Originally Posted by
sobi
I keep my folders organized by year/month (IE - 1211,1212, 1301) This keeps the folders somewhat managable with volume and browsing. Then, depending on the "energy" and "feel" of a track, I'll give them star ratings... 5 being peak time bangers, and 1 being an opening type of track. After that, I'll enter tags in the comment field to help when searching for sub-genres. For instance, if I pull up all my house tracks, I might want to find all my Latin House tracks. I'll tag the comment field with latin. If it's a techno track that has a really dark warehouse feel to it with a good build, I'll put "Dark/Warehouse/Build". Then I do a bit of redundancy, and I'll take my sub-genres (ie - latin house, deep house, tech-house), and throw those tracks into corresponding playlists. Then I can do more focused searches like going to my deep house playlist, and searching for comments like vocal or bouncy.
All of that is pretty much a back up though, as for gigs, I'll dig through my MP3's like I did my records years ago. I'll pull a "crate" for the night I have to play that lasts me a couple hours or so. Then if I feel like taking it a different direction, or the crowd isn't feeling the style I planned on playing, I can revert to searching through those playlists and keywords for what might work for where I need to take the music.
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