The DJ booth thread on CD vs Vinyl covers this, governments care alot about copyright, funded by the music industry I imagine.

Play copied CD's in a club and sooner or later ur gonna get fucked.

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You guys are so naive...seriously do you have any idea how many DJs play out at well known venues and use illegally downloaded tunes every week? its because DJs share their music, who do you think is ripping all this shit in the first place? I guarentee you its not some teenage internet goof that wants to expand his online rep so he rips all the promos he gets. HOW DO YOU THINK HE GETS THEM TO BEGIN WITH? I dont advocate playing pirated shit as I think the artist should always be rewarded for work, but I have no problem playing mp3s in my bedroom. And last time I checked the RIAA didnt have people in clubs checking out the cd booklets of resident djs. I bet they'd get thrown out by club management for even going in the booth uninvited...

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i do one track per cd, including any different remixes i may want. but generally one title per cd. if you have more than one track on a cd it limits you as to the order of tracks you play.

I like to do three tracks per CD. I write the artist,title,remix,key,and BPM info on the CD with a permanent marker.

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Originally posted by Max Thomson You guys are so naive...seriously do you have any idea how many DJs play out at well known venues and use illegally downloaded tunes every week? its because DJs share their music, who do you think is ripping all this shit in the first place? I guarentee you its not some teenage internet goof that wants to expand his online rep so he rips all the promos he gets. HOW DO YOU THINK HE GETS THEM TO BEGIN WITH? I dont advocate playing pirated shit as I think the artist should always be rewarded for work, but I have no problem playing mp3s in my bedroom. And last time I checked the RIAA didnt have people in clubs checking out the cd booklets of resident djs. I bet they'd get thrown out by club management for even going in the booth uninvited...

What if you are stupid enough to play a white label track that the producer doesn't want being played yet? I bet then if someone hears the track played, and they know the producer, you could get into some trouble regarding copyrights. Read DJMag.com they sometimes have stories about DJs in Australia or Italy getting busted for playing illegally obtained tracks. It's rare but it's not like it doesn't happen. My friend got some tracks e-mailed to him by a guy who is down with Atomic Hooligan, but the guy stressed the importance to my friend of not playing them out anywhere becuase they were unreleased and that he could get in some stuff. Maybe you know better than I, but I'd rather pay $1.50 for a song instead of getting sued by a record label or producer.

what youre talking about are unreleased tracks though. theres no way of knowing if released ones are ilegally obtained...

I used to do about 5 or 6 tracks on a cd but in the end I have changed to having a single track on a cd.... or at least the various mixes of one track per cd.

I found that when in a club, if its dark it can be hard to read the label or I might want another track from the same cd.

At the end of the day, the issue wasn't really cost of cd's etc. It came down to the fact that even with 2 wallets full... say 128 cd wallets.... its still way more tracks than any DJ would carry in vinyl. So for me its simply a case of taking a couple of wallets with single tracks....

I put 5 tracks per cd with just the track title name in alphabetical order, no producer. Two copies of each stored one ontop of the other in my cd wallet so I remember which sleeve to put the cd in after ive used it and can freely play any track i want. burning 1 title per cd is a bad idea as you will use so many cds and need more and more sleeves/wallets as you accumulate musiic.

Yeah but if you use only 1 track per cd you can write the Name of the Track and it's key on big letters on it so you'll easily find it by it's name or key...

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Originally posted by Rockabye Yeah but if you use only 1 track per cd you can write the Name of the Track and it's key on big letters on it so you'll easily find it by it's name or key...

but you're also really defeating one of the biggest reasons to switch to digital, more music in less of a space

you'll have to carry 5 huge cd wallets with you because you've burned every song on a single cd

the double-disk option is the best

sometimes i burn a single track to a cd, i might be in a hurry to leave for the club and want that one new track for the night

it's your music, organise it and do with it what you want
you're the one going to be using it, as long as you know where your music is, who cares?

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5 wallets??? I doubt it.... if you think that most wallets are around 128 cd's, are you trying to say that you would need 640 tunes for a DJ set?

When you used vinyl did you ever carry 640 records with you? No...

even with 2 wallets its still only a small bag to carry them. Any time I travel abroad I take a 60 vinyl bag with me which holds 2 cd wallets of tracks easy. It still has room for my laptop for working on. Not only does this mean I can take the bag on board with me but it means I don't need to worry about the airline losing the bag when I get there.


I think anyone that needs to carry that many cd's really should look at what they are taking to a venue. What are the chances of you actually playing half the tracks on the night... be ruthless and leave them behind.

Anyway... just my view on it

well one of the advantages of CDs is the ability to bring alot more music to your gig. Sure you may not use alot of it, but it gives you alot more possibilities to where your set will go instead of playing the same bunch of records over and over.
Anyway, in my case I spin anything from house to electro to techno so I like to decide what I am going to do when I get to the venue depending ont he atmosphere and with a good amount of cds, I have many possibilites ahead of me.