Traktor/Serato - Does it mean TOO much choice?

[photojojo]

You have all this music and it looks like you're reading emails in the dance.

I hate this argument. Like no one ever turned their back to the crowd or ducked under the booth to find the next CD or record. I will concede that it can look like you're just reading emails or checking facebook, but that's more about the showmanship of the DJ rather than the software they're using.

Vast majority of the time I use Winamp and my entire collection and sticky notes on my desktop listen to Winamp on Radom and repeat and make note of the tracks that I want to work this. This is the same of my vinyl days of mixing for hours and organizing ones into different stacks to use. It's same idea just done different.


Sent from my jailbroken iPhone

Have you thought about trying Evernote on your desktop and your jailbroken iPhone instead of sticky notes?

I have my physical files sorted my own way on my HD (by artist / folders), and I feel i know my library very well after maintaining it for many years.

Number one rule I've learned with going digital (especially when switching from CDJ's to Traktor)... in-depth track organization (playlists/crates, labels, etc) skills is key.

Anyone with this problem hasn't properly organized their library.

This is the key. You can't "play" around with the software and not do any of the prep work required. While he may be a great selector the workflow is different with software. He clearly didn't have a well organized track selection and maybe thought it would just be easy to press a few buttons and play some music. Turns out there's more to it than just pressing buttons. In fact to some extent it's almost like starting over. If I had to start over with a new way after doing something the same way for years I think I would be more resistant to change as well.

And what happens is you go to the dance and you see selectors playing everything on the chorus and just pressing button, pressing buttons. Life is not one continuous orgasm. You know. Life isn't like that. And music has to have crescendo. It must build. We cannot be always be queuing to the chorus and playing 30 seconds.

I was riding in the car of a coworker the other day and I swear to god the mix on the radio was 8 bars of a track, then off to the next one. only once or twice in a half hour did they let a track play more than 16 bars.

I felt like I caught ADHD from the damn DJ.

I hate this, but just because I don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong.