How To Clean Out Your Hardrive - Delete Duplicate Songs Fast (DJ TIPS)
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2020
- In this video, I go into detail how to clean out your hardrive, delete duplicate songs, and finally get rid of all that clutter that slows your computer down!
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How much music do you have on your hardrive??
Prior to 2013 - 9 terabytes. I started doing exclusively video after that and started from scratch. Current music drive is loaded on to Dropbox so my desktop and laptop are duplicated with 63 gig of MP3's and 273 gig of MP4 videos. The wedding for this weekend has a "Client Data" folder with all of the music for the day. When I turn on my laptop, my desktop music for the weekend syncs with the laptop and I'm good to good in less than 15 minutes. I am exclusively a Wedding Video DJ so anything that doesn't pack a diverse dance floor is GONE. I have a great hotspot and an Amazon Music is a shortcut to get anything needed in a couple minutes so no need for fluff.
8,000 tracks
@@folkenson LOVE THIS
279 gb in 2018 just mp3 before the big clean out. 415 gb in 2020, but I now play videos also.
238 GB
I started with 2 billion terabytes of music before this video, now I'm down to half a meg. Awesome! Thanks Nickola. 👍
A daunting task but surely well worth it. Love this Marie Kondo approach to music on your hard drive. Only the tracks that bring joy!
This is one of your best ones yet Nick. It's now on my to-do list to slim down the drive especially since I've downloaded so many videos for my livestreams. Good job man.
Thank you Chris!
So helpful Nick, love these tips as they are super useful. 👍👍
You're making great videos, keep it up.
Great video brother... never thought about the quality thing.... so smart... and it allowed me to update the versions so thanks for that.
Another easy way for me was to SORT ALL by Artist name... and literally remove artists who I have no idea who they are.
Loves this video bro, def some helpful tips ever for my self as a club dj.
Been meening to do this for ages ! Thanks man
I’m at 1.87 TB. And I thank you for this video kind sir!
good videos and advice, many suggestions i definitely agree Too,
I totally get you man! I spent about two months doing just about the same thing, but listen to a lot of the songs I had and if it was something a couple wanted for their wedding 8 years ago and it’s something I’ll never play again...GONE! How about those mixes with 10+ songs pre mixed for you....GONE! You are right it is very liberating.
awesome lets go!!!
This is SO beneficial thank you for this! I am at 2TB and just got a new macbook M2 and don't want to transfer the whole 2TB hard drive over. So I'm gonna do some cleaning because I know for a fact it's songs i NEVER play on that hard drive and duplicates. Thank you for this video!
this video is awesome, so many great points and made me chuckle a few times 😂 currently consolidating hard drives and trying to get rid of dups. Total is 3tb. Most of it is karaoke from other DJ's when I was just starting to do karaoke, and there are def plenty of dups. The other 500 gigs is MP3's. 300 gigs of music given by a DJ years ago when I was just starting out, the remaining 200 gigs is what I've accumulated over the past 10 years. I use some dups intentionally in my personally curated catalog to save folders from past events and to make different playlists that use the same songs on my master list; so I don't remove dups from it.
Viva la revolución! Free us from the chains of duplicated songs, redrums, poor quality, and any other non played songs! After this, I am inspired to delete songs for the hour of reckoning is upon us. In other words, thank you for this topic
lmao well said!
This is cool, Cheerz Buddy!!
One of your better videos. Good insight on best practices for music management. DJ's are so focused on having all songs, that they forget how many copies of the song that they do have.
With DJ's moving to music videos and projection visuals, it is important to be a bit more minimalistic with your Library and be more organized.
This is great advice
Love the video, ive been having a major gut out of my DJ collection for months now.. and ive found an AMAZING workflow, that works for me anyways... im actually auto renaming every FILENAME from the ID3 tags by "Artist - Title.mp3" and it means if i get any dupes i can spot them instantly and decide which ones i want to keep in each instance. I can NEVER have 2 of the same song ever again. I label REMIXES and LIVE versions on the track title and it then makes the Filenames unique.
i then separated them into AMBI/WARMUP/PEAK in the folder structure using Serato fields to categorise, then FILES to move all the tracks into folders per crate name. I then broke it all into PUB/PARTY/CLUB/WEDDING via more tags and setup smart crates that filter per venue/crowd type that i play.... its going amazing so far... more than halved my collection and you're right its liberating..
I can generate a full event picking list / playlist now simply via tags that suits the room im playing in... and it's REALLY accurate.. awesome.
Very true!! I have put it aside for years and i guess is time for me to tackle that and let some of that music go..
Damn I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a long time. Great advice thanks
Between you and Jani, you guys have got me inspired to clean up that shit!! Lets go!!
Noticed that Scratch DJ plaque, a fellow alumnus! Been enjoying your videos lately, much appreciated.
Omg, DJ Nick, I'm using Ann external HD and I'm using Ann HP.. But it's been really good to me, but there idea of going internal intrigues me. But I'm always afraid of what would or could happen to my program or music. I don't have a lot of programs on my PC, just the Serato and I really use my DJ PC to surf the web, due to I don't want to get viruses... I'm going to look at your other video about computers... Thanks again...btw, I've been DJ'ing for over 20 years and nobody ever told me was much as you.. Triple Thanks Again
#1 Problem for every DJ - Duplicates great Video.
I needed this video. I have close to 6TB worth of music and been dreading cleaning it up!!
You got this!
Me too! Not familiar with Serato. I do mostly karaoke. Please help!
Thanks Nick for reminding me about this feature in serato. I had used this feature a long time ago. old tracks. I didn't have many 128 KBs files left. I deleted everything 256 KBs and less and freed up 10,000 files or 90 gigs on the hard drive
Nick Great Video! I did my duplicates 8 years ago and I keep 200 GB approximately 35,000 songs and I don't keep full albums only tracks that are hits or singles on my 1TB SSD internal drive. I use an external drive for my music videos only because they take up the most space and Serato screams but I have a great Dell PC thats very fast. I didn't have the luxury of Serato play count then now I may us it to trim the fat on my current library. Thank you for the tip!
Love this!! Keep trimming that fat!
Not sure, but this might be a useful tip: You can choose to organize by bitrate by clicking on the section, AND THEN SUB-ORGANIZE the play count by Command-clicking it. Not sure if that makes things faster? Maybe would result in less gaps between the songs that had a play count.
YES! I figured this out after shooting the video haha
Nicky Nick!!!! Hope thats not a nick name you hate 😂 .. Your channel is so awsome! I've been djing for over 30 years and have learned a lot. Thanks man -Swift
🤣 2:57 you’re so spot on man! I literally label those tracks with “THIS ONE” 🤣
lmao!
This was really great. I hated trying to be sold all the software platforms to analyze my music and do this and do that. I don’t mind putting the hard work in, I just needed a map to do it. Thanks man. What I don’t look forward to is trying to see past the songs that editors put artificial plays on them.
I wasn’t a huge number but I was 650Gb.
Good luck bro!!
I second that
Best Video
Great video!
Thanks!
For me the biggest problem are the thousands of situations where you have duplicates that are identical.
man, just watched your video- i just did some trimming because I am transitioning from VDJ to Rekordbox. Honestly, I was that dj that had it all ive got total of 8.9 TB yes, nearly 9 TB! fn crazy! its music/videos/karaoke...so, bought a couple 4TB hard drives and started thinning out . so, my 1 that I'm going to use in Rekordbox is @ 889GB - that is a hell of alot less and I bet I can get down to less - thanks to your advice of getting rid of anything below 192 and those stupid redrum mixes....great video. Your always, entertaining to watch!
Holy Moly that's alot of TBs!! Good luck thinning out bro. Takes forever but worth it in the end!
Yep, having a big time issue with multiple duplicates. And trying to transfer an old external drive to a new external drive. But I will only use what I like on a regular bases during a particular day. Personal use only.
Your on point!!!!
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I rarely comment… Great video! Good Intel! Are use virtual DJ they have a play account now! Refreshing video… do you have a video on categorizing genre folders? A quick way to do it or set it up.?
Ive just deleted the music off my laptop to go in for repair so im going to try this when loading it back on, can it be done in virtual dj? Im guessing recurse the full hdd.. then hopefully theres a play count option I can see. Thanks for the video
Hey quick question . What software do you use to copy or back up your hard drive with
11:33 I can't wait to try this out,
Yep, gotta do this, 5tb approximately left of 8tb external of videos, get a slow when selecting crates on serato, i have tons of dance hall but thinking of putting it on another macbook but don't want to loose serato playlists.
I recently upgraded to a 1TB SSD in my old 2012 MacBook Pro along with new battery runs like a champ now. But I also bought a 2TB MacBook Pro 16inch. Plus have a 1TB external. Only carrying 300 gigs of music inside of my dj laptop though! 50K songs. More than enough!
Love it!
Salute.
Great video
Thanks!
If you sort by bit rate then command click/ option click a second column, it will sort by that too. So you could do play count
here in 2022 january23 lol 4tb external about 3/4 full I dj English n Spanish n video definitely cleaning it up starting today it took me three days to analyze all library lol new Sur Mac
R.i.p to that dupset folder 📂 lls but I’m glade you was happy I’m @ an amazing 100 gb 8000 + songs I plan on adding more
7:26 Lol now that part I got to keep that especially when I do a country gig or Latin gig, thank God I got those in my hard drive 💯💯🎊🎊
Haha facts
@@NickSpinelli 💯💯💯✅✅✅
lol I woke up and just started deleted smh! thank you. for this video.
I've paid for duplicate finding software and had the same problems! I ended up deleting lots of tracks I played. I agree that being a bit more ruthless with folder deletion is the way forward. I deleted a tonne of remixes, DJ edits with crappy beats and mixes. It feels so satisfying to delete a huge folder I'll realistically never play. I've still got loads to go, but I've come from 1.2tb to around 800gb. My actual folder of regularly played tracks is only 60gb and most of that doesn't even get touched. Weirdly, the less tracks I have, the more tracks I play!
Best way to backup and external hard drive? As in what does the job the fastest.
I frking love your videos man. Lets put this into prospective - 70k songs lol. EVEN if you do a straight 3 HOUR dance / hype - set at a wedding (which most of the times does not happen....45 mins max, thanks Jameson) fast mixing at one minute each song --- You need less than 600 songs! The vast music library is there in case "like you said" Grandma comes up and the bride says "Grandma is about to die in about 2 hours, can you play Hillbilly Horoscope from 1867 before we call the morgue" haha!
Got a 2tb harddrive in mine and my music is set at 300gb at the moment but still building my library
217,057 Songs on 2TB LaCie SSD PRO just order another 2TB LaCie SSD (cheaper version) to back up all my music Library. I also have 10tb on Music Videos that is already backed up on another HD. Thank you for making this video Nick, I will let you know how much music will be deleted.
WOW!! That's alot haha
Hip hop bro and old school 🎧
Nick, great video.
***question*** when you have your hard drive plugged in and you delete from serato; will it delete from ITUNES and the hard drive as well?
No it won't delete it if your music is stored in iTunes unfortunately
I have been analyzing the tracks in BPM
I use iTunes to organize my music. For the tracks that are in poor quality, but that I play, I’ve added a comment on it like « poor quality ». Then, I’ve created a smart playlist that group all the tracks that have « poor quality » in comments. That way, I take time to replace them with good quality versions and when it’s done, I put them in the right playlists and delete the poor quality version. Also, there is a tool called Fakin The Funk that detect the true bitrate, as some tracks are marked with 320 for example but in reality, they are not 320 !
Nicky two times Lmfao
Gonna dump my hard drive gonna dump my hard drive 😂🥶
Great information as usual - I use a new MacBook Pro 16’ and keep 4000 songs for mobile Dj and that’s too much .
I just back up what I dont usually play. I have a 8 TB external hard drive where I warehouse all music!
I think you should have done a screen capture video for this one
All my hard drives combined, around maybe 15 tb. However, I have moved to mainly downloading ONLY videos. (last couple or so years)
I.65 tb audio , 2.42 gb outher and backup 49.97 gb movies, before .
I am without a doubt a digital hoarder. This is phenomenal advice. What external do you recommend on a Mac
Love Lacie Hardrives for sure
When I try the short cut shift control delete it doesn’t work.
It doesn’t go to my trash can why is that ?
I got a 2 ssd internal drive on my mackbook 20125 one 1tb for my music and 2tb for my music videos and both internal, got rid of the cd drive and this thing boots sooo damn fast its unbelievable. i went thru and cleaned out my music drive still doing it and im under 400 gigs of space now with 600 to spare thats with music and programs and OS. it makes a big difference. DJ's i suggest like he said to back up your drive and time machine your mackbooks, dont want to lose noo music. and last if you can upgrade them physical hardrives to ssd, it makes a big difference.
I get what your saying, but I have all the music in my flash drive already and not in the laptop, how can I delete those doubles, some even have like 4-5 same songs,SMG. And I have Virtual DJ not Serato. Please help!
This was great, I needed this!!! Thank you
Dupe guru helps big time!!
Thanks Mac!
Why command shift delete is not working for me to delete on my MacBook pro from serato dj pro
lolll "You don't know what you got until its gonnnnneeeee" XD
I am currently fighting this battle. I dj every gig with 2 external hard drives, both 2tb one of them is almost chucked full. I have a 5tb that stays at home with both of these 2tb on it and where I have started to organize remove and move folders around.. Id like to think I will be able to soon only carry 1 2tb hd to do my events lol
Awesome video, but when I hit Shift + Command + Delete on my MacBook Pro, nothing happens. What am I missing? Do I have the library protected somewhere? All my songs are stored in iTunes and the folders carry over to Serato. No external HD (other than for backup).
The only way it wouldn't work is if your whole library is in itunes...
Checking this out again. I was wondering when you delete songs you never played. How did you know if any of those were newer songs you downloaded that you just hadn't gotten to yet?
I also organize by "date added" so I can see this. And I'm constantly deleting music as i'm DJing or just going through stuff.
Do you keep your music on an internal or external hard drive? If external which one do you use?
external. I love Lacie Hard Drives
I'm still trying to understand how the duplicates was deleted. Was that done manually 1 by 1?
I am an Apple Mac user. How do I delete songs off of hard drive while in Serato?
As a dj who is restarting a dj business (after a decade away) Post Covid-19 on a new computer system then I will not have any legitimate play counts from gigs/events. I still have a load of music which I moved from my old hard drive and added these with the new songs I've accumulated. I know that I have a load of duplicates. I discovered that I had mistakenly ripped a load of CD's at 160k mp3 so I'm going to rip all those again at 320k. Your tip about other tracks under 192k is something I'll also be approaching doing. I'll be looking at these more closely to see if I now have better quality versions and if not maybe I will try getting them and swapping them with the old.
I wonder what's your reason for still having a few tracks at 128k and no other versions on of the same song on your system? Haven't you considered getting the 320k mp3 versions of those songs.
Mine is just over 1TB but I do video for the majority of my events - I was at 4TB but cleaned out duplicates, I also keep two versions of some songs (a remix and original) as I will play both depending on the crowd. Took me the better part of a week to do this as I redid my crates as well at this point.
As for speed, I still use external drives but I run a SSD external through USB-C with a 3.2 gen 2 cables which is up to 10GBPS transfer speed so I notice 0 difference if a song is stored on internal or external drive. same load speed for either.
I do run a docking station to allow for only one cord into my macbook which drops my speed down to 5gbps but still hardly notice a difference between internal and external load speed for songs.
Best part is I carry a duplicate SSD that is always mirrored 100% to the original so if it fails, I can plug it in and I still have all my crates with songs(file paths, and names are all the same)
Agreed up until the XMIX part lol
lmao
I been over here trying to purge all my old hard drives lol. I had like 7 all with similar folders
what about removing my cd drive from my mac and adding a second hard drive?
I’ve been debating about moving from PC to Mac, but didn’t see any videos. The one thing holding me back is I like the xCopy command on PC to allow me to back up files from one laptop to my desktop and a backup laptop. This is simple because I have Serato setup to point to the same root directory on all my computers. C:/my music/ for example. Is there a way to do that with a Mac? I don’t have to rescan for songs. I just copy the Serato files over, and I’m set. Everything is mapped perfectly.
You can absolutely do that with Mac
@@NickSpinelli million dollar question..how? Lol
Am I being a complete audio nerd in that I only want 320 bitrate if I can help it? What bitrate do most record pools use?
Haha I mean you can't really notice a difference between 256 and 320 unless you're listening to a crazy ass system
Sort by bitrate cmnd+ click on plays and it will sort by both.
OH SHIT
Im down to about 16K songs and about 100 GB. Ive been reorganizing since Covid started though. I went alphabetically from 0 and now I'm at the letter S. My question is when you say you have a ton of songs in any given folder that has 0 plays you deleted. Did you listen to them at all and save a couple or straight up delete???
nah I just straight deleted them haha because I figure if anything I end up needing is missing, I can just grab it from my backup
I just did a back up and I carry 48 GB of music .. and yes I am a club DJ not a wedding
This is great Nick. You should start selling copies of your HD as well lol you would make some cash. I would pay in a minute not to have to do this tedious job. I hate doing this.
Haha I would but I can get locked up for that shit
@@NickSpinelli bruh he jus said sell him a copy of your HD.... *face palm*
I was at 4.7 to down to 1.8tb doing another clean today hopefully to get it down to 750gb
That's awesome do it bro!
220 Gigs that's it... Grandma can go listen to her song on the am radio out in the 1977 Ford LTD.... LOL
Let her know!!! Haha
How do I go my hard drive to load it come on but I don't load
Yes, Nice video. I just did the same. Went from 50,000 tracks down to just under 12,000. And I know there are still duplicates. I did this in VDJ (because its better lol), the same way you did this in Serato. Game changer!!
Lmao glad your hard drive is losing weight bro!
I’m currently at 8TB
Does this song/folder bring me joy?
Marie Kondo inspired you...
8:46 Gone!
idk who that is but YES!
4Tb now down to 1Tb, excuding my karaoke stuff which is another 4Tb of dups, but all different brands lol
Great video! VDJ has a function where you right click a song and pick Remove from search DB! As always, great video!
Another great idea is to have a Google drive with all that extra music!
nice!
Nice!! Thanks man!
900GB with loads of dupes.
Tried to get rid, but screwed up folder system
I have 6 TB worth of music on external drives. I typically use just 400gigs that are on my internal hardrive and bring an external 1tb drive as a backup. So typically I just use the 400gigs that are on my computers hardrive. I don't rely on my externals, those are just for those song requests that I get before hand......And I snagged that much music from Frostwire (Torrent Software) And yes my whole library is 320kbit. I use BPM Supreme for clean edits of songs, so I do pay for music to keep me up to date now. I definitely have loads of duplicates and even my 400gigs is bloated with duplicates, I'm just afraid of removing them in case I get that message that it's no longer in my library or it's an error track. So I just leave the duplicates for the most part. Not a big deal as the tracks I use in VDJ is all colour coded. It's how I know what tracks I use regularily, if it ain't a colour it's not used. Should I keep going with this madness, lol
Holy shit! Good luck bro!
My hard drive is 4TB and I have 1.4 TB of music and some video on it.