How should I burn cd for djing? Questions about burning cd's

[JackStalk]

For random CDs, I have colored sharpies that I use to circle certain tracks. Good dubstep tracks get boxed in Green. My trance tracks are in Blue. High energy house/dance/top40 tracks get circled in Red. It makes it very easy to spot tracks in a certain style when you're looking at a cd wallet on the fly. If you couple it with my 12 track method above, it's great to find the right track at the right time.

[de.j.l]

I've always done one track per cd, never worried about how its burnt.. less surface area to scratch and skip that way, uses up alot of CDS and wallet space though but, its my prefered method.

[Tektonix]

I Just Burn 10 Tracks (All One Genre Usually) On A Disc With iTunes, Write The Tracks On The Cover, Then Thats It

[DennisBdrmDJ 2.0]

i kind of moved away from burning CD's.I'm more into archiving,on to a external hard drive..but,when I did.I burned one vinyl record.per CD.in wav.format.then I would label them with this.http://www.casio.com/products/archiv...inters/cw-e60. (before i get flamed) let me remind everyone,that the cost of blank CD's is dirt cheap.it's all about the time,and effort.

[Jimanee]

I do CDs in two ways: individual songs will be burnt to compilation CDs, with 2-3 songs that mix well into them afterwards, so they are like mini sets, I memorise the tracklisting, even better to know which track is where in the dark, I burn doubles of these.

I also do CDs of groups like "115 - 130 current chart" "92 - 110 RnB and hip Hop"and "Mid range Disco"; these are in keycode order, you get to know the position and relationships of the good tracks real quick. And I burn doubles.

The main whopping advantage is of allways having a suitable following track to hand, for comfort, speed and emergencies.

Like Hygro said DJF 1.0, "what are you gonna do when you have to transition of just one deck?" I have had to, it wasn't hard

[Adzm00]

Arranged by artist, 4 - 8 tracks per CD.

Simple and obvious way of doing it.

[Dantron]

I sort mine by Genre - Style - Alpha by Artist. I fill up the CD because I have WAY too much music for just a few tracks per CD. I burn 4 copies of each because I use 3 CDJs at once and if there are 4 CDJs there it's always nice to have a 4th CD ready to go with 3 decks mixing.

[djgraemeb]

Burning one track per cd is very wasteful, but I've found that it's also more durable. The information is only written on a small part of the inside ring of the CD, so it's harder for that area to get scratched. If you have a full CD, there's much more surface area to get scratched and foul up in the CDJ.

I did not know this, very usefull information!

[Jette]

I burn 10 tracks on 1 cd of the same genre. Currently I am learning how to mix electro house, so my current method is to burn all of my new purchases 10 tracks at a time.

When I get ready to do shows I will burn about 10 1-song CDs of my starter tracks. These normally take about a half hour to get through, and gives me a chance to get a feel for what people are liking and I customize my set as needed.

I use Nero for burning, and I burn on the lowest setting. I have found doing higher burn rates causes much more failed burns than the slower speeds.

[Dirty Beats]

Not to beat a dead horse... But I would think that anyone who is starting to play digital music would be doing themselves a disservice by starting on CD.
I don't know a single working DJ who spins CD's anymore. They all have USB sticks or Serato type. You have limitless storage, easy file systems to create and none of the weight, worry or process of having to make CD's... Nor skipping, etc.

Now if you don't have the cash to spend on the CDJ's or systems that support USB sticks... And you have a laptop, which it would seem that most or all DJ's do... Why not just buy a Serato box? Instead of carrying a book of CD's, you just carry your laptop and a small break out box.

The only people I can understand continuing to spin cd's are people who have been doing it for years and have an entire library pre-organized that is convenient and comfortable because that's how they started before Scratch Live got dialed in and common. But starting TODAY and being a CD DJ just makes no sense. Go USB or go DVS.

Even my friends who were committed to CD's for the longest time now have all their material on USB.