Organising Your CD Wallet

[mattus123]

hey hey

bout to buy a new CD wallet and jsut wondering how you guys organise yours

at the moment, i jsut burn 5 tracks to a disc and chuck it anywhere in the wallet, so as a flick through there is a random assortment of top40/electro/house... there is the occasional disc that has purely one genre on it

now im thinking its probably better to organise my wallet into genres or something like that?

maybe one top40/remixes, electro, house

just wanted your opinions and to see hwo you guys do it?

cheers

EDIT: while im at it, i may aswell ask. how do you label your CDs?

do you just write on them or do you make a piece of paper that can slip into each sleeve with all the info?

[Mitch]

I have a cd wallet I intend to start filling and have thought about this a bit too.

Am thinking of getting cd labels to print using the computer and colour code them according to what key they are in, then roughly keep the same genre on each disc and just label the date I burnt them.

Eg. songs in keys 1 and 2 go on a disc with a blue strip on them, labelled 19/2/12 electro

I'm contemplating doing it like that, but would be interested to see how everyone else does it

[Hobberz]

If it were me I would probably have a different wallet for each genre.

[mattus123]

its interesting you say colour code mitch. i was thinking of colour coding aswell.. but i was gonna colour code genres

i havent even looked at harmonic mixing though, so colour coding by key might be a better idea

Hobberz: if your mixing top40 and electro, i dont ithnk it would be necessary to have a different wallet for those two genres

[Vaughn]

Got the same problem, have like 80 cd's with 2 songs on each so i could see what was on each. I had all the good top 100 songs at the front then Club tunes then House, Deep house at the back

But as i have done a couple of gigs they are everywere and i need another solution

I wonder if they sell colour coded cd wallets? Just like a 5 subject book at school

Have just a dot of colour on each cd

I recon that would be easy as then

[Addi]

I wish there was like a proper way for doing it haha.

My process is kind of confusing to understand but it definitely works and has saved my ass a fair few times. Basically the purpose is to burn 2 cd's at a time, so if I have both CD's in each CDJ, and all else fails, I can just skip from one song to the next on each CD and know they will have a matching key or mix reasonably well together...

So here is what I do:

- Using iTunes, I have heaps of different playlist folders for different times during the night (Opening, Main, Closing) then genres within those folders (Electro, Top 40, Dutch House etc). I have another playlist in each folder called 'Songs to Burn' and 'Songs Burnt'

- I sort about 10 songs in the 'songs to burn' folder. Lets say I wanna burn Electro/House, I sort them in order of key, then try make sure the BPM is generally pretty similar between songs.

- Burn 2 cds with 5 tracks on each CD. The way I do it is select every second song (e.g 1,3,5,7,9) or (2,4,6,8,10)

- I take a screenshot of the tracklist once its burnt

- In pretty big writing, i just write the track name (and maybe artist/remixer) so it's easy to see

- Put the CD's next to eachother in my CD wallet and put the tracklist of each CD with it.

Has worked well for me. Been instances where I have been talking to someone or been occupied, or just couldn't think of the next track to play, so my get out of jail card is that the next song on the CD is gonna mix pretty well. Having the printed tracklist is good as a backup if you need to check key or BPM.

[OxyKon]

Man with me, i got that much music tht im bout to buy a 3rd cd wallet (280 cds), ill pretty much have 1 for DnB, another for Dubstep, and another for electro/breaks

[Mitch]

Just remembered I made a template for the cd labels last month when I was on the plane home from Perth. I should screenshot it and upload when I get a chance to see what you all think or can use it if you desire

[CapFive]

if you are using itunes to make your playlists you can export the paylist to a text doco, from there you can just put that onto a template, all you need is a cd insert template and just use the front page.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/templ ... 010338859|

this is what i used to use, worked perfectly just use the title area as your guide and put your tracklists in there along with whatever you wanna call your CD's

i then used to also write on the CD's just maybe a short version so i you know where the cd goes back

of course this was before i went digital now i just have my songs in digital folders lol

[GREMM1S]

Thought i'd give my suggestions.

Even though i'm moving to USB now with my 900s, it still pays to be organised.

So bascially before i burn anything i make folder on my harddrive for my genres, electro, house,progressive, funky etc

I then make folders starting at CD1 inside of the genre folder. I start with the oldest songs and put 6 songs in a folder which ends up being a disk later on.

Once i do this part, i drag the 6 tracks into a playlist on itunes called for example Progressive House CD 7. And then i open powerpoint.

Basically i chose powerpoint to make my labels as the handout settings on two per page ends up being perfect for sliding on top of the cds in a cd wallet.

I then put the track info bpm, key and name etc on the labels. I then lastly burn the playlist straight to a disk and print my labels.

Its always better to have newer stuff and commercial stuff together i found, so try not to genre classify new crap like LMFAO, rihanna etc