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Originally posted by Transfusion color = genre

Looks very nice, but when I've tried arranging by genre in the past I've always ended up getting wound up when I can't decide what genre track falls into lol... and then I end up forgetting which genre I put the tracks that transcend the boundary into lol

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Hey thanks Pinokio, i'll give those a try!

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i'm having problems sorting my cds. i just bought a 200 cd wallet and it's already full! i have my tunes sorted out by key and bpm and only one track per cd.
i thought getting a big cd wallet would solve my problems, but it didn't. now i have to move the cds over and over when i buy and burn new stuff, so it's very irritating. i dunno how else to sort them, but by key and bpm (couldn't find anything if they were in random order or something).
so now i've been thinking about getting something like this:

dunno if it would solve my problem, but i sure hope it would. putting cds in order there would be easy as fuck, but browsing thru the cds might not be as fast/easy as it is with a cd wallet. so i really can't decide what to order now.

anyone got any suggestions?


edit: i also play many types of music (prog/trance/techno) and pretty much each genre separately, so i was thinking about sorting the tunes by genre too, but i'm starting to feel that it's not such a good idea.

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Get Dropbox, with 250 MB extra space!

i burn my tracks as i buy them, so my newest stuff will always be the last few CDs in my case. i burn about 6-9 tracks per CD, and 2 copies of each CD. i don't like labeling stuff by the date, so i label them 001, 002, 003, and so on... and i'm currently up to CD 082.

i use 2 CD cases that look like this:



and i set up my tracklists in QuarkXPress and they look like this:



i haven't found a good way to organize stuff according to genre, and doing so would require me to re-burn and re-organize my entire collection. i've been thinking about including notes under each track to specify what genre/style/vibe they are, but i haven't had the time to sit down and do it.

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Originally posted by Stu Cox Looks very nice, but when I've tried arranging by genre in the past I've always ended up getting wound up when I can't decide what genre track falls into lol... and then I end up forgetting which genre I put the tracks that transcend the boundary into lol

You bring up a good point, and why I havn't tried using that kind of system myself.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

Anyone try Music Collector? (http://www.collectorz.com/music/)

I used their DVD program and it works pretty well. I have over 600 DVDs in three 244-slot cases. Each slot is numbered and that number is indexed with the movie in the database so I always know where a movie is, without resorting to a complex (by genre, director, etc) or alphabetical (impractical) sorting method.

I just organize by artist. I really should start make print-outs of the key/BPM. I hardly mix anymore though, but I really shoud get back to it. Too many tracks, and need to really organize them and key them and all.

Vinyl: In plastic crates; haven't put them in a specific order yet, they will get sorted when I get proper storage.

CD's: In a wallet; chronologically ordered.

mp3's: All remixes/tracks per folder as originally released, including a link to discogs: Artist - Release\Artist - Track (Remix).mp3

Last edited by Lassy on Mar-12-2007 at 13:58

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Originally posted by skip i'm having problems sorting my cds. i just bought a 200 cd wallet and it's already full! i have my tunes sorted out by key and bpm and only one track per cd. i thought getting a big cd wallet would solve my problems, but it didn't. now i have to move the cds over and over when i buy and burn new stuff, so it's very irritating. i dunno how else to sort them, but by key and bpm (couldn't find anything if they were in random order or something).

If that's the problem you're having then sorting chronologically is the way forward - when you burn a new CD, just add it to the end of your wallet - no rearranging needs to be done.

It is possible to combine this with arranging by genre if you so wish... say you decide to divide things into 4 genres, if your CD wallet holds 200 CDs then allocate space for 50 CDs (or give one genre more space if you play more of that, for example) to each genre then within each section sort chronologically.

When your CD wallet's full, go through from the start taking out tracks you don't play anymore then re-sort everything so that there aren't any gaps, then start adding new CDs on the end again.

If you can't bear to lose some tracks that you're hardly playing but think you might soon, try archiving the best of the tracks you remove onto 10 track CDs so that they take up less space, are less likely to need rearranging and you've still got them to hand.

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Originally posted by Transfusion If someone wants a tutorial on the cd-printing stuff, let me know. If there are enough people wanting it, i'll make a video-tutorial. Atm they look like this, with bpm & track length

very cool, but a huge waste of space.

i sort mine by genre. i throw as many mp3's as i can get on there. it's not very effective but i just know which tracks are on which cd's.

1 release (incl any remixes i like) per cd w/ bpm and easymix code on it
sorted alphabetically in my case.

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