music organization

I have 3 copies of my music sorted like this.

CD Singles
CD Albums
CD Compilations
Vinyl 7″
Vinyl 12″
Vinyl Albums
Beatport
ITunes

I use Rekordbox and for it I have a single folder called Rekordbox music master.
In this folder I copy a music file from a folder above. Yes, I am duplicating but I prefer to keep my personal collection separate to my DJ collection.
If there is no chance of the song being played it doesn’t get added to Rekordbox. (2115 songs atm)
I manage playlists in Rekordbox.
I use Discogs to make sure Year and Genre is correct. As the majority of my music is wav this took lots of work.

Good luck.

Core collection (eventually between 1.200 – 1.500 tracks) on DJ laptop (MBP with SSD), copy on external HD (with my request collection), original WAV copies of my track on my desktop. Both my core collection and the external HD with a synchronized copy on my 2-disk (redundant RAID-1) NAS (network HD). My NAS is synchronized with an off-site single-disk NAS that sits at my friends house and updates every night.

And there are the odd (RekordBox) copies of my core collection and such. In the past I had my core collection also on MP3 CD’s (double).

My music is all digital and organised using Windows files and folders. I have mine sorted by genre then sub-genre (if necessary). The majority of my collection is house so there are a multitude of sub-genres that I organise them into such as “Deep House” “Piano House” “Tech House” “Pop Remixes” “Classic House” etc. For rap music I only have a handful of songs so I don’t see the point of micromanaging that folder yet. My “Rap” folder consists of Grime, RnB & Hip-Hop which if necessary I will split off into in the future.

Broadly speaking, organise your music in a way that works for you and if you are playing out, utilise the sorting tools in your DJ software (Key, BPM etc.) to make your tunes even easier to find. Hope this helps!