Sorry to bump old threads, but just wondering do you guys use like a 1 track per CD or do you burn like 10 tracks per CD to save space and a little bit of money?

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Originally posted by Oreoh142 Sorry to bump old threads, but just wondering do you guys use like a 1 track per CD or do you burn like 10 tracks per CD to save space and a little bit of money?

i started with 1 per cd but then i soon noticed that i'm gonna have a 1000 cds soon (went well over 200 already), so now i burn about 8 per cd, but now i can't find any tunes when i play! organizing really is a bitch, for me at least.
that's why i'm going to get traktor scratch in the future most likely, pretty much just to get my tunes organized like i want!

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yeah that is what I was worried about. I'm tihnking about 1 song per CD, and on that CD just have all the remixes or something...that could save me a little bit i guess. When you put 8 or so tracks on a CD though, do you ever have the problem of you wanting to mix a song from the same CD that is playing, so you can't. That is one problem I am worried about.

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Originally posted by Oreoh142 yeah that is what I was worried about. I'm tihnking about 1 song per CD, and on that CD just have all the remixes or something...that could save me a little bit i guess. When you put 8 or so tracks on a CD though, do you ever have the problem of you wanting to mix a song from the same CD that is playing, so you can't. That is one problem I am worried about.

i burn two of each cds, so i won't get that problem. my biggest problem is finding the right tune to play as i'd like to sort my tracks by key and bpm and naturally can't do that if i burn 8 tunes per cd (as i want to burn them right after buying and not wait a year to get enough tracks in the same key and a similar bpm range).
i also have about 1000 bought cds that are sorted alphabetically as they pretty much all have more than one tune anyway (and most have more than one tune i'd play, so i can't sort them by the tracks i'd play from them).
so, it's a fucking hassle and i really do think it's holding me back.
that's why i'm getting traktor scratch or something similar as soon as i get a laptop.

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Originally posted by Simcut 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!

What you need is the discogs tagger for foobar2000, foo_discogs. Hassle free tagging from discogs data, and I don't pimp it because I wrote it !

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dedicated plugin thread on hydroenaudio wih download link + more info

No real order on my vinyl.

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i actually started doing the whole printing cd's thing.... but try to do it early on before you have a lot of tracks... (for me having to burn/print over 200 cd's is going to take quite some time) but the cd's i have printed so far look so nice on the eyes. also it's easier to organize as i try to somewhat classify them by genre and giving each genre it's own color, then further organizing by bpm and so on.

in the end i think it'll be worth it, but you need a LOT of patience for it

I sort my vinyl by timbre and genre in ascending order based on BPM.

i burn 4 songs per CD, 1-4, then i burn them again 5-8:
1. in case CD starts skipping i can use the backup track without ejecting
2. keeps the label big to find stuff in semi-dark
3. 4 songs per CD x2 CDs = 8 songs on 2 CDs. same as burning a copy.
4. keeps me from buying crap tracks just so i can fill up a CD
5. Less waiting when i buy tracks to have them on CD [i don't buy a lot, i am very picky]
6. labeled as: track# [1-4]; Key; Artist - Title [mix]
7. i used to have 3 red dots under the name that i would fill in based on how vocal/instrumental the track was [sometimes i don't want a full vocal track played in the wrong moment]
8. and i add new CDs at the end. it's working for now as i only have a couple hundred tracks
9. i also tried to put 2 genres on one CD, this keeps from the likelyhood of wanting to play songs from same CD.
10. same goes for Keys: i try to put clashing songs on same CD for reason above.

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1 release per cd (6-8 tracks on one cd at most)

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Genre > Key > Title

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

Torq in filename mode because i rename all my songs to a certain format which i like

In terms of cds i put one song per cd.. or a song + remix only if they were in the same key and maybe close bpm range, if they're on completely diff sides of hte spectrum i split them