![]() ![]() (By the way, I have a PC-based system and use iTunes and Traktor, both which of course are fairly popular library / DJ applications.) Remember this is just one way of doing it, but hopefully it’ll illustrate some concepts for you. ![]() To give you an idea of how this workflow might work, I’ll share my personal method for getting my tracks processed before I start to use them. In addition, many people like to perform additional processing on their music downloads before they are actually imported into their library. What next? We’ve already seen that in most cases the information embedded in the files by your music store is either incorrect or inconsistent, so you cannot rely on it. So you’re shopping for music, you’ve listened to a few tracks and have decided to purchase a cart of a dozen or so digital downloads. So how do we edit the metadata and ensure our libraries have the right information in today’s digital environment? From download to deck-load… Sleeve artwork became the quickest way to identify records, and although it is still valuable to have this for digital tracks the primary way we now search is through text-based tags that we are creating or editing. Each week you’d sift through what you played before and decide which tracks should remain for the next gig and which new records you would add. Many would have piles of records and CDs ordered by purchase date, artist or popularity. When preparing for a DJ gig, you’d be restricted to 100 to 200 or so records to choose from. Ultimately, the important thing is to do what works for you!īefore digital music became so prolific, collectors and DJs would create personalised and often abstract ways of grouping, ordering and sorting their record collection. My last stage of music library organisation is choosing the right tools and workflow to go from “download to deck-load”, which is what we’re going to look at today.īefore we get going, I’d like to stress once again that these are guidelines and not rules: They’re here to help empower youself to make your own choices. In An Essential Guide To Organising Your Music Library (which was part four of this occasional series looking at ways of better organising your DJ music collection), we considered how we might like to classify the tracks and tags. Mp3Tag for Windows is a powerful utility to let you perform all kinds of bulk actions on your musics’ tags. ![]()
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