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How do you classify your tracks? Comments, annotations, ect
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| aBigWreck |
For your tracks or cds, do you make annotations on your cds or write comments in your .mp3s? If so what method do you use behind your comments.
Ex: comment on an mp3 track that it's funky or a massive tune. Good for the beginning of the night or the end ect.
Obviously you're supposed to know your tracks, I'm just curious if y'all use shorthand to help organize them. |
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| woscar |
| Nice thread man, my collection is starting to grow rapidly in the past months and I'm trying to figure out a way of sorting everything in a way that is much easier to recognize. |
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| Stu Cox |
The only metric I use for organisation is age.
I used to split things up by genre, but then didn't know what to do when tracks fell between several genres etc, so gave up with that.
Now everything in my wallet is organised roughly oldest first, starting with a series of "classics" (pre 2005), then a section for each year following that with just the best bits I've decided to keep in my wallet (normally 40-50 tracks per year, not in any particular order within that) up to last year, then this year's in the order I bought & burnt it.
My reasoning for just using age is this:
- It's not subjective, so if my tastes evolve over time I'm not going to change my mind about whether it's a peak-time or a warm-up track, or whether it's progressive polka-dot dibstep or tech polka-dot dobstep
- It's usually fairly easy to remember roughly how long ago you got something
- You just add stuff onto the end and it all stays in order, so no reorganising every time you buy some new tunes, just go back and chuck out the crap when you run out of room
- You normally want to be able to find your new stuff easily, while your older stuff will have been in the same place for long enough for you to remember roughly where it is, this seems to facilitate that
But yeah I don't label them with descriptions or genres or anything, just try and remember what they're like (doesn't always work!)... I do mark them all by tempo, key and label though, but don't really use them for classification or organisation. |
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| Ted Promo |
I honestly don't organize my tracks all that much and I probably should. They're in whatever notebook I happened to be filling at the time and I mainly just write the track's producer and name.
Yeah, I am awful at organization and even worse at maintaining it. |
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| enydo |
I can vouch for Ted's unorganizedness. He lent me his CD collection and I'm pretty sure I gave up digging through it already. :p
As for me I have all my tracks as mp3s because that's how I buy them. I have a folder labelled "Tracks", in that folder I have sub folders of different genres, and in those folders different categories that I made up to help me keep track of styles and stuff.
My favorite subfolder is "fest techno". |
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| tortoise |
On CD
BPM KEY Artist Name - Track Name (Remix)
119 4A Williams - Love On A Real Train (Odyssey Mix)
On Computer
Artist Name - Track Name (Remix)[Label][Release Date][BPM][Key]
Williams - Love On A Real Train (Odyssey Mix)[Love Triangle][2007][119][4A] |
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| Tony Morello |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stu Cox
The only metric I use for organisation is age.
I used to split things up by genre, but then didn't know what to do when tracks fell between several genres etc, so gave up with that.
Now everything in my wallet is organised roughly oldest first, starting with a series of "classics" (pre 2005), then a section for each year following that with just the best bits I've decided to keep in my wallet (normally 40-50 tracks per year, not in any particular order within that) up to last year, then this year's in the order I bought & burnt it.
My reasoning for just using age is this:
- It's not subjective, so if my tastes evolve over time I'm not going to change my mind about whether it's a peak-time or a warm-up track, or whether it's progressive polka-dot dibstep or tech polka-dot dobstep
- It's usually fairly easy to remember roughly how long ago you got something
- You just add stuff onto the end and it all stays in order, so no reorganising every time you buy some new tunes, just go back and chuck out the crap when you run out of room
- You normally want to be able to find your new stuff easily, while your older stuff will have been in the same place for long enough for you to remember roughly where it is, this seems to facilitate that
But yeah I don't label them with descriptions or genres or anything, just try and remember what they're like (doesn't always work!)... I do mark them all by tempo, key and label though, but don't really use them for classification or organisation. |
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i usually just scribble something on the cd, usually just track names
newer tunes are together, older tunes are together, people dance and be merry and i get paid
seems to work for me so far
i usually just have a few mp3 discs that i play my new stuff off of, burn em every couple weeks, the rest i carry around just in case |
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
I can vouch for Ted's unorganizedness. He lent me his CD collection and I'm pretty sure I gave up digging through it already. :p
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Goddamn I gotta get those baaaack.
Goddaaaaaaaaamn. |
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