Never ever delete your music. Just take time to organize it. If you delete now you will hate yourself later. Hard drives are so cheap nowadays. You can buy a 64 gig 3.0 thumb drive for $20 now. You can hook your hard drive up to your cell phone and organize your music why your watching TV. We have too much technology at our hands to be lazy. Be creative while you can.✌😆🎧
I honestly felt like you were talking to me. I recently got back into DJ'ing after battling addiction for almost 20 years. 3 years drug free and I'm using serato DVS. I'm downloading dirty, clean, instrumental, Acapella. I have about 700 songs. I feel my biggest problem is no I don't organize after a DL session where I'll DL 10 songs or so... Rinse and repeat... But thanks for the tips... Keep doing what you do
When I first started back a good friend gave me THOUSANDS of old school Breaks and I'm Still Sorting through them. Pools I set a 20 track max & then immediately go through and run a set using those 20 tracks... setting cues, grids, and moving them to appropriate folders by year , genre and month added. (all sub folders) as I go
Du Boi I might try this since i’m barely starting i’m trying to figure out what’s the best way to get tracks as well as organizing them. Thank you for the tip
How to organize tracks: A. Create playlists by genre/category (I have one for warm ups, one for bangers, etc) B. Create sub-playlists based on the name of the main playlist (for example, warm ups) and BPM range, so Warm Ups is the crate, and the sub crates are split based on BPM (Warm Ups 101 - 103) C. Organize every single song within the sub crates in alphabetical order. I choose to do it by track title since I personally recognize song titles first before I do artists. Doing this will not only keep medium to semi-large libraries organized, but it makes it MUCH easier to browse through big libraries on CDJs. Since I only keep songs I really like/see potential in, I can remember with pretty good accuracy what BPM range a song is in just by remembering the name. For example, I know "Look At Me Now" is around 73 BPM, so I'll just go to either my 71 - 73 BPM folder, or my 74 - 76 BPM folder and scroll straight to the Ls. Obviously your mileage will vary depending on the size of your library, but I found this to be the most effective way to manage my library by far because it works well with both laptop-based and standalone DJ equipment.
In the old days, because a couple songs you liked, you had to buy a vinyl or a CD with a bunch of music that aren't as good as the ones that made you decide to buy them in the first place. I like the DJ Pools because you have access to a lot of good musics that are not from mainstream artists and I think this amazing, because I always enjoyed to play something different from somebody else. However, now I am facing this exactly same problem! I realized that I have more music that I can play. I was considering to do what TLM suggest, but I was not sure about that. However, when I watched this video, I agreed with him and I decided to select the best songs out of the almost untreated 2.000 musics that I have and delete the ones I will never use. All the way I used to do when I had to pay for a CD. And I will do this exact same way henceforward!
Good stuff. As soon as I download tracks (which I’m super picky even at buffets LoL) I quickly sort them into crates or sub crates. But before that, I make sure I put in my hot cues (4bar intro, 8bar build, drop, outro, etc.) so that way if I haven’t used that track I at least did the prep work so when I do stumble upon it later it’s ready for use. Of course I’m not perfect at it so there are times where I have to figure that out while spinning live (which is fun when it works just right lol). But I find myself having problems with keeping up with current that I begin to forget the bangers of old. Great topic. Allows me to know that all DJs can get in this rut of getting too much and not using much of it.
That's some good stuff. I do a similar scheme. @ the end of the day it's ur music, just be smart abt it, every song is not gonna be played in a set, so use good jusgement and tailor ur crates as needed 👍👍👍
I have a file for the "year" and a subfile called "hitters" where I put the best of them. If it has to be "warm up" I go to the hitters from previous years.
I try to keep my crates small now.. I'll organize top 50-100 songs per genre by the decades.. I'll update and swap songs by popularity and keep my files down to a minimum
WORD! I even paused all my record pool downloads as it was getting out of hand, hahaha. Focusing more on quality vs quantity, and only keeping tracks that I would actually play. I also recently started a clean Serato database just to get it lean and clean. Keep the tips coming!
My question is how many of the same song should you keep in the folder should it just be the clean & dirty intro versions or the clean dirty instrumental intro clean and intro dirty this is my problem now?
i am not a fully working DJ but i do listen to every track that BPM supreme has on a weekly basis. it takes about two hours. also i check the top 50 monthly list from DJ City. sometimes there is a song or two i did not download for whatever reason that is a hit now. I also check out the songs on sound cloud to see if there is something no one has and it is hot (to me) .
This is such good advice and yes I'm also guilty as charged. Recently deleted a load of tropical house from my drive. I don't even like tropical house. I think people need to realise that you need to leave 20% of your drive free to ensure your computer can run efficiently. Clear out the clutter
This is great advice. As someone transitioning to a new computer, effectively migrating the setup is definitely harder when you're not 100% sure what all is in your crates. BUT (and maybe this is some insecurity talking) it only takes a few times of someone requesting the hottest song and you not having it, for a DJ's crate digging habit to turn into casting a wider net versus quality digging...That mixed with a full time job or other obligations.. it's a balance. I think TLM is right on the money, and he says it himself, it just isn't that easy.
Lol. Yeah you are right. Sucky part is wen you download a new track. You for got about. Then you hear dj or radio play song and tell yourself this track is hot i need to get. You going download that track. Wen download that song and you look for that song back. Lol. All version pop. You download that track long time ago all ready. GOOD ADVICE TLM.
Thats why i use XtendaMix. It helps me download stuff that i only need and find to be unique. Unique in a sense that i cannot find the same song in my other video pools. Good stuff.
I organize by genre and have been adding the key and bpm. May and a subfolder for bpm. Lots of work though. If you have serato you can create a “smart folder” that automatically updates when you import the song in also. Just beware once you reorganize your files on your hard drive or external serato wont know it is there. May have to relocate files with in serato
I noticed you on the first video about Scratch I automatically followed you becoz of the way you explained that !! On what you just said am not a best dj but I knw the quality or the gud song I can play or download !! I you said is gud to keep yo libary clean I have one folder where I put Everything that I knw I will play !! Thanks alot with yo video !! 🙏🏾
NOTE: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY MUSIC TAGGING PROGRAMS Can someone please please PLEASE HELP ME OUT..... Why is it that when I back up my music files from iTunes to another drive some files lose their tag info? I have 8,800 songs and 1,500 of them lose Artist,Album & Genre When saving to another drive. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
I organize my tracks on iTunes by genre. and only download songs i would play. i LOVE using iTunes because i can switch dj softwares and my playlist will always be there, plus i can have the songs on my phone to listen in the car and get familiar with new downloads.
Thisis so true- Im stuck here sometimes- I play Mexican/ latin music as well so _ my downloads are huge- I do find it that I need to delete maybe about 20 percent of unplayed tracks- I just feel If I do- Then on the next gig- I maybe asked to play those tracks- KARMA
I'm in the Same page as we speak cause I need to start doing better of picking music that fits right and heard the tracks from such and such artist new and old that's what I'm doing right now as we speak and moving some of my stuff into my Google drive that I know what it is cause it's label and if I wanna to get it I will get it from there. This really it's helpful I'm going share this out with few of fb groups I am in thanks DJ City Thanks TLM
Good help, but being a mobile DJ that doesn't work for me. I have tracks that are 2 or 3 years old and I never played before and someone will request it.
You always give good advice been a subscriber for a while now I have one question though for someone like me that's not a professional DJ is there a site that I can go to pay for and get the different versions for different tracks for different genres of music because I run into a lot of DJ polls and I'm not a DJ professionally
do't download music, that's for teenagers. Buy cds and vinyls, it's a totally different experience, from the search process to giving time and interest to a complete album. Cheers!
“Treat every track as if your paying for that track” you need to elaborate more on that and what exactly are you saying? Let’s say for instance a track is worth $0.99 versus another track $2.99 does that mean the cheaper one isn’t worth listening because of its value? Am confused, I don’t understand what’s your main point.
Noir Blanc He's talking specifically about record pools, where you often pay a subscription and have access to everything that is uploaded, which makes it feel like you're downloading it for free and go overboard grabbing everything. The part about thinking as if you're paying for the track is to force you to really consider if you need a track in your library.
That's the dumbest advice I ever heard. Never delete a track you bought, put it in a different folder, you never know when it will become a banger. I have tracks that took 2 years before they came most played track. Make an FAV folder and put your favorite tracks there, also, make sure you tracks are dated in your files, when it was released and when you added to your folder.
Never ever delete your music. Just take time to organize it. If you delete now you will hate yourself later. Hard drives are so cheap nowadays. You can buy a 64 gig 3.0 thumb drive for $20 now. You can hook your hard drive up to your cell phone and organize your music why your watching TV. We have too much technology at our hands to be lazy. Be creative while you can.✌😆🎧
I honestly felt like you were talking to me. I recently got back into DJ'ing after battling addiction for almost 20 years. 3 years drug free and I'm using serato DVS. I'm downloading dirty, clean, instrumental, Acapella. I have about 700 songs. I feel my biggest problem is no I don't organize after a DL session where I'll DL 10 songs or so... Rinse and repeat... But thanks for the tips... Keep doing what you do
When I first started back a good friend gave me THOUSANDS of old school Breaks and I'm Still Sorting through them.
Pools I set a 20 track max & then immediately go through and run a set using those 20 tracks... setting cues, grids, and moving them to appropriate folders by year , genre and month added. (all sub folders) as I go
Du Boi I might try this since i’m barely starting i’m trying to figure out what’s the best way to get tracks as well as organizing them. Thank you for the tip
NERI from pools try to limit yourself... real easy to get a bunch of junk tracks that you'll never even use. that clog up your HD space
How to organize tracks:
A. Create playlists by genre/category (I have one for warm ups, one for bangers, etc)
B. Create sub-playlists based on the name of the main playlist (for example, warm ups) and BPM range, so Warm Ups is the crate, and the sub crates are split based on BPM (Warm Ups 101 - 103)
C. Organize every single song within the sub crates in alphabetical order. I choose to do it by track title since I personally recognize song titles first before I do artists.
Doing this will not only keep medium to semi-large libraries organized, but it makes it MUCH easier to browse through big libraries on CDJs. Since I only keep songs I really like/see potential in, I can remember with pretty good accuracy what BPM range a song is in just by remembering the name. For example, I know "Look At Me Now" is around 73 BPM, so I'll just go to either my 71 - 73 BPM folder, or my 74 - 76 BPM folder and scroll straight to the Ls.
Obviously your mileage will vary depending on the size of your library, but I found this to be the most effective way to manage my library by far because it works well with both laptop-based and standalone DJ equipment.
nice method, thanks for sharing! do you use a specific software to get them through BPM or just folders?
good information
Bless , thank you.
*looks at library*
50000+
This is gonna take a while
Unless you own an MP3 player with a 256gb capacity.
@@J276 that makes it surprisingly easier to organize
How does it make easy ? @@Vasileios191
Love the fact that tlm is from Amsterdam but he sounds like he's from New York. Keep up the awesome advice my dude👌👌
Woaw, that video should been seen by every digital dj. Golden tips!
Omg this is so true! At first, I didn't have enough music but now i've downloaded so many songs that I can't keep track. Thank you @DJTLM! :)
In the old days, because a couple songs you liked, you had to buy a vinyl or a CD with a bunch of music that aren't as good as the ones that made you decide to buy them in the first place.
I like the DJ Pools because you have access to a lot of good musics that are not from mainstream artists and I think this amazing, because I always enjoyed to play something different from somebody else. However, now I am facing this exactly same problem! I realized that I have more music that I can play. I was considering to do what TLM suggest, but I was not sure about that. However, when I watched this video, I agreed with him and I decided to select the best songs out of the almost untreated 2.000 musics that I have and delete the ones I will never use. All the way I used to do when I had to pay for a CD. And I will do this exact same way henceforward!
I love this guy because he is not stupid. Follower since TLM_tv and always good impressions. Work hard, play hard.
Good stuff. As soon as I download tracks (which I’m super picky even at buffets LoL) I quickly sort them into crates or sub crates. But before that, I make sure I put in my hot cues (4bar intro, 8bar build, drop, outro, etc.) so that way if I haven’t used that track I at least did the prep work so when I do stumble upon it later it’s ready for use.
Of course I’m not perfect at it so there are times where I have to figure that out while spinning live (which is fun when it works just right lol).
But I find myself having problems with keeping up with current that I begin to forget the bangers of old.
Great topic. Allows me to know that all DJs can get in this rut of getting too much and not using much of it.
That's some good stuff. I do a similar scheme. @ the end of the day it's ur music, just be smart abt it, every song is not gonna be played in a set, so use good jusgement and tailor ur crates as needed 👍👍👍
yeah dude you did make a lot of sense appreciate that,
I have a file for the "year" and a subfile called "hitters" where I put the best of them. If it has to be "warm up" I go to the hitters from previous years.
I try to keep my crates small now.. I'll organize top 50-100 songs per genre by the decades.. I'll update and swap songs by popularity and keep my files down to a minimum
WORD! I even paused all my record pool downloads as it was getting out of hand, hahaha. Focusing more on quality vs quantity, and only keeping tracks that I would actually play. I also recently started a clean Serato database just to get it lean and clean. Keep the tips coming!
My question is how many of the same song should you keep in the folder should it just be the clean & dirty intro versions or the clean dirty instrumental intro clean and intro dirty this is my problem now?
i am not a fully working DJ but i do listen to every track that BPM supreme has on a weekly basis. it takes about two hours. also i check the top 50 monthly list from DJ City. sometimes there is a song or two i did not download for whatever reason that is a hit now. I also check out the songs on sound cloud to see if there is something no one has and it is hot (to me) .
This is such good advice and yes I'm also guilty as charged. Recently deleted a load of tropical house from my drive. I don't even like tropical house. I think people need to realise that you need to leave 20% of your drive free to ensure your computer can run efficiently. Clear out the clutter
Good advices here thanks
This is great advice. As someone transitioning to a new computer, effectively migrating the setup is definitely harder when you're not 100% sure what all is in your crates.
BUT (and maybe this is some insecurity talking) it only takes a few times of someone requesting the hottest song and you not having it, for a DJ's crate digging habit to turn into casting a wider net versus quality digging...That mixed with a full time job or other obligations.. it's a balance. I think TLM is right on the money, and he says it himself, it just isn't that easy.
i've been purging my collection and it is very time consuming. so take his advice so you wont end up with a bloated library!
Lol. Yeah you are right. Sucky part is wen you download a new track. You for got about. Then you hear dj or radio play song and tell yourself this track is hot i need to get. You going download that track. Wen download that song and you look for that song back. Lol. All version pop. You download that track long time ago all ready. GOOD ADVICE TLM.
Thank ’s Bro!!
@DJcityTV - what DJ pool(s) do you use these days? I was looking at that Trackor S2 or S4 MK3 and wanted to avoid snatching off TH-cam ;-)
You always have the good topics
Thats why i use XtendaMix. It helps me download stuff that i only need and find to be unique. Unique in a sense that i cannot find the same song in my other video pools. Good stuff.
I like how you described digging back in the day before serato and traktor...
I organize by genre and have been adding the key and bpm. May and a subfolder for bpm. Lots of work though. If you have serato you can create a “smart folder” that automatically updates when you import the song in also.
Just beware once you reorganize your files on your hard drive or external serato wont know it is there. May have to relocate files with in serato
really good advise. I haven't revisited my collection in a while. got to get to it. thanks
Is it best to just get the Dj intro version of songs (clean/dirty) rather download those and the original song without the intro?
I noticed you on the first video about Scratch I automatically followed you becoz of the way you explained that !! On what you just said am not a best dj but I knw the quality or the gud song I can play or download !! I you said is gud to keep yo libary clean I have one folder where I put Everything that I knw I will play !! Thanks alot with yo video !! 🙏🏾
Can u talk about how to structure your actual set? Like 4 hours of hip hop rnb. When do play hits, go to rnb tracks, old school?
Your videos are always on point love and respect from South Africa
Thanks what i do is i do listen to the tracks before down Loading them and i do categorizes my music by genre for easy tracking
NOTE: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY MUSIC TAGGING PROGRAMS
Can someone please please PLEASE HELP ME OUT..... Why is it that when I back up my music files from iTunes to another drive some files lose their tag info? I have 8,800 songs and 1,500 of them lose Artist,Album & Genre When saving to another drive. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
Great advice and I agree with it 100% Thank You
I do chk my crates periodically, but I don't delete tracks, I push em over 2 my hard drive, U never know when those tracks may come back around
What do you people use to download music?
This tip is surely going to help me ...Thank You DJ TLM. Your biggest fan from India 🇮🇳
Thank you so much this really help me out.💯🔥
Sound advice. Simple and effective.
I organize my tracks on iTunes by genre.
and only download songs i would play.
i LOVE using iTunes because i can switch dj softwares and my playlist will always be there, plus i can have the songs on my phone to listen in the car and get familiar with new downloads.
Thisis so true- Im stuck here sometimes- I play Mexican/ latin music as well so _ my downloads are huge- I do find it that I need to delete maybe about 20 percent of unplayed tracks- I just feel If I do- Then on the next gig- I maybe asked to play those tracks- KARMA
I'm in the Same page as we speak cause I need to start doing better of picking music that fits right and heard the tracks from such and such artist new and old that's what I'm doing right now as we speak and moving some of my stuff into my Google drive that I know what it is cause it's label and if I wanna to get it I will get it from there. This really it's helpful I'm going share this out with few of fb groups I am in thanks DJ City Thanks TLM
Great advice man... Thxs!
Big Up to your YT channel. Thanks for STK...
Thanks never looked at it like that.... I'm organizing tonight
how simple was that....for a moment u made me realize how foolish l was for downloading the trash m holding rit now in my folders.....
Good help, but being a mobile DJ that doesn't work for me. I have tracks that are 2 or 3 years old and I never played before and someone will request it.
I have 180k songs and I have organized only 14k in 3 months #Iquitdjing thanks DJ City!
What's the point of having 180K songs ???
WTF are you DJ'ing for the galaxy???
Thanks.. great tips 😀😀
Thank you !!
Educative, representing Kenya here (254)
am i being too picky by not having a lot of music though? I have less than 200 songs, maybe it's time to make time for new music haha
how many tracks should a dj have in their library
You always give good advice been a subscriber for a while now I have one question though for someone like me that's not a professional DJ is there a site that I can go to pay for and get the different versions for different tracks for different genres of music because I run into a lot of DJ polls and I'm not a DJ professionally
DJ City is good but I personally think BPM Supreme is better as their back catalogue is better!
Beat Junkies record pool is also nice for hip hop, soul, funk, etc....
do't download music, that's for teenagers. Buy cds and vinyls, it's a totally different experience, from the search process to giving time and interest to a complete album. Cheers!
Tabernacle!.....u ain't speaking nothing but da Truth!....I forgot u would have $200 worth of records,then jus go thru them 1 more time!........
I got 2 libraries: Djing and Podcast!
I have been thinking this for the last 2 years. I have deleted 3 tracks since then. I have about 54 thousand to go
WTF 😂 are you DJ'ing for the whole world??? 😂
“Treat every track as if your paying for that track” you need to elaborate more on that and what exactly are you saying? Let’s say for instance a track is worth $0.99 versus another track $2.99 does that mean the cheaper one isn’t worth listening because of its value? Am confused, I don’t understand what’s your main point.
Noir Blanc He's talking specifically about record pools, where you often pay a subscription and have access to everything that is uploaded, which makes it feel like you're downloading it for free and go overboard grabbing everything. The part about thinking as if you're paying for the track is to force you to really consider if you need a track in your library.
well said.....CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!
LOL I really recognize myself in this :-D
Use AIMP, rate tracks, delete trash. Why AIMP? You can bind hotkeys for this actions and do it whyle music play even without open your libriry.
Yup its a lot of work but its gotta be done..
thank youu
where can I get music for free I lost my library in fire
......$75 worth of good records!
👋
I am going to be honest to you, you talk for over 4 minutes without no mention of the title, "Organize your music library"
That's the dumbest advice I ever heard. Never delete a track you bought, put it in a different folder, you never know when it will become a banger. I have tracks that took 2 years before they came most played track. Make an FAV folder and put your favorite tracks there, also, make sure you tracks are dated in your files, when it was released and when you added to your folder.