How many songs per week You add to your Library?

Obviously the less tracks you get, the easier and less time it will take to get to know them well. Just be prepared to spend the time listening to them and mixing frequently. Put them on your ipod in a “new tracks” playlist. Have them playing on your stereo when you can. Perhaps be a little more strict with what you download. I’m sure if you stick to downloading them legally you won’t be getting 50 a week…

I think 50 is ok when you need to build a library. I personally could add anywhere from 0-20 tunes in a week. I’d go a few weeks without buying anything even, then buy 20-25 new tracks off MP3 stores I’ve been amassing.

Remember, the goal is QUALITY, not quantity. I’ll add loads of stuff to carts and wish lists, but then wait a few days to a week and listen again…usually dumping most of it and ending up with the 10-25 tunes I’ll buy.

No one will belittle a DJ for having a smaller collection if he/she can do a lot with that. It’s pointless to buy a tune you’ll play once and never again, or not at all.

Steelo, post: 21771, member: 1368 wrote: I’m surprised anyone is able to find 20+ decent tunes worthy of playing a week. I throw a lot in my cart and after listening a few times would be lucky to walk away with more than a handful. I feel like the quality is in a slump at the moment.

I’m working on a blog post about this…but I tend to think DJs are so oversaturated with music that they tend to get sick of tunes faster than the average person.

I tell many in this slump to play multiple genres and just switch around, or shop less often. I really only shop about once a month for tunes. I just simply can’t spend every day, every other day, or every week looking for music…because I’ll end up hearing loads of similarity and thus get frustrated.

Plenty of creativity out there, but there is just too much and many still believe they can stay on top of it all. It’s impossible.

I add 0-10 a week, maximum.

I’d say I buy anywhere from 10-15 a week, but I am thinking of cutting that back to 0-10 (thanks Phil!). i have been doing this for about 6 months, and now that I getting a better handle on the basics, I am realizing just how important it is to really know you tracks. It’s becoming more important to me which songs I’m playing, and how they fit into the set as a whole. The more tracks I have, the more overwhelming it becomes to get to know them all.
For example, I’ve noticed that out of the 50 or so trance tracks I’ve bought to practice with, I keep going back to 15-20 of them that I really like. The rest I can give or take, but I don’t know them well enough to really decide. Now I’m being much more discerning and only buying stuff that I have listening to multiple times and KNOW fits my style and taste. My library of songs continues to grow, but by spending more time really learning the tracks, I’m way more likely to use them in a set, instead of wasting money on a tracks that will gather dust in iTunes.

I’m guessing a few guys here are either quite wealthy or ain’t paying for music… 50 a week..10 a day! :O
(and I doubt anyone would buy tunes only to just delete them)

That’s the best way to have a decent amount of quality control.
I don’t have a limit, it just averages from 0-10, usually less, I find most weeks only have 0-5 decent tracks worth buying.