Your DJ Library is all wrong! (7 ways to manage your music)

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In this video, we're going to discuss how you can properly manage your music library, with 7 actionable ways to improve your DJ library overall.
If you're like most people, your DJ library is all wrong! In this video, we'll discuss how to properly manage your music library to make it easier to find and play the music you want. We'll also discuss some tips for organizing your music, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.
Timestamps
00:48: Types Of DJ
05:27: Organising Hot Cues
08:03: Expand Your Music Sources
09:25: Custom Crates
09:54: Cloud Storage
10:36: Avoid Ripped Files
11:03: Use External Apps
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[@Crossfader]

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[@simon_bolando]

For the second tip it's also possible to use multiple profiles of one browser instead of multiple (different) browsers.

[@DevRel1]

My dj library is fine, in not open format. I manage by genres and then playlists, I do then manually by folders so that I learn my music, wouldn't have it any other way, also the gene on my meta data can't be trusted. I often put a tech house track into house, or dance into house, etc. Just because I downloaded something from with bass house as genre doesn't mean it's not tech house. It's about 10% or more of my tracks that are miss genred by the site I downloaded from. I run each track through platinum notes and mixed in key, as well I have a very different system for cue points that fits my style developed over 20 years

[@christianrathbone9931]

So true! Being my authentic self while remaining positive and being kind has changed those around me in suble yet profound ways. Stay shining!

[@anboojz]

2 years later and your Video is still giving good info. The ctrl-alt-delete hint save me a lot of time thank you

[@mintomax2]

Great vid. Im glad you touched on looking at organising by things other then genre. In my opinion organising by genre holds a higher risk of mixes become stale and boring. If I am doing a mix and say for example tracks 1-5 are all house but what would work well as track 6 is a minimal techno track or a melodic techno track if Im only looking in the house folder for my mix I will miss putting in a track that would work well at a certain point because its in a different genre folder. A mix doesn't have to be every track in the same genre even non open formats sets you can get tracks in different genres working well together great DJs will put tracks of all different genres into a mix but still be a smooth well fitting mix (for example a Murk mix would have house, garage, techno in it). Also you are at the mercy of the meta data in tracks which lots of the time is wrong especially on certain genres for example I have listened to hundreds of tracks labelled as Tech House that are not Tech House at all they are just house (this is probably the most common wrong genre titling but to be honest it happens in all genres). As you mentioned near the end I think it would be far better organising by other things like by BPM, Energy level, Key etc. I feel organising by genre causes more problems than it solves.

[@sixxx-music]

automation is definitely not the way to go..I know some will disagree, but even tho it takes more time its better to be in full control of your collection manually. Automation is not an exact science, and if you use it long enough and rely on it too heavily, things are going to get messed up and after a few thousand songs, you'll still have to go back and manually fix the mistakes anyway

[@itsdjharry]

Auto import feature is a banger. Thank you guys!

[@tranceyparker7076]

The good way, i use my usb stick with the colour tags. My colour tags is all types of House music is red, Dubstep/Future Bass is blue, Drum N' Bass is green and acapella is white

[@Crossfader]

Love That, Trancey mate!

[@mikkliish]

did you guys mention tagging? tagging is a much better way to organize tracks than folders

[@nanadjnyk]

Thank you very much for this info. The auto import has really helped me organise my music files .

[@classicdell]

What if all your music is on an external hard drive can you still send your music from your record pool to that hard drive automatically?

[@sarahhalsted4997]

Thanks Lawrence, I had no idea that Auto Import folder existed in Serato. Looks like I’ll be getting some more of my life back in future now I don’t have to upload them manually.

[@renedrew3522]

Thanks

[@iTvTaylor]

Thank you Crossfader for making great content fill with tips to help us improve our dj skills

[@Crossfader]

Our pleasure dude!

[@johnlackner1193]

This is helpful. When i open my music in Windows Media Player all the music is in alphabetical order, But when I open up my controller software (Virtual DJ) it's all in a bunch of subfolders, which makes tracks difficult to find.

[@DJ_ADFoster]

Great spark to kick me in gear to get my tunes organized...Thanks Crossfader!

[@Crossfader]

Any time!

[@Two3sf]

I DJ mostly Afro house. All my playlists are Afro house 1 2 3 or Afro tech vol 1 2 3 etc… what other ways I can separate my songs or lists … I have instrument and vocal lists too

[@CodeXXX90]

Thank you guys for great work

[@dougdavis2325]

What was the other place he mentioned to get music besides soundcloud?

[@Subskile]

Thanks for the DJ info

[@Crossfader]

You bet

[@akanetakekawaLAland]

How can I get the "Latest import" ? How Can I automalically import to the crate???????? :( I need Help...

[@darshangajjar6179]

This is the type of video I'm looking for for so long time....thank you crossfader you never disappoint 😊😊😊

[@Crossfader]

So glad you found it valuable! Which tip did you find most useful to you? 😄

[@faustozarcodrums]

Great video! What is the model of the controller used in the video?

[@tomlevitt4133]

Guys if I move my music from my laptop hardrive to a external hardrive what will happen exactly? All my files will be unable to be opened until I do it manually? Will I lose all my playlists and mixes? I cross reference them all the time

[@9teen87]

do you have to move the auto import files back to the main music folder once they are imported into serato?

[@IamDJFTR]

Great video guys! With auto-import, is it possible to have Serato's auto-import pull from a different different folder as opposed to just running Safari to send downloads there? For those of us who like to send tracks through MIK, PLatinum Notes, or who have our Serato libraries on an external drive, it may not be the most efficient work flow for them to auto-send downloads into the auto-import.

[@Datdamnboy89]

I was wondering the same as well. I use MIK and then put the tracks into my library.

[@itayfx]

Nice serato commercial

[@lucaslovesyouiii]

Helpful! Thank you

[@Crossfader]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yabishxtina]

it's saddening that people feel like they have to use these appalling thumbnails. makes me not wanna click on the video.

[@chrisssmith92]

But you did

[@miroslavkral420]

What about Traktor? :)

[@RodrigoAmaraldj]

Unfortunately, this latest imports crate does not appear on my Serato, much less the Auto Import folder.

[@Everyoneknowssoy]

Was unable to subscribe on lexicon I don’t know why

[@juniorgarcia5344]

why my music inside my genre folder inisde virtual dj why it doesnt load my files when i click the genre folder? so so need the help anyone has this problem? i have a LACIE 5T external drive. mac air m2 laptop. on my pc loads but on my mad doesnt

[@djmiau_mx]

Great tips!!!

[@Crossfader]

Glad you like them!

[@teda2023]

Is _Serato_ is one of your Smart Folder?

[@DJ-Foul]

Missing the Vinyl DJ ;)

[@araceliborchard3724]

Los Ángeles azules para bailar

[@anastasiskofinas4703]

I have a ddj 400 and Rekordbox 5 if I upgrade to the latest version of Rekordbox will It continue to be free?

[@PACourtesy]

Yes it will

[@RooSter-eh2qn]

The longer I use Serato the more I realize what utter tripe their library system is for people with a mind of their own. You basically have to ramrod everything exactly where they want it to be or suffer the consequences. Well, next time I want to screw myself out of 250 bucks I'll do it at the pub. At least I'd have had some fun before my headache starts.

[@djrazzmishapzztv]

🔥

[@rajathaper4933]

serato studio video

[@jacoboi]

Where do the real copies go to ?

[@dankallew4781]

Why i hear a bad word at 6:34 😂

[@chuck1880]

Do you think it's bad to use YTMP3 for downloading songs? If so how come?

[@Adam-g-uk]

The quality is very low, will sound terrible on a loud system

[@oleksandrmusic]

If you get mp3 get at least in 320kbps

[@Adam-g-uk]

@@oleksandrmusic you cant get 320 from KZbin

[@cjamesburtond]

It really is a bad idea. When I stared my library was mostly KZbin and SoundCloud rips. I then got a gig at a club with a sound system and a couple of the songs sounded unbearable. The sooner you get a recordpool and download intro edits the faster you will get better

[@macmama5941]

Lexicon literally deleted all my crates and messed up my library..

[@jmarofficial5678]

Ganggg

[@djbobbyjay]

Why am I almost every dj in the intro ☠️

[@NicolayGiraldo]

These auto crates don't work for Latin-American music. I want a merengue song. The songs can be labelled anything from "Tropical", "dominican pop", "bachata", "musica hondurena", "latin pop", and so on. Bollocks, all these songs are merengue. Salsa songs can say "salsa", "cumbia", "latin jazz", and so on.

[@kdiaz___]

RIP to me as a denon user :(

[@nicktaylor1355]

Omg I’m all of these 😂 must do better

[@Aves_1]

Lexicon DJ is way too overpriced imo

[@bboymac84]

So aren’t iPhones but until they get a competitor they will have a high price

[@djLovelyTime]

You get a 30 day free trial to sort out all the really worst habits. The instant export to DJ software is incredible though.

[@bboymac84]

@@djLovelyTime yup

[@artuspower]

More ads than real content - sorry. And sorting by genre when you have a meta data is really not a problem. The problem is how to assign a genere.