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  • July 30, 2012 at 9:46 pm #1008948
    D-Jam
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    Phil Morse, post: 25019, member: 2 wrote: I would just buy it again D-Jam for the time it takes it’s not worthwhile effort to rip it (assuming you can find the tracks for sale of course).

    A lot of them you can’t…but I’m not going to rip everything. I’m more going to take vinyl to my place a half-crate at a time, listen, take what I want, and then sell the vinyl to a local shop when I’m finished. I’m also going to take a moment to have full WAV files of older stuff I recorded long ago into 192 kbps MP3.

    I just would love a nice clean archive of my old school that you can’t get easily….but stuff I played a few times and then moved on from I won’t bother with.

    July 31, 2012 at 12:43 pm #1008977
    G-Bee
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    This article motivated me to listen through my entire collection and throw away all mediocre/bad tracks. One thing that held me back from deleting my “mediocre” tracks was that they might be used in a certain mix, or as a filler record. Eventually I decided to throw them away, because if I never used them in a mix before, it’s 99% certain I never will.

    It is true that in the vinyl days you had very high quality control, because of the price of a record. I only just realised that I really want to go back to this situation, where I know every single record in my collection is a quality tune.

    So thanks Phil, for the encouragement to take this step!

    August 1, 2012 at 1:58 pm #1009077
    Michael Lawrence
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    Phil Morse, post: 3142, member: 2 wrote: I wouldn’t for a second say this is for everyone, but is IS for me. (I hope so, I’ve done it now…)

    Here’s the article: Why I Just Threw Away Nearly All Of My Music

    Emma, I was a resident in the same club for 10 years, and I have to say my set changed gradually, never in one go – people came to hear me play the tunes I played, because they knew how I played them and they knew what they’d get. I think it’s OK to play the same tunes and change only gradually. Only my opinion though 🙂

    Wow Phil I dont know how I missed this article lol …i am normally on point w/ these…I was proabably really hungover that whole weekend! lol

    I’m on the same boat right now cleaning up my playlists but also categoizing them for better organization. I was getting tired of listening to my ipod and thinking “this song is amazing then a random song comes on….who where what when why and how” l want back some control and it does feel pretty good getting rid of the rubbish.

    I’ve seen you mention spotify so many times before but I haven’t checked it out yet…I do need something for day to day listening so I will have to check it out.

    August 2, 2012 at 1:25 pm #1009118
    J-Zed
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    After reading this, I began to go through all my music and listen to tracks I haven’t heard in a while or just skipped over while I was trying to create a decent sized music database. It was a lot of help! I got rid of maybe 30 tracks I just didn’t like at all and sorted all the tracks I forgot about and did like!

    Come a rainy day, I’m gonna lock myself in my room and go through EVERY track I have and re-organize all of it. Is it possible to be a digital DJ without being incredibly OCD? Starting to doubt it.

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