Organizing Music On Your DJ Laptop (A HOW TO GUIDE)

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3 жыл бұрын

Organizing Music On Your DJ Laptop /// Organizing your DJ music is one of the most important things for both beginning DJs and veteran DJs. There’s nothing more frustrating when you’re in the middle of a DJ gig and you can’t find a song because your music files are not organized properly. Quite often, this happens as DJs start to acquire music from multiple sources and get overwhelmed and are eagerly looking for ways to better music management and learn how to organize their record crates.
In this basic DJ tutorial, I’ll show you the three step method I use when it comes to organizing music, especially the music I acquire through my Promo Only POOL subscription.
If you’re looking to straighten out your music library, this is the video for you!
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@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

Will these tips help you organize your music tracks? How do you do things differently than me? Let's help each other out!

@DTrackFinder Жыл бұрын

Awesome advice, it’s not a secret that 90% of the DJs agree that playing the right song at the right time is the most important thing to rock a party 🎊

@DavidEsp1 Жыл бұрын

Tip: On a Mac, even on an external drive, make sure the topmost (not necessarily root) music folder has a name beginning with "Music". Otherwise the extra music-type fields (eg duration) won't appear in Finder (List-mode).

@kevinsummers 3 жыл бұрын

Good tips, and I love the production of your video! I just subscribed

@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub Kevin! Looking forward to connecting with you more.

@DJRebirth 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video dude!! Your production rocks and I love how you keep taking things to the next level. (That Promo Only shout out section was rad!!). Lately I've been getting a LOT of music videos from Xtendamix and due to the format of the venue I play at, I have been organizing things like this (below). For the most part this does help but sometimes I do get trapped in a certain decade/genre so my Virtual Folders tend to help me break the cycle and hop musical styles! ** File Folders ** [Decade 1] -> [Genre 1] (The main genre folder always contains my clean & dirty extended mix videos) -> [Singles] (This subfolder contains the single version of a song, both clean & dirty in case I need to drop the song or mix an audio remix on top of it!) -> [Genre 2] (Same organization method as above) -> Singles (Same organization method as above) -> [Genre etc..] -> [Singles etc..] [Decade 2] (Same organization and structure as above) [Decade etc...] ** Virtual Folders ** [Feel Good Songs] [Girl Power Songs] [Popular Line/Group Dance Songs] [Timeless Hip Hop] [Popular Latin Dance Songs] [Etc...]

@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your continued support ... And yes, creating a folder, by month, for your Xtendamix downloads is ideal especially since those are single file downloads. And then create filtered folders for genre, decade, etc. in VDJ!

@djpeteb6092 2 жыл бұрын

I do .... ALL MUSIC > GENERE > YEAR within each GENERE there is a SPECIAL MIXES

@Jay-ug5zm Жыл бұрын

Looking for some assistance on finding good dj music organization software that has lyric find, so when someone asks me at a wedding for a song but don't know the song name? Any suggestions? Thank you.

@5thElementDFW 3 жыл бұрын

I dig the video and your style but I can’t do my music like that. I have mine separated by genre and I’m currently going thru and listening to every track to see which I actually know or have heard or played or would play because I have waaaaaayyyy too much. I did make a backup on some thumb drives in case I get a random request at some point but my main drive is going down drastically. I haven’t finished my hip hop (explicit folder) yet but between duplicates and songs I’ve never played, I went from 4500 to 1200.

@specialtyentertainmentdj 3 жыл бұрын

Hey DJ K, i have everthing on an ext. HD in one huge folder, then on my laptop i have separated folders: decades >genre (80s>rock, rap, new wave, pop, etc.) Then in Vdj, i have playlists by bpm, or occasions (80s 97-99bpm or Smith wedd dinner). While it mostly works for me, i still get the occasional can't find tracks and duplicates. I have not used that "filters search", thats a good idea, thanks for the video

@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely recommend filters and not getting too hyper organized on the hard drive. If you haven't checked it out yet, the video I released this week shows my method of organizing in VDJ. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5uiY8SS1qm9p6M.html Thanks for watching!

@djmattdodge 3 жыл бұрын

Personally I have all my music in one folder and that's it. You can add all the tags in serato etc. You can put the record pool in comment section....and your genre and year and month are all in the meta data. Serato knows what month and date you added it. Smart crates can find any info (as long as it's tagged properly). Personally I feel making sub folders is making you do twice the work

@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

I think one folder is fine if you just have a few music sources. But once you have multiple pools, CD rips, Amazon purchases and more, to me, it just makes sense to do some first level organizing on the hard drive.

@djmattdodge 3 жыл бұрын

@@djkanoya I just personally never search for music based on what pool I got it from. But then again in Serato you can search for CK in the filename and find clubkiller edits. Or like I said when you bring in a huge batch from like DMS you can write that in like ALBUM or something. But whatever works for each DJ honestly. Personally I hav tried that and I feel like im doing twice the work.

@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

@@djmattdodge LOL ... you're definitely NOT going to be a fan of my next video, which specifically talks about how I sort by pool within my software. For me, there are certain pools I use specifically for remixes, and when I'm doing certain types of events, I like to just go to those pool folders and see what might work, since I know those are specifically remixes and not radio edits. But, like you said, it's really up to everyone's individual needs and workflow. Appreciate you watching and providing perspective!

@sqlforeveryep215 3 жыл бұрын

dude nice video - just clean you Laptop surface

@lewismartin5291 10 ай бұрын

The Sub folders 🤯

@chazwalker7156 Жыл бұрын

Hey, great video. I use PCDJ Dex 3 app for playing - unfortunately the tagging/editing feature (within Dex 3) doesn't seem to support the ability to tag multiple (same artist) files with the ease of one mouse click; ie. 100 Elvis tracks have to be edited individually... So time consuming - any suggestions or tricks to sort this plz? Dex 3 doesn't read the file tag from the actual file location on C drive, but Dex 3 does overwrite the tag when edited from within the Dex 3 app... but there seems to be no ability to select all (within Dex 3) and fill/paste down the entire column (hope this makes sense)

@chazwalker7156 Жыл бұрын

Update: I've now found a trick for this 👍🏻

@stevedub5006 2 жыл бұрын

I hope those aren’t the only 3 pools you’re using.

@djkanoya 2 жыл бұрын

Why? I've never subbed to more that three at a time.

@Ravinstomper 3 жыл бұрын

folder structure is wrong here should be my music [master folder - any title] genres [sub diectory(ies)] style, mood, year, rating [actual mp3 files] keep it simple. to many folder titles can be mind boggling. may as well burn them on cd and flip through wallets still

@djkanoya 3 жыл бұрын

I do not organize by genre, mood, style, etc. within my hard drive. I do all of this with automation in Virtual DJ using Filtered Folders. This enables one song to be placed in multiple folders. Organizing in this manner on your hard drive, means a file can only live in one place. So placing a file in a folder in the month it was downloaded, and within a folder from the source it was downloaded from, makes the most sense to me. Because it really can only be there.

@lennonwalker3820 2 ай бұрын

My folders are all over the place is there a software that will automatically movie and say put all 80s in one folder ect