Free version is missing essential features

This program cant handle Apple lossless (ALAC) files -- or at least this free version cant.

The lack of informative tool tips and help text (the help menu merely takes you to the vendors web site and a loose collection of FAQs and how-to pages) makes the program very frustrating to learn. For example, if there is a way to pre-analyse an entire playlist for BPM and song key, I wasnt able to find it.

I want a program that will take an Itunes playlist and play it during a party, doing a decent job of transitioning from one song to another and preferably allowing the songs to be ordered with a modicum of smarts that rise above a mere random shuffle (e.g., choosing songs that are close in their BPM or allowing me to sort songs by song key in the circle of fifths for a graceful harmonic transition, or even better, a combination both). For that kind of use, this program isnt really farther ahead than the Itunes DJ function -- youll have to manually order every song from scratch. Nor do there seem to be cross-fade settings that allow the program to automatically suppress silence at the end of songs or automatically select an end-point for the cross-fade that avoids the long fade-out of the kind found in many rock or pop songs. It appears that you have to set them manually for each song.

R Fraser about Cross DJ Lite, v1.7.1