How DJ's organise their music libraries - DJ Tutorial

In this episode of Monday DJ Tips, we speak to Crossfader DJ's Jamie Hartley, Holland and Danny James and ask them to share a little insight into their own music libraries. From colour coding to organising by key, there are various ways of organising a music library to personalise it and make it work best for you!

[Crossfader]

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[proverbialwhatever]

File organisation is such an underrated aspect of DJing/performing.

[DJRAPID]

Here's a tip if you want to name a folder/ crate so that it always appears at the top to of the list start the folder/crate name with a underscore _

[sascha.]

I also use genre-based folders but with sub folders sorted every song by energy. For example: "Dance" with three sub folders called "Dance - Low", "Dance - Mid" and "Dance - Peek". That way i can achieve certain energy levels at certain points in my set.

[ThomStanton]

Always found iTunes way of file mgmt to be so clunky and it feels old school in playlist creation. Thanks for tips on managing in DJ software. Gonna go back and freeze frame lots of segments here to pick-up your tips and apply to my files. Thanks for sharing your pro tips! :)

[Ravinstomper]

my organisation stems back to my vinyl days.
i had my vinyls sorted to genre/style.

i still have this in my main explorer files on my pc.

each folder is a named genre and in each is the appropriate style.

no matter what software i use i simply keep my root files from my harddrive.
just simple record boxes (folders) of styles.
various software has its own management but simple file organisation keeps it multi platform.

styles are broken down into sub folders for ease.

my tracks are star rated and file tagged to key and comments etc....

[pierrearbour]

The guy in the back ground is tired...seems bored...

[Twosf]

Is there any vids on helping to create playlists names for only house DJ (Afro house to be specific) most stuff on YouTube about organizing crates or folders seem to be for mostly serato and open djs

[mihirbhagat]

Thx bro for making this video. I want to know this from years. And thx for reading my email..

[gabornemeth]

For me, the easy way is to organize strictly by genre. Like I have a House folder, inside I have a Jackin House (I main this), Progressive House, Old School House, etc. folders. I do this with basically every other genres I like (for example, Drum & Bass, where I have Liquid Drum & Bass, Old School Drum & Bass, etc.). And every subfolder has the track sorted by month of release

[adoserge]

Hi. Great advices. I have a question please: How can you set you library in serato by BPM and by key at the same time like DJ Holland did?

[DJ-Daz]

153, 855 subs 18 months ago. That's not bad guys, more than double the number in that time 🎧🙃🎧

[handanselcuk]

Any ideas on how to make the songs appear with numeration? track number 1 2 3 4 5 etc..i see the total number of tracks but no numbering, like danny has in his rekordbox? thank you!

[mycatisromeo]

i made my first song on Ableton and its actually pretty dope (i think). Any chance i can send it to you to give me your opinion?

[NOCDIB]

Does Serato Pro support syncing creates to directories so that adding/removing files in angolder does the same in a crate?

[lslife]

I would like to make a video about how I organize my music I use many of the idea mention here and lot of other . I do not play often and music tunes are growing to fast. I can't keep track of it that easy. One thing that is very important for a good music library organization is having clean IDtags or meta data on your songs.

[conformitykillz]

i sort mine by genre then vibe, for example. deep house, then downtempo or club. or house then funky or club. i then take each sorted genre and creat a folder with each 'club' track from each genre. its an easy way of browsing all my club track in each genre without having to swap folders a lot. plus you can then sort by key or whatever your order is.

[MrJFunkSanchez]

So funny how every djay organizes their library so different. Since I’m a mobile djay I sort all my music by decades, Top 100 of each era, Top 200 most requested and also different curated sets for cocktails, bars, lounges, weddings, etc. These can be my go to crates depending on the vibe. Just dove into Rekordbox from SeratoDJ and used Rekord Buddy 2 to transfer my hot cues, loops, etc. How do you maintain your music library to be able to switch back and forth with both softwares? Want to be able to sync both libraries and able to play either when needed. Thanks!

[andrewcetnarskyj]

Great tutorial, did they guys do anything to break their library out of itunes to stand alone folders?

[SuperFluidFerroFluid]

Every track in my list is a Go to track...