How To Organise Your Music Library For DJing

1. Welcome To The Class!: Hi. Welcome to this skill show class, where I'm going to show you how you can organize your music library for DJing. My name is off the Rack Jack, and I'm a professional international Deja. I have over 15 years experience and dejad all around the world, including places such as Thailand, Australia, France, Greece, and the UK. In these places, I have dejaed across a wide range of venues, including clubs, bars, boat parties, pool parties, and festivals. Over the years, I have found that how you organize your music can have a big impact on how you perform as a DJ. You need to understand how your music is organized and be able to access the right songs at the right time when you need them. Throughout the years, I have tried many different ways of organizing my music, and I have made many mistakes along the way, which has made it more difficult for me to access the right music at the right time. But after a lot of trial and error, I have also found ways to organize my music that has made it easier and more efficient for me to deja. In this class, I will show you the most efficient and practical ways that I have found to organize your music library for DJ. In this class, you will learn how to organize your music on your laptop, how to organize your music in your DJ software, how to create individual playlists for specific events. And I talk about how many tracks you actually need in a playlist to be able to DJ effectively for an event. I use record box DJ software for the demonstrations in this class, but the principles that I teach will still work and apply to any DJ software. I hope you enjoy this scott class, and I hope it helps you when it comes to organizing your own music library for DJing. I'll see you in the class. 2. How To Organise Your Music For DJing: In this video, I'm going to talk about how I organize my music library and create my playlist for De jag. Now throughout the years, I've tried multiple different ways of keeping my playlist and music library organized and I have failed many times. If you don't keep on top of this, it can get ahead of you and get a bit chaotic and stressful with your music library. What I'm going to do now is show you the way that I now organize my music and try and keep it as simple and effective as possible. So the first thing we need to do is just going into our music folder on our laptop. So the reason why I suggest the music folder on your laptop is because we're obviously storing music. And this seems like the obvious place to put it. So just here on my laptop, I have my music folder, and this is where I start all my music. From here, you're now going to want to create a folder that you're going to put all of your music into that you're going to DJ with. So all you need to do is right click book new folder and name it something like all DJ music or all DJ tracks something like this. As it says the name, all DJ music is already taken, and that's because I already have my folder just here. So let's just name it something else. Or DJ music too. Alright, so we've created our folder that we're going to put all of our music into that we're going to DJ with. And then from here is going to open up this folder, and it will be blank, obviously when you're first starting out. Now, what we need to put here is folders for our music that represent very simple and broad genres. So let's say you deja three styles of music. You're an open format DJ and you DJ dance music, hip hop and R&B, and drum and bass. You don't want to get too specific. You want to keep them nice and broad and nice and simple. So, for example, here, I'll just create them three folders. So we've got dance. Hip hop. And then drum and bass. Now, the reason why I've made them so broad and what I mean by broad is they cover a lot of subgenres as well. So like in drum and base, there's going to be many different subgenres, and drum and base is very broad. It's very general. Now, the reason for this is that when I get a track and I download a track, it's going to be obvious which folder I put it into. So if I download a drum and bass track, it's definitely going into the drum and base folder. If I get a hip hop and R&B track, it's going to go into the hip hop and R&B folder, and same with dance music, it's going into the dance folder. Now, the key thing to remember with our folders on our laptop is we are just storing our music. We are not deja out of these folders. That is what playlists are going to be for, and we're going to create them later down the line. When you're creating your folders on your laptop, they are just for storing your music. And because of this, you want to try and resist the urge to be more specific and stay away from creating playlist like folders. Now, I have made this mistake in the past. On my laptop, I started creating folders such as pool side house, early club dance, boat party, things like that, creating folders that are events or feelings that I can imagine myself dejaing. So, for example, I'm just going to quickly do that so you can see. So these three here are kind of what I used to do with my folders on my laptop and how I used to store my music. Now the problem with this is, if you have one certain song, it can fit all three of these genres. I might have a really good house song that could be played at the pool side. It can be played early in a club, and we can play it on a bolt party. So it's not going to be clear which folder to put that song in. But if it's a dance song, which it looks like with these, I know I can just put it in this dance folder and it will fit in that category in that genre. These folders here resemble more playlists that you're going to do later down the line in your DJ software. So try and resist the urge to do folders like this. In my experience, it just gets complicated and harder to sort out. So I'm going to delete these. When you download music, it should be easy to decide which folder you put them in. If you find yourself having to think about it too much and overthink, this is generally a sign that your folders are too specific, and you need to be more general and broad with your folders. Again, as I keep saying, these are just for storage. You're not going to be a DJing out of these. Okay, so I'm just going to go back here and delete this because we just created it for an example, and we're going to show you my real live music folders. From here, I've got my old DJ music, and it's all in one folder just to be easy to access. And if I ever want to put my music on a hard drive or move it somewhere else, I just drag this one folder across and I can move it nice and easily. So let's open this up. And this is my genuine music folders phone. Now. They do change throughout the years as I change laptops and things like that. But at the minute, this is how I categorize and put my music into folders on my laptop. And as you can see, they're very broad. If I download a song, I should be pretty certain which folders I put it in. I've got dance music, so that's generally 120-130 beats per minute. And quite recently, quite a lot of dance music now becoming popular at around 140 BPM. So I'll put that in this folder because it's very obvious. If it's a dance song, what speed it is, I put it in that folder because I can mix them together a little bit better. And then I'll have my A capellas then I've got my house music. Now, you can put your house music into dance music if you're more of an open format Dj, but I like to have specific house songs as well. And when I hear a song, I'll know if it's house or dance. But sometimes in the past, I have combined these. If it's a house hot dance song, I just put it in the same folder. And then I've got my short edits where I create short edits, hip hop and R&B, and all my music hip hop and RB just goes into that one folder. I don't try and separate them into different feelings or maybe different events. This is because if you put it into feelings and events, these can change in the future. A song can get more popular or less popular as time goes on. So if you, for example, create an early or chilled hip hop and R&B folder and a more peak time upbeat hip hop and R&B folder, songs might change between that. If it first comes out in the first month of it being released, it might go down really well at peak time. But as time goes on, it might then have to be moved into the earlier and more chilled hip hop and R&B folder. And sometimes you just don't know if it's going to go off really well or it's going to be more of a chilled song. So this is why I would avoid separating my folders into these kind of more specific genres or folders. I like to just keep them all in one. And then moving down, I've got drum and bass. Then I've got 90s and naughties the old school stuff, and then miscellaneous. This is just random songs that I can't fit in any of these, they songs for games or cheesy, jokey songs, things like the Macarena and Chacha slide going there. Then I've got my Indie singalongs and then my sound effects. When I download music, it should be very obvious which folder these should go in. When I go into these, they don't have to be organized very well because I'm going to show you what I'm going to do later in record box. But I'm just going to show you I'm going to go in hip hop and R&B. And from here, I was going to Command A and select. Right click, and that should tell us how many tracks we have. So I have 213 tracks there. Now, some people might be thinking that's a lot in one folder, but again, we're not DJing out of this. We're just storing music. And then I'll go into my dance, Command A, right click, just to show you how many. So we've got 230, and that will be all my dance music. I won't play any more songs than that in MP three, anyway. Alright, so that is how I would store my music on my laptop. And now, what we're going to do is jump into record box, and I'll show you how I navigate my DJ software. So when you get into your DJ software, what I like to do here is mirror everything that's on my laptop into record box. So I have the exact same folders and exact same files in the same places on record box as I do on my laptop. This is just because I find it easier to work within record box. You get to see more information, you can set your hot cues and loops, and you can drag them up and preview them a lot faster. What I need to do here is right click one of these here in the playlist and go on Create New folder. Okay? So we're going to create a new folder, I'm just going to drag that out of there. So I'm just creating an example for you first, then I'll show you mine. So we need to create a folder, and then from here, name it, so you just double tap the same as the folder we have on our laptop. So we're going to name this all Dj music two because that's what it's called. And then from here, we're going to create individual playlist to match what we have in our main music folder on our laptop. So, for example, I have dance and then I have dance 140. 140 BPM. Then I have my a capellas and then I have Hip hop and R&B and so on. Then you're going to mirror the folders you have on your laptop over here in record box. So I'll just show you here. So all these folders, I would then mirror here over in my playlist under old DJ music too. And then once I've created these, I'm just going to click into dance, for example, and this is all empty now. We don't have any tracks in there right now. So what I'm going to do is open up my dance music folder, select all these MP threes and all these tracks, and drag them across. And then what we have is a mirror image of our laptop folders on record box. So now from here, as you can see, some of the tracks might be getting analyzed. So some of them might not be analyzed yet. And when you drag them across and over, they'll get analyzed for the first time. And as you can see, their waveform will get populated as you go through. So we see a lot of these tracks now getting populated. And then I go through each playlist here and do exactly the same. Alright, now, because I've just done an example here, I'm going to delete this folder in these playlists and show you my actual folders in record box. So from here now, in my playlist, you can see at the top, it says all DJ music. And I've put a little stars either side as well just to make it stand out. And if I click the drop down here, every single playlist you see there will also be mirred Here. They're all exactly the same. The drum and bass folder here will have all the tracks in and they'll have the exact same tracks as well in the drum and base playlist. Now, this means that I can work within record box with every song that I have. Like I said, this makes it easier to drag and drop tracks up, look at the information that you have and set hot cues. Now, you can do this from the explorer tab. As I've mentioned in previous videos, if you go to settings and then view and then layout and click the Explorer tab here, what this will do is it allow you to access your laptop folders from record box. From here, you can click Explorer, click the dropdown for music, and I should be able to find my music from here, all DJ music, and then work from there. The only reason I don't use this is because you have to keep going into Explorer then to find your tracks. I like to use it all here just in the playlist and everything's in one place, and it's a lot easier just to open up a folder like this on your laptop and drag tracks in that way. For me, that's why I like to have Explorer turned off. Settings view, layout, and I just turn Explorer off. Now when using this method, if I do any kind of changes in my laptop, I'll also do the change in record box and same vice versa. If I delete any tracks out of these playlist here, I'll delete them off my laptop as well. So they're exactly the same folders and a mirror image. Now, if you're streaming tracks, you can actually save them on your laptop, but you can still do this process of putting all tracks into big folders here, big broad folders, and storing your music in this folder here. So, for example, this top track here, alibi is from Batsuce and it's a track that I stream, and I've got it in my drum and bass folder here. If there's any songs that you want to save whilst you're streaming, I would drag them across into these folders as well. For example, if I go into House, a lot of these are from beat pop that have a lot of house music. And as you can see here in House now, I'll have a lot of tracks. I'll scroll down to the bottom, and I've got 240 tracks of house music that I can use from my music library and dip into. Now, like I said, with the music on your laptop, you won't be DJing from these folders. So I won't be de Jing from this DJ music playlist here and all these tracks as 240 is a lot to go through, and there's different types of house music in there. Now, this is where your playlists come into play. This is where you will make event specific and feeling specific playlist out of all these folders here. So if you can imagine, now, forget about what's on your laptop and we're just going to work from this place here. All these playlists and folders here are your storage playlists and folders. You're not going to dejt of these. It's just where you're going to pick your tracks from and create playlists. So from here over the summer, I dejad in a club called Zigzag Club, and what I'll do from here, when I'm dejing at zigzag or I'm preparing for that event, I will then go into all these folders and get the tracks that I need that I think will fit that event and then put them into smaller playlist more specific for that event and feeling. So if I just open up the zigzag club folder and scroll down, now, each event will have its own specific needs and different tracks that are need to suit that environment. Now the club opens for 6 hours. We play hip hop and dance and sometimes a bit of drum and bass as well. But I can be playing at any point during that night. We have three DJs on that rotate through, so I could be playing 12 to one and three till four. And then the next night, I could be playing two to three and five till six. So I have to be prepared for different scenarios within that club environment. If I'm playing the first hour, the warm up set, I'll need something a little bit more chilled. But then if I'm dejing at peak time, when the club is at the busiest and highest energy, I'll need something more upbeat. So this is why now I've categorized these playlists into different feelings and different times of the night. So now I have a bit of a focus and a bit of a direction in my head of where I want to go, I can then go into my storage folders here and pick the songs that I need. So, for example, the first one, hip hop and R&B early. This is if I want to play hipop and R&B at the start of the night, a bit more chilled. And I have the club in my mind and how it might feel with these tracks. So I'll go into my full hip hop and R&B folder, which has over 400 songs in this, so if I scroll all the way down, and I'll just skim through this and pick the songs that I think will be right for that time of the night. And then if I click on this early playlist here, scroll down, I only have now 77 that fit this mood. Then same with the hip hop R&B peak, so I'll click this and I'll scroll down and now only have 94 tracks in this. Now, the reason why this seems quite a lot as well is because some tracks are doubled up. So I don't actually have 94 individual tracks. As we can see here, without M is doubled up. Trap queen is doubled up as well, yet is doubled up. And this is because one is an intro version and one is original mix. So it's probably more about 50, 60 tracks that I'll have there. That is plenty for me to choose from when I'm DJing and I want high energy from my hip hop and R&B. Then as we go through, I'll do the same for dance if it's early in the night, more upbeat tracks, and then peak time tracks. These are all selected from these main folders that I store everything in. I'll go through, pick the tracks that I need, and put them in the individual playlists. Now what's good about record box is you can duplicate and delete your tracks from these playlists as much as you want without disrupting the connection. So what record box does is it creates a link and a connection between the track on your laptop and the one that's stored on record box. So from here on record box, you don't actually store the tracks. It just creates a link directly to the MP three on your laptop. So this is why when you're creating folders on your laptop, so for example, here, I've got my old DJ music in the music folder. You want to put it in a place that you know you're not going to move it in the future. If you move this folder, or you move any folders inside it, or even any individual tracks inside of that, it will break the link, and record box won't be able to find that track. This goes the same for naming tracks as well. So let's say I want to move this track here, earthquake into another folder. I might want to move it into, let's say, a dance music folder or another kind of folder from here. But I'm just going to drag it over here for now. So I'm just going to drag it across and move it out of this hip hop and R&B folder. Now, if I go into my record box and try and find that track, which is just here, earthquake, and then try and drag this up onto one of the decks, it's not going to work, so we get a notification saying it could not be found.T is because I've moved it and broken that link and connection between record box and my laptop. And this is another reason why the folders on our laptop like these have to be broad and general, so you're not moving the tracks around too much in your laptop because soon as you start moving them around, they'll break that connection and make it more complicated for you navigating your tracks. So from here now, if I drag this track back into its original folder and then try this track again, it's going to work because now record box knows where to look for that track. But in your playlist here, so for example, in Hipp and R&B early, I can delete these tracks and move them around and duplicate them as well into other playlists as much as I like without disrupting the connection. So, for example, this track, This Why I'm hot. If you can imagine I want it in this playlist, but I also want it another playlist, as well, I can also duplicate it. So I can put it into peak as well, and it's also here. Then I can also delete it from this one if I want to remove from playlist. And it still works in the other playlist. Drag that up, and it's still working. That connections still there. This is why I like doing a lot of my work and changing and editing within record box software. Once you create folders and put your tracks into folders on your laptop, you generally want to leave them there and not touch them. Now, if you have to move a track and you do want to rename some folders, that's fine. You can relocate them. So let's say if I move this earthquake again across, and then I find it again in my record box just here, and I try and drag it up, it won't work. So what I can do now is right click or secondary click and then go on auto relocate. And what that'll do is I'll search the folders and find it, and then I can drag it back up. Now a new connection is formed between record box and the laptop. But if I then move it back across, I'd have to do the same thing again. If I try and drag it up, it won't work, so I'll just exit that. Try it again. The connection is now broken again, so I have to right click and I go on Auto relocate, I'll search my laptop for it, find it, and then I can load it back up. But as you can see, that's a lot of work, and it can get quite complicated moving tracks around and breaking that connection every time. So from my experience, put all your tracks on your laptop into broad folders like this one, Mr them onto your DJ software like this, and then work from here. Let's say I want to create a new playlist. So when I'm working in Greece, I'll generally do clubs, boat parties, pool parties, and bars as well. And I'll generally create new playlists for each event and each kind of feeling or time and de jing at that event. So, for example, here, I'll just right click this one and then create new folder, and this is for a new event. So I don't want it within the zigzag club folder. I want it by itself here. And then I'm going to name it boat party. Now on the boat party, I'm going to have two playlist because I do the first 2 hours and then the last 45 minutes as well. There's another Dj that jumps on in the middle. So I'm going to put First set. And then last set. So from here now, I can go into all my DJ music and where I stole all my music, and I'll find the tracks that will be the best fit for these kind of feels. So early on the bolt party, I want to play more chilled, kind of daytime dance music and house music. And then for the last set, it's more of a rave, more upbeat, high energy sing along tracks. And then if I'm doing the pool party, I'll have a folder for that as well. New folder. Get a folder called pool party, put it by itself. Then from here, I do the first hour I call it first hour set. Now what I'll do is then go through all my stored music as well, and I can even look into other playlists for inspiration, and I'll drag all the tracks that I need for that first hour of the pool party. Now, some tracks might overlap from the first set on the boat party as the pool party, as the very similar feels. But we often have guests doing the same events, so I don't want to play the exact same music. So they can overlap, and we can duplicate them tracks, but each event for me should have its own specific playlist. And then for the last example, let's do the bar. So I'll go on create new folder. And it was more of a bar slash lounge. I'm just going to put bars Lounge. Move this up. Now, from here, the bar, I generally DJ 3 hours nonstop, but it is dance and hip hop and R&B, as well. So I'll probably put a hip hop folder, and then I'll also put a dance folder. Now, DJ and the bar might be different than DJ in the club. Even though I've got my dance folders here for the club, it's going to be a different kind of atmosphere and vibe in the bar. So again, I can take inspiration from these folders and also look into my main dance folder, but I'm going to create a specific playlist for the bar and lounge. And this is exactly how my playlist will be laid out when I'm DJing over in the summer doing these multiple events. I'll have these different specific playlists for them events, and I can work all within record box. When it comes to the pool part today, I just open up the pool party folder and hit that playlist and DJ out of there. And that's the same for all the other events. Now, if there's not a track in this playlist that I want or I might have an idea for another track, I can always go into all my music, search for it, and play it from there, I have to. These playlists are just ideal suggestions for me at that time. You can always move and deviate and play different tracks. If something changes randomly at the event, you can always dive into these and play from there. So this way, you've got the best of both worlds. You've got music specific that you think will fit that event best, but also you've got all your other music to dive into just in case. So now from here, let's say you don't need the playlist anymore, you've done DJ in that event. So, for example, I've finished DJ in the summer now. I can delete these like I have done, delete folder. I folder and a leap folder. And then from here, all my main tracks that I have stored have still not been disrupted, and they're all exactly the same place that I can choose from. So one analogy that I have, and this is how I kind of describe it to people and kind of see it in my head is like cooking. So to be able to cook some food at home, you have to go for a few stages. First, you have to go shopping for your food at supermarkets, and this is like going to the different stores and DJ platforms and selecting the music you want. Then you've got to come home and store your food. You're going to put it in the fridge and the cupboards, places like that. This is what these folders are going to be here. These are your storage folders. And then when it comes to cooking a certain dish, you're going to want to prepare them ingredients specifically for that dish. Then you'll go into your cupboards and your fridge, which is your storage, get the ingredients out ready to cook. These are going to be your playlists. So when you have a certain event, it's like creating a certain dish. So let's say I'm deejaying at a pool party, I'll then go into my storage and get all the songs that I might need for that pool party. And then the actual cooking of the food is like the actual dejing. You're not going to put all the ingredients in at once all for the same time. You're going to put them in order. And this is the same as deejaying. You're going to put the right songs in the right order and play them for the right amount of time. And then when you've done cooking, you can put your ingredients back in the cupboards that you've not used. And that's, like, the same as this. Once you've done your deja set and you're not deja in there anymore, you can delete that playlist, and all your tracks will still be in storage. So that's just one quick analogy that might help you I sometimes think of when I'm planning and organizing my tracks. Now one quick topic I want to go over before the end of the video is how many tracks do we actually need? This is one thing I've been thinking a lot about over the last couple of years when teaching people and looking through my own playlist. Now, it is going to be different for different DJ styles and different dejas that do different events, but I'm just going to talk you through my experience and what I think in general, of how many tracks that you need. Now, one thing I have come across with quite a few beginner dejas is they may believe that the more songs you have the better, which this actually isn't the case, and I would say that it's quite the opposite. You want to have the smallest number of songs possible while still being effective. Too many songs can just clutter up your library and make it harder for you to deja and select the tracks that you need. One quick example from my personal experience, like I said, I normally DJ over in Greece for the summer, and this is for six months straight. And I'll go over with thousands of songs sometimes in folders and playlist. And what I found throughout that time, I generally gravitated towards the same 200 songs. This is no matter what the event was, generally, it was the same 200 repeated every week with a few obviously extra changes. And to put it in context, I dejaed every single night in the club and did four boat parties a week and two pool parties. So I did six days and seven nights. And throughout that whole time, I only generally dejaed 200 songs. So it just shows you don't need that many songs to be effective. You can only play a certain amount of songs in 1 hour, and you generally gravitate towards the same songs that your favorite. If you have a choice between two, you're going to pick one over the other. So if you have 100 songs in your playlist, but you only have time to play 30, you generally are going to play that same 30. Maybe with a bit of give and take, maybe 40 songs, but if you had to do the same set every night, you'd probably play the same 40 songs out of them 100. So now for me in your storage folders, you can have as many tracks as you like. It doesn't really matter because you're just selecting songs from there in your playlist. It's quite nice to have a broad range. So you've got more of a selection, but you definitely don't want to be DJing out of these folders. There's far too many songs all in different orders, and it's just too much for yourself to try and choose tracks on the fly when you're deejaying. So the main thing for me is how many songs do you have in your playlist to deja out of? Well, this mainly comes down to two things. How long is your Dj set and how long are you going to play a song for? So let's say you're going to play an hour long DJ set, and you're going to average each song at about 2 minutes. So that means you're going to play 30 songs in that hour. Now, that's not a lot of songs. Plus, that's DJing very fast. Every song is only lasting 2 minutes, so you're not even playing the full songs. Now, you also don't just want 30 songs in your playlist, just in case you want to change direction slightly or have a variety. So I would probably add a little bit more onto that. But one rule I have is I wouldn't double it. So for me, it would be 30-60 songs for that 1 hour set. All right, so just to quickly give you a visual and do it on the calculator. I'm not questioning your math at all. It's just so you can see a bit more of a visual. This is how I like to work and work out my tracks for my playlist. So if I'm DJing 1 hour, that's 60 minutes, we need to do it by minutes. I'm going to play each song quite quickly around 2 minutes. I'm going to divide that by two, which is 30 songs that I'm going to play in that hour. Then from there, I can add an extra ten, 15, 20 songs just in case I want to deviate from them tracks. I want to pick my best say 40 to 50 tracks for that hour playlist, and I've got plenty more than enough to DJ and then change direction if need be. Now let's say I'm doing an hour long set, but it's like a pool side, nice and relaxed house music bar, and I'm going to play each song in full for about 5 minutes at a time. So again, let's go in, we're doing an hour long set, so it's 60 minutes. I'm going to play each song for at least 5 minutes. I don't have many songs less than 5 minutes, so divided by five equals 12. So I'm actually only going to play around 12 songs for that DJ set, but I need a bit extra just in case, so I'll probably get around 20 tracks for that set. I wouldn't want to double it. You don't need twice as much. So if I doubled this now, it'd be 24, so no more than 24 songs for that set. So very recently, I've got a DJ gig at a club, and I've only just started it. And before I started that, the manager from the club sent me the old DJs track list. Now, it was a five hour set, so it's all night in a club. And in the 5 hours, the DJ only played 150 songs. So if we can do the maps there, we can do five times 60 just to get the minutes divided by 150, that's how many songs he played. So he played each song for 2 minutes at a time, which works out about right. Then if we divide 150, so that's how many songs he played, divided by the 5 hours, that means we only need 30 tracks per hour. So when I was preparing for that gig, I prepared myself 200 songs. I was doing dance and R&B, and I did 100 tracks of dance music and 100 tracks of R&B, and I had plenty songs to do that night. So just to put in context there, for a five hour set, I only prepared 200 songs. That's for 5 hours. It might sound like a lot, but as soon as you start dragging tracks over into your playlist, it soon adds up. And for an hour long set, if you're deja in commercial dance music, hip hop and R&B, I'd probably recommend 30-60 songs an hour. No more than that, that's plenty and for house music around 20 songs an hour. But it's different for every DJ and you'll get used to it. The more experience you get. I just wanted to give you a few figures there from my own personal experience. In fact, what I can do is I can dive into my history. So one thing you might not be aware of is on record box, it saves all of your history and the sets that you have played. So if I just go into my history down here, it saved every single set that I've done in the last couple of years since I've had this record box. So I'm going to go into this summer, and I'm going to try and find one of the hour long sets that I did in the club and see how many tracks I played at that time. And these are my genuine playlists and genuine histories. So just having a look at one of the sets here. This one's from 3 July, and this one seems like it would have been in the club. As I'm just looking at the track list here, it looks like what I would have played in the club maybe early on, and there's only 34 tracks there for 1 hour. So for that 1 hour, I'd have only played 34 tracks. Let's have a look at the next one. Alright, so this is the first 2 hours on the boat party because I play the Titanic song at the start. And if I scroll down, that's 50 songs exactly for 2 hours, which works out at 25 songs an hour. But there is some breaks in between that where we stop and explain that there's food ready and things like that. So it's a bit of a slower pace. Let's go through. And this is the main set on the boat, which lasts around 45 minutes. And we've got 30 songs there. So what would that be? Say around 40, 45 songs for an hour? So let's have a look here. This one looks like a club one as well. This one might have been a pool party one, actually. But either way, I think this one's for an hour, and that's 37 songs for 1 hour set. So, again, if you're planning a playlist for about an hour, you don't really want to be doing anything more than 30-60 songs. So now I appreciate this might be quite a long video, but the reason why I wanted to really dive into it is because this might save you a lot of time and hassle in the future, trying to work out how to plan your playlist and organize your music on your laptop and the relationship between your laptop and record box and how to navigate that. Now, you don't necessarily have to copy me and the methods that I use. I'm just explaining that throughout the years, this is what I've come to use now. Through my experience, this is the easiest and simplest way to store my files and my music on my laptop and then navigate it through record box. 3. Congratulations!: Well done, and congratulations for finishing this class. I hope you've gained a lot of value from it, and I hope that it's helped you better understand how to organize your own music library when it comes to DJing. If you have liked this class, please feel free to leave a review and let me know how you found it. You can also check out all my other DJ related classes on Scotia to learn more about DJing. I hope to see you again in the future, and I wish you all the best on your DJ journey. Bye for now.