ss2274
How do you guys organize your music? I have lost all my usb drives with all my music. I had on main drive and then I had 2 others for backups and some how I have arranged to lose all 3. I had to contact Beatport. I had to tell them what happened but that was only a small percentage of my music. So basically I lost 80% of the music that I have collected. So seems like a very hard time for me from a DJ perspective. I also noticed there were about 20 tracks that I got from Beatport that were not tagged. It only has the file name and that is it. I'm now getting back into DJ'ing after some time that has passed. So for one I was wondering if itunes tags your music for you if imported it in there?
I was also curious on how you guys tagged and organized your music? Getting back in to it...so I'm trying to decide the best organization techniques and if you have any suggestions in me getting back in to the game... Thank you
Posted Sun 30 Oct 16 @ 10:40 pm
djtyme209
stay away from itunes dont know why some people continue to use that bloatware.... since vdj is folder based its preeety much already. meaning this iz how i have it on my pc
80's
freestyle
country
jazz
country
hip hop
old school etc,etc then when i have an event coming up i just make a folder for that event example
something like Tina's Sweet 16 (10-30-16) then i just add certain song that i might my for sure at a sweet 16
80's
freestyle
country
jazz
country
hip hop
old school etc,etc then when i have an event coming up i just make a folder for that event example
something like Tina's Sweet 16 (10-30-16) then i just add certain song that i might my for sure at a sweet 16
Posted Sun 30 Oct 16 @ 11:56 pm
Djratedxxx919
MediaMonkey
Posted Mon 31 Oct 16 @ 12:45 am
mitchiemasha
I use Tag & Rename software.
I have an archive on it's own harddrive in my master PC, where i download, do reactions to new releases, browse the internet etc... I have a copy of my archive on my studio PC, another on my DJ laptop and a hard disk in a safe. I'm also about to go cloud back up (onedrive), thanks to the terabyte that comes with the new Microsoft Office subscription.
Everything gets downloaded to an inbox, listened to, reacted to, then either binned or copied to a folder named Laptop. On Friday before my set everything in the Laptop folder gets correctly tagged with Tag & Rename (great software, possibly the best) copied to the Archive hard drive in the same PC and to a memory stick. As the first hour (or so) can be slow, i'll copy the tracks from the memory stick onto the Laptop, play them for a final check how they sound on the system (except the hard ones of course, couldn't be playing those early).
Sometimes the Studio PC can be 6 months out of date, same for the safe drive, another thing cloud back up will fix (but it's will take for ever to upload the back log). There's also differences between the Master Archive and laptop as I will go back in on the Master and delete stuff. Now when a new laptop arrives the old folders will be finetuned.
Getting your Archive right is extremely important, for many of us our lifes work.
I have an archive on it's own harddrive in my master PC, where i download, do reactions to new releases, browse the internet etc... I have a copy of my archive on my studio PC, another on my DJ laptop and a hard disk in a safe. I'm also about to go cloud back up (onedrive), thanks to the terabyte that comes with the new Microsoft Office subscription.
Everything gets downloaded to an inbox, listened to, reacted to, then either binned or copied to a folder named Laptop. On Friday before my set everything in the Laptop folder gets correctly tagged with Tag & Rename (great software, possibly the best) copied to the Archive hard drive in the same PC and to a memory stick. As the first hour (or so) can be slow, i'll copy the tracks from the memory stick onto the Laptop, play them for a final check how they sound on the system (except the hard ones of course, couldn't be playing those early).
Sometimes the Studio PC can be 6 months out of date, same for the safe drive, another thing cloud back up will fix (but it's will take for ever to upload the back log). There's also differences between the Master Archive and laptop as I will go back in on the Master and delete stuff. Now when a new laptop arrives the old folders will be finetuned.
Getting your Archive right is extremely important, for many of us our lifes work.
Posted Mon 31 Oct 16 @ 12:48 am
locoDog
+20 for sacking itunes off
I'm very similar
o/s folders for master genres sub genres inside them,
my music is a favourite folder
depending on the night, if I'm going eclectic I just search via bpm ranges
190-210 etc
or use the accord pad page.
if I have a plan I make the genre folders I want to play favourites
I also make virtual folders if I'm really planning ahead [rarely]
I also use filter folders, sometimes an album is multi genre so I tag tracks that don't quite fit the folder the album is in, so say an album is hardcore but has a few ragga jungle tracks I mark them in the comments and then in my ragga jungle folder I have a filter that looks for ragga jungle but isn't in the ragga jungle folder.
As for backups, spread your database as much as you can, I've got 2 old machines each holding 100GBs of my database, many 32GB SD card and there's duplication all over the place, there's also my external which contains my entire database but that is used only for archiving
I'm very similar
o/s folders for master genres sub genres inside them,
my music is a favourite folder
depending on the night, if I'm going eclectic I just search via bpm ranges
190-210 etc
or use the accord pad page.
if I have a plan I make the genre folders I want to play favourites
I also make virtual folders if I'm really planning ahead [rarely]
I also use filter folders, sometimes an album is multi genre so I tag tracks that don't quite fit the folder the album is in, so say an album is hardcore but has a few ragga jungle tracks I mark them in the comments and then in my ragga jungle folder I have a filter that looks for ragga jungle but isn't in the ragga jungle folder.
As for backups, spread your database as much as you can, I've got 2 old machines each holding 100GBs of my database, many 32GB SD card and there's duplication all over the place, there's also my external which contains my entire database but that is used only for archiving
Posted Mon 31 Oct 16 @ 1:15 am
Djratedxxx919
Again MediaMonkey
Posted Mon 31 Oct 16 @ 1:24 am