I would like to ask you guys what is your best way to manage your library.
First i used traktor with my old denon hardware, later i had some dn-sc6000 also with traktor.
Now i want to spend a lot of time to grab all my music and make it a great library usable for gigs etc.
I havent been serously djing for last 8 years.
In my time i had music folser by year burned cd’s printed song lisy in the folder and marked them with color marker.
In my digital life.
I had problems with importing my traktor library. I work with comments and stars for the songs. Those didnt import to engine.
I used musicbee to hard write my song rating in stars in the mp3 but engine didnt read them.
Now i tried to change folder structure on hd and not working anymore in engine, but read on the forum it is for a future update.
I tried itunes in the past buy don’t like it but willing to try it again.
Serato isn’t able to add stars to songs so I don’t prefer this.
Recordbox I didn’t try…
If somebody now what is the best way to tackle this…
Any info would be much appreciated!
Hi bro, first of all thanks for your reply. I watched your video yesterday. I own a prime 4 since, ± 2 years. Last gig was July 2020 since then my prime still stand in the club due to corona. Before in my studio but I moved, anyway I’ve tried EP but I read on the forum the software is still not quite there.
I only don’t completely share your view of dropping all files in one directory and building crates/Playlist. But I understand where you coming from and if all meta data is filled it probably has more pros then cons. But then I need to build up only crates from this big folder.
Im not sure yet if I want to spend all time and energy in EP to set up my library. I get mixed signals from it.
Normally when I have downloaded lets say a new Beatport top 100. I use musicbee or generic mp3 player. With keyboard commands I can skip songs to move forward, assign ratings etc. Works very fast.
When this is done I would like to load it into EP or your suggested software rekord.cloud/lexicon and that it would read folder structure and ratings. This to add comments and setup cues and loops.
Again thanks for your suggestion. I didn’t knew of rekord.cloud/lexicon before you mentioned it.
Some other user mentioned as well don’t stick or be stuck at one way to manage your library.
So I will keep reading and make a well informed decision how I’m going to do this:)
When I have the time to start working on my library I will use rekord.cloud/lexicon as you suggested.
As I understood i then have universal library which I can export to engine or rekordbox.
Non related, I was just checking some songs. Did you parcipate in the riton nightcrawlers remix?
Probably to you for getting it out.
