The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your DJ Music Library
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your DJ Music Library
In this 3 video series, you're going to learn how to organize your DJ library by using Mixed in Key and Lexicon DJ. Using these two advanced softwares will allow you to create the best music playlists, crates and setlists.
In this video, I go over how you can clean up your music library, update metadata, find the key, energy and danceability of tracks, and begin the process of batch organizing your genres and moods. Be sure to watch the rest of upcoming videos to get a full layout of how you can use Serato, Lexicon DJ and Mixed in Key to get the best results possible!
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Near Disaster Happened
1:15 - Disclaimer!
1:35 - Why You Should Organize Your Music
2:18 - How I Organized My Music
3:10 - What I Use To Organize My Music
3:55 - Step 1
5:12 - Step 2
5:58 - Step 3
6:42 - Step 4
7:20 - Step 5
8:12 - Outro
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How do you organize your crates? Tell me in the comments! (PT 2 Coming out tomorrow!) 😜
Atm i have a few genre folders like house and techno rave etc that won't really go with my main track folder. But the main one got to 7k songs, takes forever to load in traktor and probably causes the odd crash.
this was crazy to watch...organization to a whole new level. You and Cee B are doing the Lord's work for real!
Well this is awesome. Thank you.
@@justinraymund You’re very welcome!
I used to have a ton of genres and decade crates on my hard drive, but then dumped all my music into a single folder and created smart crates for all genres and decades. Smart crates make life simpler, for me at least.
Smart!!
but then how would you managed the songs for examples, I have folders for dance , hip hop, festival music, wedding, college fest and then subfolders in it and so on, if I dump all these songs in one giant folder, It will be a one long list and I will have to scroll from all the way up to down finding the songs, how would you manage that????
Def worth it!! Especially when clubs have CDJs and you use Serato! Trust me!
WOW - wall to wall info Jon. great tutorial. "just the facts' - you don't try to be a comedian - just gave it to us straight - much appreciated. 😊
My pleasure, Walter! Just trying to help
OMG THANKYOU!!!!!
Incredible resource.
too many people don't know about it. I'm hoping to change that!!
Hey thanks for this helpful video… looking forward to checking out the organization video…
To help anyone else reading this… as a musician turned DJ… I wouldn’t rely 100% on MIK for key-detection because it’s only about 60-75% accurate.
I ended up getting a refund because I saw no point in paying money just to have to go back and double check their results.
Trust your ears…
Nothing is perfect, but studies have shown that MIK is the closest key detection software to date
Lexicon duplicates tool is amazing as it can tell a duplicate not just by the artist and title and mix, but by fingerprinting the track itself. I had gone through a period of getting older tracks but some were duplicates instead of actual different Remixes ie one track was called maxi mix another would be 12inch mix, when in reality they were the same version. Only way to know without Lexicon was to stack the waveforms or listen to them as sometimes the waveforms were just slightly different or had slightly different track lengths.
True!
The MiK Energy level is pretty good for most Music other than say Rock or Metal, it mostly puts the a decent approximation number for each track or at least within the adjacent number which you would choose.
I been using it for a while to add this number to the start of my "comments" however because screen real estate is limited on a typical Laptop i just add the "number" without tagging "energy" before it as it allows me to have more information viewable in the "comments" column, those extra 7 spaces count for a lot xD
You're not wrong! lol
Good stuff bro
Appreciate it
Hi Jon,
First of all, very good videos, informative and well paced.
I have been using Lexicon for some time now, but I find the beatgrid analyzer too weak, it seems to be off more than it's accurate. While the same songs is bang on in serato.
So at the moment my workflow is as follows:
Mixed in Key
Drag into dummy crate in Serato
Analyse in Serato
Import the crate to Lexicon
Start working on metadata and so on
Export back to Serato
Feels like working a bit backwards in a way 🤔
Great question - If you wanted to, you can simply drag the MIK tracks into a lexicon folder and then sync to serato. Or, even better, keep the tracks in your downloads folder and use the 'incoming' section of your tracks to reroute all of your new music into smart folders that you've created in Lexicon. I've shown this in one of the series' videos!
Can I move my music to an external hard drive
then use mixed in key and lexicon? If I have started using mixed in key and it’s taking some time to process, is it wise to go ahead and put the music on an external drive?
This is awesome! What is the benefit of Mixed In Key though? If lexicon can already analyse the key and danceability? Thanks :)
Great question!
Mixed in key uses the actual audio dynamics of the song it’s analyzing to determine it’s energy and dance ability. Lexicon uses outside sources from the internet such as mixit and discorg.
Ultimately, I trust MIK because of its lengthy and trust background in the industry
Great vid but Mixed in Key doesn't get my years for the tracks right so lexicon get them all mixed up?
No, you can have lexicon find the years of the track by analyzing them and searching for file tags. I discuss it in one of the series' videos.
Does lexicon work with Spanish music
Yes it does!
Does this also get the album artwork, etc?
Yes! It searches multiple sites to get all of the proper metadata - including spotify!
@@officialJonDivine Heck yeah!!! Thanks for the reply I will try it. I have a large music collection and missing album art is annoying
which way?
wow that vinheta was loud
I'm not paying for expensive programs to do it. Guess i'll load up Traktor and start dragging and dropping 20000 records into folders.
That’s completely fine! To each is own
Searching for an AI playlister making thing. So fucking annoying. Can't find anything on this.
what a mess
Admitting it is the first step in taking action!