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Subject: Organising Recorded Records
Original Message Date: 14-Feb-04 @ 12:45 PM Edit: 14-Feb-04 | 12:45 PM - Organising Recorded Records
Steve Roughley
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I need some help here. I've finally finished recording all of my records to mp3 so that I can play them through Traktor on my laptop (as well as for backup purposes). And I have run into a major dilemma. How on earth do I organise my mp3 collection? My physical records are all organised by label, which is easy because I tend to associate a record with its cover. But when I just have a list of tracks all I have to go on is "Artist - Track Name (Remix Details)" and I have hundreds of them now and quite a few of the tracks never even came off of a record (some from CDs, others bought online from places like bedrock.uk.net), so I can't go by label. All of my tracks can be placed under the genre 'progressive' (house and breaks), so I can't really split them into genres or styles as so many of them are just completely ambiguous. Somebody, somewhere must have come up with an effective solution. Any ideas people?
Steve.
Steve.
Message 11/13 24-Feb-04 @ 09:41 AM - RE: Organising Recorded Records
Steve Roughley
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Not to worry Milan. Cheers anyway.
I've just bought that softpointer, Beds (not bad for £8). I'll let you know how it works out. I also found out that Traktor does something similar. So last night I bit the bullet and went through half of my tracks and defined just about anything that I might remember a track by, such as the trackname, artist, remixer, genre, label and any comments, such as extra remix information. I also made use of a field called 'ranking' to add a number from 1 to 5 to the tracks that represented where in a set I would be most likely to place the track, (which will drastically reduce the number of tracks to search through during a set). 1 being the intro, to 5 being the finale. If this way of organising recordings doesn't work, then I'm probably just gonna have to put up with it.
Steve.
I've just bought that softpointer, Beds (not bad for £8). I'll let you know how it works out. I also found out that Traktor does something similar. So last night I bit the bullet and went through half of my tracks and defined just about anything that I might remember a track by, such as the trackname, artist, remixer, genre, label and any comments, such as extra remix information. I also made use of a field called 'ranking' to add a number from 1 to 5 to the tracks that represented where in a set I would be most likely to place the track, (which will drastically reduce the number of tracks to search through during a set). 1 being the intro, to 5 being the finale. If this way of organising recordings doesn't work, then I'm probably just gonna have to put up with it.
Steve.
Message 12/13 24-Feb-04 @ 04:41 PM - RE: Organising Recorded Records
Who cares about DJing? That was sooooooo 1997.
Message 13/13 01-Mar-04 @ 10:44 PM - RE: Organising Recorded Records
I did my hole collection at xmas.
One of the best is the free real player. Suprisingly. Good genre & album grouping which makes looking at your mp3s easy. Click on the library bit if you already have realplayer on your pc.
The one i use now is dbpoweramp which is free, i tend to search for a track with the windows search and then drag the tracks into the playlist on dbpoweramp.
One of the best is the free real player. Suprisingly. Good genre & album grouping which makes looking at your mp3s easy. Click on the library bit if you already have realplayer on your pc.
The one i use now is dbpoweramp which is free, i tend to search for a track with the windows search and then drag the tracks into the playlist on dbpoweramp.
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