Hello all,

Would like to finally get serious about putting my tracks in an organized 'dj' fashion. I bought a couple cd binders and a few 100 blanks. ie: alphabetical, release date, how should i label each disk..etc. Just don't know where to start, or how it is traveling dj's go about oraganizing there stuff. If there's an easy format, or even a difficult one, please bestow the info. Much appreciated.

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if theres one thing i suck at it is organizing my stuff heh. I say the best is to organize alphabetically, and if you have a text reading CD player perhaps put the BPM of the track in there and maybe its key. I never got into either one, I usually remember the bpm for all my tracks or can just simple hear it.

this thread might help you

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...d=&pagenumber=1

I personally have my cd's organized by genre

Prog, Trance, Tech-Trance, etc.

and all my tracks I have them like

Key - Artist - Song - Bpm

for example

3A (Bbm) Pole Folder - Inner Turmoil (Original Mix) 125.0


Hope this help you

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Pepa - Pure Bliss (June 2007 Promo)
Pepa - Visual Thoughts (March 2007 Promo)
Pepa - Trippin' Again

Mash-ups:
Perasma Vs BT - Swing 2 Gravity (Pepa Live Mash-up)
I Trance You!

I think I like the idea of 1 track per CD best. How do you go about organizing them though?

I was thinking of doing it by style (electro, funky, proggy, etc.) I know there's alot of grey area when it comes to that though. Maybe have one CD case per style, that way when you want to start playing something funkier you can move to that case.

Or you could organize by energy only and maybe divide it into 3 CD cases (1) more chill opening stuff, (2) more bangin, mid-set, (3) peak time tunes.

Or combine the 2----divide by style and then put in order of energy. What do you think?

I was also thinking of keeping a note sheet in the cd sleeve to remind you if a tune has a wierd outro or something like that.

Just some ideas..

I keep an excel spreadsheet of all my tracks in alphabetical order. On this spreadsheet i note the cd number and track number of each track.

So...when I want to play dj tiesto...or whatever...i simply look on the spreadsheet, find tiesto, then read the cd number and track number. Then, go into my wallet and pull the correct cd number which is in numerical order.

Thanks Everybody!!!
Yall all have great ideas. I'll put them all to use


Have a good one!

File by artist alphabetically and if you have alot of tracks of different styles, try to put similar styles that go together in different cases. I have a big case of trance, and a smaller yet growing case of progressive house, trance and breaks with a little bit of more traditional house music. So grouping them by approx BPM in each case....because you know those tracks will work better together.

i organise my tracks by artist alphabetically

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Originally posted by Pinokio I personally have my cd's organized by genre Prog, Trance, Tech-Trance, etc. and all my tracks I have them like Key - Artist - Song - Bpm for example 3A (Bbm) Pole Folder - Inner Turmoil (Original Mix) 125.0 Hope this help you

thats how i do it, best way to organize the collections

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Okay one thing I don't do is write the BPM but most of my tracks I download nowadays are around 128-132 BPM. Is it safe to say, if put the tracks with approx the same BPM together and look at the read out on my CDJ to begin with, I wouldn't have to write them down? I have MixMeister which does give BPM readouts, but I have no idea if they accurate, however comparing them to comparing what reads out on my CDJ is very similar...sometimes the difference is just a 1 BPM difference.

I do 1 track to 1 cd. My cd case is constantly changing. Always adding new tracks to it. The only one thing I do that would be close to being called organized is keep remixes of the same track together in the slots next to each other. Besides that I just make sure my cd case is full af bad ass banging tracks. Im constantly taking tracks out when I practice because I dont like how they were produced, or because they just don't have that hard hitting sound to them. In other words it is always constantly changing.

By the way, it's good to see alot of you guys again! It's been a while since I have been on the forums. Glad to be back.



Rock On!

Mike