How can I organise my Electronic Library without iTunes

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January 8, 2015 at 7:57 pm #2118141

DJ Vintage
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Well you can download iTunes for free for the PC, so there is no reason not to have it I think. Last time I checked it was still free software anyway.

I personally don’t think Windows Player is suited in the slightest for the task you describe.

You can of course just load everything into Serato and do all your work in there (including playlists, genres and tagging). There is no real rule saying you need to organise your music outside your DJ software. You can stick all your music in folders, your choice if you want to do this per album, artist, trackname or whatever of course.

January 9, 2015 at 8:01 pm #2118701

chaosdynasty37@gmail.com
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Itunes is still free.

And from what I’ve read online, I haven’t seen anything about windows media player importing to Serato, but have seen a lot for itunes. Including playlist imports. Plus, if you want your collection organized by artist/album on the drive itself, then Itunes will actually do that for you. (at least it used to. It did that to me)

January 9, 2015 at 10:44 pm #2118711

DJ Vintage
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Yes, you can set it to do that if you want.

January 10, 2015 at 8:04 pm #2118841

Dan Dobson
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I’ve been going through the same issue for the past year. This is what I have been doing and it seems to be working so far: First, start making basic folders for yourself in your laptop or on your hard drive (whatever you prefer). When I make my basic folders, I’ve been naming them in ways I know I would look things up or how I would use them. For example, “party hard, club music, dance starters, dinner music, calm, bar rock” etc. Now the hard part, once a day for maybe 10, 20 minutes I find folders in my hard drive already that are similar and find songs that I know or believe I would use over and over again. Then I transfer those songs into the new more organized folders. Yes, it is tedious but it seems to be paying off. I now have very organized new folders that I keep going back to consistently when at gigs. It is a big task but remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Best of luck to you. Hope this helped.

January 10, 2015 at 8:11 pm #2118851

Dan Dobson
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I forgot to mention the most important thing – Throw out the music you know you won’t ever use! Listen to it then ask yourself, will I ever play this? You’ll know instantly if it’s worth keeping or not.

January 11, 2015 at 11:11 am #2118941

DJ Vintage
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Yep, unless you are a mobile DJ, you don’t need any useless luggage. And even as a mobile DJ, make a clear distinction between your core collection and you requests collection.

January 19, 2015 at 7:23 pm #2124281

Chris Herodotou
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Ok guys thanks so much for your help. I think I will download iTunes for my PC and use it purely for my DJ music. I also came across Rekordbox as a tool to sync and store all your music across devices. Have any of you used this?

One more thing to ask!! If I organise my music using iTunes and Serato Intro, will it be a simple case of moving everything across once I upgrade to a Serato full software package? I would hate to have to do things twice!!

Many thanks,

Chris Hero

January 19, 2015 at 7:32 pm #2124291

DJ Vintage
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Hi Chris, RekordBox is proprietary software by Pioneer. It is used to prepary tracks and playlists and set cues and such so you can take your tracks for a gig with you on a usb stick that you plug into a RekordBox compatible CDJ by Pioneer. Only a few CDJs are RekordBox compatible and the software is useless for anything else I think.

January 20, 2015 at 12:44 pm #2124731

Terry_42
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Indeed Rekordbox is pretty useless unless you use very specific Pioneer Hardware.
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