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  • January 24, 2012 at 10:34 am #13245
    Pär Hessler
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    Soory, but IMO there is no way of helping you as long as you do not get your senses together and drop tha Bu/&sht about 1,5TB legit music.

    January 24, 2012 at 11:03 am #13247
    Jacob Giossi
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    10,000 songs purchased from iTunes/Amazon/Beatport alone. Thousands of my own vinyl records/CDs all digitized. Believe it or not, it’s ALL LEGIT, and much of it is in WAV or AIFF format (takes up a lot of space).

    This may come as a surprise to you, DJ Hessler, but there ARE people who can afford to buy a ton of music…even if it’s just for their own enjoyment.

    January 24, 2012 at 7:10 pm #13259
    DJspin
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    Sorry, can you post a picture? This is BS to me, agreed Hessler.

    January 25, 2012 at 2:57 pm #1002696
    U31
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    Hmmm just had a look at my own vinyl wav rips, 650 or so 12″ EP’s ripped as WAV so its roughly 2800 individual tunes, 175Gb…
    By god, over a terrabite is one HELLUVA lot of music 😀

    January 25, 2012 at 3:10 pm #13298
    Arthur Kokanov
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    And I thought having 50gigs at one point was enough…

    January 25, 2012 at 8:23 pm #13328
    DJspin
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    I have 82 GB of music and thats pretty much ALOT, I saw this, and I couldn’t believe it. Still can’t

    January 25, 2012 at 8:30 pm #1002703
    Paul Hill
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    i have over 300 gig but this includes all my vinyl which i digitised and i get a lot of white label stuff off some dj pals.this collection of music goes back 20 years.the way i catalogue my music is into genres,then sub catogory them into bpms.i also copy my most recent tracks into a working directory which is handy for gigs as it is recent stuff.

    January 25, 2012 at 9:12 pm #1002705
    djrenots
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    1,479Gb’s ALL LEGIT. 700Gbs EDM the rest is rock and various. That’s just CD’s I haven’t digitized any vinyl of which I have 400 albums. Or my music DVD collection of which I have about 100. The CD’s are recorded in WAV format. Some juggling of files has made itunes media player search useless unless you know song name. Does any body know of a way to repopulate itunes media information album name, artist name and artwork? Other than starting from scratch and using Apple Lossless, which I kinda leery of ,fearing it may do the same thing as what I have currently.
    Serato has retained my library with few discrepancies, although it was extremely lousy with artwork.

    January 26, 2012 at 1:27 pm #13396
    Jacob Giossi
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    I got a huge bulk of my music by attending the auction of a family-owned radio station that had sold out to a huge media conglomerate who just wanted their 3 slots on the FM dial. As soon as the deal was done, the new corporate owners of the station liquidated ALL of the station’s assets at auction, and everything sold for pennies on the dollar. (I got a new-in-box Neumann microphone for $279…and it was a $2500 mic new from a store.) The HUGE music library of the station was sold, vinyl records first. The records were sold in lots of 500, and I bought 3 lots (out of at least 10) for $100. That’s 1500 records!!! Included are a lot of full-length LPs, but about 2/3 of them are the old A/B-sided 45s with 2 singles on them from the 50s-70s. Then they started selling the CDs the same way–in lots of 500 CDs at a time. I bought 6 lots (3000 CDs!!!!) for about $500…and there were probably 15 lots of CDs up for sale!!! Half of those CDs are albums and the other half are in Radio-Station “Chart-Topper” and “Hit-Discs” (which are CDs that are put out weekly by various companies for radio stations that are filled with hit songs and upcoming hits).

    That’s just from the one auction. At last count, I had 1200 trance/progressive house records from my Trance DJ days, plus 1500 of my OWN CDs. Then factor in my iTunes/Amazon/Beatport mp3 purchases. It’s extensive…and ENTIRELY LEGIT. Not ONE SONG was stolen from the internet.

    I’ve digitized a LOT of my music in WAV and AIFF format to my G-RAID, but nowhere near all of it. I haven’t even started on all the classical, jazz, and old blues recordings! Then again, I don’t need to be gigging with those. I would estimate I have probably around 2.5-3 terabytes total of legit music if I were to digitize ALL of it in a lossless format. Wow, that’s a LOT of music!

    Factor in the fact that all the music I would actually GIG with at a bar/wedding, etc., is probably around 500-600 gigs of space, and it doesn’t seem as epic as 1.5 terabytes, BUT…

    …I’d still like to figure out a way to organize it in a neat way that Traktor or Serato could find in the event that I get requests. Call me an arrogant snob, but dang, it’s COOL having just about any song request people can throw at you when you’re DJing an event!

    So if anyone has any ideas, I’m all ears. Otherwise, Phil’s teaching of pre-planning your sets ahead of time and only taking as much music as you need to cover the gig is wise, and it’s what I used to do as a Trance DJ back when I was spinning vinyl.

    Anyway, thanks peeps! 🙂

    January 26, 2012 at 5:56 pm #13404
    djrenots
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    Jam-Master Jake,
    That’s really cool, sounds like you actually have a passion for music. When you can have a mountain of cd’s and albums in a 6x2x8 hard drive, why not? Although trusting organization to software leaves a lot to be desired. Windows media player was always good to me as far as organization. Even if I had a double of a certain cd WMP would recognize only the information and tell me it was already ripped to the library. As far as I know it has NEVER lost information or re categorized it into unknown folders.
    Then there’s Itunes it does whatever the heck it wants.If you had a double of a cd it recognizes it as another cd,meaning if you’re not paying attention you could end up with a bunch of duplicates. It has put all my songs into unknown album and unknown artist category, at least in the Itunes Media Player. I thought maybe this was a virus but after reading some Apple forums others report the same thing, due to the format you’ve ripped it in as. Thankfully Serato has retained a fairly good Library and searching is instantaneous, if you’re a good speller and have a fast computer.
    So bottom line is I think it is possible to have an organized library if the software developers would start to earn the money they are getting paid instead of making crap software, maybe I’m wrong but no one has a solution for me as of yet and I can’t believe not another DJ has not had problems like this.
    I also would like to hear some more ideas about this subject!

    February 9, 2012 at 8:49 am #1002926
    Jacob Giossi
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    Yeah, I guess you could say I have an EPIC passion for music…my heart beats in 4/4 time, and in triplets when I’m with a hot girl or performing in public. (Corny, I know. Lol)

    Interesting points on iTunes, and I agree with you 100% about WMP being a better media manager than iTunes. Sadly, I’m working with Mac, so WMP isn’t an option for me (even though I have Windows 7 Professional installed on it in Boot Camp…I just won’t go back to crappy Windows when Mac is so much more elegant to my tastes).

    In the meantime, I’m looking at beaTunes or maybe another program or two. I just picked up Mixed In Key 5, so that may help me as well.

    Impressive collection of music you have! Nice to know there’s others out there like me. Thanks for your input, Bud.

    February 10, 2012 at 4:18 am #14629
    djrenots
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    Yeah I worked hard collecting these, seems this town isn’t big on techno/dance. I don’t know how my artists and album names got lost but I’m working to fix. Just wish it was more stable. Got to a point where the library would “re-build” itself but not good.

    February 15, 2012 at 8:42 pm #14993
    Michael Lawrence
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    djrenots, post: 13368, member: 263 wrote: 1,479Gb’s ALL LEGIT. 700Gbs EDM the rest is rock and various. That’s just CD’s I haven’t digitized any vinyl of which I have 400 albums. Or my music DVD collection of which I have about 100. The CD’s are recorded in WAV format. Some juggling of files has made itunes media player search useless unless you know song name. Does any body know of a way to repopulate itunes media information album name, artist name and artwork? Other than starting from scratch and using Apple Lossless, which I kinda leery of ,fearing it may do the same thing as what I have currently.
    Serato has retained my library with few discrepancies, although it was extremely lousy with artwork.

    try looking into “itunes match”…might be of some use but I believe you woudl have to have an i cloud account

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