CDJ mixing etc

[Raggles]

Out to the CDJ mixers out there.

How do you burn/organize your CDs for mixing...aside from bought CDs.

I have noticed a shit ton of waste CDs building up in my room and I need some ideas to keep them organized so I know whats on what.

(Just for home mixing atm)

I guess some people will just have a large mass of CDs that have about everything on them.

I dont know.

[Wolverine]

serato is your friend

[Raggles]

serato is your friend

Well i'm trying to avoid using my computer because it' s not exactly reliable and its a desktop(if I played at a friends or something)

[Wolverine]

serato is your friend

Well i'm trying to avoid using my computer because it' s not exactly reliable and its a desktop(if I played at a friends or something)

ahhhh right, perhaps something you could look into in the future then


when i used to mix on cdjs i used to burn say 15 tracks on one cd, label it and then copy the CD so in case you needed to mix 2 tunes on 1 CD you can


each to there own on this one though, people have different preferences to these things

[Raggles]

serato is your friend

Well i'm trying to avoid using my computer because it' s not exactly reliable and its a desktop(if I played at a friends or something)

ahhhh right, perhaps something you could look into in the future then


when i used to mix on cdjs i used to burn say 15 tracks on one cd, label it and then copy the CD so in case you needed to mix 2 tunes on 1 CD you can


each to there own on this one though, people have different preferences to these things

Did you just get liek 60 songs of the same flavor or whatever you were gonna mix and throw em on 4 CDs or what?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

i used to burn 1 tune per cd.....

got spindles & spindles of cd lying all around my room

the i realised it was fucked and i went and bought serato lol

[Raggles]

i used to burn 1 tune per cd.....

got spindles & spindles of cd lying all around my room

Yeah I definitely need to find a way to sort my CDs.

Surely you could have sorted em better then that though.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

well... i had 3 cases

one for deeper shit, one for tearout & one for future garagey stuff

cds would just jump between cases & spindles depending on where i was playing, or what i was feeling at the time

[LA_Boxers]

This is my main problem too.

I initially organise them alphabetically via artist, roughly 10 tracks on a CD. You can burn 2 copies of each CD to make sure you can play any tune at any time, however I dont do this. Obviously you will then get new tracks and have to burn new CDs. Again for each bundle of tracks I will do them alphabetically. I burn my CDs via iTunes and print of a CD case cover and cut out the tracklist and stick it in my CD wallet. I probably carry about 200 CDs with me for a set, mainly as I play radio every week so need a large variety of songs.

[jamesyo]

usb sticks? rekordbox?

[wobbles]

buy a laptop raggles ffs bbl ttyl fgt

[Figment]

i sort them by release, if an artist gives freebies i put the freebies on one disc.. it means a lot of discs, but generally i'd say if you knew a tune, you would know it's release, as far is in my cd wallet... nothing specific yet, if i go to deep on a certain order, i'd probably muddled it first time i re-opened the wallet

[PinUp]

Sometimes i do a little doodle on a disc and then just try and remember which trackas are on which disk and look for the doodle when I'm flicking through my CD wallet.

[dopocc]

2 x cds per week with new releases, then 2 x 4 tunes of dubs/unreleased per disc.. if that makes sense

[Lye_Form]

i used to burn 1 tune per cd.....

got spindles & spindles of cd lying all around my room

the i realised it was fucked and i went and bought serato lol

I use CDJs but still cant mix with them properly.

Why was it fucked out of interest? is it hard to get bookings if you use serato?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

i used to burn 1 tune per cd.....

got spindles & spindles of cd lying all around my room

the i realised it was fucked and i went and bought serato lol

I use CDJs but still cant mix with them properly.

Why was it fucked out of interest? is it hard to get bookings if you use serato?

i found it really hard to have only 1 or 2 cases of cds

i could never physically carry all the tunes id want to take with me to the club. easier to get serato, that way all i need is my laptop.

[Ni-Kulo]

buy usb sticks aka. guetta-sticks

[J-R]

I burn 4 tunes to a cd, gives me enough space on the cd to write the track names out nice and big so they are clear/easy to see when playing out.

I would recommend getting more than one cd wallet though. Not to fill them up straight away, but in the long run its good. For example... I got 3 cd wallets.

First one holds 40 cds - its the one I take out when I spin tunes, 40 cds in it. (160 tunes)
Other two hold like 70-100 cds each - I don't take these out, the purpose of these is the same as a record crate. to store my cd's. So the first cd wallet is my 'record bag' and the others are my 'crates'. Whenever I go spin tunes I take a look (or have a dig if you will) through the tunes I have and bam! sorted

I had the same problem with lack of organisation and wasting too many cds. So I just started to think of them as records. A lot less waste since.

[1point5]

I burn 5-7 tracks per CD, all in the same key. I do 2 copies of each disc so that I can still mix the tracks in any order I want, and organise them in my CD wallet in key order.

[DJSpekt]

i have 2 USB sticks organized by artist but one is small, so for anything new i have to burn them too a CD. so depending on what i buy it could be anywhere from 6-14 tracks on a cd at a time. my CD wallet is getting messy but i find keeping it organized is a little absurd because im always switching discs and what not and they get out of order too quick