This was good to watch, very well thought out. However, for what it's worth, I don't like having so many different crates and sub crates. I use hashtags in the comment, grouping, etc columns to identify certain songs more readily. Keep in mind that the genres are already there and song titles (mostly) contain clean or dirty, I then use the applicable # in the Serato search bar to show the full list of what I'm looking for. I also color code dirty songs with red, clean with green. This process has proven to be less time consuming for me and keeps all music in one folder. I primarily use crates for specific events. Hope this helps someone.
I appreciate you breaking down this important step in djing! This organization is going to save me so much time and stress searching for that right track at the RIGHT TIME!!! Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼 Organizing my crates now! I followed on IG and it looks like we’re in the same state. I’d love to link up because I’m new here and starting my DJ career.
I am currently going through the same thing. I did not understand why I should not use iTunes. iTunes has smart playlists also. I went through a lot switching over to store the music in Serato but it has been worth it! There are 11 header columns that you can change. I am using the COMPOSER column to put a C, for clean, and a X, for explicit. I am going to start putting keywords in to the REMIXER column. So in the smart crate I can say to include the keyword. I could have a song that is a sing-a-long and a dance. Just wanted to add a little input. Thanks for ALL you videos!
So many ideas- on how to organize- By me watching Twitch- (twitch djs mixing) - learned this way is good- such as 1. 2010's- r&B hip 2. 2010's-pop/indie 3. 2010's-reggaeton/latin dance 4. 2010's-rap/underground etc..... this just an example
👍👍Good one bro.. damn good one.. I have doing this for a while.... Never this indepth with it😎🇯🇲🇯🇲😎👍👍keep it going bro... if there was an Avengers group for DJs... man.. you are on it..😐Im gonna make up one
Very Insightful and Inspiring. Great explanation. I don’t use smart crates but definitely want to incorporate them more. What about purchases from Apple Music, Amazon?
Been doing mine through iTunes since 2014 and although this takes a lot of work to set up, once it’s set up, it’s HELLA efficient not having to drag songs into folders - besides for your personal playlists
@@DJLiftOFF it seems much easier. Sometimes I just don’t know where to start but I definitely know once I get a new laptop I want to organize everything differently. I have a lot of duplicates on my laptop cause I didn’t know it was saving in iTunes and in my downloads so it took up a lot of my gigs.
@@DjA.Sauce5 yup, I’ve had that same issue with duplicates before. I think iTunes is a lot easier overall but as far as when you’re actually DJ’ing, the smart crates will make you way more dangerous. There’s a lot of manual work with iTunes even though it’s easy. There’s manual work with smart crates but overall, it does eliminate a lot of manual work like categorizing songs by year, clean vs dirty, etc. But yea, def try it out!
I think just the external drive is fine if you’re drive has good speeds so that when you use it to DJ, there’s no lag. If you have tons of storage though on your laptop, I’d have it there too.
someone said that "I used to have a ton of genres and decade crates on my hard drive, but then dumped all my music into a single folder and created smart crates for all genres and decades. Smart crates make life simpler, for me at least". but my question is How would you manage songs if you have folders for different genres and events, each with subfolders? Dumping them all into one giant folder would create a long list, making it hard to find songs. How do you handle this?"
Great question! What I would personally do is after creating the smart crates, I would then make folders of all the different genres on my hard drive and drag the smart crate songs to their respective folders. It’s faster to manage that way but your point is very valid. It’s probably better to just organize them first but I don’t mind doing back ups afterwards by dragging over the smart crates
So you manually downloaded all of your tracks to get better quality and organization 😬😬. Seems worth it and time consuming lol. Can you upload a video on how you got rid of songs you don’t play? Is it basically based off of the number of plays and create a Smart Crate with the rules listed by the number of plays? Lastly, thank you for taking the time out to continue to educate the DJ community as always 🙏
Helllla time consuming lol, but worth it. I’m no where near finished and then have to tag every song’s color which is going to take a min too. Since I started over from scratch, I’ve just been going through my iTunes playlists and downloading songs from there. For songs I don’t remember ever playing or feel like I don’t need, I skip them. But to do it using serato, you hit the nail on the head. Smart crate where plays is set to greater/less than or equal to 0 - then from those songs, you can drag them in to a new regular crate and delete from there. I’m not sure how to delete from your music folder or wherever you keep all your music folder - gotta figure that out. And no doubt man, appreciate the support 🙏🏾
When using those smart crates.. if you create one it will automatically put existing songs that meet that criteria in that crate? Or do you have to manually do it?
Hi there, i have a question, I have got a denon mc 3000 dj controller, launched in 2012, its pretty old one but it's still works fine. I wanted to ask that should I sell it and get a new one or should I keep using it. I dont have money to buy new one though . Your opinion will be appreciated bro. Thank you.
I know you didn’t ask me, but if I may offer you some advice from a person that has many decades on this planet…Do not buy anything you do not need at this time. If what you have is working, keep using it. Nobody on the dance floor will know or care as long as you can keep them moving. When the time comes and you know you’re ready to purchase something flashy, make it count.
I actually with the other reply here! I would save up and get what you desire but in the meantime, if your gear works right now, stick with it. But I do undeterred the feeling of wanting new gear, trust me ahah
Okay if been watching you for a while Dumb question just because All your music are in crates don’t mean there in Mixing order right even your crates a reference point to a song quicker am I correct ?
There’s no one “perfect” pool but I’m using BPM Supreme and they have a lot of the music I need. You can code djliftoff25 to save 25% but I’ve also heard DJcity is good.
So how i never hear anyone said that drag and drop your files in serato never guarantee you received All of your music files..Always discover some missing from original library
Cool I don't like alot of the dj pools because all they have is a bunch of remixes n techno stuff which i don't play I like original copies of songs not all the mash ups
Dope idea man. I keep all my iTunes libraries as back ups, similar to your archive idea. @wazzytv I don’t know think there’s a way to switch it unfortunately though because you have to create each smart crate
Afrobeats, DanceHall & reggae are not the same....you must play for a lot of amercian partys.Afrobeats are by themselves DanceHall & reggae are 1.good info tho.
Thanks for the clarification 🙏🏾 - I know they’re different but I planned to keep them all under the same overall crate, with different individualized sub crates. “Afro” isn’t the right term for the overall crate - not sure what to name it honestly.
This is such an amazing video for those who have never used smart crates. I started using it two years ago and I instantly liked it. I have picked something more from this video. Thank you very much @djliftOFF25
this was crazy to watch...organization to a whole new level. You and Cee B are doing the Lord's work for real!
🙌🏾🙌🏾 appreciate you man!
I need your help to organize my music list in sarato dj pro
I never knew you would drag your crates from serato onto your Hardrive...been asking this question for MONTHS- thank you bro!!
No doubt bro!!
2 years later and your Video is still giving good info. thank you
🙌🏾🙌🏾 appreciate the continued support!
ALWAYS A STUDENT OF THE GAME AS A DJ YOU NEVER SUPPOSE TO STOP LEARNING I APPRECIATE THIS VIDEO I LEARNED ALOT
Yesssir! 🙏🏾 glad I could help
This was good to watch, very well thought out. However, for what it's worth, I don't like having so many different crates and sub crates. I use hashtags in the comment, grouping, etc columns to identify certain songs more readily. Keep in mind that the genres are already there and song titles (mostly) contain clean or dirty, I then use the applicable # in the Serato search bar to show the full list of what I'm looking for. I also color code dirty songs with red, clean with green. This process has proven to be less time consuming for me and keeps all music in one folder. I primarily use crates for specific events. Hope this helps someone.
How do you color code it?
💯💯 i feel there’s tons of simpler and more complex ways to organize folders and crates! Your solution definitely makes a lot of sense!
Stupid question, but what does dirty and clean mean? Explicit and not explicit or high quality and low?
@@tomlevitt4133explicit or not
THIS is what I've been waiting for! Good Lookin' out as always, DJ Liftoff !
You explained and broke down this soooo well!
DJ CEEB is the GOAT of organising his shizzle, learnt loads from that dude myself :)
Yeaaa I learned a lot and just added a few things of my own but he has hella gems on his channel
I appreciate you breaking down this important step in djing! This organization is going to save me so much time and stress searching for that right track at the RIGHT TIME!!! Thank you so much!
You’re more than welcome!! 🙏🏾
i have been using serat for years and never used smart crates. now I will def reorder my serato . thank you
Most definitely a game changer 💯
Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼 Organizing my crates now! I followed on IG and it looks like we’re in the same state. I’d love to link up because I’m new here and starting my DJ career.
More than welcome! Dope, shoot me a message on IG 💪🏾
Yea smart crates saved me! Plus Organizing my warm up, chill and bangers help big time! Especially genre bangers!
Yessir, the categorization of warm ups and bangers helps so much in crucial moments.
Dope way to organize your music. I've using smart crates as well. I need to still clean up a lot of them because I have sooo many smart crates.
Appreciate it G! Yeah, it’s easy for it get out of hand so I def hear you on that
I am currently going through the same thing. I did not understand why I should not use iTunes. iTunes has smart playlists also. I went through a lot switching over to store the music in Serato but it has been worth it! There are 11 header columns that you can change. I am using the COMPOSER column to put a C, for clean, and a X, for explicit. I am going to start putting keywords in to the REMIXER column. So in the smart crate I can say to include the keyword. I could have a song that is a sing-a-long and a dance. Just wanted to add a little input. Thanks for ALL you videos!
🙌🏾🙌🏾 thanks for the additions - great ideas, especially for clean and explicit.
More than welcome!
Awesome way to organize the music and I always wonder how to organize it by color now I know thank you
You’re welcome and appreciate you 🙏🏾
So many ideas- on how to organize- By me watching Twitch- (twitch djs mixing) - learned this way is good- such as
1. 2010's- r&B hip
2. 2010's-pop/indie
3. 2010's-reggaeton/latin dance
4. 2010's-rap/underground
etc.....
this just an example
💯💯💯
Keep up the good work!
It’s interesting to hear you call the early part of the set as “waste time” 😅
Thank you bro, you did an amazing job with this!
this was so helpful that i subscribed! thank you!
So glad it was helpful 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Really inspired me. Thank you and CeeB too. 👌🏾
💪🏾💪🏾🙏🏾
This helped so much bro! Thank you
👍👍Good one bro.. damn good one.. I have doing this for a while.... Never this indepth with it😎🇯🇲🇯🇲😎👍👍keep it going bro... if there was an Avengers group for DJs... man.. you are on it..😐Im gonna make up one
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Very Insightful and Inspiring. Great explanation. I don’t use smart crates but definitely want to incorporate them more.
What about purchases from Apple Music, Amazon?
Appreciate you man!! 🙏🏾
They’ve been a game changer for me so far. That’s a good question - not 100% sure what to do with purchased music 🤔
I been doing my playlist through iTunes since 2005 but I need a new laptop soon and willing to try another method. Thanks for the tips
Been doing mine through iTunes since 2014 and although this takes a lot of work to set up, once it’s set up, it’s HELLA efficient not having to drag songs into folders - besides for your personal playlists
@@DJLiftOFF it seems much easier. Sometimes I just don’t know where to start but I definitely know once I get a new laptop I want to organize everything differently. I have a lot of duplicates on my laptop cause I didn’t know it was saving in iTunes and in my downloads so it took up a lot of my gigs.
@@DjA.Sauce5 yup, I’ve had that same issue with duplicates before. I think iTunes is a lot easier overall but as far as when you’re actually DJ’ing, the smart crates will make you way more dangerous. There’s a lot of manual work with iTunes even though it’s easy. There’s manual work with smart crates but overall, it does eliminate a lot of manual work like categorizing songs by year, clean vs dirty, etc.
But yea, def try it out!
@@DJLiftOFF thanks I appreciate the response and advice 🙌🏽
@@DjA.Sauce5 no doubt!! 💯
More videos like this more videos like this please!! 🎉
Great video,I started using Smart crates but I need to tweak some steps.
Appreciate you 🙏🏾 - and yeah they’re powerful fasho!
Nuff respect 🫡🫡🫡💯💯💯
🙏🏾🙏🏾🫡
Super helpful, thank you! I use djay pro AI but the same concepts apply. Liked and subbed! 🎉
More than welcome!! Appreciate the sub 👊🏾
This video is UBER Helpful! My question is, how do you stop music from automatically being linked to ITunes?
Thats cool🎉 thanks!
Welcome bro 🙏🏾
GREAT JOB🔥
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Good stuff!! Very informative video..
Glad it was helpful 🙏🏾
Do u think it is good to have all my music on the laptop or only on an external hard drive?
I think just the external drive is fine if you’re drive has good speeds so that when you use it to DJ, there’s no lag. If you have tons of storage though on your laptop, I’d have it there too.
Man this is good stuff!!
Appreciate you man! 🙏🏾
Can you make a video on how to fix songs with the thunder symbol in Serato?
You have to delete it is corrupt
Delete them,, they are damaged songs,,,,just delete and u will be good
Click Relocate files…..second add location to see where the folder were. Bring folder back into serato
Thank y’all 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
someone said that "I used to have a ton of genres and decade crates on my hard drive, but then dumped all my music into a single folder and created smart crates for all genres and decades. Smart crates make life simpler, for me at least".
but my question is How would you manage songs if you have folders for different genres and events, each with subfolders? Dumping them all into one giant folder would create a long list, making it hard to find songs. How do you handle this?"
Great question! What I would personally do is after creating the smart crates, I would then make folders of all the different genres on my hard drive and drag the smart crate songs to their respective folders.
It’s faster to manage that way but your point is very valid. It’s probably better to just organize them first but I don’t mind doing back ups afterwards by dragging over the smart crates
NICE
🙏🏾🙏🏾
So you manually downloaded all of your tracks to get better quality and organization 😬😬. Seems worth it and time consuming lol. Can you upload a video on how you got rid of songs you don’t play? Is it basically based off of the number of plays and create a Smart Crate with the rules listed by the number of plays? Lastly, thank you for taking the time out to continue to educate the DJ community as always 🙏
Helllla time consuming lol, but worth it. I’m no where near finished and then have to tag every song’s color which is going to take a min too.
Since I started over from scratch, I’ve just been going through my iTunes playlists and downloading songs from there. For songs I don’t remember ever playing or feel like I don’t need, I skip them. But to do it using serato, you hit the nail on the head. Smart crate where plays is set to greater/less than or equal to 0 - then from those songs, you can drag them in to a new regular crate and delete from there. I’m not sure how to delete from your music folder or wherever you keep all your music folder - gotta figure that out.
And no doubt man, appreciate the support 🙏🏾
what is a fantastic vid im looking forward to doing it but my LORD it's soooo LONG LOL
Yeaaaa supper long lol, but it’s worth it 💯
Smart crates
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When using those smart crates.. if you create one it will automatically put existing songs that meet that criteria in that crate? Or do you have to manually do it?
Will automatically place them in there based on the criteria set! It’s a lot of work on the front end but once it’s done, it’s amazing
For rekordbox users, do you have any reco's on a tool like smart crate?
Sorry, haven’t ever used Rekordbox unfortunately!
Hi there, i have a question, I have got a denon mc 3000 dj controller, launched in 2012, its pretty old one but it's still works fine. I wanted to ask that should I sell it and get a new one or should I keep using it. I dont have money to buy new one though . Your opinion will be appreciated bro. Thank you.
I know you didn’t ask me, but if I may offer you some advice from a person that has many decades on this planet…Do not buy anything you do not need at this time. If what you have is working, keep using it. Nobody on the dance floor will know or care as long as you can keep them moving. When the time comes and you know you’re ready to purchase something flashy, make it count.
I actually with the other reply here! I would save up and get what you desire but in the meantime, if your gear works right now, stick with it. But I do undeterred the feeling of wanting new gear, trust me ahah
Okay if been watching you for a while Dumb question just because All your music are in crates don’t mean there in Mixing order right even your crates a reference point to a song quicker am I correct ?
what do you mean in mixing order?
Any good record pools out there for home DJ?
There’s no one “perfect” pool but I’m using BPM Supreme and they have a lot of the music I need. You can code djliftoff25 to save 25% but I’ve also heard DJcity is good.
every time i put songs onto serato they don’t save
When say dirty music, what do you mean ?
Explicit or non-clean
So how i never hear anyone said that drag and drop your files in serato never guarantee you received All of your music files..Always discover some missing from original library
Not 100% sure I understand what you’re saying here!
Do u get to keep the music once u stop bpm Supreme service
Definitely. It downloads straights to your computer.
Cool I don't like alot of the dj pools because all they have is a bunch of remixes n techno stuff which i don't play I like original copies of songs not all the mash ups
I organized my library without the smart crates..how do I switch it without starting everything over
I keep a crate called ARCHIVE that I drag all my old crates into.
Dope idea man. I keep all my iTunes libraries as back ups, similar to your archive idea.
@wazzytv I don’t know think there’s a way to switch it unfortunately though because you have to create each smart crate
The rules
I don't like that BPM supreme playlists are a paid extra feature....
Yeah, it’d be nice if came with the subscription. However, I can see why it’s paid cuz there’s so many playlists and curated sets
no mp3 use flac or wav , it s the path
Why can't i find Utopia by Travis Scott my bro ?
Might have to try a few pools for that one.
Afrobeats, DanceHall & reggae are not the same....you must play for a lot of amercian partys.Afrobeats are by themselves DanceHall & reggae are 1.good info tho.
Thanks for the clarification 🙏🏾 - I know they’re different but I planned to keep them all under the same overall crate, with different individualized sub crates. “Afro” isn’t the right term for the overall crate - not sure what to name it honestly.
This is such an amazing video for those who have never used smart crates. I started using it two years ago and I instantly liked it. I have picked something more from this video. Thank you very much @djliftOFF25
Appreciate it man 🙌🏾🙌🏾 and yeah it’s definitely a game changer!!
Just go ahead and sell us your crate. 😉 I’ll bite.
Ahaha!
Lame...
Lol how so?