Best way to organize music between computers
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    Hi everyone,

    I'm sure some of you have encountered this before. I import and buy all of my music on my desktop but use my laptop for DJing. What is the best way to transfer the music from my desktop to my laptop while keeping the songs organized by playlist? I hope to be able to use my existing smart playlists on iTunes as crates on Serato on my laptop without much hassle.

    Thanks. Any piece of advice or suggestions about transferring music/playlists to a secondary computer is welcome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by camilotivo View Post
    Hi everyone,

    I'm sure some of you have encountered this before. I import and buy all of my music on my desktop but use my laptop for DJing. What is the best way to transfer the music from my desktop to my laptop while keeping the songs organized by playlist? I hope to be able to use my existing smart playlists on iTunes as crates on Serato on my laptop without much hassle.

    Thanks. Any piece of advice or suggestions about transferring music/playlists to a secondary computer is welcome.
    So this is something I do a lot. For a while I was having my smart playlists read things I had included in a comment field, such as "leftfield / house" for weird housey tunes. Then in Serato, you could make a smart crate that looks for that phrase in the comments.

    Or a simpler idea would be to move the playlists from iTunes into a specific folder on a USB drive, that way you know where everything belongs. They're both a bit more time consuming, but nothing good ever came easy

    Also, welcome to the forum!
    Last edited by overcast; 06-10-2016 at 02:56 PM. Reason: Added a final little message

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