hello to everybody in DJTT
let me introduce myself first, as this is my first post. So my name is Efthymios, and I am new to DJing.
I have a ton of questions but I just want to focus on music library organization here. I had read some articles and tips from several sources and I fully understand that is a subjective matter, so I will tell you what I try and I hope for some help.
At the begging I Had one folder (Music) with a lot of subfolders mostly in Genre style (there I have till now many genres (electronic,rock,ethinc,jazz,etc).
Since I want to be a DJ of electronic music (tech-house,minimal-tech,techno,ect) I realize that the other grenres-folders don't have to be inserted in Tractor. I also don't want to delete my music so I rename the folder to (Old Music).
The next step was to create a new folder (Music UnTagged), and I cut-paste a small amount of music from the (Old Music) here. I also create some folders like relative to the download source, like (beatport,soundcloud,youtube) and some others totally irrelevant like genres or artist (dubstep or Maceo Plex, coming from Old Music)
Finally, I create a third folder (Music), possible in future rename it in (DJ Music), which I plan to be the main directory for traktor.
So I have 3 main folders
1(Old Music)
2(Music untagged)
3(Music)
Next step: I download some programs and trying to tag my music. (Mp3tag, MediaMonkey, Beatport, Itunes) *still learning them, i have questions for some of those also). I don't care about tagging folder No1 and I think should not right? I mostly care about folder No2. The plan is obviously put new download/purchase music to folder No2, tag it and then move it to folder No3.
My main problem here is to establish a way of doing it right, mostly in my mind and then on PC, since I am in the begging in order not to lost it in the future.
And here comes some questions:
should i care about the subfolders of the No2-Untagged Music folder or leave it in this Chaos (beatport,Dubstep,Maceo Plex)
For folder No3-Music (Main traktor directory) I obviously care. In the begging, I was thinking of a genre structure but after doing some research, I realize that If you play your music in Traktor through playlists and if there are several ways to manipulate and create smart playlist via itunes/beatport, there is no need for the folder to be in this structure too. So right now this folder have a simple structure with only 2 subfolders (artist and complications)
In artist I plan to create subfolders of alblums/ep/lp with the years writting next to album. example: Nicolas jaar/time for us (2010)/tracks. In compilcations, the same name of complication or VA (I regarded them as the same) example: 1) Renaissance The Mix Collection - Gui Boratto (2010)/tracks, 2) Beatport Biggest Basslines Tech House September (2016)/tracks.
A little problem with this structure is in which artist folder I should put the remixes/edit etc. I currently have this track: Trentemoller-Sycamore Feeling (Gui Boratto Remix) in Trentemoller folder. Does this sound good ?
I also reach this structure so far since I discover albums with several genres form even same artist, in artist folder for example there is a folder Paul Kalkbrenner/Berlin Calling (2008)/tracks, which have and techno and tech-house, so i didn't want to separate the tracks. Big question about this, how anyone with genre folder structure handle this ?
I saw that some softwares like MediaMonkey and Itunes have the ability to recreate folders like N.jaar/Time for us/tracks... so i think this can help me in future not doing it manually... but I'm not at this point yet.
I plan to purchase MixedinKey also. so regarding the tagging part, I see it like Mp3tag(when necessary)/MixedinKey/beatport(comments,mood,ect,playlist),Itunes(smart playlists or beatport playlist to traktor)
Do I have to chose between beatport/Itunes for main software library? (I guess yes) and if I have to regardless of which one, which main folder I have to make them constantly watch? The No2(Music Untagged) or No3(Music)?
I will stop now and say sorry for the big post here, but I want to be clearly enough and I'm a detail oriented person.
I don't have problem to change my folder structures to genre style, but I really prefer some suggestions on what I've done so far...
By the way since, I'm new (amateur) and not able to play in crowed yet (just home) time event folder structure like Startup/prewarm,afterhours don't really care me.. also think tags/playlists can do this job.
Thank you all and nice to meet you !!!
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