How much time do you spend each week looking for new tracks?

probably 6 -8hours a week spread apart to whenever i find myself tired of my old tracks or in need of something new to spice things up.

the thrill of finding that “one” track is what keeps me motivated 😀 even if i do find 99 other duds, that one makes it all worth it!

I try to at least check for new tracks every other day. It can be a little tough keeping up, but good tunes will set you apart from other djs.

R33BOOT, post: 9591, member: 824 wrote: I was wondering how much time everyone spends each week looking for new tracks and organizing them?

I’m trying to get back into the swing of things to DJ. I have a 30k song library that I’m looking to clean out but I’ve decided to just look for the newest tracks over the past year to play out at gigs (if I ever get one!). Anyway I was wondering how much time you devote to that, vs actually practicing your dj’n skills?

For example, I have a friends party I might play at on Friday, and since Saturday all I’ve been doing is finding tracks to play, tagging them in iTunes, etc. Plus I want to beatgrid those tracks in Traktor, which I haven’t even got too. So i’m feeling like I’m spending too much time download tracks, track ‘packs’ off of music blogs with 100’s of songs, remixes, etc. and just going into music overload. There is so much music out there it’s like I have a hard time putting my foot down and be like ‘ok you have enough music… now just focus on songs u have to make your playlist and get it all setup’ …

Do you guys try and restrict your music searching to just the latest songs? Do you use something like DjCity, DMS, etc to get your music and that’s it? I’m trying to figure out how to spend less time looking for tracks, organizing, and more time practicing and getting gigs!

Sorry for the rant, any help appreciated!!!

Oh, basically the music I’ve been looking for is ‘open format’ club type stuff, a bit of everything you’d here at a nightclub that is a top 40 type crowd.

Well being that I come from a vinyl background, the vast majority of my collection is vinyl As of late I’ve been re-collecting some of my vinyl in digital format, for tracks where the vinyl is not the best condition any longer. Otherwise I download on occasion, with the specific artist and or track already in mind. I’m sure if things were as instant as they are now when I got my start (no internet existed at the time), I would have been going crazy with downloading a million tracks too. I think once you are experienced, you’ll be looking for specific artists and labels though..and your downloading frenzy will slow down greatly.

i look every day,365 days a year.important thing is to keep on top of the stuff you get.if you do then keeping track is easy.a little tip that works for me is searching the artists who do the remixes.they are sometimes up and coming producers.

You can never have too much music. I have 147k right now and I spent about 4 hours a week checking the top 40 list for new singles I don’t have and when a new single is hott, I buy the whole album from that artist. I pride myself on the fact of having anything someone wants to hear. Playing a club, house party, wedding or any venue if you ask me for the most random song you can think of, I prolly have it.

I’ll say again. never too much.

Time consuming? Of course but music is what we do. It’s to be expected you put alot of time in effort in your job.

Hard to find a track? Not at all, its all about how you organize your library/folders/crates/genre.

I love the fact that I have any song someone asks for, I type it in and its right there ready to go. If I’m at a club and a random song pops in my head and im like “oooh!!” I have it, Selecting a song is no problem. I can play any song that come to mind and on the rare chance I get selection block…. well, thats what your “cheat sheet” crate is for.

I keep a little notepad and if I hear track @ work while streaming internet radio or while I’m in my car I’ll jot it down. Then maybe once a week I’ll spend 1-2hrs downloading them, normalizing gain, and loading them into my DJ software.