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Originally posted by Transfusion color = genre

Looks very nice, but when I've tried arranging by genre in the past I've always ended up getting wound up when I can't decide what genre track falls into lol... and then I end up forgetting which genre I put the tracks that transcend the boundary into lol

Hey thanks Pinokio, i'll give those a try!

i'm having problems sorting my cds. i just bought a 200 cd wallet and it's already full! i have my tunes sorted out by key and bpm and only one track per cd.
i thought getting a big cd wallet would solve my problems, but it didn't. now i have to move the cds over and over when i buy and burn new stuff, so it's very irritating. i dunno how else to sort them, but by key and bpm (couldn't find anything if they were in random order or something).
so now i've been thinking about getting something like this:

dunno if it would solve my problem, but i sure hope it would. putting cds in order there would be easy as fuck, but browsing thru the cds might not be as fast/easy as it is with a cd wallet. so i really can't decide what to order now.

anyone got any suggestions?


edit: i also play many types of music (prog/trance/techno) and pretty much each genre separately, so i was thinking about sorting the tunes by genre too, but i'm starting to feel that it's not such a good idea.

i burn my tracks as i buy them, so my newest stuff will always be the last few CDs in my case. i burn about 6-9 tracks per CD, and 2 copies of each CD. i don't like labeling stuff by the date, so i label them 001, 002, 003, and so on... and i'm currently up to CD 082.

i use 2 CD cases that look like this:



and i set up my tracklists in QuarkXPress and they look like this:



i haven't found a good way to organize stuff according to genre, and doing so would require me to re-burn and re-organize my entire collection. i've been thinking about including notes under each track to specify what genre/style/vibe they are, but i haven't had the time to sit down and do it.

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Originally posted by Stu Cox Looks very nice, but when I've tried arranging by genre in the past I've always ended up getting wound up when I can't decide what genre track falls into lol... and then I end up forgetting which genre I put the tracks that transcend the boundary into lol

You bring up a good point, and why I havn't tried using that kind of system myself.

Anyone try Music Collector? (http://www.collectorz.com/music/)

I used their DVD program and it works pretty well. I have over 600 DVDs in three 244-slot cases. Each slot is numbered and that number is indexed with the movie in the database so I always know where a movie is, without resorting to a complex (by genre, director, etc) or alphabetical (impractical) sorting method.

I just organize by artist. I really should start make print-outs of the key/BPM. I hardly mix anymore though, but I really shoud get back to it. Too many tracks, and need to really organize them and key them and all.

Vinyl: In plastic crates; haven't put them in a specific order yet, they will get sorted when I get proper storage.

CD's: In a wallet; chronologically ordered.

mp3's: All remixes/tracks per folder as originally released, including a link to discogs: Artist - Release\Artist - Track (Remix).mp3

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Originally posted by skip i'm having problems sorting my cds. i just bought a 200 cd wallet and it's already full! i have my tunes sorted out by key and bpm and only one track per cd. i thought getting a big cd wallet would solve my problems, but it didn't. now i have to move the cds over and over when i buy and burn new stuff, so it's very irritating. i dunno how else to sort them, but by key and bpm (couldn't find anything if they were in random order or something).

If that's the problem you're having then sorting chronologically is the way forward - when you burn a new CD, just add it to the end of your wallet - no rearranging needs to be done.

It is possible to combine this with arranging by genre if you so wish... say you decide to divide things into 4 genres, if your CD wallet holds 200 CDs then allocate space for 50 CDs (or give one genre more space if you play more of that, for example) to each genre then within each section sort chronologically.

When your CD wallet's full, go through from the start taking out tracks you don't play anymore then re-sort everything so that there aren't any gaps, then start adding new CDs on the end again.

If you can't bear to lose some tracks that you're hardly playing but think you might soon, try archiving the best of the tracks you remove onto 10 track CDs so that they take up less space, are less likely to need rearranging and you've still got them to hand.

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Originally posted by Transfusion If someone wants a tutorial on the cd-printing stuff, let me know. If there are enough people wanting it, i'll make a video-tutorial. Atm they look like this, with bpm & track length

very cool, but a huge waste of space.

i sort mine by genre. i throw as many mp3's as i can get on there. it's not very effective but i just know which tracks are on which cd's.

1 release (incl any remixes i like) per cd w/ bpm and easymix code on it
sorted alphabetically in my case.

I pretty much sort my CDs by what tracks I am digging at the moment and where I would usually place them in a set.

I burn two tracks per CD, unless I own the remixes in which case they all go on there. Usually the two tracks are a half step off in key, eg A#m, Am or C#m, Cm. For Bm and Em I burn single tracks or very unrelated keys with them.

When I do a studio mix I determine the tracklist over the course of a few weeks or longer and then I burn CDs with every other track on them and just use the same two CDs the entire set.

By record label now.

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't see it.

man that cd printing thing looks smooth as fuck...very nice!

What a great thread this is! Fantastic stuff.

I am in the process of sorting all of my vinyl collection of almost 3000 records in a-z. However rather than actually having all the letters of the alphabet in alphabetical order I just have them randomly sorted, for now.

I'm sorting by artist and if I have more than 1 song by an artist I try to group those together but the rest of each letter of the alphabet is just randomly placed.

I have seperators in each of my storage units so I know where to look.

I am considering buying CDJ's and cataloguing my vinyl on to CD as it would take up a lot lot less space.

What software do you guys use to catalogue your mp3 collections? I don't like Itunes that much to be honest. I need to go through my collection and sort out the id3 tags as well, what a long and painful process!

Some guidance would be great on the mp3 front, thanks!

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Originally posted by Simcut I'm sorting by artist and if I have more than 1 song by an artist I try to group those together but the rest of each letter of the alphabet is just randomly placed.

I don't spin vinyl but I do have a large enough collection. What I do to make things easier is I'll start off by alphabetizing everything by artist, and then if I have more than one track by an artist I'll alphabetize those by the name of the track.

unfortunately this process will take me forever, perhaps when I have all the a's grouped up and so on and so forth? way too time consuming

Just found an AWESOME program to sort and tag my mp3s

MediaMonkey

What a superb bit of software, I am changing all the tags on my mp3s at the moment, check it out guys!

I havn't changed anything in my archaic way of throwing 9 tracks per CD in order of purchase, numbering CDs in order as I go along.


But I did just get two of these:




Holds 240 CDs

By Slappa. They're hard bodied and they have two slots per square inside the case. Everything is stitched and the pages are bound so they dont get fucked up like in my current ring binder. I ran out of space in the old case anyway so I had to start using a smaller over-flow case, and everything has been a mess since then. Its going to be great to get everything organized again...

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Originally posted by Clovis I havn't changed anything in my archaic way of throwing 9 tracks per CD in order of purchase, numbering CDs in order as I go along.

Not archaic in the slightest. I do pretty much the same and don't see myself changing. Only difference is I burn 2 copies of each so I can play two tunes on the same disc at the same time and have a backup.

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Originally posted by Clovis I havn't changed anything in my archaic way of throwing 9 tracks per CD in order of purchase, numbering CDs in order as I go along. But I did just get two of these: Holds 240 CDs By Slappa. They're hard bodied and they have two slots per square inside the case. Everything is stitched and the pages are bound so they dont get fucked up like in my current ring binder. I ran out of space in the old case anyway so I had to start using a smaller over-flow case, and everything has been a mess since then. Its going to be great to get everything organized again...

Yep, they're quality. I do the same (9 or 10 tunes to a CD, two copies) for my loops CDs and my 'archived' older tunes and for that the Slappa wallets are perfect cos you can put both copies in a pair of slots together with only one t/l, much easier to find stuff cos you've got 8 different CDs per double page rather than 4 if you're using the same system with a normal wallet.

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Originally posted by Allied Nations Not archaic in the slightest. I do pretty much the same and don't see myself changing. Only difference is I burn 2 copies of each so I can play two tunes on the same disc at the same time and have a backup.

Yeah I make doubles as well

Sorry to bump old threads, but just wondering do you guys use like a 1 track per CD or do you burn like 10 tracks per CD to save space and a little bit of money?

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Originally posted by Oreoh142 Sorry to bump old threads, but just wondering do you guys use like a 1 track per CD or do you burn like 10 tracks per CD to save space and a little bit of money?

i started with 1 per cd but then i soon noticed that i'm gonna have a 1000 cds soon (went well over 200 already), so now i burn about 8 per cd, but now i can't find any tunes when i play! organizing really is a bitch, for me at least.
that's why i'm going to get traktor scratch in the future most likely, pretty much just to get my tunes organized like i want!

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