3 Mistakes Beginner DJs Make With Digital Music - DJ Tips & Tricks
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Moving from physical music to digital files makes it more convenient for DJs to carry thousands of song, but it also makes it easy to lose track of all that great music. Plus, some new digital DJs may also not be aware of the importance and advantages of preparing tracks well in advance before heading to a gig.
In this lesson we'll check out three common music mistakes beginners make and what you can do about them.
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Managing large libraries can be a pain, with the 40K+ I've collected and discovered over the years, I've found the best solution is to find something that's both efficient and organized.
Some tidbits from your's truly for the VirtualDJ fans out there with messy libraries:
Find your music folder in the browser, then right click it and set as favorite. This will be your handy access, and can be used in a pinch.
When you end up moving files you played on the fly to their place in your music folder where they belong, you can right-click that favorite folder and select batch -> add to search db. By default if VDJ comes across a file it has picked up before it will link what it knows to the new file, so you should be good to go just searching for the track after a sort.
To back this up it might be a good idea to set up a filter folder (filter icon on left of browser) as "top 100 firstseen"
This will show you the most recent added 100 songs, so you can pick out what might have been missed or fresh files that might not have been analyzed yet.
Some nice, pragmatic tips there. Thanks AWal.
There is another way to organize your music. The way I did mine is to create a folder by genre have it in my external drive. Once a download my new music, I play it and save it in the folder. In Rekordbox, I move the tracks from my folders in the computer to Collections. After they are analyzed, I place on my playlist by genre. They allow me to keep my music in both systems organize. When I am ready to create a playlist for a set, I pull music for my various genre and arrange them. It makes it easy to store them on my flash drive and choose my tracks for gigs w/o the necessary search.
You are right! I made that mistake by going to a gig and not having my playlist analyze. I had to use another DJs flash drive and was not familiar with his organization. I had to wing it, but it was a harsh lesson. I analyze and cue point all my tracks on the playlist. I also carry extra flash drives as backup. I even practice the set, so I know if the tracks fit with my line-up position. That is important because if you are opening for an event, your selection must be different from if you are mid DJ or Headliner.
This is great advice. It will be helpful in my dj career
Glad to help!
Press relocate files and boom their there. Takes just a few seconds when your working with an ssd.
Yea just use bpmsupreme and organize your files by genre and type and like bangers and chill type ect;
Great stuff, to you young DJs take the time & put in the work to organize the music....
Great video!
Glad you found it useful, HentaiAnimeArt.
Thanks for dropping the knowledge yo!
YEP . Very important to work on your file management
Great vid best vase scenario is obe music folder with sub genre folders tip for me i like to use root directory to avoid longer folder substrings with maybe temp folder for pre organizing
Thanks for sharing Jefferson!
Realmente muito bom o conteúdo, sem falar que podemos deixar a pasta de músicas de DJ separada, e importar pra nossa coleção no Software que usamos, e temos a possibilidade de pedir ao software que verifique os arquivos pra saber se foram movidos ou deletados, evitando a dor de cabeça de procurar um arquivo na biblioteca e não conseguir tocar devido a ter sido deletado ou movido, sempre checo isso antes de tocar, pra evitar a dor de cabeça.
You know it's funny I been doin that right at this moment for my Virtual DJ lucky they got my library for there software I can see what's in the data of not in the data it took me 3 to 4 days but I'm glad I got it done and now the fun begins it's all about tag the name of title and artists u name it so I'm glad I got to chance to watch it I was like I'm alright head of it 😂 lol
And whatever you do guys never use the default folders Apple or Windows wants you to use for music. Create your own folders and put them on hard drives that don’t have the default Os operating system on it. And back up you music on external hard drives or home servers.
As long as you back it up, it's fine to keep your music in the supplied "Music" or "My Music" folder. That said, allowing iTunes to copy your music to its own media folders is another discussion...
That’s assuming Itunes is the default music player
great advice
My lappy has both a 1TB and 128GB Solid Stae drives. I keep all my music on the SSD and have it all backed up on a 1TB external (Solid State) drive. Thinking about duping the files onto the 1TB as well.
I would recommend a 4 TB external drive to store all your music as well as 128GB and 64 GB flash drives as backups. I keep one of them in storage and carry the 64's when I play.
Thanks for chipping in, Antoine.
The best would be to select of your important songs and playlist for sets and keep it compact. The scan and analyse process takes too long in a hurry when you just modified its contents. Can't escape the fact that some influential people will insist you put a song or few into one of your sets that evening, so they hand you a USB stick, ok yuks, please have AV protection with you. Best they give a link to their dropbox or cloud storage. Importing songs on the fly is stressful. Don't ever let the DJ software find your loop and one shot libraries you use for productions. Lol. That was a nightmare experience.
Thanks for the ideas nickash5.
Great content. I also viewed one of your previous vids on your P-Dot channel, and you also advised to use iTunes as a source of storing your music. Do you still advise this....??
iTunes has got less and less DJ friendly. It's about 50/50 nowadays. There's nothing wrong with using iTunes and it has advantages, but equally, half of all DJs don't bother nowadays. Just be sure of the reasons for your choice.
Thanks P-Dot.....!!!!!
Will moving music files from itunes to serato cause any disruption in the music files. Currently I let serato read my itunes library but I've heard some DJ's say that we shouldn't rely soley on Itunes
You're confusing what Serato does and doesn't do. Serato never copies your files it just looks at where they are. So you don't "move" your files from iTunes to Serato; you just show Serato where to find them.
Ok. I need some desperate help... I have a ton of folders on my desktop, from different gigs, I would like to move all of them into my music folder(MAC),, but I don’t want to lose all the files in SERATO.. IS there a way to do this, or should I just move everything and re-analyze again.. I wish I would have been more careful and organized. I used to make a new folder for all my wedding gigs, just so it was easier to find that folder... but now my desktop is a mess.
Any advice on how to clean this up will be greatly appreciated.
Also, do u have different folders for genres in your music folder, or just the song, no matter new/old/ and genre. It’s just one huge list of songs. ??
Thanks P 👍
*I might be wrong
I think you can just move your folders from desktop to music folder and then press relocate in Serato.
Or you can just move your folders from desktop to music folder and delete them from Serato and then "upload" them to serato again from new music folder.
I made this mistake before
We've all been there :)
I would hardly call that organization. Each music file in my library is saved in folders like ...\Genre\Key\Artist\Release No.\TrackName.flac and has its album art .jpg in the same folder.
Our argument is that with the correct metadata you don't need to go with separate folders.
@@digitaldjtips sure! Until for some reason your software's database went corrupt and all your metadata is lost. Happened to me once which meant that I had to get the metadata back on 3500 files!
Wow, did you not have a backup?
@@digitaldjtips well that is exactly my point. Since my files were organized in the folder structure that I mentioned I was able to retrieve most of the metadata.