how do you organize your music

[TheRabbitMonk]

this is my biggest problem. i have just bought serato, it is becomin a big issue and it's something i need to look into more.

lately i had them in genre but then your left with going through those folders trying to find stuff from one artist then a specific song.. maybe i need to use one night per week or something, just sort them and then keep on top of it.

[JackStalk]

I have a weird way of organizing my library, mainly using CDs. My four main folders are: Electronica, Music(master), Music Singles, and Promo Only. All the electronic stuff gets dropped in one, my entire collection of albums goes in master, all of my singly downloaded non-electronic tracks in singles, and Promo Only for my monthly mainstream CDs I get.

For CDs, I have my mainstream stuff sorted A-Z with each CD representing a different artist letter. There's probably close to 100 of these, but I have found it easiest to find stuff when sifting through requests. I've basically memorized where everything goes and can play just off of that section of my wallet. The other half of my wallet consists of house/trance/dubstep CDs. There are 12 keys in the camelot wheel, so each CD I burn has 12 tracks on it (one in each of the keys). This way, I can glance at the CDJ and I'll always know what key I'm in based on the track number. It also makes it easier to jump keys because I can see all different tracks on one page, as opposed to a whole page of "8A" cds.

[coppercitymt]

I do everything by Artist\Album Title\Track 1-20 or something like this "Music\Three 6 Mafia\Da Unbreakables\Three 6 Mafia - Ghetto Chick.mp3". Then on stuff like Billboard Year End Charts, VA Promo I will make Folders by years "\Music\~Billboard Top 100 Hits~\Billboard Top 30 Hits of 1948\1948-001 Pee Wee Hunt - Twelfth Street Rag.mp3"

95% of the time I do/will not let any program mess with my collection, I do it all manually though Windows Exploder. I know my music and know were it's at (all 25,000 songs), I am just now starting to learn to let Virtual DJ handle something, but still mostly done manually. A program called "Tag and Rename" keeps the the tags lined up with the file name or file names to fix the tags!

[DJ Riddims]

I create a folder for the genre and organize the tracks by their release dates. Newest tracks are on top and oldest ones are at the bottom.

[Dixieland DJ]

Since I play mostly weddings & receptions, and because I am always asked to play a wide variety, decades & genre's at these events, I have all my music in one main "General Music" folder, then by artist/group name. So, when I load my "General Music" folder all the songs are listed alphabetically by artist then by song title in my software data base.

Now, for specialty music like Christmas, Halloween, TV/radio themes/tunes, etc I have a different folder for each of those.

[JamesRoss]

Well, I used to have everything in alphabetical order but then I stopped doing that and now all my records are just randomly orginized in crates and a record bag. I have the tracks that I play often in the record bag and everything else is in crates and boxes.

[pepps60x]

Every month I go through pretty much all of my music, and make a playlist folder for that month of what I think sounds good and/or up to date (nobody likes an overplayed song thats a few years old *cough* levels *cough*). Usually the playlist will consist of 100+ songs of my liking. Instead of rapidly searching through your main playlist saying 'no... no... no... no...' and eventually you find your song after searching through like 100 songs. Hope this helps

[Conrad Launerts]

i just make different crates like "big room bangers, chill/laidback, hype, rachet shit, boom bap hip hop, old school, 80s, etc... its easiest for me like that

[Djsmylez]

I have everything broken up by time period, then by genre, then by situation. Since I'm mainly a wedding DJ with house parties here and there, I'm always prepared cause I have situational crates.

If the folder gets too big, I do another subcategory.

It's a bit tedious when organizing music, but it's worth it when looking up stuff during a live gig.

[djromanj]

I had my music into one big folder and I had small crates in serato for different sets. Since I started downloading a lot of music, I need to get more organize.
Here is how I organize my music I create a crate for Hiphop under that crate I have sub categories, Crunk, Classic, Gangster, Modern, Party, and favorites

Samething with Pop my sub categories 90s, 80s, 00s, Top 40,

Best way to organize your music to have a system thats helps you get to your tracks fast...