I pretty much sort my CDs by what tracks I am digging at the moment and where I would usually place them in a set.
I burn two tracks per CD, unless I own the remixes in which case they all go on there. Usually the two tracks are a half step off in key, eg A#m, Am or C#m, Cm. For Bm and Em I burn single tracks or very unrelated keys with them.
When I do a studio mix I determine the tracklist over the course of a few weeks or longer and then I burn CDs with every other track on them and just use the same two CDs the entire set.
man that cd printing thing looks smooth as fuck...very nice!
May-08-2007 16:34
Simcut
Berlin Addict :)
Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Herts, England | UKGTA #1
What a great thread this is! Fantastic stuff.
I am in the process of sorting all of my vinyl collection of almost 3000 records in a-z. However rather than actually having all the letters of the alphabet in alphabetical order I just have them randomly sorted, for now.
I'm sorting by artist and if I have more than 1 song by an artist I try to group those together but the rest of each letter of the alphabet is just randomly placed.
I have seperators in each of my storage units so I know where to look.
I am considering buying CDJ's and cataloguing my vinyl on to CD as it would take up a lot lot less space.
What software do you guys use to catalogue your mp3 collections? I don't like Itunes that much to be honest. I need to go through my collection and sort out the id3 tags as well, what a long and painful process!
Some guidance would be great on the mp3 front, thanks!
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May-11-2007 12:10
idoru
You Can Call Me Al
Registered: May 2004
Location: Cascadia
quote:
Originally posted by Simcut
I'm sorting by artist and if I have more than 1 song by an artist I try to group those together but the rest of each letter of the alphabet is just randomly placed.
I don't spin vinyl but I do have a large enough collection. What I do to make things easier is I'll start off by alphabetizing everything by artist, and then if I have more than one track by an artist I'll alphabetize those by the name of the track.
May-11-2007 19:07
Simcut
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Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Herts, England | UKGTA #1
unfortunately this process will take me forever, perhaps when I have all the a's grouped up and so on and so forth? way too time consuming
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May-11-2007 19:26
Simcut
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Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Herts, England | UKGTA #1
Just found an AWESOME program to sort and tag my mp3s
MediaMonkey
What a superb bit of software, I am changing all the tags on my mp3s at the moment, check it out guys!
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May-11-2007 23:01
Clovis
techno jungle shit
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
I havn't changed anything in my archaic way of throwing 9 tracks per CD in order of purchase, numbering CDs in order as I go along.
But I did just get two of these:
Holds 240 CDs
By Slappa. They're hard bodied and they have two slots per square inside the case. Everything is stitched and the pages are bound so they dont get fucked up like in my current ring binder. I ran out of space in the old case anyway so I had to start using a smaller over-flow case, and everything has been a mess since then. Its going to be great to get everything organized again...
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May-12-2007 05:34
Allied Nations
Make it happen cap'n
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: MTHELL
quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
I havn't changed anything in my archaic way of throwing 9 tracks per CD in order of purchase, numbering CDs in order as I go along.
Not archaic in the slightest. I do pretty much the same and don't see myself changing. Only difference is I burn 2 copies of each so I can play two tunes on the same disc at the same time and have a backup.
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May-12-2007 07:35
Stu Cox
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Southampton, UK
quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
I havn't changed anything in my archaic way of throwing 9 tracks per CD in order of purchase, numbering CDs in order as I go along.
But I did just get two of these:
Holds 240 CDs
By Slappa. They're hard bodied and they have two slots per square inside the case. Everything is stitched and the pages are bound so they dont get fucked up like in my current ring binder. I ran out of space in the old case anyway so I had to start using a smaller over-flow case, and everything has been a mess since then. Its going to be great to get everything organized again...
Yep, they're quality. I do the same (9 or 10 tunes to a CD, two copies) for my loops CDs and my 'archived' older tunes and for that the Slappa wallets are perfect cos you can put both copies in a pair of slots together with only one t/l, much easier to find stuff cos you've got 8 different CDs per double page rather than 4 if you're using the same system with a normal wallet.
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May-12-2007 10:57
Clovis
techno jungle shit
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
quote:
Originally posted by Allied Nations
Not archaic in the slightest. I do pretty much the same and don't see myself changing. Only difference is I burn 2 copies of each so I can play two tunes on the same disc at the same time and have a backup.
Yeah I make doubles as well
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way too time consuming
