Forum: General Discussion

I have a mac and my music folders are not in ITunes. I a Just click New folder and I create my own. I don't recommend using any software to organize your music. Actual folders is the Most secure way.

I was Watching the video and it was cool that you added a different beat but, The flow of the last beat with biggie matches more with her voice better than the first and second beat.

I have a mac and my music folders are not in ITunes. I a Just click New folder and I create my own. I don't recommend using any software to organize your music. Actual folders is the Most secure way.

I organize the same way. Takes a bit of time but you are not reliant on a software that can possibly jack up your files. And I do back up monthly.
Folder are organized by decades with sub folders for Audio only and Video files. I let the software sort out the genres
Another folder for Ableton projects.

+1 for MediaMonkey here too!

It blows away the competition for 2 main reasons:

1. It can correctly handle multiple genres per track. ITunes can't do this.
2. It can automatically monitor folders for changes, and update it's library accordingly. ITunes can't do this either.

This makes it ideal for maintaining a music library across multiple devices (Main desktop, laptop, external hard drive...).

It's only real drawback is that it is not natively compatible with Apple Macs. I have got around this using Parallels Desktop to run it in a virtual environment, but it has it's limitations (the biggest of which is that I can't drag and drop from MediaMonkey's playlist directly into Virtual DJ's playlist window, like I can on Windows).


Egads! Relying on folders alone and creating a 'system' rapidly becomes unmanageable once you start building a library of more than a few thousand songs. ITunes isn't perfect, but even *that* is better than just using folders.

How do you differentiate between songs based on rating? How would you play a mix of songs whose rating is higher than, say, 4 stars? How do you 'tag' tracks (e.g. 'Instrumental', 'Explicit Lyrics', etc...)?


Well organised folders are a good thing. Relying exclusively on folders without any form of media manager whatsoever is...hard work.

That's why I love MediaMonkey - it can do both.

I have a mac and my music folders are not in ITunes. I a Just click New folder and I create my own. I don't recommend using any software to organize your music. Actual folders is the Most secure way.

How do you differentiate between songs based on rating? How would you play a mix of songs whose rating is higher than, say, 4 stars? How do you 'tag' tracks (e.g. 'Instrumental', 'Explicit Lyrics', etc...)?

Its called "Knowing your music"......... What did you guys do before software??

Its called "Knowing your music"......... What did you guys do before software??

@ Djnanite. I have over 50 folders plus many Session folders and everything is done Manually. The reason why I prefer this way is because I know where my songs are at all times. Before I ad songs into my sessions, I hear the track and pick the best session folder where that song would fit best in. I don't go by rating. I just ad song into folder where the bpms are similar. I have Many Genres and in each genre, I can have a minimum of 5 session and others may have up to 10 sessions.

If that's your attitude, why do you even use Virtual DJ in the first place? Why not just continue to DJ the same way everyone else did before software?

I don't use folders that much, only when I have to pick certain type of music or videos. I like to use the browser and pick my selections on the fly so my sessions are never the same week in and week out, besides it's enjoyable for me and to the customers even if I do the same gig several days in a week they never know what's coming and when I have to feed the crowd, they get fed.....

I like the rating system, but I even go further and Star up the Title where it counts.. A color scheme would be even better so you wouldn't have to decipher anything..

What i'd like to see in the upcoming 8 version is the ability to hold several browser windows open at the same time for different searches that could be minimized to the task bar or overlay like Word Docs to quickly pick from any window at will, this would be a faster way to get to what your looking for in my opinion..

Its called "Knowing your music"......... What did you guys do before software??

I basically do, the software is just another way to carry crates of records around..........everything else is just a perk. And you still never answered my question, what did you do before software??