MP3Jing

n. the live mixing or playing of recorded music in a dance club or other public space using a portable digital audio device such as an Apple iPod. Subjects: English, Entertainment, Music, Technology

Etymological Note: MP3 ‘MPEG audio layer 3, a digital compression format commonly used to store audio’ + J ‘jockeying; the live playing or mixing of recorded music as a public performance.’

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Citations: 2002 [eyescratch] Usenet: cz.comp.lang.perl (June 15) “[NET.JAM] audio & video STREAM sundays”: SHARE-assemblage of portable computers. data exchange , performances , MP3Jing sunday afternoons 5-9. 2004 Raj Panjwani The Guardian (U.K.) (Jan. 7) “Clubs: Last night an MP3J saved my life” p. 10: MP3Jing is just about extending that accessibility. I co-run a night called noWax at a bar in east London, where people DJ with iPods. 2004 [The Angelus] Aggregate of the Void Generation (L.A., California) (Aug. 12) “Enjoying the silence”: I need to look into repairing the headphone jack on my laptop. Without it, I can’t run monitors out from my MP3Jing software. That means no beatmixing. 2004 Julie Clothier @ London CNN (Dec. 20) “Turning the digital tables”: Welcome to No Wax—the UK’s first MP3Jing evenings, where ordinary punters get the chance to publicly show off the music stored inside their MP3 players.

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