Is it necessary to have a 2nd copy of every album in a collection? Being that you might want to play 2 songs off the same CD or you are beat juggling.

Necessary? No. Handy? Yes.

But if you have the CDJ1000s then you can also use the hot cues to jump from one song to the other on the same CD. If you want to beat juggle then the answer is yes.

I have doubles of EVERYTHING in my boxes. One CD in the middle of sleeve, one in the back. Its great for remixing on the spot, having to play a song on the same CD and is also a great backup tool if for some reason your CD gets scratched.

I have doubles of almost my entire collection, like Philly said it's nice to have them for remixing and backups. The problem I used to run into was that track I wanted to play next was sometimes on the same cd.

If you don't carry backups of your whole collection that's fine, but perhaps CD's made that have certain hot tracks on them is another thing. Like, you're never going to play all 12-16 tracks on an album, but there may be 4 hot ones, so burn those and leave that disc in with the other.

-r-

I also have doubles of everything. I usually beat jugle and most of my cd,s are compolations of the latest hot songs anyway!

It is rare that you will find a full CD in my case that is an album of a single artist purchased from the store. Most of my CDs are all compilations that I make. Then I make a double copy of that and keep it together. For example, in my Hop Hop Box I have a Best of JayZ set, Best of 50 Cent, Reggaeton Volumes 1-4, etc etc. This way I have a $hitload more songs that I would actually play rather then if I carried the full albums from the stores.

Goes the same for my House/Trance box. I burn about 4-5 vinyls (including A and B sides) to a CD. I have different compilations that I make, such as: Vinyl Pancackes 1-28, Trancecakes 1-14, Beatport 1-18, etc etc.

Makes life sooooooo much easier!

I burn every cd on to the Mac, and then I can have doubles thru TFS. Then if a cd get's messed up or stolen, then I've got the mp3 on the computer that I can make a cd from. And you can use CDJ's with TFS, so no need to copy your entire cd collection, TFS will allow you to throw doubles with no problems.

Whilst on the topic of Cd collections, im in the process of building up my Hiphop and house/trance collections. How do you's purchase your music? like do you's buy singles only, or or albums/compilations?

Im not really into downloading music (cant stand the sight of a CD-R in my case), so yeh just wondering how you guys collect your music

if only we had promo only in australia

If I know at least 3 songs are good on a cd, I'll buy the cd. If I know I'll need an instrumental and/or accapella, I'll buy the vinyl singles. And if it's just a few requests for an upcoming party/event, I'll go to iTunes.

It shouldn't really matter how your music "looks", but how it sounds....

Thanks guys,

also the music that you do download/rip from cd, what is the lowest quality mp3 you would play at a party or club etc.. obviously you wouldnt play a track 128kbps cos of poor sound quality?

I would never touch an MP3 lower than 256 but if I'm buying MP3s I get 320k.

I go with 192. But i've heard never think about lower than 128. 320 is best, but not always possible.

128 if you're cramped for space. Over a PA it'll sound just like the CD.
192 if you want it to sound exactly like the CD.
256 & up if you don't care about Mother Earth and just want to be a wasteful little person.

You hear that Pulse

You're nuts on the 128k, those things have compression artifacts so significant that you'd have to be deaf not to hear them.

Huh? What'd you say sonny?