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The Advanced Edition of the DanceMaster Player adds a few nifty features to the basic bag of tricks. These include:

Remote Control:

You can (after purchasing about $50 worth of optional hardware) select dances, start and stop the music, adjust the volume and music / cues balance, change the speed and more - all from the dance floor. And DanceMaster doesn't care if there are dancers between you and the computer because it uses radio, not infrared, signals to communicate.

Scrolling Cue Cards:

You can have DanceMaster Advanced keep track of your place in long or complicated dances - it will scroll the cue card and highlight your next cues for you.  Better yet, you can make the music start at any point in a dance by clicking on that cue in the cue card.  You can easily set bookmarks that way too.

Dance Logging:

Each time you cue a dance, DanceMaster makes a note of when and where it was cued, and how many people danced it. That means that it can then tell you :

•When you last cued a given dance for a particular group.
•When and where you have ever cued a given dance.
•What dances you are doing a lot (overdoing?) or neglecting at each place.
•What dances you have ever cued for any group
•What dances you did on a particular night.
•How many people typically get up for a given dance at a given place.

Reminders:

You can also tell DanceMaster Advanced to remind you if you forget to review certain dances every so often (so your dancers don't forget how to do them).

Alarm:

DanceMaster Advanced includes a timer that you can use to time refreshment breaks and keep the dance flowing.

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