Getting a massive music library from scratch - Best possible way?
I have no library as of right now, I want to know the ultimate best way to start a MASSIVE library, how to download it, and how to transport it from gig to gig. Thanks
Invest time and money in listening to tracks and buying the ones you like. There’s your start. The more time and money you invest, the more MASSIVE your library will get.
Or if you don’t particularly care about the quality of the library, but more about how MASSIVE it is, join a record pool.
The real question is why would you want a massive library?
I am always trying to trim mine down and getting rid of stuff I don’t use.
Reason being, I’ll be spinning different genres I basically want to have any song there in the library weather its hip hop, electro, dubstep ect.
Your best bet is quality over quantity. Dont just download tracks for the sake of it. As a DJ your job is to act as a filter for music, It’s down to your taste and thats what defines you as a performer. Just put effort into looking for music and downloading tracks as you find them. Your music collection can be however big you like, you’ll still only be playing for probably 1-2h in front of a crowd.
Any tips on getting high quality music files?
buy them? most of the popular download sites will sell sell .wavs and all of them sell 320kbit mp3s
Yeah don’t focus on getting a huge library. Learn the songs that you have. It will make your job so much easier.
it takes years to collect a decent amount of good tunes. especially if you´re gonna concentrate on several genres. take your time, get to know the tunes you have and don´t get yourself in a rush!
browse blogs like http://www.xlr8r.com/ and http://www.factmag.com/
yeah like stated above, its just gonna take you sitting down and going through music and deciding what is good enough to buy and what isn’t. And something that helps me is thinking “will i actually use this” and if so, buy a few songs that kinda go together
I see guys on craigslist trying to sell huge libraries of music for DJing on external harddrives…
did you ask for the worst possible way?
Sorry dood, no one here is going to tell you to go to some random torrent site and download everything on it. And if that’s your plan, really how are you any different than a guy with an ipod on shuffle. If you download 20,000 tracks overnight, you’re not going to know any of the tracks, you have no idea what to expect. Also, you’re going to look like an idiot when you play something marked the Electric Slide and you get a Megadeth song. Or better yet, half of a reconverted 96kbps Justin Beiber song that cuts out after 2 minutes and 12 seconds.
The whole point of being a respectable working dj is knowing your tunes in and out, playing quality music, and actually buying the music you plan on making money from.
You have no music right now? How did you become a DJ?
This is a very odd ambition… who told you you needed to have a MASSIVE library?
This is a great idea! Where else can you get tens of thousands of 128 kbps tracks and 70s Karaoke?
The internet did. There’s a world of digital DJs who think that having anything less than every track ever made - including all the remixes - is a huge handicap. The reality is that having a small collection of tracks that you KNOW, like and can mix effectively will make you a better DJ.
this.
instant gratification generation. become a dj because you like the tunes. not because you think being a dj is cool
Don’t bother, seriously.
These are odd responses in my opinion. If the guy wants to start building a music library - whats wrong with that? For example, I have a what i consider to be “massive” library thta has taken years to build and is full of FLAC encoded and meticulously tagged music and folder structures.
I keep my DJ stuff separate, but I have a lot of that too, but the key is keeping it organized.
MOD EDIT:
removed references to pirate sites.
all im saying is if you want to create a true “Library” - do it right and keep it meticulously organized…i’m not advocating either way, just answering the OPs question…