

Think of these tags as multiple tags that can be set for music tracks. Tip: don’t think of ‘My Tags’ as just one tag per track. ‘My Tag’ your MusicĪs mentioned above in the first point ‘My Tag’ is a great field to use in Rekordbox, but only if you’ve put in the initial effort to set up the ‘My Tag’s to be customised for your needs and then subsequently tagged up your music tracks. Once the menu is visible, you can check or un-check the fields (or columns) that you would like to see in the playlist section. The above menu will appear giving you the option. To activate the below Fields menu list, hover over the field name on the playlist and right click. Simple hover over the name of the column field name and then left click hold and drag to the new location.

To achieve this all you need to do is to drag the column and move it to where ever you want it in the order of the table.įor example you might want the preview to be moved out of the way and just focus on the artist name and track names, but also you might want to focus on fields that provide BPM and Key. Moving the columns around can help you a lot, especially if you prefer to see the ‘ Key‘ of a track or the ‘ Label‘ for example.

Move columns around in the order that suit you Now there’s two tips that can help you organise your music from a visual point of view. In the main section you can see a lot of different columns. The main section on Rekordbox that you can see where your music playlist exists, after you’ve selected a music folder of course.

Lets take a look at the top 10 tips to get you up to scratch.Ĭheck out our NEW DJ Course here. Automated organisation can help you with inspiration for your DJ sets.
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You will need some manual sort of organisation to prepare for particular gigs. Sync Your Music to the Cloud in Rekordbox 6.Use Palette Banks for Quick Access to Music.Create Playlists of compatible songs to mix.Categorise Playlists within Folders by genre.Intelligent playlists for Automated Organisation.Organising music does take some basic knowledge of how Rekordbox works, but once you know a few different ways it starts becoming very easy to organise music. Start “ Disk Utility” by pressing Command+Spacebar and type “disk”, select the first item in the list or press Enter.Using Rekordbox for the first time can be a bit crazy to get to grips with, even after using Serato DJ which I find quite easy to use.
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Formatting USB drive on Mac for Rekordbox I can only guess to why Pioneer choose to support these older standards instead of the newer standards, probably licensing issues.įor now, we have to work with the limitations. You probably noticed that the supported standards are replaced by newer more reliable ones with less (storage) limitations.įAT32 is replaced by NTFS in 1993, HFS+ is replaced by APFS in 2017. HFS+ however is notorious for getting corrupt after a while. There are tools that “force” formatting above 32GB, however, since it is not conform the FAT32 industry standard, Pioneer doesn’t support it.It might work at first glance, but it will lead unexected behaviour later in your DJ set.īeen there, done that!Just don’t format your drive above 32GB!īecause of the broad support this is the recommended format.Īpple’s Hierarchical File System is an alternative to FAT32 (also known as “OS X extended” in Apple’s Disk Utility) and allows you a bigger storage than 32GB.īut you can can only format and read a USB drive with HFS+ on a Mac, not Windows.
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Also, all modern computers support FAT32 nowadays (including Apple).Don’t use it.įAT32 created in is the follow up of FAT16.įAT32 is supported on Mac OS and Windows, but has a limitation of 32GB. I disregard FAT because it is even older than ancient. FATĪlso known as FAT16 is an acronym for File Allocation Table 16 bit.
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Later in this article I will give you step-by-step instructions to format your USB drive on Mac and Windows the right way. The Pioneer CDJ machines support three types of file system formats:īelow you can find my recommended file system, pros and cons of each file system. Which format is best and step-by-step format instructions you can read in this article.
