Is there an SDK available for programmers to develop third-party plugins for Serato?

by Serato, do you mean Scratch LIVE?

Serato is the company.


the answer is no, Video-SL is the only plug-in currently available for Scratch LIVE.

What kind of plug-in were you thinking of developing?

Yes, I do mean specifically Scratch Live.

The plugin I am thinking of would simply need to access the track information for the current track(s) playing. Basic info like track name, artist, version, and maybe a few other details about the track.

My brother is an expert programmer and has already expressed interest in my idea. But he doesn't know the first thing about DJ software and asked me if it was even a possibility to gain the proper access to build this plugin.

I emailed Serato's general information email and asked for a contact who has the authority to sign a non-disclosure agreement and discuss my idea further. No response yet, but that was just on Monday.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

so are you talking a plug-in really? or another application accessing an API?

You can tell I'm not a programmer. But now that you mention it... an API is probably what I meant. Basically, whatever it takes for my brother to write an application that can extract all of the relevant track information of what's currently being played.

I am in the position of tracking down the necessary information to get him started. So where do I start?

There are no publicly available APIs for Scratch LIVE, and no current plans for making any I'm sorry...

you might want to try emailing us, but I wouldn't hold your breath unless you were willing to tell us details of what exactly your app would be doing while running alongside ours :-)

cheers

- Josh

I am more than willing to discuss the details of my application... once we both sign a non-disclosure agreement. So can you please email me at musicalmissionary@yahoo.com so we can get this ball rolling. I would really appreciate that. If you are not authorized to sign an NDA on behalf of Serato, then please email me the contact information for someone who is.

Thanks a bunch for your responses Josh. I hope to hear from you soon.

We won't sign an NDA I'm afraid. Chances are we've thought of your idea already :-)

feel free to drop us a line some time.

- Josh

I'm a big fan of defying odds. The application I want to build has nothing to do with audio, video, or how a DJ mixes his sets or any of that. Would it kill you to email me so we can discuss this further off the boards?

musicalmissionary@yahoo.com

Thanks!

If you don't want to sign an NDA out of fear of putting all your code in someone else's hands... I understand, but that won't be necessary. All I need is a way for my application to access the track info for what is playing through Scratch LIVE. There must be a not-so-difficult way of gaining access to that info without digging too deep into Scratch's code. Do you follow me?

Please email me Josh. Thanks!

musicalmissionary@yahoo.com