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Originally posted by OMNIFEX I can relate to that idea. I thought about that myself, in the beginning. But seeing that I buy bulk, they are all silver, and, I can quicker recognize a record label, than a Silver CD with words written with a marker, I chose not to go that route. Under your conditions, I guess its like carrying vinyl, just smaller

Exactly, but the main reason for ME is that after you spin a few hours and your drinking/smoking/rolling or whatever enhancer you do while spinning, I'll never fuck up and play a track I already played. It goes back in the case sideways, so I know its been played. The other way you have to memorize if you played it or not, and sometimes thats a bit difficult under party conditions. But hey whatever works for you!

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY Exactly, but the main reason for ME is that after you spin a few hours and your drinking/smoking/rolling or whatever enhancer you do while spinning, I'll never fuck up and play a track I already played. It goes back in the case sideways, so I know its been played. The other way you have to memorize if you played it or not, and sometimes thats a bit difficult under party conditions. But hey whatever works for you!

I can see if you're Danny Tenaglia spinning a 12 hour marathon set or something...but how do you not remember what you played?

One of the big benefits of cds is that you can fit many many songs on them as opposed to just one or two like vinyl.

This is a good question.


As I saw early on with experienced House Djs, they always bought two copies of the same vinyl. Some releases even came packed two together at a double case.
Obviously the idea was that when you hit the decks you placed the same track in both plates so Djs could intermix different parts of the same track(or to mix in different versions) allowing for the dancers to listen to sorpresive new structures of their favorite tracks everytime.

I've always wondered why many trance musicians and labels were(and many still aren't) not able to grasp this simple idea, that obviously brings their tracks to a much faster obsolescence than otherwise. But this is off-topic and deserves its own thread.

So with CD-R and good CDJs I very early made my compilations(from the original ones thru EAC) and carry with me two copies of simmilar sounding tracks on them. So I can either easily alter the structure of tracks live(before ableton's live!) or use any other track when I want to, as posted above.

Think of it, it is very time saving to come to the decks and pfiiuu CD1 and CD2 have that many possibilities ready on, without you havint to waste valuable time searching thru your disks.

IMHO, I recommend it.

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Originally posted by djcl.ear This is a good question. As I saw early on with experienced House Djs, they always bought two copies of the same vinyl. Some releases even came packed two together at a double case. Obviously the idea was that when you hit the decks you placed the same track in both plates so Djs could intermix different parts of the same track(or to mix in different versions) allowing for the dancers to listen to sorpresive new structures of their favorite tracks everytime. I've always wondered why many trance musicians and labels were(and many still aren't) not able to grasp this simple idea, that obviously brings their tracks to a much faster obsolescence than otherwise. But this is off-topic and deserves its own thread. So with CD-R and good CDJs I very early made my compilations(from the original ones thru EAC) and carry with me two copies of simmilar sounding tracks on them. So I can either easily alter the structure of tracks live(before ableton's live!) or use any other track when I want to, as posted above. Think of it, it is very time saving to come to the decks and pfiiuu CD1 and CD2 have that many possibilities ready on, without you havint to waste valuable time searching thru your disks. IMHO, I recommend it.

Trance DJ's don't do that becuase most trance tracks can't be manipulated that way and sound good...unlike house and prog, where that does work quite well.

One huge case logic case, then every cd labeled by numbers #1-#x

im gonna go another copy of all my cds, or at least the ones i use most often

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY well I burn 1 track on a CD. I want to be able to mix in/out of any track I have, so burning a bunch on 1 CD doesn't make sense to me.

thats wat i do beacuze i might have two songs i weanna mix on the same cd which i cant do soo 1 track per cd
unless it is a remix pack

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Originally posted by Dj_Spekuless thats wat i do beacuze i might have two songs i weanna mix on the same cd which i cant do soo 1 track per cd unless it is a remix pack

if u burn 2 of each cds, ur burning like 8 more songs per cd, saving you 8 cds... this idea is not very smart - in terms of economy.

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I fill the disc to the rim, jot down the tracklist, make 2 copies and number them.

Always burn them with ID tags as well, so my CDJs will display them if I ever need to.

I burn little bit of everything on each CD. Prog, epic, hard stuff, house. This way, I will not have a need to mix in two songs on the same CD.

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY well I burn 1 track on a CD. I want to be able to mix in/out of any track I have, so burning a bunch on 1 CD doesn't make sense to me.

+1 I do it this way too. 1 track to one cd. All the rest of my music is on a external hard drive. When I want to play another tune at a party or bar, I burn it and throw it in the cd case. Thats the way I started doing it, thats the way I'll always do it. It would get too damn confusing filling up cds with a bunch of tracks. And I don't care how they are labeled, it would be way too diffucult to find the next track you wanna throw on when you have to start going thru all these lists.

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Originally posted by Dj_Spekuless thats wat i do beacuze i might have two songs i weanna mix on the same cd which i cant do soo 1 track per cd unless it is a remix pack

Sorry about the double post, but this would have to be the best reason why you would not put a bunch of tracks onto a cd and label them. Great point! CASE CLOSED!!!!!!