DJ Ryan West
I recently started building my music library more seriously and realized… things get messy FAST. 😅 After a few gigs where I couldn’t find the right track quickly enough, I knew I needed to rethink my organization system.
At a lounge set, I wanted to switch vibes from deep house to chill R&B, and I knew I had the perfect track... but couldn’t find it in time. Spent too long scrolling and ended up defaulting to a safe choice. The crowd didn’t notice, but I was annoyed at myself 🤦♂️
So how do you tag or organize your tracks? Do you use folder structures or metadata (genre, mood, BPM)? Any tools or best practices you’d recommend?
At a lounge set, I wanted to switch vibes from deep house to chill R&B, and I knew I had the perfect track... but couldn’t find it in time. Spent too long scrolling and ended up defaulting to a safe choice. The crowd didn’t notice, but I was annoyed at myself 🤦♂️
So how do you tag or organize your tracks? Do you use folder structures or metadata (genre, mood, BPM)? Any tools or best practices you’d recommend?
geposted 5 days ago @ 7:21 am
kradcliffe
I just use instant filters with the music category in the genre field. So if I'm on my main video collection I can just hit "disco" and all the disco tracks show up instantly.
You can also double up so if the genre is set as PARTY and DISCO it will show up on both filters.
You can also double up so if the genre is set as PARTY and DISCO it will show up on both filters.
geposted 5 days ago @ 8:56 am
DJ Ryan West
Thanks a lot for the suggestion! That sounds like a really smart and efficient way to organize things, I hadn’t thought about using genre filters like that. I’ll definitely give it a try and see how it works for my setup. Appreciate you sharing your workflow!
geposted 2 days ago @ 7:26 am
DJ VinylTouch
To add to the useful layout suggestions that @kradcliffe has already given:
I use filter folders to list things I want more permanent access to (like Genres or Decades), and then I use Quick Filters to filter on things that I only want a temporary view of while playing (like songs within +/-3% of the current song's BPM, songs with a Key Difference of 0 compared to the current song or only Clean tracks (tagged with #Clean), songs with no cues, etc).
IMO, the current Quick Filter listing could use an update for organizing filter buttons and displaying more filter buttons before going to a fallback context menu list (e.g. adding more rows, and someone already made a request for all of this), and that's probably the main reason I don't have too many quick filters/lean towards filter folders more.
I use color rules to display relative moods of tracks based on ratings + tags (e.g. a high energy track in red, a chill/cooldown track in blue).
I use filter folders to list things I want more permanent access to (like Genres or Decades), and then I use Quick Filters to filter on things that I only want a temporary view of while playing (like songs within +/-3% of the current song's BPM, songs with a Key Difference of 0 compared to the current song or only Clean tracks (tagged with #Clean), songs with no cues, etc).
IMO, the current Quick Filter listing could use an update for organizing filter buttons and displaying more filter buttons before going to a fallback context menu list (e.g. adding more rows, and someone already made a request for all of this), and that's probably the main reason I don't have too many quick filters/lean towards filter folders more.
I use color rules to display relative moods of tracks based on ratings + tags (e.g. a high energy track in red, a chill/cooldown track in blue).
geposted 2 days ago @ 2:39 pm