Panikal Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 Hello everyone.I do need some help, as i am a dj for a corporate company i have all types of genres although im thinking i have 2000+ "electronic" songs and i need to start sort these. Im an thinking i may need to change the genre to a subgenre to help with mixing simular styles. Whats your method you use for labeling many, many, many diffirent types of subgenres and how do you make sure it has the corrent genre. I feel i am rambling with this one as i get very lost. Quote
LabRat Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 I use iTunes for this and bridge across to rekordbox and traktor. So I create playlist folders and they are by main genre, or how I feel I can find them easier. For example I'll create a folder called house. In that folder I'll have different playlists as the sub genre. So for example I'll open my House playlist folder and inside I'll have Funky House, Disco House, Deep House, Future House, so on and so fourth. I will keep creating folders until my music is sorted, so, I could have another folder called Bass Music and inside that there will be Trap, Twerk, Footwork, Dubstep and so on Quote
OxyKon Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 I pretty much do the same as Labrat. If you do it from the beginning it's quite easy to then just keep adding tracks to those separate folder when you buy to tunes off of beatport/Juno/iTunes store etc. Quote
Mitch Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 I use playlist folders in iTunes as well, but in a different manner to how oxy and labrat use them. Will post a pic when I'm on my computer Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 My missus is away tonight, so, while I'm cooking my pot of pumpkin soup, I plan on re-organizing all of my music (50,000+ tracks from 60's-Now with a bunch of different sub genre's). Safe to say it's going to be a long night, but I think if I maintain it (like I should have from day dot) it'll be easier to read/find tracks when mixing on the fly and planning playlists Quote
Panikal Posted September 3, 2015 Author Posted September 3, 2015 Is there any place to reference the corret genre? I guess i can just get the genre from beatport. PS this is for tracks that have no genre name in the field. Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Shazam maybe? Would that work? Does Shazam even give genres? Quote
LabRat Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 nah, best to use beatport. otherwise you can just sort them out in a way you understand Quote
LabRat Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 this is an example of what mine looks like Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 That was what I was going to suggest, isn't everyone's classification of sub-genre's somewhat different. If it doesn't blatantly tell you when you d/l it I think its fair to interpret it however you see fit Quote
OxyKon Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Ok I'm not as anal as what labrat is but along the same lines Quote
LabRat Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Ok I'm not as anal as what labrat is but along the same lines lol i need to fix it up again. every few months i find i have to add playlists and new files Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Ok I'm not as anal as what labrat is but along the same lines lol i need to fix it up again. every few months i find i have to add playlists and new files I download so much stuff I forget to do it right away and then every like 6 months there is music fucken everywhere! Quote
LabRat Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Ok I'm not as anal as what labrat is but along the same lines lol i need to fix it up again. every few months i find i have to add playlists and new files I download so much stuff I forget to do it right away and then every like 6 months there is music fucken everywhere!haha i do it straight away but there's just a lot of different sounding stuff and my main genre playlist just gets filled up with random shit Quote
Panikal Posted September 3, 2015 Author Posted September 3, 2015 Well i have decided to reference from Beatport and rename the genre.This is 1 of those task where you are really keen to get started and then by the 3 hour mark and haven't even made a dent you get really sick of it. Quote
OxyKon Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Well i have decided to reference from Beatport and rename the genre.This is 1 of those task where you are really keen to get started and then by the 3 hour mark and haven't even made a dent you get really sick of it. i did my entire library about a year ago and it actually took me close to 2 weeks, all i can say is at least you'll feel better at the end of the process Quote
LabRat Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Set aside a weekend and power through it lol Quote
LabRat Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Set aside a weekend and power through it lol Quote
Panikal Posted September 4, 2015 Author Posted September 4, 2015 Well I will be powering though hopefully tonight as I wanted to start mixing the Dubstep mix for this month and also have to start my radio/podcast for the month. Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 Dexies mate!Pop 10 of em and you'll fly through it! Quote
Cupe Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 Well I will be powering though hopefully tonight as I wanted to start mixing the Dubstep mix for this month and also have to start my radio/podcast for the month.Fuck yeah keen man. Quote
eggssell Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 Well I will be powering though hopefully tonight as I wanted to start mixing the Dubstep mix for this month and also have to start my radio/podcast for the month.here we go. someones gunning for oxy's crown i was planning on genrifying my vinyl this weekend.in terms of mp3s i use trainspotter and sub divide genres by feels. so things that kind of go together are in the same bucket Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 i use trainspotter and sub divide genres by feels.Trainspotter? Quote
eggssell Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 its a program that plays well with traktor and discogs.i think it initially started with people ripping their vinyl could link the music file to discogs and all the tags would be fixed up.http://www.tspotter.net/it also lets you use the comments tags to be searchable fields in traktor.so technically you can use complex multi search like hip-hop - chill down - sunset vibe and it will put all those you marked that way into a playlist Quote
RichoKidd Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 Thats pretty dope. Have you donated?Is it worth it for the iTunes integration? I use iTunes to organise my Traktor playlist so if its worth it I'd probably donate like $5 Quote
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