Backing up your Music and computer is the KEY to not loosing it all!

I have said it before and i will say it again. BACK UP YOUR MUSIC EVERY MONTH if possible and while you are at it defragment your music drive and check it for errors. You can use the built in disc utility that comes with your computer. Just go to My Computer select your music drive (hopefully it is on an External Hard drive) and RIGHT Click it and select properties, now select the TOOLS Tab and there you will find error check and the defragmenter.

If you cannot get into the defragmenter that way you will have to go to the Control Panel, click The Administrative Tools Icon, then click The Computer Management Icon. This will bring up a new window called Computer Management. Click on Disk Defragmenter in the Left hand side Box and you will then be able to select the drive to defragment (it is usually NOT C - that is your computers main hard drive).

DIGITAL DJ - MP3 Maintenance: I ripped my music...What's Next?

Now that I've ripped all this music what do I do?

Lets say you have a 200 Gigabyte hard drive and and it is 90% full thats 180 Gig and about 45,000 songs (ripped at 128 to 192 kbs avg). Hopefully You already have used a good MP3-RIPPER like Audio Grabber but if you didn't you might have to do some of the following.

You need to do a few things to make sure your music collection is pristine. The FIRST MOST Important thing is to BACK UP your entire music collection at LEAST ONCE if not more. and this backup should happen monthly or each time you change or update your music collection.

Second is you should get an MP3 id3v TAG analyzer/editor. Run this program on your entire library to correct spelling and/or missing information. it should also update your tags automatically in a mass grouping.Try DR. Tag (I use it. FREE to try) - AVS Audio editor is similar to Audacity but it has more functions.

Third is NORMALIZATION. Grab an MP3 normalizing program that will set all of your mp3s volume levels at the same default level. MP3 Gain is great software and it is FREE! Keep in mind that normalizing your audio levels can have an affect on the way they sound.

After all this is done you can go deeper with the ID3v tag editor and really categorize all of your music (Manually of course) You can also use editing programs like audacity or Cool Edit to change or edit your music ( taking out bad words for ex.)

You can als get an mp3 BPM (Beats Per Minute) analyzer/editor to extract the BPM information form your entire library. Mixmeister offers a Very Cool Free BPM Analyzer. Note that the new DJ software on the market automatically BPMs each song when played live at a gig. and other programs can extract BPM and normalize as well as individually being able to edit mp3s id3v tag.

REMEMBER.....
BACK UP YOUR MUSIC AFTER EACH OF THESE STAGES.

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Digital DJ - Options USB/SD Card/Hard Drive

The Digital DJ has many ways of storing and playing his MP3s. Mass storage usually starts with a Hard Drive while others prefer smaller media formats such as USB/Flash (Thumb Drives) or SD (Secure Digital) cards, and others use DATA CDs or DVD's (as discussed in earlier posts). Each of these options has it's pros and cons so we want to hear from you.

What kind of media do you use to store your digital files? Leave a comment and one lucky person will receive a free tote bag filled with DJ Goodies.

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