How do you organise your music?

Zascar

I'm lazy at it these days and now I'm just lost as its all over the place...

How do you organise your tunes for either listening to music, or mixing etc

senan s

by genre and year

deevey

In itunes playlists by >>

1)Genre
2) Month / year (for new stuff)
3) My own Descriptive music tags .. e.g. beaty chunky house..
4) Site I downloaded from e.g. beatport
5) Tracks that I've mixed before that I know work together.

Theres alot of overlaps, but it keeps things reasonably tidy... now if only Traktor would utilize cover-art!!:mad: it would make my day and I can have a random pull out record box again (virtually).

For listening to .. i just hit shuffle on my collection (Too lazy to bother playlisting my day to day listening stuff)

electrofilth

I organise it for djing by broad genres,say dubstep/techno/drum n bass then spilt into ascending 5bpm segments (120>125bpm, and then 126>130 and so on, as to build up tempo in a set) and then within these 5 bpm segments i have them ordered alphabetically by artist name. I can find any tune real quick this way. Also , what I have started doing lately with my techno is adding a dot before the track name ( I mix on cds) to show that it has a snare in the beat. This makes smoother mixing as you can keep the tunes with heavy snare in the beat for certain parts of your mix.And tunes mix better if similar rythems are involved Time consuming I know, but I dont mind one bit.

Zascar

Christ I wish I was half that organised!

franklyshocked

My wife had a baby at christmas so at the moment my vinyl is organised....in boxes in the spare room!

But in general I organise by a couple of groups, House, Progressive, Electro, Techno. When I'm playing a night I'll group my set into three groups, Early, Main and wrapping up

tman

Make sure that everything is properly tagged when I get it, and load it all into Winamp's awesome library.
Stuff for djing is usually put into folders (psy-trance, techno, house, breaks, hard nrg, D&B...), and will usually have the site I downloaded from added to the tags

Executive Steve

in big piles beside and under the decks and in a load of crates scattered around my living room...


a big pile of dubstep and techno

a crate's worth of jazz, soul, funk, downtempo, hip hop and assorted weird stuff (spoken word records, children's songs, random sample fodder etc etc)

a crate of atmospheric dnb and jungle

a crate of hard stuff

a crate of silly party stuff

two "current selection" crates of dnb i've bought recently enough as well as older tunes that i've rotated in from the other crates

a crate of "current favourites" - usually grouped into bunches of tunes that work quite well together

my bag with all the tunes in it i played on the radio the previous week

mp3's are sorted by genre, sub-genre, artist and label

jtsuited

lots of different playlists in itunes. Requires quite a lot of anal retentive attention to detail.

MikeHoncho

The basis of my music organsation is just to have everything tagged up with as much detail as possible. I can then use the smart playlist function in Itunes to pull in tunes that meet a certain criteria when I need them.

L1011

Digitally - artist name if I've more than a few tracks, decades otherwise.

Boxes wise - tiny bit of vinyl in one box, doesn't need organising; otherwise its CDR copies of the CDs sitting in stacks at home in flip cases, alphabetically.

Neither is that efficient...

NotInventedHere

I dont have my music organised at the moment. Its causing me mega grief

copeyhagen

havent organised my most recent digital downloads yet, lot of tunes to shift through, but generally i put them into genre folders, tecnho, house, prog you get the idea.

then if im doin a set i listen to about 30 tunes and copy them into another folder on my desktop and start from there!