Organizing your track library for Traktor
How do you guys organize your files? What’s the easiest way to be able to quickly change tracks with the VCI-100 without having to open many subfolders?
Yea i make various playlists, but i keep my stuff in in a complex folder system
I organize my files:
Artist Folder: Album Folder: Track number Track Title
I make sure the tags are written now. I still have a few hundred files that are really old, before ID3 was normalized, and I need to re-rip. Then I just drop them in, and grid them. Then, in my COllection, I usually have it sorted by BPM cause, well, that’s how I do this here thing 
As we talked about earlier, I sort in buckets by date of purchase. Then offline I make playlists in Winamp (that I listen to continually at work), written on my Hipster PDA 3x5 cards, then later I and reconstruct them by hand as playlists under the “Mixes” folder in Traktor.
It’s all about the sequences of tracks. Short 3- or 4-track pieces that work together. String a couple of them together and you have a mix.
I just make sure all the tags are filled out on my tracks. I hit f2 which is track collection… I think its everything I’ve analyzed in traktor. Then when the time comes… I click the sort by options at the top of the list (artist, song, bpm, genre) and choose the next song.
I also have a hotkey f5 to go directly to my music folder, incase its a new track I haven’t analyzed yet… more or less like wbskates said.
Besides the regular ID3 entries, I use the “comments” section to further refine tracks using the search function (Peak, Climber, Retro, etc.) so that I can refine searches (“Tech House” “Intro”) (“Near Peak” “Rock Guitar”). For me it’s faster than scanning through a bunch of folders.