Taking care of your music library

@Digitaldjtips really nails it with this article about taking care of your digital dj library. After you've read that, read this as well:

Get Minimal With Your Music Collection

I've been currently relabeling my tracks (filling id3 tags with comments on style and sound) and removing unnecessary ones. Prepping in Ableton takes ages, especially when have tracks that I have listened 5sec in Beatport, and decided to get it - and never played it again. Having that sort of "noise" in the music collection makes everything take twice as long, and finding the right tune even harder. I have just now gone through all my tracks once, removed over 100 pretty-good-but-not-great tracks, starred them and ready to start weeding again.

I actually got into DJing through trance music for it's musicality, and slowly moved to electro-funky-poppy side through progressive house. Now my Trance folder stands for "Never playing this again, but saving it just in case". Same is happening to the Progressive folder. On a positive note, I find it is the sign of finding my own niche in the electronic music world.

File organizing in Ableton isn't as straight forward as with iTunes compatible programs. To top it off, I started DJing with Serato, and had ALL my tracks in SAME goddamn folder! Now, after couple of years I'm finally at the point of actually being able to take advantage of my library.