Ok, I've been meaning to post in this thread since september, when I got my own printer.

I've also been colour-coding my CDs according to genre, however I seperate genres in seperate CD wallets. No point taking psy-trance if you're playing at a pre-drinks bar, just take the house, tech house and electro-house wallets. Generally they are organised more so by BPM rather than actual genre division, i.e schranz techno and psy-trance are in the same wallet, whereas trip hop/hip hop are in a different wallet.

Here is one CD - light blue is slower techno/tech house:



Altogether:



I also found through experimentation that kept putting CDs in the player, then forgetting what key I was in, especially if I was drunk, hence the photocopies of each CD placed behind them as such:



Trance:



So far everything is going swimmingly, though it's a very time-consuming process...

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wow. looks great.

seems like a huge hassle tho. i can't see myself doing that, when i'm basically getting new music all the time. i wish i had the discipline to do so though.

might pick up a printer for demos and whatnot.

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Yeah, you have to do it as you go, otherwise you're screwed.

I've only done about 40, and probably have at least 700-800 to go. Really just cannot be bothered, especially since I spent two straight weeks over Christmas finally getting my mp3 collection sorted and up to date.

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Those really look great with the label art and all.

I actually just recently gave up burning CD's altogether. I found it so much work that was being done since I now use a DVS (Traktor) exclusively.

I figure if I need CD's for a gig, I'll just burn them as needed.

bah! You guys call yourselves DJs!

Effort is what its all about. Sure as hell makes it alot easier to find tracks fast with all the information right there printed up nicely and clearly.. Its a hell of a job trying to label every CD but when you're looking at your wallet and see how nice it looks and how much it helps while mixing.. It's worth it.

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that's awesome Beat Blog.. eventually that's what I want to do with my collection.

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Originally posted by Beat Blog Ok, I've been meaning to post in this thread since september, when I got my own printer. I've also been colour-coding my CDs according to genre, however I seperate genres in seperate CD wallets. No point taking psy-trance if you're playing at a pre-drinks bar, just take the house, tech house and electro-house wallets. Generally they are organised more so by BPM rather than actual genre division, i.e schranz techno and psy-trance are in the same wallet, whereas trip hop/hip hop are in a different wallet. Here is one CD - light blue is slower techno/tech house: I also found through experimentation that kept putting CDs in the player, then forgetting what key I was in, especially if I was drunk, hence the photocopies of each CD placed behind them as such: So far everything is going swimmingly, though it's a very time-consuming process...

What software do you use?

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Originally posted by Fl@k Monkey bah! You guys call yourselves DJs! Effort is what its all about. Sure as hell makes it alot easier to find tracks fast with all the information right there printed up nicely and clearly.. Its a hell of a job trying to label every CD but when you're looking at your wallet and see how nice it looks and how much it helps while mixing.. It's worth it.

yeah... we're oldschool!

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Originally posted by saltytheseagull What software do you use?

Just an extremely simple one that came with the Canon MP600 printer.

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Originally posted by Inertia yeah... we're lazy!

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i have been thinking about this and all kinds of organizing solutions for my cds and i've decided that i'm definitely going to stop burning cds and get traktor scratch in the future.
it's really gotten so bad, that whenever i decide i want to play i pretty much have to pre plan my set, i can't improvise at all because i can't find anything anywhere no matter how i sort them.
i guess my main problem is that i have too much stuff and i'd like to be able to sort them in various ways and that can only be done with a computer as far as i can see.

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Yeah it's a total pain. Burning one track (and maybe it's remixes) per cd kinda makes the most sense, because you can order your sets kind of like you would have done using vinyl in a crate.

But that takes seemingly forever (especially with a back catalog of tracks). If you download 20 tracks in one buying session, burning and printing them will take you forever.

Burning CD's with 5-7 tracks and making two copies (which is what I did) uses less CD's, but yeah when you're looking for a track that's a few months or years old good luck!

Traktor Scratch/SSL/Torq is a blessing. Actually I integrate with iTunes (I use a Mac, so iTunes is actually good, I'm aware it's kinda crappy on Windows). iTunes lets me sort all my music in so many ways using tags and smart-playlists, and then all those playlists and data just get imported into Traktor/SSL/Torq automatically.

It's certainly made me happier and improved my track selection

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Originally posted by skip i have been thinking about this and all kinds of organizing solutions for my cds and i've decided that i'm definitely going to stop burning cds and get traktor scratch in the future. it's really gotten so bad, that whenever i decide i want to play i pretty much have to pre plan my set, i can't improvise at all because i can't find anything anywhere no matter how i sort them. i guess my main problem is that i have too much stuff and i'd like to be able to sort them in various ways and that can only be done with a computer as far as i can see.