Ive seen djs do it a couple of different ways. do you put one song on one cd with the remixes like vinyl or do you try to get as much as you can on the cd? And after that, how do you keep them organized, other than placing them in a cd book?

My second CDJ-1000 arrives tomorrow, so I'm going to go on a wav buying spree.

I used to just burn each track to it's own CD, but I didn't buy that much digital music since I only had the one CDJ. But now that I have two, I intend to buy much more. My idea now is to burn 5-8 tracks per CD by genre/style, and then make a duplicate.

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By artist ususally, but i don't include their remixes of other artists on the CD in case I want to mix in a remix of theirs with one of their productions. I try to organize it the way it is organized on the vinyl, with the original first, then the remixes in the order they come. I try to go from oldest productions first then to newest. And then in my CD case I go from artist A-Z (haven't reached Z yet).

i do it just like the vinyl.. i burn the track and its remixes on one CD.

I do usually no more than 3-4 tracks per CD. I make sure the tracks are all harmonically incompatible before burning them to the same CD. You don't want to have tracks you need to mix together on the same CD or you're screwed.

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Originally posted by Zild I do usually no more than 3-4 tracks per CD. I make sure the tracks are all harmonically incompatible before burning them to the same CD. You don't want to have tracks you need to mix together on the same CD or you're screwed.

Yeah thats why it's good to use fewer tracks and just use tracks from the same artist, because I don't think THAT many DJs play two songs from the same artist back to back, unless its the same artist under a different alias.

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Originally posted by Zild I do usually no more than 3-4 tracks per CD. I make sure the tracks are all harmonically incompatible before burning them to the same CD. You don't want to have tracks you need to mix together on the same CD or you're screwed.

Well, that's why I'm going to make a duplicate of each.

I'm thinking it will be useful to put 5-7 tracks of the same style on one CD, and write the style on the top of the disc, i.e. "breaks" or "dirty/tech house." Then I can keep them clustered together by style.

That way, when I know what kind of track I want to play next, I can just jump to that corner of my CD book and scan all of my tracks quickly (each would be listed on the CD of course)

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Yeah but if I had a duplicate of all my CDs then I'd have to get a bigger CD case.

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but if you are only putting a couple of tracks on a CD as oppossed to putting 10 on a disk then making a duplicate there wont be much difference in the amount of CDs u have

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It's also tough to write small enough to label CDs that have more than a handful of tracks.

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Originally posted by Basstard but if you are only putting a couple of tracks on a CD as oppossed to putting 10 on a disk then making a duplicate there wont be much difference in the amount of CDs u have

nrjizer , thanks for the idea!
duplicating is a great thing, if you analize:

1. same or less number of cds than burning only a track + remixes on cd-r

2. never worry about having to desired tracks on the same cd

3. if one cd quits on you, you have a copy

once again thanks for the GREAT idea. i was about to post a similar thread myself

I think you will never mix in one hand something like An Ending (Leama & Moor rmx) with Mr Oizo - Flat Beat and in the other hand Astral Projection - Mahadeva with a Steve Porter's track.

I burn 9 tracks a cd, all very differents, to be sure I won't mix them together.