Organising Tunes

[Autocrat]

Good Evening/Morning,

Wanted to know peoples methods of organising their mp3's and vinyls....
I've generally just organised them alphabetically but it is becoming more and more of a logistical nightmare to do this

any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Shum]

Physical releases: Format (12", 7", CD, etc) > Artist or Composer for classical bits (alphabetically) > Year of release (Newest to oldest). This leads to some strange situations (like artists that use the same name) but I've grown so accustomed to it that I can find what I'm after with east.

Don't really have that many mp3's to organise tbh, I just let iTunes work that out for me.

[south3rn]

normally i organize my vinyl by label, but lately it's just been older stuff in the back and newer stuff in the front

[Mehlovich]

Vinyl: Shit records to the right, nice records to the left.
I find that if you dont really organise your tunes then you actually end up mixing things you wouldnt have thought about.
idk if it would work if I had like thousands of records though.

mp3: playlists! i have about 5 different playlists for dubstep - sub heavy, reggae/dub inspired, chill etc. and 3 different for reggae and one for house and so on...

[Autocrat]

i have about 5 different playlists for dubstep - sub heavy, reggae/dub inspired, chill etc. and 3 different for reggae and one for house and so on...

Definitely was thinking of doing something among these lines...Remember reading somewhere that Roska organises his as 'bangers' and 'vocals' so i may well try something along these lines.

[greeny]

label and catalogue number all day long.

sounds proper OCD but there is something so satisfying about having a mix, putting all your records out of order, and then sorting them again.

[grillis]

All about the Medi rainbow:

[andy static]

All about the Medi rainbow:

i thought i was the only one

[Morike]

Organise my mp3s by key, i like it..can key mix plus i find myself mixing tunes i would never have thought of

[FSTZ]

Mp3: I prefer to organise by what month I get the tune

Vinyl: put it in the stack organised by genre

[dirt]

Was thinking about this exact topic the other day. Tried doing it by style but that doesn't work; too many tunes bridge styles... Urban Ethics for example. I've ended up with a muddle of a mess and can't get a decent system going.

[RGLZ]

Label > Catologue number

[redfire]

i just have piles of records..... whenever i try to get an hour or so to organise em, i just end up switching on the dex, and the plan falls apart.....

the only organistion i have is drawing massive exclamation marks on white labels that are amazing!!!!

[badger]

i was resistant to the whole storing by labels thing but eventually gave in and i've got a section of the bigger/more stylisticly cohesive labels (like deep medi, hessle, dmz, night slugs etc) all sorted in cat order

then everything else is sorted by genre and alphabetically, and then split with my most often played tunes stored in expedit shelving under my dj desk and the rest in my larger expedit; and newer purchases in a couple of crates before being sorted into shelving

must be fairly bemusing to anyone else trying to find tunes but i know exactly where everything is

i'm still struggling with quite what to do with all the fringe semi-dubstep stuff but it's got it's on section for the moment

[leslie]

I organise by bpm, starting at 110 on the left and moving to 170 on the right. Just keep shuffling across as you mix!

[apmje]

Been thinking of this lately as my records are a fucking mess atm and I can't find anything I want in time.

Thinking

Labels done alphabetically and then cat no. Seems simple really....don't know if its gunna work though.

[leeany]

Genre - Artist alphabetically - Release name alphabetically

[baseband]

I organise by bpm, starting at 110 on the left and moving to 170 on the right. Just keep shuffling across as you mix!

ive got the same system right now, split across a half-expedit. plus i put anything with a soft jacket in padded travel crates. plus ive got a separate shelf for 2nd hand stuff older than ~10 years. plus ive got a separate shelf for albums & weird-tempo releases.

it is a horrible (ocd-based) system that worked when i had <100 records, but is totally impractical now. ill keep my eye on this thread to see what sort of ideas others have

[andy static]

genre then style within that, big lables i tend to put all the tunes together but i dont like doing it by lable when there's odds and ends that get mixed up or two that get separated

[Sonika]

Vinyl: Shit records to the right, nice records to the left.
I find that if you dont really organise your tunes then you actually end up mixing things you wouldnt have thought about.
idk if it would work if I had like thousands of records though.

mp3: playlists! i have about 5 different playlists for dubstep - sub heavy, reggae/dub inspired, chill etc. and 3 different for reggae and one for house and so on...

I definitely do this too! Thought I was the only one
I got:

"Brostep" (with skrillex, etc.)
"Heavy Melodic" (Gemini, Mt. Eden, some Skream/Magnetic Man, some Deadmau5, subscape, etc)
"New Filth" (not sure why this is different from brostep, but I definitely feel it should get its own playlist - it's got stuff like flux pavilion, Skism, and many others)
"Four on the Floor" (favorite electro/house/deep house tracks - covers all the bases from deadmau5 to tiesto to kaskade)
"Old School Filth" (probably my favorite playlist. It's grown so big that I should probably separate it into more playlists - it covers from Skream and Benga to Coki to Digital Mystikz to Pinch to Distance...I could go on)
"Mechanic Filth" (industrial type shit - like some Datsik, Excision, Downlink, Cookie Monsta, etc)