How my listening used to work >
1. Select My Beatport.
2. Select a date range
3. Sort by oldest date first.
4. Press play on the first tune.
5. I keep my left hand on the arrow keys, and the right on the mouse, hovered over the clip. That way I can skip forward quickly, two or three times each tune, to see if anything catches my ear. Otherwise, I press the right arrow key and move on. No need to use a queue or anything
How it works now > I have to use the add to queue button and then press play. The colored bar in the track list is missing to indicate where in the list I'm currently listening, and there is no gray out to indicate which tracks I've listened to. Further, I've posted in the bugs, but using the right arrow quickly to skip tunes causes the autoplay to stop working properly, and you have to manually press the pause icon to get it to play again.

And to further improve My Beatport, it would be absolutely great if you could remove genres you *don't* want included in the My Beatport section. For example, currently I believe you can narrow my beatport to one specific genre. Why not multiple genres, or make the genres an on off toggle, so you could search for all progressive and techno inside My Beatport within a certain range, but NOT chill out or electronica? If I missed how to do that and it's actually an option, please let me know.

In the end, there is definitely no reason the new site should make it more difficult to listen to a lot of tunes quickly.
Let's be honest guys: with the massive increase in "producers" across the world, there are tons of mediocre tunes on the site, even if you're only sticking to a decent size collection of artists and labels through "my beatport." Most times I find 5-10 tunes I really dig out of about 1000. I need a way to get through those 1000 efficiently.

The new player on the pro site is almost unusable.

INCREASE THE SIZE (or at least make it scalable for different devices).
- We used to be able to see a whole album release or more. Now we can't see more than 4.5 tracks at a time. if you have hundreds of tracks in your player to go through, trying to find a certain one is impossible.

FIX PLAY ORDER AFTER REMOVING A TRACK
- When you remove a track from the player, the 'track cursor', returns to the top of the list, rather than the next track. If you are searching for specific tracks in a big list, finding them again is a huge pain, especially with the small player size.

FIX WAVEFORMS
- When you delete a track from the player (while it is playing) the waveform just goes blank for a moment but the track stays in the player until you choose another track from the queue. Either make that track playable again or remove it and play the next track in the player.

Better yet, you could create settings for each user to use the player how they like. Nothing is gained by making the crucial part of using your site - 'listening', harder for everybody.

Given that there are some tracks that are restricted in some areas to certain labels, it would be great to allow territory restricted tracks to be visible to those who can't buy and download them, but with a twist: Clicking on the territory restricted track would add it to a user's watchlist for when they might become available on Beatport under a different label or if the label reconsiders their position and allows them to be sold in that territory at a later date.

Labels could also gauge potential demand for some territories using database figures showing how many people from certain territories have their tracks on watchlists. It also could alert them to unnecessary restrictions, particularly if the tracks are available from iTunes or other alternative providers to the same territory from the very same label.

I think something that will be very helpful is the ability for Artists/Labels to be able to tag their songs/albums. One of the things that myself, and many others I talk to loathe about Beatport is the genre restrictions. I understand that it isn't feasible to create a new genre tag on Beatport for every little sub genre that exists. However, let's be real. It IS a problem when the Electro House & Progressive House genres are overloaded with Bigroom EDM tracks because they have nowhere else to put them. Tagging would help this a lot. If I want to look for a Piano House track with some Deep House elements, I could just search for the Tags: Piano and Deep. If this is already going to be implemented, consider me very excited. If not, I think A LOT of people would love that kind of feature.

Another feature I think a lot of people would like to see is the option for tracks to display the Camelot Key code. Many DJs I know use this system for organizing their music, and it would be nice to be able to search for tracks by the Camelot Key.

The quality (mostly the high frequencies of the previews) are too low.

Most users probably have a big list of songs to go through every few weeks/months. So previewing goes fast. For me, if a song sucks, in a few seconds I'm skipping to the next song. Lately it happens that I buy songs that I had initially skipped but because of hearing it a dj mix set or on youtube with much better quality dynamics, I go back and add it to the crate.

This probably has negative impact on sales, since relatively new and unknown songs don't give away how good they are mastered. There's so many details lost that they might sound boring in the preview.

Hey guys

I've been using you since 2005 and fully understand the need for evolvement and innovation. You have made some great changes and developments over the years, yet you've also made some bad calls too.

Now i make this comment as a customer, but I am also a label owner that uses the site and at first I thought, it would be great to see our tracks at the top of 'my beatport'. However, now after a few weeks as a consumer and after running through my weekly routine in buying tunes I do have to say....

This pre-release (orange button) feature showing you up and coming releases is without a doubt THE MOST POINTLESS function you've introduced. I can see how you would think its a great idea due to iTunes doing this with bands and traditional pop music etc but that type of music, people will wait for and buy on release as its generally for listening pleasure.

As DJ's we spend hours trawling through the endless available tracks to cull down to a handful of say 20-40 tracks that we can play that coming weekend, there's no point in us going through tracks we cant buy and use that coming weekend so they simply take up the first 2-3 pages of 'my beatport' unnecessarily.
Now i have to simply skip to the first available track and work back from there. This will get even more annoying if it becomes even more pages of pre-release.
Seriously guys, can you please get rid of this. I really think you should be working on fixing the glitches with beatport store and pro over developing this project any further.
I still have to use Beatport Classic for all purchase as the store simply glitches out all the time for me and I've just upgraded all my PC's laptops so it cant be the the peripherals.
The only reason i ever go to the store is because of the STEMS releases which aren't available on Classic but listening to them can be tricky at the best of times
Dont get me wrong here guys, i fully support expansion and product development but sometimes less is more.
I hope you can understand my point here as I'm sure many other will.
Thanks
Zzz