home and in the group chat.
• The sidebar keeps My Library apart from the group’s pages, under the group’s name and photo.

Everywhere

• Sort any song list: click a column heading, again to reverse it.
• The player folds down to a thin strip; click it to open it again.
• Settings → Security explains in plain words how Nadirect keeps you safe.
• Covers no longer show as broken images, dropped files are always welcome on the song list, and the window has no menu bar.