Playlist (s) ?

I get the feeling I don’t do what you do. I play heavyweight material. Really heavy. But I do f with many different genres in each set. So maybe this helps you? I don’t know…

I use Virtual DJ, which let’s you build Virtual Folders (like crates in Serrato I guess?). So what I do, I get my new tracks every day. After downloading that day I open VDJ and I peruse them once again, this time dragging them into the Virtual Folders they belong in (my folder names are somewhat…esoteric…but they make sense to me). I also have a folder I call “New Toys” that I clear after each session where I use that folder. Anything I want to use for a new mixtape has it’s own Virtual Folder, one for each type of mixtape I might want to make. I also have a folder for things I know I’ll want to play out soon, so I don’t have to sort through each genre folder to find the new weight…because each genre folder is fat; fat like hundreds and hundreds of tunes fat. If I get into a bit of set where I’m in that particular groove, it’s nice to haev that much weight at my fingertips. If not, I go to the New Toy folder, or the “play this soon” type folders I’ve set up.

All of those New sort of folders get cleared at least twice a month if not more.

If you’re playing more go-to standards, mainstream type stuff, maybe try making folders that are exactly that go-to material? Anthems. Rockers. Sing-alongs. Common requests. Crowd Favorites. YOUR faovirites (because you have to have fun too). Etcetera.

Etcetera.

Read your user guide.

Seriously. Read it.

It is a little red folder in your track browser that saves links to a track, as opposed to copies of the track in different folders on your hard drive. It lets the track live in one place while you designate multiple places you can access it from. I have so so many tunes that are in more than one Virtual FOlder, and if you viewed those designations as Ven diagrams they provide me so somany ways to move from one folder to nother.

Get into it. You’ll be glad you did.