Music Organization!!! How do You do it?

[sureno]

Ok i Dj House music, pretty much most sub genres of it. I use CDJ's so there for use CD's! My question is how do you guys arrange your CD's?
I have mine arranged like this:

PEEK
sub genres
MID
sub genres
EARLY
sub genres
CHILLED
no sub genre here simply chillout/ambient stuff

What are the sub genres for me i hear you ask? well they are "MY" own descriptions for the type of music i place in this catogary so apologies if they are not technically right or even rational

sub genres:
Afro/latin
Chicago
Commercial
Deep
Deep Bumpin'
Deep Funky
Deep Soul
Electronica
F Knows???
Funky Tech/Electro
Funky/Soulful
Jackin'
Jacking Swing
Minimal Glitch
Tech
Tribal
U.S Garage

well there you go, if any one wants to comment on it or even offer a simpler method or way to stream line please feel free also i would love to here how all you Dj's organize your music? The sheer volume of music i have accumulated (around 1TB) reflects to the main reason of moving to Traktor scratch, i have a quarter of my collection on CD's but now feel im not fully utilizing what i have so am going to use Traktor to have easy access to all my tracks with out (the bane of my life) having to burn CD's print and cut labels for each one. My labels would usually be:
Track#-Title-Artist-mix (i do not put track length as i never use radio edits and don't really do record labels)
e.g.

1.Sureno's saucy Polka song-Sureno-lazy mix

So to sum it all up CD's are a pain in the @ss if you have a lot of Digital music. i hope you may of found this informative to some degree

[Khazul]

I currently use a bunch of playlists to organise tracks in Traktor along with 'Mixed in Key 3' to help with harmonic mixing if I need to get tracks into a set on the fly.

Using playlists is a little cumbersome, but it makes it easy to stick a track under multiple categories easily.

[sureno]

Originally Posted by Khazul

I currently use a bunch of playlists to organise tracks in Traktor along with 'Mixed in Key 3' to help with harmonic mixing if I need to get tracks into a set on the fly.

Using playlists is a little cumbersome, but it makes it easy to stick a track under multiple categories easily.

hopefully i will be doing the same soon, im making a slow transition over to traktor and intend to get MIK

[EdRyan]

I'll be honest. I just gave up trying to sort in any particular way.

I just go for important stuff at the front of cd wallet, less important at the back..and whatever else inbetween !

[sureno]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

I'll be honest. I just gave up trying to sort in any particular way.

I just go for important stuff at the front of cd wallet, less important at the back..and whatever else inbetween !

surely you must label the CD's?

[EdRyan]

Well yeah of course I write on the discs.

But I don't try to group or order them in the wallet anymore. lol

[sureno]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

Well yeah of course I write on the discs.

But I don't try to group or order them in the wallet anymore. lol

i take it like house music and date right?
wow your memory must be awesome, what if some one asks you for a track?

[EdRyan]

I write the artist name, song title and then the mixes on the bottom 1/2 of the disc.

Sometimes my memory slips, and I can't find something. In which case, you see me start flipping through the wallet very quickly !

As for requests:

1) It's normally for 4x4, R&B etc... to which they get a polite apology for not having any.

2) Or they are so drunk, they they start with the "Have you got the song that goes ner ner ner, neeerrrr, dah be boo boo" kinda routine. In which case, I humour myself my talking to them, and then eventually stumble off

[sureno]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

I write the artist name, song title and then the mixes on the bottom 1/2 of the disc.

Sometimes my memory slips, and I can't find something. In which case, you see me start flipping through the wallet very quickly !

As for requests:

1) It's normally for 4x4, R&B etc... to which they get a polite apology for not having any.

2) Or they are so drunk, they they start with the "Have you got the song that goes ner ner ner, neeerrrr, dah be boo boo" kinda routine. In which case, I humour myself my talking to them, and then eventually stumble off

lmao yeah, i know what you mean, so you just put 1 single/artist on each CD or just your favourite tracks, i thought let me put each release onto it's own CD, i ended up with too many CD's so i ended up categorizing all my music and putting 10 tracks on each CD from the catogery and sub genre. very occasionally i get a request for something i like and have thats when these come in particularly handy

[TrevCircleStudios]

sub genres:
Afro/latin
Chicago
Commercial
Deep
Deep Bumpin'
Deep Funky
Deep Soul
Electronica
F Knows???
Funky Tech/Electro
Funky/Soulful
Jackin'
Jacking Swing
Minimal Glitch
Tech
Tribal
U.S Garage

Am thinking you'd find it easier if you just filed this stuff in the dustbin and got yourself some proper music.











harhar. Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[sureno]

Originally Posted by TrevCircleStudios

Am thinking you'd find it easier if you just filed this stuff in the dustbin and got yourself some proper music.











harhar. Sorry. Couldn't resist.

lmao! sureno mumbles under his breathe just because you have trouble mixing this

[Khazul]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

1) It's normally for 4x4, R&B etc... to which they get a polite apology for not having any.

I cant actually think of a polite answer for someone requesting R&B - most tempted to tell the nearby bouncer that they insulted me and ask them to throw them out - hot blonds included

[EdRyan]

The worst I've said is that they could go to another club to hear that sort of music. I've never lost my rag with anyone.

Well, I did once actually. It was some blonde girl that kept treating the booth as a cloakroom and me as an attendant. She turned round and said I made a great babysitter.

I said I'm even better at making babies. It worked. Ok, so I had to sleaze on her, but she took everything and left me alone

[sureno]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

The worst I've said is that they could go to another club to hear that sort of music. I've never lost my rag with anyone.

Well, I did once actually. It was some blonde girl that kept treating the booth as a cloakroom and me as an attendant. She turned round and said I made a great babysitter.

I said I'm even better at making babies. It worked. Ok, so I had to sleaze on her, but she took everything and left me alone

lol i would of had to say "yeah and you look the type to have a lot of them" i hate patronising people

[conor_j]

On the pc I divide my tracks up into Genre, and inside each genre I subdivide into Current Playlist, 2008 Releases and Previous Releases

In the cd wallet i tend to do somethign similar to Ed, important tracks to the front and the older stuff towards the back