How do you go about organizing your music? I buy most of my tracks on beatport and normally buy high quality MP3's. In the past I've burned one original track per CD + remixes. I'm starting to realize that this is a rediculous way to do things since my CDJ-200's play MP3's. Does it make more sense to burn 30 or so Mp3 tracks per CD and make duplicates of those CD's so i can mix any song into another? Should I keep a sheet of paper of the contacts of each CD? I'm just wondering how other people are doing this sort of thing?

Also, can anyone recommend some other sites aside from beatport for finding good trance and house music? Thanks in advance.

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Originally posted by stabmasterflex Also, can anyone recommend some other sites aside from beatport for finding good trance and house music? Thanks in advance.

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As for the CD thing, it's a personal preference. One track per cd is easier to organise, and multiple tracks per CD is more cost efficient. Personally I think the price of a pack of CD-Rs is worth the advantages of being able to class all your tracks by genre and alphabetically and keep everything tidy.

Your CDJ-200s may play mp3 files, but what's going to happen when you play at a party or club that doesn't have CDJ-200s? I wouldn't reccomend burning mp3 files.

What I do is burn 6-10 tracks per CD, grouping them roughly by style. I date and number each CD so that I know exactly when I burned it, and where in my CD book it should go. Then I make a tracklist card for each CD (by just cutting a 4.25' square piece of paper), and label it by genre.

This works best for me because I can keep a large amount of music in a small amount of space (burning 1 track per CD is incredibly wasteful, imo). By burning 2 copies of each disc, I can play the tracks on that disc together (I'll also have a backup incase one dies). And by labeling all of my discs by genre, I can scan all of my CDs and focus on finding the right track to go next.

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Originally posted by stabmasterflex Does it make more sense to burn 30 or so Mp3 tracks per CD and make duplicates of those CD's so i can mix any song into another?

perfect choice!

I burn about 7-9 tracks per cd trying not organize them by style, or at least trying not to put 2 tracks on the same cd that Id like to mix. I also just write on the cd what tracks are on there. Kinda unorganized at times but it works so far.

I saw this question coming as soon as I saw the thread title.

Use the search button for this one. It's been covered and debated often here.

six tracks per cd, labeled by month, and sequence.

then a duplicate made so you can mix tracks from the same group.

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I put half of a track per cd.

keeps me on my toes

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Originally posted by Freak I put half of a track per cd. keeps me on my toes

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i put an album on a cd...

such as daft punk - homework

or benassi - resfaction

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3-4 tracks per cd, whatever I can write the titles on and still read them in dimly lit places.
I buy a mixture of trance, prog, houseier stuff, each time i buy, so each cd tends to have different styles on it so never felt the need to duplicate cd's, it's not that often I want to mix tracks on the one cd together, though for the 50 cents a cd costs, it's well worth it if you do run into that issue.

Why do you people not fill up the cd and chose to put only 4 or whatever. I find that i can make covers and fill the cd with a maximum of 11 songs.

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