How I Built The ULTIMATE DJ Library in 5 Easy Steps (Full Guide)
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I used to spend HOURS struggling to get to grips with my messy, disorganised music library. I deleted it all and set up a simple new 5-step system to find tracks faster, help me play better and more creative sets and to raise the quality of my music. The best part is it’s super easy to implement and you can start today!
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hi Chris m, am glad I found your content, just signed up to your substack and will be digging in, I can't find the Mac shortcut you made for deleting poopie files, is it on there? thanks a lot, looking forward to that!
@@tomsunha8645 thanks for subbing! You should have received a welcome email with the link-check your spam :)
@@ReallyChrisM Much appreicated!
That bitrate drop in the video when you mention 128kbps mp3s is the cinematography I'm after. Top video!
The most heart warming moment of djing for me is one time my fav DJ sent me a whole unreleased EP after me praising a performance of him playing one of tracks on it at the rave in my country, and just talking about the original artist the edit was based on.
Thanks MRD (of 1988), that is belief in humanity restored!
This is flat out the best dj info ive found. Real life tips and solutions. I used to spin jungle and disco house plus alot of straight up disco/funk etc. this is 30 yrs ago. Long story i went to prison,spent a lot of years away. Lost all my vinyl in a fire while i was in the can as well as equipment. Anyways i got out (and went back in a couple times) got married, life was great but she died and i kind of lost my way.
In the video you talk about waiting 24 hrs. and listening to a track again, I used to do that with music before Id spin it too, funny u mentioned that. Anywayb'm kind of trying to get back to a point where things made sense and you know 30 years ago spinning music,hitting 3 raves in 5 days before life turned into a shitshow. Im 48 I'm not going to be fucking Raving but I'm thinking seriously again back into the dj end of things. But theres been a few changes since the last time I stood behind a couple of decks
I got to say this is really helpful video though it's clear concise and funny thank you for putting this out there
This video is one of the most important in my DJ life! 🙏🏻
I always stuck with my tags, libraries, playlist’s, etc…
Thank you Chris
Keep going 😎
Great vid, as always. Some of the best DJ content on YT.
Great newsletter as well. Thanks!
4:23 " Where do I go if I want a loaf of bread?
...the supermarket, because I don't like to support small businesses" 🤣☠️
"getting on these lists is harder than listening to an entire tech house set"... you made me drop my coffee with that one mate 🤣🤣
That was hilarious, and I Love good TechHouse 😂
What a incredible recomendations!!! The link between two tracks blow my mind.
Very informative, thank you.... I needed it👌👍🙌
Keep up the good work and it's very informative.
Super helpful, thanks man!
this was so helpful and also rlly funny 🙏
Love your channel man so well made and yer off yer rocker . Great advice on this video
your work is amazing.. Thank you for sharing it :D
Great insights and knowledge as always :)
Haha, great video... love the humour and I picked up some handy tips too. Now time to go listen to some Hanson tracks.
Thank you, Chris
Keep going more 😎
I am worried that I get more excited by well organised library structures than playing the music. Like why just find songs, maybe I can find the chunks of my brain I left in every club toilet ever. I also can't use a poop tag because I have a genre in my breakcore lists that is actually poo songs. Thank you for helping me organise this, I can guarantee audiences of at least one will be thoroughly horrified by my ability to choose the songs they hate most with expert efficiency. I am a success!
This helps thanks
Mate. Your humour is on point. Love the dog about tech house and always laugh watching your videos coz of your dry humour.
Your humor is the chefs kiss hahaha! Thanks for the good info!
I love your DJ library system. Gonna be implementing them to my own Recordbox library! THANK YOU SO MUCH🔥🔥 **Also love the way how u insert subtle jokes (the capitalist one cracked me up)
good tips!
The song energy rating tip is 💎
simply....thank you. And how do you keep organized your files on hard drive?
Another great video!! I love love the 24 hour cooling off period and the three follow up questions.
Great advice ! I got turns Sl 12s techs & the old SL Rane box which is not supported by serato . But the disc drivers are still sealed as I never got round to using it. Originally I was into breaks ( not D n b more for cutting extending ) over time I got more n more into older vintage sounds mostly 60s stuff I've got a large collected that I want format as mp3s . Some djs say if you got enough power on a decent laptop the rane boxes will work so I'm hoping I can load mp3 streams onto the vynls .But not sure if it will work . I also got a new rane controller & reloop reflux audio interface & powerful laptop . But more interested getting the vintage music on the 12s then in the future transfer to the laptop & create lists eg northern soul , funk , psyche rock , garage punk , prog , rock roll, surf , studio one , ska etc
Love you bro ❤
Tech House beef still going strong ahaha
was enjoyin until he dissed tech house 😔
@@jeremyr8793it is a scourge though
You don't have to delete all of your music to become organized. You can simply place them in a different folder and drive. Some music that you won't be playing could be useful for sampling intros and outro or for creating mashups or DJ edits. I agree that having only the music you'll be playing is very important. I delete music all of the time, but I don't mind having a big bone yard of resources for production purposes. When it's time to perform live, you'll have just the songs that are mixable and playable pre-organized.
Great points 👍🏼
5:14 hahaha 'Progressive Gabber' and 'Vacuum Core' 🤣 haha, sounds like the perfect match to me :D
The exporting of unused tracks is such a good tip! I had no clue. Always appreciate the underrated tools.
Save all my Music in Specific Folders for different Occasion in a 2TB External Hard Drive . Works for me. ❤
Thanks for the great tip. Will have to start using the rating system for energy. Now have to find a video on genres as I’ve got a lot to learn
Super video.I have a problem with finding out the year of release of the song. Can you give me some advice? Thank you in advance and cheers. Martin
Discogs.com is the bible for this
Hi Chris! Great video, as always! Where exactly can I find this shortcuts?
Hi what a useful video it has helped me alot
Assuming you mean from 87/87.5? I like to do this but the important thing is everything is consistent to save doing sums whilst you are playing
Awesome video! Rekordbox’s file management is absolutely insane! I’m starting out and are more interested in Open-format DJ-ing and finding the stems in Serato to be super useful. Does anyone know if Serato has an equally good file management system?
nope, Serato music management is super dummy simple..using it when coming from RB is just painful🤦♂️😅 RB music management is indeed insane but of course because they started there😁 however Pioneer bought Serato so hang on, RB stems should improve soon😁
Can recommend Lexicon DJ for library management too
Bandcamp (hopefully not RIP soon) has been my favorite for sourcing music. I pay way more per track but grab WAV, 320s, and FLAC for everything I buy. I haven't played out in years but I'm still really apprehensive about ever playing MP3s on a system, even 320s. I think the cringe of people playing 128k bootleg MP3s over club systems tainted me back in the 00s.
+1 for the DnB crew. It's one of the few genres where you can meet and interact with your musical heroes....and beg for "dubs".
Not a single human being alive will know the difference between an high quality MP3 and WAV in a club.
Hey you mentioned something about purchasing songs.... you happen to know how I might be able to purchase a track from the Amazon UK site if I'm in the states ?
I've tried using a VPN but that doesn't work?
And its a remix I can't find ANYWHERE, except for Amazon UK site.
Is the Shortcut app only available on certain mAcOs versions? I can't seem to find the app or download the shortcuts. Incredible video BTW!
It's been available since 2021 I believe - so Monterey onwards (I think)
"your sets can sound like everyone else's" LOL. perfect!
Thanks for creating such a detailed walkthrough sprinkled with just the right amount of humor! However, how do you actually organise the files themselves, outside of rekordbox? I tried using Apple Music for this but eventually gave up, and now I've got a plethora of folders full of duplicates and complete chaos. Help?
This one's on the roadmap..
does anyone know in what mp3 tag Rekordbox writes the rating? I'd like to edit that in a separate program such as mp3tag
Hi Chris Glad found your channel I'm making the switch from Traktor to RB got DDJ FLX-10 so trying to work everything out for the weekend I currently use an External HHD for my files so running RB on a Dell and MAC would the files I've done on the Dell like Playlists with tags etc be possible to be transferred to the mac so can prep on my dell Transfer onto the mac if you get where I'm coming from ? MANY Thanks
Welcome aboard! You would need to either manually backup/restore the libraries across the two systems or easier (but paid) use a Rekordbox plan with Cloud Library Sync
Hi! Nice video, a question please 🙏
When you download music from bpm supreme, can you play music through usb on cdj? Or you need the laptop? Thanks so much.
It's just a standard mp3 file so yes, you can!
@@ReallyChrisM ok thanks, and i have the files forever? Or when i unsubscribe i will lose them?
I would advise checking the T&C on their website for the definitive answer @@simonemonda17
Vacume core… you are quickly gaining a fan 😅
At 16:00 munites into the video you Deleted tracks from playlist shortcut. How do i get this shortcut on my mac? I couldn't find it where you said i can find where it explains on your newsletter page.
Once you sign up to the newsletter it’s in the welcome email you will receive 👍🏼
@@ReallyChrisM i found it thanks. so helpful 🙏
You explain about making an intelligent playlist and saving a file then using shortcuts to delete the Tidal tracks. I get that. So the question i have is what happens if you are using BPLink which im using would it be the same? I tried it but i had no success. Also if i deleted BPLink tracks from RB would it leave any digital residue on my hard drive even though they have been deleted from my RB?
I also have a problem that my RB keeps slowing or hanging even in Export mode. I use a MacBook Pro 2018 - Processor 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 - Graphics Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB - RAM 16GB
Any solution i would appreciate your help ))
The shortcut only deletes physical files (eg mp3s/wavs). If you use a streaming service there are no files on your computer to delete. Just right click in RB and remove the tracks from your collection to get rid of any analysis data :)
@@ReallyChrisM ok got it. Do you have also a solution to speed up RB or stop it from overheating my laptop and slowing or lagging
I’ve tried the rating method before but for some reason the stars go back to default the next time I open Rekord box
TRUTHHHH
It’s crazy to see how my more features RB has compared to Serato.
When using your Mac shortcut it says this shortcut can't access shall do, I make it as an administrator?
You'll need to give it permission to read the folder so yes I would try as an admin
all good now thanks @@ReallyChrisM
Hey can oyu tell me how you did the shortcut to delete files from playlist?
I used apple shortcuts and some jiggery pokery
need something similar for Traktor
I subscribed to the newsleter but can;t find that apple shortcuts download for removing files from a playlist
You will have received a welcome email it can be found on there- check your spam if you didn’t get it :)
I find it better to manage my library in iTunes so that I am able to switch between different DJ programs and retain the same consistent library structure
I need to try that, I use Traktor and rekordbox depending on the gig and it’s annoying having to manage playlists for 2 or more softwares.
A waiting period is the only way to go when buying new tracks. I always have Traxsource and Hard Wax carts out there waiting for a review before final purchase - a must. Sometimes I can't believe that I added a track to my cart when I listen 3-4 days later. Much better then the vinyl days when you would buy stuff right off (especially when travelling to new shops for gigs) then have buyer's remorse AND be broke once you got home.
video was good...but the dry humor was excellent :)
But all these doesnt work on standalone units does it?
If you are preparing tracks on RB on your laptop and then exporting to USB to play on standalone the majority of things spoken about here should work :)
have i not see mthis video before
Lol, did you say "I go to the supermarket because I don't like to support small businesses?" Also, I share a studio building with ShockOne :)
Oh nice! Grab me some dubs please
I thought I was going crazy that I couldn't separate stems from Tidal anymore, asking myself "Wait, was I ever able to do that at all?" Didn't know they turned that off until now.
It wasn’t widely publicised, just a line in a release note
As a DJ if you can't do most of these things he is talking about I suggest giving up mixing..Or like most wanabe dj's you can become a SYNC dj... BUY your music spend some money & before anything know what style you wanna mix!
😊😊😊😊😊
good video, but some points are irrelevant for cdj users
Harder than listening to an entire tech-house set!!!😅
Organize music based off “like” sounds
Meaning this sounds like that, so place them in the same folder.
Next thing you’ll know you now have a entire set of music that is similar sounding.
This way I can pull one random track out of the folder and guarantee it goes with any song in the list
4:45 "... and making sure your set sounds like everyone else's."
Isn't this what we exactly want to avoid?
whooosh!
Oh great another 'affiliate dj keeping it real'
11k tracks 200+ playlists and im a dj 2 years ... everythings is organised very nice tho
wdym Hackers is a terrible track?!
also love how Baddadan is there lmao
It’s a great track - this is one of the streaming service issues I mentioned- they remove it and add it again meaning there’s ghost tracks RB can’t load any more 🤦🏻♂️
@@ReallyChrisM And that's why I have mp3's of every track, no issues. Granted I have TONS of time to tag and grid everything and such, I'm extremely OCD about my organization haha.
But at the same time I understand that not everyone has the time or motivation to do all that work so streaming is a quick option I suppose.
@@HikariSakai Yep I'm in the awkward transition phase back to mp3s after some time away
@@ReallyChrisM it's a lot of work but it's worth it for sure imo. Btw don't think I've asked this before but is there anywhere I can listen to some sets you played?
I actually just did my first guestmix in a long time on Data Transmission: soundcloud.com/datatransmission/pachelle-presents-over-the-moon-episode-5?in=pachellemusic/sets/over-the-moon-radio
@@HikariSakai
9000 tracks in 20 years ? why do I already have 2500 in 1 year xD ?
What about traktor😢
Who has a music library of 9000 tracks in today's world... No piracy, Spotify etc won't let you download mp3s... I want to build my library from scratch... But I have no idea where to look... If you can be so kind to tell me websites with sell mp3s... Please let me know
my tracks are strictly related to one another per each set
Don’t delete all of your music. Just pull a set and make sure everything is labeled properly.
My library has 88+k of tracks.
I' m a mobile DJ.
😂 First step: Delete Everything! -> I can't teach you anything, if you don't forget everything you know ;) :-D
6th tip, delete all the music, download high quality music from 2023, select it, and you're done. Since in the end, every set (for example 1 hour and a half) is made of around 20-30 songs.
Ah, 7th tip, use your cues! Put it in "H" where you are closer to the end of the song but still sounds the kick and hat or just the kick, and do a loop cue there, and transition to other drums-song… Remember that you only need 20-30 songs, on the same note or be capable to blend into other notes that fit musically.
and how these tips helped you to be a DJ? i never heard about you mate
this track always goes down well with capitalists... WTF!!! 🤣🤣
Can you stop and breath?
Welcome to CZcams in 2023. People won't watch "long" videos.
Could have sworn this guy was sponsored by a coffee maker and a travel guide lmao. Meh
Enough with the tech house slander
Quick question my cue buttons has some sticky stuff inside of it what’s the best way to clean them without opening her up
@@J-237on what type of gear ?
@@itsamedjmariocould try isopropyl alcohol smear some round the button and keep pressing it until the isopropyl alcohol starts breaking down the sticky stuff.
i really need those dogs with lazers shooting out of their eyes…. where can i find them…😅😂 … great video by the way..good tips 🫡🫶🏻
I think they stock them at most good supermarkets 🐶🚨
Baddadan tagged as poop. yah man! :D
Hey! Where can I get that shortcut to delete all my smelly turds off of my computer? Thank you in advance 😀
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