Comments on: iTunes Power Tips For DJs: Part 2

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By: Dijital

Dijital — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:36:53 +0000

One of the best programs, in my opinion for tagging is one called Tag & Rename. Its not free, but its not expensive. It has saved me loads of time organizing my tracks

By: DJeff

DJeff — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:08:24 +0000

If anybody is interested check this out: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ It's great for managing ITunes... Cheers and keep up the great work!

By: binaryFX

binaryFX — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:06:17 +0000

I followed most of the info from the first tutorial, and have found it invaluable in finding tracks quickly. I agree with the comments about there not being enough tag information native in iTunes. I have been delving into harmonic mixing and I have used the grouping tag to list my Camelot numbers. This poses a problem when I want to further classify tracks by their "feeling" such as dark, light, deep, so on and so on.

I would like to know if anyone else has this same problem?

By: Mike Charles

Mike Charles — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:49:42 +0000

[quote comment="15664"]i'm using a PC and i can't quite find a great way to do this. i'm using mp3tag and am assuming its functionality is really similar to your mac based program. how would i convert any the file name to the format above? [/quote] Here is a comment from Big Al in the previous post. For Windows users I find TagScanner an excellent and FREE tagging tool. Grab it here: http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm

By: DJ Q-Tee

DJ Q-Tee — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:46:22 +0000

Another thing to check with files that won't update is whether they are read-only…

Great post… Just glad to know that I am quite smart, as I've been using these techniques for over a year…

By: tobamai

tobamai — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:08:28 +0000

I maintain an itunes library because you can make smart playlists and traktor will automatically import them, but I've had nothing but problems with using itunes to actually manage files. For managing the filename and metadata I'm using foobar2000. It isn't user friendly and won't work the way you want right out of the box, but if you put some time into it then it will do just about anything you want.

By: dishevel

dishevel — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:56:58 +0000

first of all, mike, thanks for taking the time to write this up and answer our questions!

question — i use beatport for about 99.9% of my downloads. i'd love to have everything filename-wise in your format:

artist – track (mix name).mp3

dishevel – just an example (original mix).mp3

dishevel – another example (sasha remix).mp3

i'm using a PC and i can't quite find a great way to do this. i'm using mp3tag and am assuming its functionality is really similar to your mac based program. how would i convert any the file name to the format above? yeah, it's really nitpicking, but the best i can get the example above to is:

artist – track – mix name.mp3

dishevel – just an example – original mix.mp3

dishevel – another example – sasha remix.mp3

any quick tips? thanks for the help.