For those of us who don't have Serrato or aren't using laptops in their DJing, who burn CDs instead, how do you guys organize your mp3s? Do you have a particular folder system set up? Personally, I'm trying to find a better way because I organize mine into folders by the date purchased online (e.g. April 2010 folder, May 2010 folder, etc.) but because it is a mix of fresh and older tunes sometimes it can get messy.

everything in one folder. for singles that is. then i sort by date usually. for albums i let iTunes sort it out for me. then i have a liveset/djmixes folder.

For the computer, I sort through various download folders. For example, Audiojelly, Beatport, Juno, iTunes, etc, all have seperate files. Their sorted by date of purchased or date modified. This seems to be the best for me.

Since cd is my primary, I create playlists in order by artist. The playlists are typically a mixed batch, but some genres like House, Funky House, Minimal, Deep House are on their own seperate cd playlist.

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Originally posted by 19503 everything in one folder. for singles that is. then i sort by date usually. for albums i let iTunes sort it out for me. then i have a liveset/djmixes folder.

Same here. I just drop all my MP3s into one big folder after I tag and rename them to my liking. Then I sort the folder by date or filename.

Downloaded DJ mixes go into a seperate folder.

one big folder with all purchased mp3s from beatport 4 using them with
traktor pro (in traktor pro i´ve created a few playlists which including
all tracks i´ve used for my older or new mixes).
also a playlist with my current top 10 tunes (or all the tunes i really
like at the moment - newer and older stuff) and also one folder for all tunes
i bought at the current month - beatport, may 2010 | purchased mp3s -
for excample.
there´s also one folder on the hd with all livesets + mixes and one
folder with all the stuff from iTunes (podcasts, albums etc.).

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yeah, just like the lot of you, i also have each batch of tracks ordered by purchase date. though sometimes it makes me forget about my older tunes, but to me it also somewhat organizes everything by genre... since one month i'll be feeling one genre, and the next i'll be in the mood for another.

Wait, didn't ryan, Matt or stu (can't remember which) have some epic way to organize tracks?

It was like a 10 step thing including tags, MIK, import to serato, etc.

I can't find it now. Can someone repost it here?

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Wait, didn't ryan, Matt or stu (can't remember which) have some epic way to organize tracks? It was like a 10 step thing including tags, MIK, import to serato, etc. I can't find it now. Can someone repost it here?

This is sort of what I was trying to get at, I just wish I could find it too.

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Originally posted by Psionic This is sort of what I was trying to get at, I just wish I could find it too.

If that is what you're asking for, here is what I do. Not necessarily the best method of doing things, but it works for me:

1. Download files from Beatport, etc.
2. Edit ID3 tags using Mp3Tag and rename them to match "Artist - Track Name (___ Mix)" schema
3. Copy files into "Tracks" folder
4. Run files through Mixed In Key
5. Copy keyed tracks to laptop into its own "Tracks" folder
6. Add files to Serato
7. Analyze files in Serato and adjust track gain // Warp tracks in Ableton Live

lol that was alot work