Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
yeah, no way I`m giving some DJ all the parts of my songs so he can get credit for playing me music "live"
I`ll play it myself thanks.
DJs are already basically doing that - and they sometimes deserve the credit. DJing creatively is not easy, no matter what tools you have at your disposal. I used to be a DJ, and although you're technically not creating the song from scratch you're still the last link in the creative chain before the signal gets sent to the amp.

But as a live musician myself you have to try pretty hard not to wince at the lack of respect given to those who take the path less trodden. That said, I'm completely in favour of releasing music in a multi-channel format. I've had this idea for years now, but it'll probably never catch on because of distribution problems as mentioned.

One concievable way of overcoming this would be to distribute tracks in a universal format (say in a refined Ableton .als format) on the internet in the same way music is sold in MP3 format on iTunes. Getting artists interested is another thing. Yet another thing is getting DJs to let go of the outdated and sickeningly romatic idea that vinyl is better than everything else...