Whether you want to rock your bedroom or the club, Traktor Pro is a very complete program that does pretty much everything you might want. It's highly configurable, which makes it very flexible but also pretty inaccessible to beginners. There is extensive documentation for Traktor Pro, but even that is pretty scary!

As well as controlling external sources, Traktor Pro allows you to mix from your computer on up to four decks at once. Importing your music library is really simple, and it works with iTunes libraries too. Tracks are analyzed when loaded into a deck, and appear as a wave form that can be moved with the mouse, alongside the beats per minute (BPM) and much more information. Traktor Pro is pretty accurate when it comes to finding BPMs, but if it is wrong, you can set them manually.

All the usual mixing tools are present, with pitch control, crossfader effects, and levels. There is extensive hotkey mapping, which is fully configurable, but takes a lot of time to do. Once you get used to Traktor Pro, it reveals itself as an incredible DJ tool. With some practice you'll be able to create fantastic mixes, which you can record from within the program.

Traktor Pro is an excellent and incredibly powerful DJ application with a steep learning curve that is worth climbing.

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With iTunes 10, the library has been improved with an extra view that adds album artwork where there’s room, instead of the traditional album title next to each song. This smartens up library viewing a lot, and generally underlines the new, clean look of the interface. It's no revolution, but looks neater. Playlists and iTunes DJ are untouched, and managing your library is as easy as ever. Creating playlists is one of iTunes' strengths, and it's still simpler and more user-friendly than the competition.

Syncing iTunes with iPods and other Apple devices is really easy, and there are no longer problems using Mac-formatted devices in iTunes for Windows, or vice versa. Home Sharing is a great way to keep your library across multiple computers at home; it is really easy to set up and means all your computers will automatically have up-to-date libraries.

The biggest change with version 10 is to the iTunes Store. Ping, which is linked to your iTunes account, allows you to create a personal profile and share your purchases and reviews with friends, and artists you like. It looks very much like a basic Facebook News Feed or Twitter, but just about music. At the moment Ping feels underdeveloped. You can't share your listening habits, like Last.fm, and manual sharing is limited to the iTunes Store, not your own library. There's no option to share what you're listening to right now, which is pretty terrible! Ping will surely develop and improve very soon.

The basic library function of iTunes is unparalleled, and syncing with iPods, iPhones and iPads is excellent.

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If you're looking for something a little bit more intuitive when it comes to building playlists for iTunes and your iPod then you might be impressed with that beaTunes can do.

beaTunes works by analyzing the songs in your existing iTunes library and then correcting discrepancies such as double entries, incorrectly labeled songs and artists, misplaced genres and much more. When you run the library inspector on startup, it will display the errors or problems it has found and then ask you how many of them you'd like to correct. In the trial version, you can't make any corrections but you can see what's wrong with your collection.

beaTunes can also auto organize playlists by such things as genre, rating and even beats per minute. It could be regarded as a virtual DJ although as with all apps like these, some of the suggestions and mixes it will make will inevitably be a bit dodgy. beaTunes goes beyond what you've got installed on your Mac though, and interacts with both the iTunes store and Amazon database. This allows you to discover albums related to your music that you might not have heard or just follow the Amazon charts. The Amazon charts take a little while to load but you're presented with a thumbnail of each album currently in it plus you can divide the charts into genres too.

beaTunes is a nice little application that could help clean up your iTunes collection and introduce you to new music.

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The layout of itDJ is straightforward. In the main window of itDJ there are two mixing decks. Around these two decks are the DJing tools i.e. display title, equalizer, speed indicator, crossfader and cue buttons for loops and beats. There are also several other special effects tools.

With these tools you can create some original mixes but if your imagination is limited, there's even an automatic mixing mode that will attempt to mix your iTunes collection for you based on the beats-per-minute of the tracks.

However, itDJ is a very limited package in general. There's no way to connect external devices for example and there's not much control over advanced aspects of your sound and mixes. itDJ is also in beta which means it can also be unstable.

itDJ is an ideal package for beginners although advanced DJs will find it lacking.

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To get started, simply open your music library, and drag and drop files into Virtual DJ's decks. There's a BPM counter to help you judge transitions between tracks, and the visual wave display also helps to cue up your music. Setting sound levels and altering the bass and treble are all really easy. If you don't want to worry about your transitions, press the auto mix button and let Virtual DJ do all the work for you. Be warned though, that the results are pretty mixed!

You can sample and loop tracks live, add effects, and there's a very natural-feeling scratch mode. For the adventurous, there's a lot you can add to your mixes with Virtual DJ.

Support for recording your mixes is also available, which is a great way to learn, allowing you to analyze your mistakes and successes with the application. It also means you can record mixes for your friends! Mixes can be recorded in MP3, burned to CD or even streamed to internet radio. Virtual DJ can be set up to use two sound cards, if you have them.

Virtual DJ is accessible to beginners and packed with extra features. The downside of the software is that it sticks too much to what a physical DJ setup is - other programs offer four decks and more user-friendly interfaces - small knobs may be great for your fingers, but they're less use on a screen!

On the whole, Virtual DJ is a solid, traditional-looking application. You can showcase your very own mix without having to carry around expensive and bulky equipment.

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You can use an audio player like iTunes to DJ hour after hour of your favorite music or just to let your friends hear that new song you've been working on. The included VoiceOver effect lets you insert radio-style commentary, right between songs. Radio on your Macintosh has never been this easy or this much fun. Broadcast events live or host a call-in show - anything you can plug into your Mac can also be broadcast out. Want to broadcast your band's next gig? Just plug in a cable from the mixer to your laptop, and run Nicecast. Nicecast is perfect for every type of audio broadcasting - try it out today.

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If you've ever fancied yourself as a budding DJ then you've got a huge number of apps to choose from but most of them only work on specific platforms.

Disco XT however is a professional cross-platform DJ mixing and music playback software that integrates with both iTunes and Windows Media Player. The good thing is that no setup or importing is required with Disco XT so you can get up and running as soon as it's installed. It's packed with features to help your mixes sound as professional as possible no matter what your ability.

Examples include the Pitch-lock. This allows you to adjust the playback speed of song on Disco XT without changing the musical pitch which makes it much easier to match two songs with different pace. If this still doesn't help, another useful Disco XT feature is Automix which plays and fades songs together without any effort on your part. This works with, excuse the pun, rather mixed results but it does an acceptable job, and best of all, allows you to get on with enjoying the party, all thanks to Disco XT.

There are many other features of Disco XT such as Automatic BPM detection, Waveform analysis and even a voice recording function that make it a very solid DJing setup.

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UltraMixer's interface is clear although first time DJs will probably find it handy to get grips with the different elements. Use of typical features like the crossfader, equalizer or cue are just like you would expect on a regular mixer. The UltraMixer library is well organized in a tree structure, and allows you to keep all your different tracks the way you're most comfortable with.

The installation process is long and awkward however and is probably aimed at getting you to purchase the more advanced, expensive version of UltraMixer. Within this download, there are three versions: professional, basic and free. You'll need a key to activate the demo, and the process takes too long.

UltraMixer is a powerful DJing application but the awkward and lengthy installation process to access the free version will frustrate and annoy many.

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DJing software is often expensive but Mixxx breaks the mold as an excellent, open source and free DJing app that's incredibly accomplished.

Mixxx features everything you'd expect in a commercial package including MIDI controller support and a mixing engine with recording vinyl control. When you start Mixxx, it automatically scans your music library for audio files which is a bit annoying because you don't get any choice over it. You have to wait for this to finish before you can get stuck into Mixxx but it's worth the wait.

Mixxx is complete but not too complicated for the aspiring DJ. There's plenty of documentation for those that do get stuck but there's nothing more to it than browsing to your music library and selecting two songs to use - one for the left and right decks. The crossfader is in the middle of the deck for manual control but you can let Mixxx take control with it's auto-syncing option. This tries to measure the BPM's of each song and can result in some weird results but it's impressive.

For professionals, you can add external devices such as CD players and vinyl decks. To use the rest of the controls you'll have to know something about mixing decks and how they work.

Mixxx is an excellent simple mixing decks for anyone that's having a party or wants to get going as a DJ - best of all it's completely free.

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Radiologik DJ consists of three main players and one library player. All of them have customizable individual audio outputs and detailed time calculations. They also all integrate with iTunes, and a special scheduler for automating transmissions although this has to be downloaded separately.

The two program players consist of an independent voiceover player and a library player. The players operate in the same way as they would in a radio station environment by overlapping at your command. You can configure custom start and stop fades for each track played and you can search directly in iTunes from the Radiologik DJ interface. The integration with iTunes is superb with tracks imported instantly, searches lightening quick and support for dragging and dropping tracks into Radiologik DJ.

For professionals, Radiologik DJ has a lot to offer. The automatic track playing time calculations and the scheduler are two particularly useful features. However, for beginners, Radiologik DJ isn't particularly user friendly - it takes a lot of getting used to and despite the iTunes integration, isn't ideal for those just starting out.

For professional radio DJs, Radiologik DJ is a complete and highly accomplished solution.

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G-Force includes a host of impressive features such as anti-aliased effects, millions of effect combinations, savable and scriptable effects and video file export capabilities. You can also customize and extend G-Force in various ways.

G-Force is basically a mathematical application which takes sounds and turns them into images. It makes an impressive piece of eye-candy but with one drawback. You have to pay an annual subscription to keep using it which will no doubt put off many users. It's therefore probably more appealing to professional DJs and other performance artists that need a visual display to accompany music.

G-Force is an impressive application but will probably appeal more to professionals than general users.

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Neutrino is a fun audio player that allows you to shift the pitch and rate of your audio files and integrates perfectly with iTunes. Neutrino has been designed with musicians and audio professionals in mind, who need maximum control over the pitch of their music and is much more than just your average DJ pitch shifter. This means you can add effects, reverb, loops, time, pitch, audio Units plug-ins and more. You can improve music with equalizers and visualize music as it plays.

Apart from changing the pitch and tempo, you can of course also twist, squelch, distort and warp your favorite music with few problems. However, it's not particularly easy to work out how to locate some of these functions and the developers could have made them more obvious on the interface. Neutrino also isn't particularly well integrated with external music apps such as scrobbling to Last.fm for example. It is, however, fairly well integrated with iTunes.

Neutrino is a decent tool for all those that want to have a bit of fun with their music or professionals that want to refine it.

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The Topaz Adjust for Mac is a version designed for MAC users that has the same functions the plug-ins designed for non-MAC computers. This program uses an advanced algorithm to obtain unique effects and adjustments in just a few seconds.

The user of this program gets the chance to adjust the exposure they want by putting more light onto the subject image or even changing the color or make it brighter or darker.

The Topaz Adjust for Mac helps you adjust or change the effects of a given image so you can reuse them for a different purpose. The Topaz Adjust for Mac is a plug-in tool that is easy to understand, even for first time users.

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All you need is a sound card. The DJ's turntables are replaced by two digital SoundPlayers, the ;vinyls; are available within seconds through the integrated FileArchive.

No matter whether you want to use ;UltraMixer; for a professional gig or at a private party or as virtual jukebox in restaurants, hair studios or medical surgeries - it will prove the right choice!

;UltraMixer Home; contains all basic functions of their big brothers ;basic; and ;professional;. Whether you want to use ;UltraMixer Home; at home or at parties, the intuitive and clearly structured user interface enables you to will be a digital DJ.

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MixVibes Cross is clearly aimed at those that want to take things seriously and performs as a very solid DJ Platform and mixer. The appearance of MixVibes Cross is of an authentic professional mixing deck, which looks stunning, if a little intimidating for beginners. The basics are pretty easy to work out though, such as loading music and using the crossfader.

One of the useful things about MixVibes Cross is that it integrates seamlessly with iTunes. Just click on the iTunes logo in the bottom-left corner and your collection will instantly appear in the bottom window pane. You can, of course, load your own tunes for which you can edit tags, browse artwork and preview them. MixVibes Cross has a huge number of ways for browsing and finding your music so that you can locate them at crucial moments during your mixing.

You can also switch the view of MixVibes Cross, from Split view, to see which tracks you've got lined up on each side, to "Dj Booth" view, which isolates just the mixer. MixVibes Cross still feels like an overwhelming app however, despite it's elegance and general ease of use. You'll need to spend some time getting to grips with manual to get the best out of it.

MixVibes Cross is an excellent DJing solution for any pro working across platforms or amateurs that need seamless iTunes integration.

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The interface of DJ Mixer Pro is similar to other DJ apps like Traktor, with two 'decks' where your tracks play, a series of controls similar to that of a physical mixer all sitting on a file tree and music library. While it is superficially similar, DJ Mixer Pro's dark interface is much less clear and more cluttered than the competition. When compared to Traktor or Mixxx, DJ Mixer Pro looks old fashioned.

In terms of basic functionality, DJ Mixer Pro is good. The BPM detection works well, as does the sync feature. There is an auto-mix button, but strangely this doesn't automatically sync beats, making it little use! You'll find a crossfader, pitch controls and levels, and they all work fine, but are simply not as user friendly as those of other programs.

Over all, DJ Mixer Pro is a perfectly workable DJ mixing application that fails simply by not being up to the standards of either the free or paid competing software.

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The wallpapers range from Homer Simpson playing with Virtual DJ, to scantily clad women and Apple themed images. There are various resolutions although most are in 1024x768 format.

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