Organising your tracks on CDs
Seen a few threads on the best ways to organise files and the like, couldn’t find anything on CDs although I didn’t really know what to search. Will be receiving my first cdjs shortly and was wondering how other people organise theirs?
My original thought was to do it similarly to my files, with them being rated for intensity. Then burning two of each one in case I wanna play a track that’s on the same CD.
That’s what I do. Two copies of each CD. Each CD is full of music. CD cover includes BPM, Key, Intensity/Genre and even a quick breakdown of the track structure.
Could you maybe post a picture of the cover you use? I’m very interested in the way you show the breakdown of the structure!
Oh btw, I also burn everything twice, sorted by genre, and on the CD itself it’s sorted by trackname (not by artist) and I also print the BPM on it because in the heat I would like to be able to quickly put the tempo-fader on the right place!
This is what one of my more recent covers looks like. First column is track number, second is BPM, third is Key, Fourth is genre (House (Funky), MainroomHouse, ElectroHouse)) and the last column contains structure. It’s a goofy system I put together but it essentially corresponds to the cue points I set.
First track as an example:
I’m sure some will think it’s a silly system but I like it and it works for me. It helps me keep track of the huge number of songs, and large turnover, that I mix with (I can’t memorize them all). Takes me about an hour to go through a full CD and set this up.
Hope this helps.
Wow man! Looks great! The way you show the breakdown wouldn’t be quite the system for me, but I can imagine it works great!
Are the letters big enough for you too read while spinning? Because when i was prototyping some formats, most of the time my font was too small! Now I use Calibri 13 for the song name, Calibri 11 for the remix and Calibri 11 for the artist.
This is the way I have it right now (btw, my CD’s are sorted by genre as you can see in the box in the upperleft.
Why are you not using USB or ext drive? When I was using CDs, I simply went by key. Then I had a “no brainer” disc with everything that was remotely identifiable as a dance floor “hit.” I mean, for a 2 hour set, I didn’t need to choose from 10,000 tracks.
My primery media is USB! But I am not yet in a position where I can always demand fucking CDJ-2000’s with a DJM-900 when I play out! So sometimes I take my own stuff, but I also keep my CD-wallet up to date in case there are no CDJ-2000’s even though that was the deal. I am not going bitch-mode and say: Oh well, then i don’t play at all.
Lol.
you also can’t rely on USB, my RMP-3’s USB browsing is mega shitty. “Completely flat”
I own 800s hence why I use CDs. I’ve been just putting about 10 tracks on each and writing on the CD itself. At the moment everything is fairly random because I don’t see the point in having to burn a whole new CD because you’ve got one new one in the same key or whatever. I’ll probably make some with ‘themes’ when I get out to Ibiza.
5 tunes per cd,
per genre
i.e electro house, tech house, prog house, bosh trance, euphoric trance, hardstyle, bosh techno
i used to do full cds, no doubles, bangers first, the mid-kind of tunes in the middle of the cd and more eyes down stuff as the last tracks on CD.
I burn max 8-9 tracks per cd now, in no specific order, as it kinda reduces the ‘i can’t play it because it’s on the same cd factor’ and i was having troubles finding the right CD in the wallet sometimes, as i would miss the track in the list as there was another 15 track names.
I try and burn tracks i would probably never play together at one CD.
For the tracklists, i just write down the track names on a piece of paper and label the CD with a number/letter
