Hello, these days i’ve been very busy…organizing my library in crates in SDJ.
It’s the 4th day now, and i’ve organized approx. 1/6 of my tracks in crates (ranging from 1 to 5 in .5 increments)
And i gotta say, this is getting pretty boring.
Why don’t i have it already organized you may ask? Because i used vdj until a while ago (until i got my ddj-sx), and i used it in conjunction with the itunes library i had then, which i had pretty much all rated with stars.
Now problem is, i don’t have that library anymore. I (stupidly) formatted that drive, bought a new one, and reinstalled a clean copy of windows on it, so all i have now is the music folder (which i previously backed up)
Here’s my question, albeit a pretty stupid one: is there a way to automatically sort music in folders, say, by “power level”? because if there is software than can detect key and tempo, why couldn’t there be one that automatically detects and sorts tracks by selectable parameters?
Thank you, i never found a use for mixed in key, since i fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you see it) have absolute pitch, and this+piano training+a small camelot wheel has always sufficed me.
I’ll look into it, thank you! Do you guys know how accurate it is?
I use master playlists by main genre then use comment1 and comment2 in traktor to organize by sub genre and style. I keep two playlists seperate for the next gig and the tracks i play the most.
Buyer. (and yt ripper for stuff i can’t find anywhere else, say, acapellas). I have this massive collection of 70-80’s music ripped from my old man’s cds. Don’t know exactly how many, surely more than 10k tracks ( i actually trimmed it down because sdj would crash if too many tracks were loaded in the library)
I use the Rating field for energy level… 1 Star = lowest energy and 5 Stars = highest. Pretty sure I got that idea from an article on this site, actually.
edit: the point being that you can sort easily by rating. So, if I want to keep the energy steady, I can do a sort by Rating in the playlist I have open and pick from the other tracks that I’ve rated the same number of stars. Not an exact science but then I don’t think track selection should be
I play a “sound”. It ranges from tech house to deep house I organize by folder and move things out when i know i wont play it anymore…
classic house, trance and bigbeat (exactly what it implies)
early (the kick back lower bpm stuff)
funky (the meat of my sets and where most of my tracks are)
older deep house (all the naked music, hed kandi beach house from the early 2000s)
tech house (the 126+ bpm stuff)
RAW (where all tracks start: to get named, cue pointed and gridded…they are moved out of here after a week or so)
cut (sometimes a track sounded better in the preview, tracks that i bought that i THOUGHT i liked, tracks i have moved past)
No one really cares that you have ten thousand tracks if you can’t put a coherent set together. I’m always good to buy a few tracks a week so I like to my sets to reflect that I on top of and care about new sounds and styles.
This is right… It does “Energy Level” analysis… And then scores your tracks from 1 (Chilled out) - 10 (All out craziness).
I don’t know how it does this though…as far as I see it, you put your music in, witchcraft happens, you get an energy level… You can then get MIK to re write the tags for you so you could sort them by the relevant column in iTunes.
I have put quite some effort and time in ripping those tracks off cds, plus, 77 tracks would be a bit too little for me, since the sets we do usually average around 10-11hours and we have to accept a lot of requests (Unfortunately here the dj IS considered a jukebox..)
