Can you have too much music?!
Do you thinks its possible to have too much music?
I feel that I have over 100gig and 1000 Vinyl records and to be honest I have lost track of what I have and even what to put into set’s.
I have smart playlists and a simple sorting collection on my iTunes which is transferred to traktor in playlists.
how do people on here organise their music?
I definitely think it’s possible to have too much music. I got to a point where i was struggling to find in my collection what i wanted, so i basically just sat one day and copied all the tracks i don’t use from my main external to a back up. So not instead of having 1000 tracks on my Macbook i now only have 300. But those 300 i know i will use all the time and i know them inside out.
Eventually i will swap 100 of them for 100 newer tracks and so on.. I also have about 1000 records but only use them for personal listening now rather than gigs.
IMHO, you have too much music when you don’t know 40 % of said music. It isn’t a number, only a concept, so for some people a hundred songs might be too much, while someone else can have 3000 songs and know everything.
That is unless you do weddings, or mobile, or play at a top 40 place, or a place that is heavy on the requests, what i’m talking about above is more in the case of you djing what you love 
No.
Where ALL tracks are - - <##> - ., my directory scheme is:
Music
This is a REALLY hard question. Smart playlists make it a LOT easier to manage large collections, but DJ’s with huge collections of vinyl still manage fine…
Check out Jazzy Jeff and ?uestlove’s vinyl collection. 
You can certainly have too much BAD music - people do tend to build a collection for the sake of it, and don’t even know that they HAVE half of the records in their collection! 
As long as you are in control of your collection, and it’s not bloated with stuff that you don’t LOVE or don’t play, then NO, your collection CAN’T be too big.
I think we should create a convention for tagging music, and ALL get in the habit of doing it as soon as we get new music. Smart playlists have blown me away - and I simply MUST go through my whole collection (slight_smile: and add comments that will allow me to sort based on Smart Playlist parameters. It’ll go WAY beyond Key, BPM & Genre, with comments like “Banger” “Growler” “Wub” “Drums” “Peak-Time” “Transition Track” “Happy” “Funky” “Dark” “Chilled”…
This could take a while.
Hehehehehe.
Yes and no. You can have to much music that you intend to play out, but you can never have to much music to listen to. I have my DJ laptop and the family computer. The family computer has over 100 gigs of music, the DJ laptop is bloated at 30 gigs.
Maybe then my question should be :
What should or if possible be a rough figure for my DJ sets!? I like to pre-plan sets, however that doesn’t meant that they are stuck to it.
I am think of using some usb sticks to load my music to, when I play on my laptop.
Hmm.
I also think I have over 20Gig of bad music! haha
Over a terabyte on my hard drive and 10000+ records at home. Don’t have a clue where anything is but love randomly digging through shelves and finding forgotten gems.
All of my historical playlists get copied into one big playlist called traktor playlist and I often browse this folder for inspiration when stuck for something.
I think I may have acquired a bit too much music although how can you ever have enough? I love music and combined with my hoarding traits i’m swamped by it.
I thnk that you sure can have to much music and can distract your DJ’ing
I have around 5000 on my laptop. But I DJ differant styles and some nights it’s only 80’s other nights 90’s but I mainly DJ never EMD.
I’m right now doing a backup of the songs to an external drive then will go through my laptop deleteing all not wanted from it.
I will probable get my laptop down to 3000 songs and that enough for me to play all kinds of gigs. Only style do not have anything in is Country just don’t like it so would do a verry bad job at playing it.
For a 5 hour gig you could play maybe 100 to 150 song depending on your mixing style you could go down to only 60 songs.
So having 50000 songs is going give you problems of what to play or you prob going to be playing the same songs gig after gig and the rest will just sit there doing nothing.
I agree with the yes and no. To me, it’s only too much if you don’t know the music. If you bought it, listened to it a few times, and it’s been years since you listened to it again, then get rid of the vinyl or get it out of your digital crate. If it’s vinyl then I would collect the ones you know you won’t listen to or play out and head down to the store. Trade it in for something that is either newer that you listen to or something that is a classic that now costs more than you are willing to put money towards.
Yes absolutely. If you don’t like the songs, don’t play the songs, and have songs for the sake of nostalgia and other emotional attachments…then absolutely. Music hoarding is very bad! If you must hoard keep it separate from your main library lol.
First off, hello all, first post!
Quite a few times I have heard a track on a mixtape that I liked, tracked it down and been on the point of buying it, only to realize that I already own it on some random compilation that I had forgotten about, or never paid proper attention too. This can be a nice suprise! I tend to keep my ipod on shuffle and keep a note of all the long lost tracks that pop up. If I didn’t do this, they would never spring to mind during a mix, and I’d probably play the same tracks over and over along with my most recent purchases.
I don’t think you can really have too much music, but I do think you can bring too much music with you.
I’ve bought a few tracks only to realize later that I already owned them. Even worse, last week I bought a track only to import it into my collection and realize that I had bought the same track the week prior. Beatport didn’t warn me because it was the same version of the track released on a different album. 
LOL don’t be mad at beatport. Be mad at yourself for not listening to your music.
Oh, I was totally mad at myself. Felt like an asshole. And it’s not that I didn’t listen to my music, I just had no recollection of actually purchasing that particular song. That site makes it too easy for drunk me to pick up new tunes.
Edit: That’s not a bad thing, though. Drunk me has impeccable taste.
Yes totaly agree on that I now made down my songs to just around 3000 on my Macbook but I have a heck of a lot on my on my iMac though I like metal that I have realy alot of but I’ll never DJ that so it never makes it to my Macbook.
This means you have too much music.
I average about 30 songs an hour when I play out…so I usually figure to give myself twice as many songs I will need per hour. So in a given night I’ve probably limited myself to choose from about 200-250 songs for a 4 hour set.
I always thought you could have too much music until I met a mobile DJ and he said “I take all my music because you’d never believe the request I get” so it really depends.
I will say I have quite a bit of music I would never play or sometims 10 remixes of the same song and I really only enjoy playing 2-3 versions.