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Back to Topic Posted on Fri May 25, 2007 08:31 PM.

Alright alright, everyone has their own little system, and I'd love to hear yours.

Mine:

For starters I have culled my collection to a fraction of it's original size, and now only keep 4 or 5 star tracks. This saves me loads of time in wasted data entry for mediocre tracks, and also allows me to always be certain that no matter what track I play, it will always be a favorite.

Next I have divided my collection into a number of genres and sub genres, and thus far have keyed out over half of my collection (all my psytrance is done, now I am moving into my progressive house, progressive beaks and then finally my downtempo collection). I have focussed on the comments section of the traktor database, and worked out a methodical description process that allows me to on the fly find exactly the type of track I am looking for, without any focus on the name of the track itself, or even who produced/remixed it. Here is a sample:

- kick/low end descriptor, major theme, minor theme, minor theme, vocal elements, unique element

For each of those first four parameters, I have a specific terminology (slang), so that when I arrange the comments column alphabetically, it all arranges itself in a very usable fashion (this example is with regards to my psy collection):

- parameter one: plodding, driving, gallop, stutter, stutter gallop, straight

- parameter two: minimal, minimalish, busy, full

- parameter three: rhythmic, melodicish, morning

- parameter four: techy, dark, trippy, eerie, bright

 

I know this may not entirely make sense the way I have written it here, but my entire goal is to be completely free to explore my music collection on the fly an have each mix harmonic, and be in complete control of my artistic expression. I have only had the chance to try it out once or twice, and I can say that I am ruined now and can never turn back. The only major downside is that I really really hate having to haul around my laptop, with all the glitches and extra cables etc.

So far from the start until now, I have gone through over 4000 tracks and am down to 1000, 500 of which are completely entered properly. This process has taken me approximately 300 hours.

Yes, I admit, I am a music geek.  =)

 

 

 

 

 

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. - Albert Einstein

Back to Topic Posted on Thu Jun 7, 2007 04:28 AM.

hi there...   its god to see that im not the only one that has taken a great deal of time sorting out my music ready for traktor. :P

i havt a desktop and a laptop. all my music is on my desktop...

firstly i have taken ALOT of time copy'n all my records and cds onto my pc. once that was done i siffted thru it catagorising it into genres.   i keep it all and dont really delete anything at all. all my house i keep in one folder coz its all pretty much the same. all my psy gets catorgarised really well....  into folders fullon, prog, tech, minimal etc. i then make a folder named "sets"  this is the folder i export to my laptop when i want to play somewhere.
im really fussy about what goes into this folder because i want my sets to be smooth.  i make folders inside my 'sets' folder of different styles, mostly prog and minimal trance. i only put my most favorate tunes in these folders. i try and keep it the same so i can just pick anything and it will go with the tune im already playing.

 thats about it... i try not to think to much into it or i get all stressed about what tune im gonna play and stuff like that.  this way i have only my fave tunes anyway so it doesnt really matter :P

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Back to Topic Posted on Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:44 PM.

Ah yes our common bond being our neurotic music filing mania!! I hear you about only having your favorites, which is what I have tried to do too. Unfortunately, because the process is so long and I have heard them so many times, I tend to get sick of even my favorites.... =P

So now I have this condensed collection of music that I am mostly pretty tired of. I know in my head that they are really incredible tunes that people love to hear however, so I'm going to hang on to them and let them rip from time to time.... but I am usually just focusing on any new tunes I have gotten that I am excited about. So in that regard, the whole process was a lot of work for a collection that I don't really use that often. AAAAAGGHHHH!!! hahaha

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. - Albert Einstein

Back to Topic Posted on Sun Nov 4, 2007 07:24 PM.

yes you are all geeks.

for myself I organize my tunes via feel, genre and key

so if the track is uplifting, melodic and in the idm genre then i know its all going to sound very similar.

then there is the whole key thing, which is a whole other bag of tricks.

but for those of us who are trying to keep all title/artist/album info all organized, i just realized that in media monkey you can get all that info from the filenames and then write them to id3 tags.

for example.

proem - socially inept - 01 - deep like airline failure.wav

and when you import the file into traktor it only says " 01 - deep like airline failure"

and you have to enter all the other info by hand.....well not anymore!!

just open up media monkey right click on the track and it gives you the option "autotag from filename"

click on that and it gives you any configuration to poll the data.

then you open up traktor and right click that track and hit the option "read from id3 tag"

voila! 

freaking awesome!

wish i would have discovered this last summer, but hey better late than never.

ps-T3.3 sucks for organizing your tracks. if you change a name of your track and you go to relocate it, you will lose all your metadata in traktor. so backup your collection before you do anythin!