Too big of a database

[thisisian]

I have a library of about 30,000 songs on my dying laptop. .....but only 17,000 of them are in my djing collection.

Basically, I use the iTunes node in tractor for my music management. Delete all the stuff you won't play from your iTunes collection. Then only import your iTunes stuff in to traitor.

If you need to play something that's not in iTunes, you can still search for it on your computer & drag it in to traktor.

[blatterjr]

I've never used more than 200-300 in a full night at a club or a party... just think, it used to be based on how many crates of vinyl I wanted to carry.

[DJTroyT]

I've never used more than 200-300 in a full night at a club or a party... just think, it used to be based on how many crates of vinyl I wanted to carry.

Exactly. We may have had huge music collections at home, but it was never realistic to carry it all to a gig, so you had to plan ahead and build your crates (and, for me, eventually, CD cases) for your gigs. Weight-wise, you simply couldn't pack thousands of pieces of vinyl, even if you had the space, so it was important to narrow things down.

Hard drives are small and light, so there's a temptation to carry literally everything you have today, but IMO that still makes little sense and is more likely to get in your way, especially on a mobile gig where most of what you play is well-known, popular stuff from whatever genre. The chances of the whole crowd wanting to hear that 4th single from the album that barely scraped the bottom of the charts when it was released, much less a deep album track, is about nil. They'll want to hear the big hit, so for most albums, that's the only track you need to bring with you.

[blatterjr]

Hard drives are small and light, so there's a temptation to carry literally everything you have today, but IMO that still makes little sense and is more likely to get in your way, especially on a mobile gig where most of what you play is well-known, popular stuff from whatever genre. The chances of the whole crowd wanting to hear that 4th single from the album that barely scraped the bottom of the charts when it was released, much less a deep album track, is about nil. They'll want to hear the big hit, so for most albums, that's the only track you need to bring with you.

Point well made.

These days I'll put together subgroups for the my audience... I have an alchemy drive/folder of clips that I like to use for mixing or pumping in some nostalgia.

[DJAdeSands]

Hard drives are small and light, so there's a temptation to carry literally everything you have today, but IMO that still makes little sense and is more likely to get in your way, especially on a mobile gig where most of what you play is well-known, popular stuff from whatever genre. The chances of the whole crowd wanting to hear that 4th single from the album that barely scraped the bottom of the charts when it was released, much less a deep album track, is about nil. They'll want to hear the big hit, so for most albums, that's the only track you need to bring with you.

That's spot on my friend.. most of my work is mobile/corporate it's big tunes all night..!

[DjSimonsez]

ok guys! I have trimed out my library a lot and traktor is much more effective!

Now i got another question regarding the library, I am using Itunes to build smart playlist.

The only problem i see is when I import the itunes playlist into my collection, I lose all cue points and other track info I had!

Now i just want to clarify this, how is the library supposed to be?

I have all my less used stuff on a external hdd.
All my regular stuff and new stuff on my laptops hdd.
I manage all regular and new stuff with itunes
When my smart playlists and ratings are done in itunes I import it into my collection.

I'm confused on the workflow...

I have a show this saturday and I feel uncomforable

I hope i'm clear enough, I come a long way and really like the support from dj tech tools!

[Jester]

run a consistency check

[DjSimonsez]

I did, but my cue points were still missing.

Now here is what I tried, I pointed the music database, then told itunes to point the same folder.

I importer the collection in traktor, then I refeshed the itunes nod in traktor.

I don't play from the itunes nod in traktor, I import the smart playlists to traktor and work in traktors collection from there.
Is that it?