Can you have too much music?!
Can you have too much music?! Posted on: 19.10.2012 by Jacqualine Cieplik Do you believes its possible to have too much music?I feel that I have over 100gig and 1000 Vinyl records and to be honest I have lost track of what I have and even what to put into set's. I have smart playlists and a simple sorting collection on my iTunes which is transferred to traktor in playlists. how do people on here organise their music? | |
| Celestine Porebski 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by 0.0
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| Shonda Soulier 19.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by xian
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| Ashanti Andreacchio 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by guiltyblade
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| Dierdre Stillabower 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Shane Says
Edit: That's not a bad thing, though. Drunk me has impeccable taste. |
| Dierdre Stillabower 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by muldrez
I've bought a few tracks only to realize later that I already owned them. Even worse, last week I bought a track only to import it into my collection and realize that I had bought the same track the week prior. Beatport didn't warn me because it was the same version of the track released on a different album. |
| Brunilda Kora 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by william98
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| Freida Leash 20.10.2012 | I cleaned my traktor catalog to limit it to things I would likely play about a year ago dropping things like Dread Zepplin, The Police, a ton of Cure songs. Then backed up my iTunes music folder and sorted it out in a similar fashion based on things that I probably don't want on my iPod. Now my working music collection is quite a bit smaller, but I can dig on the external hard drive should I want to find some stuff like Slow Dive which I haven't given a listen to in the past few years, but will probably fancy those delicious bootlegs and live recordings at some point in the future. The appeal of Rekord Box for me is leaving with a select crate of a few gigs of music instead of dragging around a massive library of tunes. |
| Celestine Porebski 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by 0.0
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| Yevette Matatall 20.10.2012 | Delete is your firend, it empowering..... bam, i dont need you anymore....delete "into the bin" |
| Jacqualine Cieplik 20.10.2012 | Interesting set of replies. Outcome. Limit DJ Music to around 300 Known songs, maybe rotate and mix them up monthly. Keep all my music on my computer Xian |
| Reginia Tramble 20.10.2012 | hwat |
| dan samo 19.10.2012 | Can you have too much music? As a listener/fan... NO. As a DJ... yes, totally. I have about 1Tb of digital music on my media server now. Thousands of albums. I love having a large collection and archive, spanning every genre within the realms of my imagination, to give me a broad understanding and appreciation of music (time allowing). But to be honest that's totally unmanageable and more of a hindrance when it comes to DJ'ing. I now buy all my dance/DJ'ing songs on vinyl format to mix, because a vinyl crate is much more carefully curated than a catch-all iTunes library (even with Smart Playlists). |
| Joselyn Supina 19.10.2012 | I have just over 21,000 songs in itunes, maybe 500 in my Traktor track collection. My biggest problem was the tags...it took me about 2 months to go through all my songs, tag everything properly, etc. Some are still missing album art, but who cares. All are tagged with bpm's and keys for most. I have tons and tons of smart playlists. Every month, I make a smart playlists that holds every track I've rated 1 star or higher. Those songs usually get imported to Traktor, I weed out the old stuff, keep the classics and move on. Collecting music is fun, just have to keep things organized. |
| Julissa Serrone 19.10.2012 | I average about 30 songs an hour when I play out....so I usually figure to give myself twice as many songs I will need per hour. So in a given evening
I've probably limited myself to choose from about 200-250 songs for a 4 hour set. I always thought you could have too much music until I met a mobile DJ and he said "I take all my music because you'd never believe the request I get" so it really depends. I will say I have quite a bit of music I would never play or sometims 10 remixes of the same song and I really only enjoy playing 2-3 versions. |
| Shonda Soulier 19.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by xian
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| Ashanti Andreacchio 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by guiltyblade
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| Dierdre Stillabower 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Shane Says
Edit: That's not a bad thing, though. Drunk me has impeccable taste. |
| Salvatore Husley 20.10.2012 | LOL don't be mad at beatport. Be mad at yourself for not listening to your music. |
| Dierdre Stillabower 20.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by muldrez
I've bought a few tracks only to realize later that I already owned them. Even worse, last week I bought a track only to import it into my collection and realize that I had bought the same track the week prior. Beatport didn't warn me because it was the same version of the track released on a different album. |
| Alla Bluemke 20.10.2012 | I don't believe you can really have too much music, but I do believe you can bring too much music with you. |
| Eilene Mayall 19.10.2012 | First off, hello all, first post! Quite a few times I have heard a track on a mixtape that I liked, tracked it down and been on the point of buying it, only to realize that I already own it on some random compilation that I had forgotten about, or never paid proper attention too. This can be a nice suprise! I tend to keep my ipod on shuffle and keep a note of all the long lost tracks that pop up. If I didn't do this, they would never spring to mind during a mix, and I'd probably play the same tracks over and over along with my most recent purchases. |
| Francis Leckliter 19.10.2012 | Yes absolutely. If you don't like the songs, don't play the songs, and have songs for the sake of nostalgia and other emotional attachments....then absolutely. Music hoarding is very bad! If you must hoard keep it separate from your main library lol. |
| Salvatore Husley 19.10.2012 | I agree with the yes and no. To me, it's only too much if you don't know the music. If you bought it, listened to it a few times, and it's been years since you listened to it again, then get rid of the vinyl or get it out of your digital crate. If it's vinyl then I would collect the ones you know you won't listen to or play out and head down to the store. Trade it in for something that is either newer that you listen to or something that is a classic that now costs more than you are willing to put money towards. |
| Ashanti Andreacchio 19.10.2012 | I thnk that you sure can have to much music and can distract your DJ'ing I have around 5000 on my laptop. But I DJ differant styles and some evening s it's only 80's other evening s 90's but I mainly DJ never EMD. I'm right now doing a backup of the songs to an external drive then will go through my laptop deleteing all not wanted from it. I will probable get my laptop down to 3000 songs and that enough for me to play all kinds of gigs. Only style do not have anything in is Country just don't like it so would do a verry bad job at playing it. For a 5 hour gig you could play maybe 100 to 150 song depending on your mixing style you could go down to only 60 songs. So having 50000 songs is going give you problems of what to play or you prob going to be playing the same songs gig after gig and the rest will just sit there doing nothing. |
| Lauretta Ehrhorn 19.10.2012 | Over a terabyte on my hard drive and 10000+ records at home. Don't have a clue where anything is but love randomly digging through shelves and finding forgotten gems. All of my historical playlists get copied into one big playlist called traktor playlist and I often browse this folder for inspiration when stuck for something. I believe I may have acquired a bit too much music although how can you ever have enough? I love music and combined with my hoarding traits i'm swamped by it. |
| Jacqualine Cieplik 19.10.2012 | Maybe then my question should be : What should or if possible be a rough figure for my DJ sets!? I like to pre-plan sets, however that doesn't meant that they are stuck to it. I am believe of using some usb sticks to load my music to, when I play on my laptop. Hmm. I also believe I have over 20Gig of bad music! haha |
| Leeanna Ayla 19.10.2012 | Yes and no. You can have to much music that you intend to play out, but you can never have to much music to listen to. I have my DJ laptop and the family computer. The family computer has over 100 gigs of music, the DJ laptop is bloated at 30 gigs. |
| Lindy Jonker 19.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Patch
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| Brunilda Kora 19.10.2012 | This is a REALLY hard question. Smart playlists make it a LOT easier to manage large collections, but DJ's with huge collections of vinyl still manage fine... Check out Jazzy Jeff and ?uestlove's vinyl collection. You can certainly have too much BAD music - people do tend to build a collection for the sake of it, and don't even know that they HAVE half of the records in their collection! As long as you are in control of your collection, and it's not bloated with stuff that you don't LOVE or don't play, then NO, your collection CAN'T be too big. I believe we should create a convention for tagging music, and ALL get in the habit of doing it as soon as we get new music. Smart playlists have blown me away - and I simply MUST go through my whole collection () and add comments that will allow me to sort based on Smart Playlist parameters. It'll go WAY beyond Key, BPM & Genre, with comments like "Banger" "Growler" "Wub" "Drums" "Peak-Time" "Transition Track" "Happy" "Funky" "Dark" "Chilled"... This could take a while. |
| Lindy Jonker 19.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by xian
Originally Posted by xian
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| Bertie Metro 19.10.2012 | IMHO, you have too much music when you don't know 40 % of said music. It isn't a number, only a concept, so for some people a hundred songs might be too much, while someone else can have 3000 songs and know everything. That is unless you do weddings, or mobile, or play at a top 40 place, or a place that is heavy on the requests, what i'm talking about above is more in the case of you djing what you love |
| Palma Hanslip 19.10.2012 | I definitely believe it's possible to have too much music. I got to a point where i was struggling to find in my collection what i wanted, so i basically just sat one day and copied all the tracks i don't use from my main external to a back up. So not instead of having 1000 tracks on my Macbook i now only have 300. But those 300 i know i will use all the time and i know them inside out. Eventually i will swap 100 of them for 100 newer tracks and so on.. I also have about 1000 records but only use them for personal listening now rather than gigs. |
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