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Originally posted by DJ-Kuza why sort by key? Do you only play one key during a set? Does every track only play in one key? Explaine yourself sir!

Not only does it allow me to keep the same key if I want to, but that's not the main point. Mainly it allows me to mix in chords pretty easily. It's called harmonic mixing .
And contrary to popular thought, the tunes shouldn't be at roughly the same BPM. Just a simple rule to keep in mind : +6% (5.9% to be exact) is one semitone increase in the key.
Very helpful, even when mixing records you hardly know (or the ones you forgot). Just keep your references.

I sort all of them by label. Usually know by heart in which crate a certain vinyl is.

DJ Bladerunner

I have all of my trance in the front, progressive next, then dance remixes, electro/techno last...Everything is in abc order...

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Originally posted by DJ TranceFormer dont give a sh*t, but usually I put new ones in the front of my record bag...

That's how I sort mine too

By the way, how the hell do you sort it by key?

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Melodic Progressive.

Better than sex.

Two methods

Either you have a good musical ear (come by experience believe me) and you know the key of the record just by listening to it.

If you aren't able to hear it right away, there's a pretty good method (but takes quite some effort). You need a keyboard or software that allows you to play keys (for example soundforge has an integrated midi keyboard). Just play the record, and find in which key it is by cycling through the keyboard keys. Once you found the root key, you try to find if the tune is in minor or in major (most trance tunes are in minor). After some time you'll be able to tell without a keyboard in what key it is.

If you need more info, www.djprince.net is a pretty good starting page, although there are some flaws in his methods (chromatic scale isn't 100% right, when I have some time I'll make my own one).

don't have vinyls, just MP3s... but it's the same when it comes sorting isn't it?

i separate trance/progressive tunes from all other electronic stuff; for the trance/progressive tunes, they're id3v2-tagged, and sorted by year. i may soon sort them in seasons, like this:

/2002/1spring
/2002/2summer
/2002/3autumn
/2002/4winter
/2003/1spring
...and so on.

and i'll do the same if i ever own a massive collection of vinyls.

cuts from seamless mixes go to /incomplete, and if i want to add techno or drum & bass into my mix, i just look into /uptempo.