mattus123 Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 so im making new playlists on CDs with 5 tracks per cdim only labelling each CD: 1, 2, 3 etc etcdo u reocn i should write track names on the CD, or make little pieces of paper with CD info for each indiviual CD, or index all of the tracks with track info on a piece of paper and refer the track back to which CD/s its on. OR a combination of the 3jsut tryin to find the most efficient way of doing it, hope u guys can shed some lightcheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Best thing I ever did was burn one song per cd.... its not for everyone, but worked very well for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Best thing I ever did was burn one song per cd.... its not for everyone, but worked very well for meThisif you have a folder full of 200 CD's with 5 tracks per CD and your looking for say "Thriller - by michael jackson" you going to have to search threw every page and read every track list until you find itwhere as with 1 song per CD its in massive writing on the CD and you can arrange the folder in alphabetical order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 You want to label your stuff as clear as possible. Last thing you need is to look aimlessly for a track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 I burn my CDs as the actual release so I have 1-5 tracks per disk they're either remixes if the 1 tune or an ep. So if im looking for War Machine by RESO, I know that's part of the VALKEN EP so I'll flip to the disk marked VALKEN EP - RESO and the 3 tunes off that release are in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattus123 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 Best thing I ever did was burn one song per cd.... its not for everyone, but worked very well for mei tihnk i remeber being on the forum when someone posted the video of van buuren's interview and him sayin he only uses 1 CD per track, which caused alot of people to give it a go You want to label your stuff as clear as possible. Last thing you need is to look aimlessly for a trackwhat i was thinking of doing is labeling my CD's (which contain different tracks) 1, 2, 3 etcand then havin a seperate piece of paper which listys ALL of my songs in alphabetical order, with all track info such as BPM, track length, key. And which CD it is onso id jsut look through the index for the song, and then find what cd it is on using hte listor do you guys think this is a bad idea/waste of time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 i dont think its a waste of time man, i think you just have to grasp the sense of time that your trying to save hereits all about efficiency... Image your playing live to an audience either at a club or bar or party and you playing say "Call on Me - by Eric Prydz" and the has 45 seconds left and all of a sudden you think HOLLY FUCK! "One more time - by Daft Punk" would go great with this song!!!!!!!!(trying to use well know songs here )your gonna need to be able to fine that song in no time at all...and by the way your talking about i think you may struggle a little to do this quickly....get me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 i reckon just write what you need on 1 disk. i dont see the point in writing the BPM on disks but most people seem to do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 i reckon just write what you need on 1 disk. i dont see the point in writing the BPM on disks but most people seem to do iti do it but i cant even remember ever looking at i think the only times i do is if i have say a standard version of a song, a electro remix of it, and dubstep remix of it, and a techno remix of it...then ill write the BPM to determine which is which in case i forget who remixed which 1... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattus123 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 Yea that makes sense Jazthat was whatr i was trying to imagine; how it woudl go in a live setting...but cause ive had no expeerience playing live yet, i thought id ask you guysthe onyl reason i thought indexing on a piece of paper woudl be helpful would be cause its easy to track down the song, even though it involves an extra stepusing ur example..if im looking for 'one more time'. rather than flicking thorugh my cd collection tryin to find hte cd with 'one more time' written on it. Id refer straight to me list which is alphabetical order, see that that track is on CD 5, for example. then straight away go to CD 5 (the CD's would be in my folder in order)if that makes more senseor do u still tihnk it'd be too time consuming?cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 so you're trying to create a contents page for your cd wallet basically?sounds time consuming lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 using ur example..if im looking for 'one more time'. rather than flicking thorugh my cd collection tryin to find hte cd with 'one more time' written on it. Id refer straight to me list which is alphabetical order, see that that track is on CD 5, for example. then straight away go to CD 5 (the CD's would be in my folder in order)this would only work until you burn more CD's...because you would have a piece of paper with songs on it...3 months time you've burnt 100 more songs and have had to jam them into the existing list or it wont be alphabetical or re-write the list everytime you get more tunes...+ if you loose 1 CD you loose 1 song...easily fixable,burn another copy = 2 minutes..if you have a list of songs that took you 2 hours to write and you loose it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattus123 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 yea it would be time consuming at first, and id have it all saved to computer...no chance im hand writting all thatbut yea i see what you mean..updating it constantly could be come a bit of a bitch, aswell as constantly having to re-print ityou've given me lots to tihnk about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 all of my CDs have 8 tracks per CD, and are just divided into 2 sections: house and dubstep/drumstep/drum and bass. I have no real order to them, they're just organised in order of when I burned them. I worked out that listing 8 tracks per paper sleeve worked best so you can still see the artist and track name clearly coz I can use a fairly decent font size which is also bold. I have no trouble finding tracks even though they're in no real structured order, over time you just know where the majority of the songs you want are as there location literally sticks in your brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattus123 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 ahhkso my method of indexing would become a bit redundant eyi suppose your CDs would stay in the same location in the wallet aswell wouldnt they?thanks for the help guys, cleared some stuff up for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pundaddy Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 i just put 10 songs per cd and label them june 1/2/3 etc cos im a bad WHALE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapFive Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 here is my tree [cd case] [house] [top 40] ==[rmx] [ognl] [underground]==[rmx] [ognl] [electro][top 40] ==[rmx] [ognl] [underground]==[rmx] [ognl] [techno][progressive] ==[rmx] [ognl] [hard] ==[rmx] [ognl][hi nrg]==[rmx] [orgnl][dubstep][hard] [softish]hope that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattus123 Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 yea that looks nice and organisedbetter than my random approach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapFive Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 dont get me wrong, it doesnt always happen, takes awhile to get it into practice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobberz Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 here is my tree [cd case] [house] [top 40] ==[rmx] [ognl] [underground]==[rmx] [ognl] [electro][top 40] ==[rmx] [ognl] [underground]==[rmx] [ognl] [techno][progressive] ==[rmx] [ognl] [hard] ==[rmx] [ognl][hi nrg]==[rmx] [orgnl][dubstep][hard] [softish]hope that makes senseVery similar too my lay out. Have found it very easy to find tracks relatively fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandy Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 i use one track per cd, love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobberz Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 i use one track per cd, love itWERD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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