Best Track Organiser for DJing

s33m0h · Post by **s33m0h** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:40 pm

Serato has the best library because it stores all your tracks in a text file in the scratchlive directory. Searching for tracks is blazingly fast - just type ctrl-f and the first few letters of any comment, artist, or track name and the list instantly appears.

You can drag drop from Serato library into Live's tracks too, which is nice, but I don't use Live to DJ, so I don't know if it would be good for what you're trying to do.

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:42 pm

Fetimo wrote:You can set it so it's more/ less accurate at getting the bpm and key at the expense of time/ CPU but it's worth giving it a go I think. Although even on the lowest my MacBook's fan goes into takeoff mode so I'm scared to do more than like 2 albums at once before letting it cool down for 5 minutes.

Similar situation really with a lot of genre's but you never know for sure unless you try! Love how it gives recommendations on what might fit.

well, ill give it a try then

dphouse84 · Post by **dphouse84** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:49 pm

hambone1 wrote:Live's browser works great for me. When I warp and render a song, I include the tempo and key in the file name. I also include a 'code' that shows which type of intro/outro the song has. ] = instant outro, > = fading outro, etc

It's then easy to search for compatible songs.

does ableton tell you what the key is.
have I been missing this???

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:34 pm

i suggest getting to know your OS file browser a little better.

whats wrong with organising your tracks a little better yourself and creating your own schema?

then when you go through the Live browser, you already know where your files are.

worst case, do a ctrl + f or a apple F and search

no need to re-invent the wheel.

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:41 pm

suspended childhood wrote:i suggest getting to know your OS file browser a little better.

whats wrong with organising your tracks a little better yourself and creating your own schema?

then when you go through the Live browser, you already know where your files are.

worst case, do a ctrl + f or a apple F and search

no need to re-invent the wheel.

mate. ive got about 300gb of mp3s, you wanna go ahead and sort them manually?

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:08 am

it may take some time, but youll be glad you did it later.

Fetimo · Post by **Fetimo** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:58 am

Nah ableton doesn't tell the key from what I can find and I've not been trained to know what key things are in so programs ftw!

s33m0h · Post by **s33m0h** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:01 pm

Try Serato Scratch Live - for file browsers it really can't be beat. I've tried everything.

It's like Live in that you can use the program for free, but you can't DJ without the dongler.

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:16 pm

color code your keys inside of ableton???

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:29 pm

s33m0h wrote:Try Serato Scratch Live - for file browsers it really can't be beat. I've tried everything.

It's like Live in that you can use the program for free, but you can't DJ without the dongler.

wtf man. you dj with your dongle?
wow.

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:39 pm

i take my dongle everywhere I go.