How do you prep your music, digitally?

[luv2xra]

So Mr. Golden has already posted, in his blog, about some freebies he doesnt do without, so im asking what do you do? Just to throw some ideas with each other and help each other with some programs and questions about those programs, before we fork out the money.
I took some of his recommendations from his article and now I use the following applications. In the following order.

1) Source, whether it be beatport.com or a cd or other downloading software.
2) I use Platinum notes, this will help my music sound better.
3) Mixed in Key, to write down the key on my tags
4) Name Mangler, PN adds an extension to the music file and inserts it at the end of the title. So I use this program to remove this extension from a large selection of files.
5) I import it to iTunes.

Anyways thats my process and its working so far, without major problems. Leave a post if you have any questions or suggestions, also post your process.

[BentoSan]

I think Nico was the one to write the article you refer to actually.

[DvlsAdvct]

I rip/download the music
I check the tags
I organize into folders of Artist-Album or if various artists it is VA - Label-Album
Files are track number - Title or if various artists track number - artist - title
I import into itunes
I import into Traktor. I analyze and grid the ones I am more likely to spin. If tracks really catch my attention, or I will definitely spin them, I put more cue points into them to break the track down into sections. I try to stick to 6 used cue points (ignoring Out cue), but sometimes that isn't possible.

[Krilikz]

Checking Tags
(i need to get platnium note)
Mixed in Key
Analyze in Traktor
Make playlists in tracktor
Convert Tracktor nmu files into M3U
Load them onto my zune

[luv2xra]

I think Nico was the one to write the article you refer to actually.

Yes you are correct, sorry Nico. Nico is the author, of the article im referring to, here is the link.

http://www.djtechtools.com/2008/06/0...e-without-mac/

[djxsquizet]

-download or rip my tracks
-put them in folders that match the genre
-warp them
-set up all my loop points or cue

and I am done.

[Deviant_Tech]

- Download
- Get the key and bpm with "Rapid Evolution"
- Rename the file to "key-bpm-artist-track"
- Import and warp

[ryan catcher]

download / rip
figure out bpm in traktor
fix the tags in itunes to:
ARTIST - SONG (REMIX) - BPM.mp3
and then organize in a folder that is the same as the genre.

-- i need to fix the way "i do buiness" though.

anything freeware for mac that can detect bpm, change tags, and organize?

should i just use traktor? I've just updated to traktor 3 from the le...

[djxsquizet]

i really need to organize my tracks by bpm i am just so lazy

[Krilikz]

I know in vista theres a way you can pull up id3 columns, so you could potentially have BPM and organize it in vista.
Not sure if that would help you though.

If you had traktor it would be a lot easier