I only wish this was made more clear
The bit I can never get my head around is why people are so obsessed with creating these convoluted processes for buying, storing and managing music to DJ with, follow this simple guide and stop pratting about trying to create roadblocks for yourself.
- Buy a normal computer, with Mac OS or Windows installed, preferably with a large internal drive or a reputable external drive, formatted to a standard format like ExFAT
- Purchase music from reputable website
- Buy it in normal file format with normal bitrates and normal metadata
- Rename it to something simple with standard characters readable by software
- store it in folders on your computer or external drive
- add it to a collection in Engine Desktop or other DJ software
- arrange into playlists and analyse
- export to a performance drive using sync manager from the PC
- back everything up and make copies for protection
This method is bombproof for me, in 20yrs of purchasing digital music, ive never lost a single music file I haven’t wanted to lose/delete, ive never had a corrupt drive and never missed a single DJ gig due to having no music to play.
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