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Posted by mr_sick on Jun-20-2002 08:56:

How do you sort your vinyls?

I was wondering how do u guys sort your vinyls?

By label? By style? You don't care?

When I had only 20 vinyls it was very easy to find them on my case but now I got +/- 200 and sometimes it takes me so long to find what I'm looking for I sorted them by style (uplifting, hardtrance,...)
It seems to be a good way... but what about u?

Posted by Luke Terry on Jun-20-2002 11:59:

I have three record boxes behind my dex which face out into the room. I keep the new good ones in the left box, the classics in the middle and the not so good new ones and 2001 tracks in there. All 3 cases are sorted alphabetically

Posted by IronDragon on Jun-20-2002 13:53:

I sort mine out by label. Those which don't have a label partner I just kinda leave there.

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jun-20-2002 15:14:

I group mine from oldest to newest. i just remember how old a track is, and I can find it pretty easily.. but then again i dont have that many records

Posted by Kid_Lax on Jun-20-2002 16:29:

i don't really have any particular order that i keep my vinyl in, all i do when i buy new vinyl is throw them in the front of my bin and i just have a general idea in my head of which tracks are where...

Posted by DJ LIQUID on Jun-20-2002 17:03:

Hmm...i sort mine oldest to new. I have quite a bit of records now so i just try to remember what crate a track is in

Posted by Dj Thy on Jun-20-2002 17:24:

Like I said in the other thread, by key.

Posted by DJ-Kuza on Jun-20-2002 18:09:

why sort by key? Do you only play one key during a set? Does every track only play in one key? Explaine yourself sir!

Posted by Tony Morello on Jun-20-2002 18:33:

there was the exact asme thread started yesterday about the exact same topic

Posted by Jason R on Jun-20-2002 18:44:

My newest vinyl is sorted into and my A and B piles. The A pile has 50 records and every time I get a new 1 one the oldest record in the pile goes to the b pile. This is where I keep my new but not so good or not so new but good eg nu-nrg. The same thing happens with this pile and any record from here goes to the 2000 - 2002 pile. The last pile is any thing from 1999 to bout 1996.They r all sorted alphabetically for easy finding. I've got about 370 singles and this will grow hopfully by about 100 - 150 in september.

Posted by Dj Fred Lamar on Jun-20-2002 21:07:

sort mine by genre-----breaks...trance....remixes....rap/r&b

then from there, sort by BPM

Posted by DJ TranceFormer on Jun-21-2002 07:48:

dont give a sh*t, but usually I put new ones in the front of my record bag...

Posted by mr_sick on Jun-21-2002 08:52:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Shockwav
there was the exact asme thread started yesterday about the exact same topic

Sorry I really didn't noticed

But tnx for all your answers!

Posted by Dj Thy on Jun-21-2002 18:41:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ-Kuza
why sort by key? Do you only play one key during a set? Does every track only play in one key? Explaine yourself sir!

Not only does it allow me to keep the same key if I want to, but that's not the main point. Mainly it allows me to mix in chords pretty easily. It's called harmonic mixing .
And contrary to popular thought, the tunes shouldn't be at roughly the same BPM. Just a simple rule to keep in mind : +6% (5.9% to be exact) is one semitone increase in the key.
Very helpful, even when mixing records you hardly know (or the ones you forgot). Just keep your references.

Posted by DJ Bladerunner on Jun-22-2002 11:52:

I sort all of them by label. Usually know by heart in which crate a certain vinyl is.

DJ Bladerunner

Posted by CrackedLcd on Jun-22-2002 14:59:

I have all of my trance in the front, progressive next, then dance remixes, electro/techno last...Everything is in abc order...

Posted by Great Outdoors on Jun-22-2002 16:56:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ TranceFormer
dont give a sh*t, but usually I put new ones in the front of my record bag...

That's how I sort mine too

By the way, how the hell do you sort it by key?

Posted by Dj Thy on Jun-22-2002 19:30:

Two methods

Either you have a good musical ear (come by experience believe me) and you know the key of the record just by listening to it.

If you aren't able to hear it right away, there's a pretty good method (but takes quite some effort). You need a keyboard or software that allows you to play keys (for example soundforge has an integrated midi keyboard). Just play the record, and find in which key it is by cycling through the keyboard keys. Once you found the root key, you try to find if the tune is in minor or in major (most trance tunes are in minor). After some time you'll be able to tell without a keyboard in what key it is.

If you need more info, www.djprince.net is a pretty good starting page, although there are some flaws in his methods (chromatic scale isn't 100% right, when I have some time I'll make my own one).

Posted by fieroavian on Jun-23-2002 09:15:

a tip to CJs

don't have vinyls, just MP3s... but it's the same when it comes sorting isn't it?

i separate trance/progressive tunes from all other electronic stuff; for the trance/progressive tunes, they're id3v2-tagged, and sorted by year. i may soon sort them in seasons, like this:

/2002/1spring
/2002/2summer
/2002/3autumn
/2002/4winter
/2003/1spring
...and so on.

and i'll do the same if i ever own a massive collection of vinyls.

cuts from seamless mixes go to /incomplete, and if i want to add techno or drum & bass into my mix, i just look into /uptempo.