I don’t have a problem when people ask me for music. I write some artists and/or songs, labels,… down and give it to them.
But i only ‘give’ my music (vinyl, cd’s or hard-drive) to close friends/family…
The other point here is that when you start building a collection you go into certain areas, after awhile you find that you may be into trance and techno, but not much minimal, and as you build your collection it starts to represent your musical taste, it does become part of you. I never ask people for music, just as I wouild not offer music to them unless I want to share something I think is really worth hearing and its kinda like trying to spread your own taste but its always on my terms. A DJ who just bulk copies peoples music often is not really into the music because he just wants to be able to pull up any song someone asks for, and who cares where it came from. For DJ’s who consider themselves to be musicians, (something thats increasingly common) its not about having every possible track there is but about having the music they like and care for and nurture, so it is like giving away a bit of your musical soul.
it always happens when i play off my super secret playlist. (those tracks that are literally impossible to find, even on the net) and someone will say, “oh shit that track is awesome what is it?..” and i have to physically put my hand over the screen, and say “sorry man that’s one of my best tracks, cant let it out”. I feel like a douche but hey, some of those tracks tool me over 6 months to hunt down from just a sample.
You need DJ AM mode.
(and can I have your HD?) 
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THIS
Oh my god this is a feature i absolutely WANT in the next sdj update.
If you did that, I’d just bust out my phone and use the song recognition to find the track
I do that sometimes actually; sometimes I’ll hear a track when I’m working (the photography, not the DJing) that I KEEP hearing but I’m not sure who it’s by, and I’ll just hold my phone up to the speakers for it to analyse. 'tis a killer feature.
that might work on mainstream edm style stuff, but for underground tracks and limited release mixes, not a chance.
DJ AM mode? Can someone fill in a youngster on the joke here
Id laugh maniacally and say “you want my vinyl mate? You got thousands of dollars? ”
por serio tho. I trade tracks a lot, mostly dubs. I would never share my entire library tho. thats just perterbed. Thats a lot of digging work.
In the vinyl days I had a ‘friend’ who had been Dj’ing a bit longer than me & was quite well connected. I was on some mailing lists from record companies for promos, and had a better ear for tunes. It really pissed me off when he heard a track I was playing and he then took it to some of the bigger venues he played at and the other Dj’s were like “Wow, what’s this”. He basically got the credit for ‘breaking’ those tracks.
So, I reckon don’t even give the buggers the name, let alone the tracks free. They are leaches.
I’ve given tracks to friends, but it is stuff that is up their alley, not available from normal stores and really going to make their day. Like a song that was a promo, a free tune on soundcloud that isn’t available anymore or part of a fundraising event for charity that is no longer in circulation. Library swapping is silly, asking for it criminal, and lazy. Here is a hot one from the way back that I really like and hope you do too 
It’s a mode in Serato Scratch Live that was supposedly requested by dj AM himself, that with a combo of keypresses hides the track names from the screen.
The shazam team actually does update their database with many many underground releases..
As a side note I have traktor set up so only track info in deck is the comment field. Keeps those tracks you don’t want to share a bit more secret. “Bliss deep bomb” doesn’t give them much to go on.
Fuck Shazam… Seriously.
shazam has beatports entire catalog available…
http://news.beatport.com/blog/2013/02/06/beatport-x-shazam-awesome/
It’s amazing how little value people hold for digital music… you would never ask someone for their vinyl, or original cd’s for that matter.
It’s bullshit if you ask me.
Lol, you’d be surprised.
I’ve sold records at gigs, mainly when i can get another copy for a quarter of the price i just took for the copy in my hand.. I’ve given records away to, but I don’t know, when you can carry TB’s of data around people don’t seem to see it as valuable.
Yeah it becomes valuable all of a sudden when you tell them to piss off though
I got my first vinyl collection literally stolen. Sharing some digital files seems insignificant in comparison.