Digital Laptop Djing, F%$kin off tracks

[ekwipt]

When you get sick of tracks do you.....

[richcur]

Aside from the nerd thing, I thought it a decent question :)

I keep tracks that other people like but I consider shitty... In other words, I keep alot of cheese because it comes in handy every so often. But if tracks are genuinely fucken TRASH and should never have been released in the first place (no matter their cheese content or lack thereof), then they get deleted ASAP.

ps. I don't laptop DJ but I have copies of all my burnt tracks as backup on my HDD - so I think I kinda qualify :thumb:

[DJSketch]

for cdj and laptop/fs i sort my tunes as i would sort a crate, i dont delete stuff cause i've paid for it and if its requested its only a quick search away.

[Brendonism]

Never delete anything, you might get unsick of a track in years to come.

[DJSketch]

Never delete anything, you might get unsick of a track in years to come.


Indeed, i went through a bunch of tracks from 05 last week, and will be playing a few this friday that i HATED back then.

[plan-b]

storage is cheap as chips these days so normally it gets archived... if i'm out of room there's always a blank DVD for 4 gig or so data waiting for it :thumb:

[ChAbIb]

i would never delete a track just incase i felt like playing it one night or someone requested it or even for no reason. the more tracks the more freedom even if theyre crap lol

[ekwipt]

Everything is backed up on dvd and second computer, no worries about that, started colour coding my tracks in serato, and then you can sort by colour pretty easily,

Pink for hot, black for : Why the hell did i buy that

[Nixtol]

Never delete, some times a piece of cheese will mix over a phat track, and the juxtaposition sends people nutty. Really makes people shit when they get a throw back to a track they use to love years ago that is now so uncool it's cool again when played as a live mash up type deal.

[Funkedub]

wow .. the disposability of music these days huh ...

[DJ D one]

wow .. the disposability of music these days huh ...

Yeah I was reading an article about that as matter of fact, there is a growing trend of disrespect for music. Just the fact of referring toons as cheese, just show you how some people treat music as whores, use it when its new and trendy, then get the fuck away from my wallet...sad...

D1

[richcur]

Cheese is cheese, that's a whole other discussion... It's got little to do with trends and what's new vs old as opposed to quailty and musical merit.

Are you telling me you respect the producers of tracks who "create" music by plugging a standard 4x4 rhythm into a computer program then plonking a sample from a 1980's TV theme over the top? Shit like that deserves to be discarded after one listen and respect 100% denied.

[plan-b]

Cheese is cheese, that's a whole other discussion... It's got little to do with trends and what's new vs old as opposed to quailty and musical merit.

Are you telling me you respect the producers of tracks who "create" music by plugging a standard 4x4 rhythm into a computer program then plonking a sample from a 1980's TV theme over the top? Shit like that deserves to be discarded after one listen and respect 100% denied.
agreed... Never bought a record, listened to it again later on and thought fuck?? :meh:

[DJ D one]

Cheese is cheese, that's a whole other discussion... It's got little to do with trends and what's new vs old as opposed to quailty and musical merit.

Are you telling me you respect the producers of tracks who "create" music by plugging a standard 4x4 rhythm into a computer program then plonking a sample from a 1980's TV theme over the top? Shit like that deserves to be discarded after one listen and respect 100% denied.

What's wrong with a little re-cycling, Eric Prydz did it with Call on me, took a slice of Steve Winwood 80s hit and created a brand new track out of it...:rock:

To come back to the discussion, if you get sick of a track, just put it aside...Why delete something you have paid for...of course unless you did not pay for it...:stroke:

[plan-b]

wait a sec... ppl still pay for music?? :rainman:

[ChAbIb]

i didnt know you could colour code in serato??

[richcur]

I delete plenty of tracks that I've paid for, the money isn't important.. the quality of the music is.

I delete some tracks I've only just paid for 5 mins prior, coz on the 1st listen I realise they don't sound anywhere near as cool as the preview did on the shop website!

It beats having thousands of tracks stored somewhere that never do or will get played out, cluttering up playlists and wallets and making my memory's job all the more difficult coz it's overloaded with artist, track, or remixer names etc. It's the same reason I only burn one track per CD - means the gig wallet is only ever full of the BEST and/or FRESHEST tunes that I own (note, I didn't say "Newest" :))

[DJ D one]

I delete plenty of tracks that I've paid for, the money isn't important.. the quality of the music is.

I delete some tracks I've only just paid for 5 mins prior, coz on the 1st listen I realise they don't sound anywhere near as cool as the preview did on the shop website!

It beats having thousands of tracks stored somewhere that never do or will get played out, cluttering up playlists and wallets and making my memory's job all the more difficult coz it's overloaded with artist, track, or remixer names etc. It's the same reason I only burn one track per CD - means the gig wallet is only ever full of the BEST and/or FRESHEST tunes that I own (note, I didn't say "Newest" :))

Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind...when you put a single track on a CD, do you just write the name of the track/artist or do you do some kind of customized label for each single CD.

D1

[richcur]

Nah I put Artist, Title, Remixer, Genre & Sub-genre, BPM, Key, Date burnt on them all

[ekwipt]

i didnt know you could colour code in serato??

Yeah the first column in the library the grey circles (dots), click on that and a colour swatch comes out I think you can pick from about 20 colours, comes in handy

[ChemicalJames]

with the price digital storage as low as it is i don't know why you would delete ANY music.

I havn't so much as uninstalled a game since i got this computer.

[baax]

Indeed, i went through a bunch of tracks from 05 last week, and will be playing a few this friday that i HATED back then.


That counfuses me, why would you buy a track that you hated in the first place?

Are you a soulseek dj?

[plan-b]

Nah I put Artist, Title, Remixer, Genre & Sub-genre, BPM, Key, Date burnt on them all
Rich this is another question purely out of curisoty.... when d/ling from beatport/audiojelly etc, do u retag and rename the music or just leave it just is:?

[DJSketch]

That counfuses me, why would you buy a track that you hated in the first place?

Are you a soulseek dj?


doesnt take long to get sick of a track playing 3/4 gigs in a weekend

[richcur]

do u retag and rename the music or just leave it just is:?

I tidy the text up so it reads properly (ie. delete the underscores, use punctuation, trim the sometimes waffling remix names that people come up with ;D ) - easier to read on the CDJ display.. and append the key to the end of the name also - once again, so it appears on the CDJ display in case I've drank too much vodka and forget

Some people go into the ID3 tags and mess around with all kinds of shiz, but I think that's more relevant for laptop DJing than CDs

[plan-b]

I tidy the text up so it reads properly (ie. delete the underscores, use punctuation, trim the sometimes waffling remix names that people come up with ;D ) - easier to read on the CDJ display.. and append the key to the end of the name also - once again, so it appears on the CDJ display in case I've drank too much vodka and forget

Some people go into the ID3 tags and mess around with all kinds of shiz, but I think that's more relevant for laptop DJing than CDs
ah k... I thought you had to tag them in Nero for it to appear on the CDJ:?

[richcur]

Not that I know of, mine all work but they're converted to WAV format before burning...

I DO know that the artist name of my tracks doesn't come up on the CDJ, maybe that's what you're referring to?

[plan-b]

Not that I know of, mine all work but they're converted to WAV format before burning...

I DO know that the artist name of my tracks doesn't come up on the CDJ, maybe that's what you're referring to?
ahhh gotcha... I normally leave 'em as mp3s... why the need to convert them??

I was gonna look for a seperate media manager to manage my singles/DJing mp3's... but Nero 7 oughta do the trick for that :thumb:

[richcur]

I convert them because the version of Nero I use is a piece of shit (yet as a trade-off satsifies my DVD burning needs quite well) and the inbuilt mp3 decoder fails 100% everytime, all the time, right on time.

/thread hijack :):)