Mission Complete!
Well guys, after 4 years of putting it off, the traktor collection is FINALLY all organised, processed with MiK+PN, gridded (even all the vinyl D&B), trimmed down by about half, and given a jolly good coffee colonic. I know i’m not the only one doing a massive re-organisation mission, how are some of you others going?
Give that man a cigar.
Congrats!
I don;t really collect music…in this fashion.
But my Blog MP3’s are fucking messy. I am just messing with them at the mo.
When I decide on the set…I will Beatport and they will be sorted as they get loaded onto my machine.
But yeah…i can see many of my mates sitting with the same problem soon.
Yeah hopefully will be able to keep on top of it all now. Actually the biggest part was deleting all the shit and low q stuff, i musta deleted 1500 tunes or so for sure.
Right now I just play the music I remember from my car’s CD collection and old “Rave Research” (I download a lot of music everytime I go to a rave with good line-up), I have like 30GB of Psytrance (tracks and sets) loaded on traktor.
I will need to do that organization stuff when I feel that I’m ready to leave my bedroom, rightnow I just choose and grid musics on the fly and I don’t MiK yet, but your mission is def. on my future plans
I don;t get why people keep all this old Psy?
I know the shelf life is REAL short anyways…but i play it once or twice…and thats about it really.
Then again…i don;t play THAT often.
I keep what i REALLY like…but thats also only like a season or 2 old.
I hope you buy those Psytrance trax mate…Many of the producers are personal friends…so…its a thing thats close to home. I see how they must survive.
I’m currently going through everything I have. Track. By. Track.
15000 songs in total to start with. I cleared my Traktor collection (backed it up of course) and began listening to tracks in iTunes, tagging the genre and the subgenre, making sure it has been run through MiK, and then putting it in Traktor. I have been doing this since October, and other than online promo’s I haven’t bought any new music. I have around 1400 songs left to go through, which should take me a week, mainly because of the holidays. I found myself taking every one in 9 songs, on average. I have a lot of stuff I’ve bought at the discount record stores and on a whim that ended up sucking, or REALLY quickly falling out of my rotation. So, well, still, around 1700 songs of definite spinnable songs across a bunch of genres (Industrial, Dark Electro, Trance, Electro, Dark Trance [Hardstyle and Gabber], goth and Psy) I should be able to hold my own.
When I import them I’m gridding them, and putting as many cue points as I can. If I have bought them on CD since I’ve gotten them off of eMusic, or ripped them a long time ago, I’m also re-reripping the CDs. I’ve also realized how much music iTunes is not accepting, so for now this stuff isn’t getting added, and I’ll re-rip it later. The next step is to go through all my CDs and make sure all the ones I want there are there.
I have two days off next week, so I think I’m going to order in some chicken wings, drink some beer all day, and finish this up. And this week, my holiday money is going toward around $300 in new music to both catch myself up on eMusic purchases I want the full copies of and to get some new Psy.
woooooo
How does mix in key works?
Does it add tags on the files with the key so you can see the tags in traktor?
… or do you need to open MiK along with traktor to see the key?
btw what is PN?
I just a month ago ran everything through PN and now have to retag, reallign and/ or regrid EVERYTHING.
So far I’m doing okay, whenever I mix I take a few new ones and tag them. That way I get a bit of work done and don’t get too fed up with tagging. Still, 44GB is a BIG piece of work ahead of me.
Mixed in Key writes to the tag. You can have it write to most different places, but also to the Key tag that is view-able in Traktor.
PN is Platinum Notes, which is a software that “fixes” your tracks so their levels are normalized, andit will fix pitch irregularities so they fit in the key more directly.
I think I’ll give a try to MiK
I don’t know about PN. Normalizing yes, smoothing clipped peaks that shouldn’t be necessary, but changing pitch and dynamics… hmmm I not sure about that… maybe on recorded vinyls… What’s your experience with it?
I wish someone came up with an all-in-one solution to sort tracks. I hate having to use a bunch of software, and manually edit stuff.
I haven’t used it yet, but I’m sure Jes can speak to it.
I know what it does is very customizeable. Smoothing clipped peaks and all will have an effect on dynamics in general. And the pitch is more about correction than changing.
It’s one of those things on my list, but I wanted to wait until I got this first project done. Though I might need to figure out a way to copy and past tags to get it to work a little easier. Also, it re-encodes the files as WAV files to do the conversion. This has developed a lot of controversy, because that could make the quality worse.
It takes a long time to process tunes in platinum notes, about 2-3 minutes per track but worth it. MiK not so bad, just make sure your tracks are in wav format or tagged with 2.4 or they don’t work.
sarasin, yeah man a lot of the old stuff is almost unmixable now, a lot of my collection was quite low q and the bpms and strength of beat etc just didn’t cut it compared to a lot of the newer psy stuffs. Of course these classic albums stay in the itunes collection but i pretty much stick to the 3-4 year rule now with trlol. nothing wrong with dropping in an old classic once in a while 
With 1.2.1 and up you can see the key in the deck view which is handy. e’g 8A - 155 (darkpsy)
We just had Kashyyk here this last weekend.
DARKPSY.
Also Psymmetrix.
I am not into the darkpsy at ALL…but these guys are quality.
Well in the middle of buying a house, but once I have moved setting my 1210’s back up and possibly upgrading to TSP so I can mess around with them as well on top of that all those tunes I bought from Itunes need putting into categories, at the moment they are either Dance/Electronica so I have to sort that out, about 900 tunes in all lots of searching going to be done, then I need to pick up platinum notes and run the whole collection through that, after that I think it’s time to start doing vinyl rips of my collection, all in all it’s a long ass job but I am actually looking forward to it, nice work Jester!
Its such a relief getting all this sorted. Now i can think about getting a job lmao. Also a great way to know your tunes i found. Anyway, these are my new folders/crates whatever. Still fairly general of course and still a work in progress but certainly helps me out with tune & genre selection.
Anything that falls out of these BPM ranges was executed! Most of the folders have between 400-600 Tracks in them now, with the exception of the Psy which has thousands. Haven’t had a chance jam with the new system yet (hopefully boxing day backyard cricket) but i’m hoping its gonna make it easier to mix up the genre a bit. We’ll see how it goes eh 
Merry Xmas Lads n Ladies
It’s def on my plans. I use mp3 only for research and music selection. I’m not into buying yet because I’m not DJing profissionally, but I will buy all the tracks that I will play for money, all my DJ Sets will have legal music downloads, that will be my ethics when I join the DJ market for real.
Afterall I want to produce music aswell 
you too m8 have a few beers for me as I will be lol, and I am doing what you have done putting stuff into playlists to seperate the different genres going to be the task for next year.
Ive only Got 500 tracks as I only started collecting a year ago. I have already PN and MIK my tunes, listened to them all in Itunes and tagged them, now I am beatmapping them all.
You guys that are doing that to 1000’s of songs, F%$90, WHAT AN UNDERTAKING.
I deleted proberly 5% of the collection, At first it was hard for me to do, always the scruge on my shoulder telling me I could come to like it and its a waste of money, In the end I just started deleting, it felt good too!
you can say that again lol. feels good to have a nicely organised collection tho