Dubstepforum.com

As my track collection continues to increase, its becoming harder and harder to keep my music organized. I have a smart playlist in iTunes that seperates all my music by genre but with 4,000+ tunes to go through, its hard to choose which tune to play next.

How do you organize your tunes?
By Genre
By Mood/Energy
BPM

I use traktor so ultimately i would like to separate my dubs into sub folders for easier browsing.

by genre then energy. genre tends to be all within 5 BPM anyway.

I go through playlists, like every new tune I get, I will add to the playlist and press shuffle. When it becomes stale, I start over with newer tunes.

What methods you you use to make organization faster? How do you seperate by energy? mellow, filler, banger?

I'm trying to make track selection for my sets easier. I tend to stare at Traktor scrolling through tracks for 5 min trying to find the next tune.

this is what makes serato chea as!!
sort out the tracks by bpm & then compile sets as crates.
makes shit easy as.

!!chea

I make a folder for each month then have genre sub folders in each month folder all in my music folder.

Genres. (Not SubGenres). Fairly lazy labelling as well..like "2 Step/Garage/Dubstep/etc" and "Minimal/Techno/Tech-House".

I don't.

Sirius wrote:this is what makes serato chea as!!
sort out the tracks by bpm & then compile sets as crates.
makes shit easy as.

!!chea

On this! Serato isnt half as fun as getting tunes in the post. But my gosh organisation is sweet. No looking back!

Everything by label. Easy.

One giant folder - Music, 27 folders in that, 0 & A - Z, then from there, artist name, then artist release/Catalouge number, and finally the track

For example

Music -> N -> N-Type -> N-Type - Dark Matter [ACRE010] -> 01 Dark Matter
02 HP Sauce


Im pretty fussy with how my music is layed out now, had so many times where i couldnt find a track because the file name was wrong etc etc, spent a couple days sorting it out now its piss easy,

By labels

# [ Label ]

used to do it by label, but with so many whites and new labels popping up, changed it to:

mood/feel -> artist name (alphabetically)
grime/purple/jump-up (don't have many tearout tunes so this works)
classic/roots sound (skream, pinch, distance, etc.)
deep psychedelic (xi, hxdb, phaeleh, etc.)
house/garage (deadboy, ikonika, hackman, etc.)
deeper garage (pangaea, falty dl, sbtrkt, etc.)

makes live track selection easier and kind of ensures nothing gets lost/forgotten. I have it all written down too

Music Folder, then organized by artist, then by name of release. Everything is properly tagged using discogs as a reference. I have a playlist where I through new music on. Older tracks get removed as newer ones are added. I also have more playlists for tracks that I want to work into sets.