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The Ultimate "How Do You Organize Your..." Thread

We've had plenty of threads asking how people organize their MP3s, their vinyls, and/or their CDs. It would probably be in the best interest of cleanliness in this forum to condense the subject into one "be-all-end-all" thread. Perhaps it could even go along with the DJ Booth Information thread. Credit would go to Boomauer though, he's too lazy to type it.

So how do you organize your Vinyl/CDs/MP3s?

Since I use SSL, I don't actually use cds/vinyl. For that reason, I am incredibly anal about mp3 naming and tagging. This is how I name all of my .mp3 files: Artist - Track Title (Mix).mp3. I also carefully check all of the ID tags to make sure there are no duplicates, mis-spellings, or any other errors.

Start the thread then-

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Originally posted by Allied Nations Start the thread then-

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Ill be posting tomorrow on how i organize my cds.

2 songs per CD. Artist - Song, Key, BPM

ad finitum

I sort my tracks based on the Chromatic scale. Weird I know but I find it helps with the development of music memory and perfect pitch (Not saying I have the latter fully developed).

I realise it's not for everyone but it works for me.

Cheers
Nem

I organize my songs by the date in which I purchased/obtained them. It not only lets me know how old a track is, but the date makes for a great unique number to label cds with. Nero has a cd cover designer program built in and i use that to print out tracklist sheets of all the songs on a cd. Its easy to read, plus it gives you room to make notes about each song. I also write in the camelot code for the song so I know its key

Example:




SO you get the name of the song, its key, and notes about the style and feel of the track its works out well when you get about 10 - 20 new tracks a week.

Vinyl: Theyre in a couple of boxes, not in any real order.

MP3: Always Artist - Track (Mix) format.

CDs: I should really come up with a better system but I just put about 6-8 tracks on a cd and stick it in my folder.

1 Song (Plus mixes) per CD
Organized first by Key then by track title.

Artist - Title (Mix).mp3

I use the same spelling that Discogs uses... I will add album artwork from Discogs or Amazon if available. If no artwork is available, I will put a generic vinyl artwork instead.

Regarding ID3 tags I always fill out Artist, Track Title, Year, Source (MP3/CD/Vinyl), and Genre (I just put them all as Dance). If the tracks are part of a 2xCD compilation, for example, I will check that off and put CD X of Y, and Track A of B...

CDs

"Current" tunes (from the last year or so)
- One track/release per CD so you can write nice and big so it's easy to find stuff
- Each CD marked with Artist, Title, Label, Date and Key
- Organised chronologically, so it's quite easy to find things by just thinking about how long ago you got it... the main benefit being that when you get new tracks you simply add them on the end instead of having to reorder your whole wallet.

Ex-Current tunes (over a year old but not classics)
- Whatever I want to keep from each year compiled onto a series of CDs (so a set of CDs from 2002, a set from 2003 etc)
- 10-ish tracks per CD (i.e. as many as I can fit)
- Tracks in alphabetical order on each CD (just makes it that little bit easier to find what you're looking for)
- 2 copies of each CD
- Inserts with tracklists, marked with Artist, Title and Key

"Classics" (currently anything pre-2002)
- 10-ish tracks per CD (i.e. as many as I can fit)
- Tracks in alphabetical order on each CD (just makes it that little bit easier to find what you're looking for)
- 2 copies of each CD
- Inserts with tracklists, marked with Artist, Title and Key

General backcatalogue (old tunes I'm not playing anymore)
- Currently just filling up spindles
- Will eventually be in alphabetical order (by artist) somewhere, or I might just chuck them and hang onto the backups on my PC


Vinyl

I don't take vinyl to gigs anymore, but when I did it was:

- Main bag of 50 "current" tunes, neweset stuff first with keys marked on every record, goes to all gigs.
- Box of 50 older tunes (including classics) selected for each gig

Although that's a bit of a shit system so I wouldn't do that if I were you.

My vinyl kept at home is just alphabetical by artist.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 can you place a link to this thread In Here

Done

Back before I started using Torq, I designed an application that held all of the ID3 tag data of all of my songs. I then burned as many songs to a single CD as I could, burned each CD twice, and grouped the tracks that were on that CD within the database. This worked very well, because I also implemented a "keywords" section within the tag, so that if I couldn't remember the track name, but remembered what I "tagged" it as, I could still find the track. I also implemented a special feature within the search so that when you searched for an artist, it would check within the parenthesis of a song's title for that artist's name.

Now, I just use Torq and make playlists within iTunes.

color = genre; track + remixes on 1 cd

=WIN

Thats awesome how you have the label logo on the CDs

Fuck! I'm impressed.

Yeah me too, thats sexy. Only thing is, I would not have enough room to do just 1-2-3 tracks per CD. My case has 105 double CDs, each with 9 tracks per, and it is full (I need to buy a new case ASAP)

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Originally posted by Zild Fuck! I'm impressed.

+1

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Originally posted by Clovis Yeah me too, thats sexy. Only thing is, I would not have enough room to do just 1-2-3 tracks per CD. My case has 105 double CDs, each with 9 tracks per, and it is full (I need to buy a new case ASAP)

Unless you're doing marathon sets I don't believe you really need to take all of that music with you.

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

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Originally posted by Zild Unless you're doing marathon sets I don't believe you really need to take all of that music with you.

I dont, lol, but I have different genre tracks on each CD, its a big mess. I like having the whole of it with me, just in case.

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Originally posted by Stu Cox How big are your CD wallets? It sounds to me like you take just about all of your tunes with you everywhere you go... Personally I'd find the thing slowing me down was having to sift through all the stuff I never play anymore in order to find the tracks I want to play.

MY Cd Wallets holds about 286 Cd's.
Yes I do take almost all of my tunes with me, I like to have them in case I want to play any of them, and also I have Different Genres, so I can't take only 1 case with me.

I recognize it's kind of obssesive wanting to have so many tunes with you.

and getting full of songs the capacity of my Cd case, I haven't do it all of a sudden, it has taken about a year, so I tend to remember easily where are my songs, also I subdivide them in subgenres, and I can remember easily were are all of my songs, beacuse i have build my Cd Cases.

The only minus as you pointed before, it's if I want to mix 3 songs from the same CD, but that in my case haven't happen yet.

in the end I think people should try the different methods, untill they find something they feel comfortable with.

I burn Usually 9 songs, beacuse that's what almost always fits on 80 minutes cd's for me.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 SO you get the name of the song, its key, and notes about the style and feel of the track its works out well when you get about 10 - 20 new tracks a week.

I was wondering how you guys did this! When I buy songs off of beatport, I put all of them on one cd, i should go back and make two of each makes sense to me now!

Quick question, whats the best way to find the key to a song?

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Originally posted by Djshortcircuit Quick question, whats the best way to find the key to a song?

You ear is the best way.

I use my ear with this software Zonamix

I use Mixmesiter and [[ LINK REMOVED ]]
as a reference
but I always check everything with my ear =).

Check the Harmonic Thread here if you want to learn more about harmonic Mixing
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...=8&pagenumber=1


Good Luck =)


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