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moving from wavs to mp3

Guys wondering if anyone can give me some pointers,  up until now I have been using WAV files (mp3's converted to WAV) as I had 2 CDJ 1000's and I used to burn WAV's to CD's as audio.  I have just bought a CDJ 2000 and I'm going to start using rekordbox and mp3's instead OF wavs.  I'm totally starting from scratch here so I want to make sure I'm putting the best practices in place.  Would I be right in saying that you should use intunes as your back end database for mp3's and import your mp3's from itunes into rekordbox? can anyone give me some hints on whats good practice on managing MP3's.  I also use mixed in key so I'm wanting to keep things as organized as possible.

 

Can appreciate this probably a subject that has been covered before, but just trying to get more experienced users of rekordbox's best practices :)

Zeus Tunage

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There was no benefit from converting mp3's to WAV's and then burning to CD. MP3's are lossy so by converting to WAV all you were doing was making the file sizes bigger.

The way forward .... I don't personally like itunes and avoid it.

Depending on your source of music (original CD or download) make sure you have mp3's at 320 bitrate and preferably constant not variable. Run them through MIK and then import into RB.

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is there any benefit to using itunes? with you on the constant 320 aspect bro........ looking at the below post there seems to be some benefit when using MIK

http://forums.pioneerdj.com/entries/22009878-rekordbox-2-0-1-not-working-with-mixed-in-key-updating-key-tag-field

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Here's the basic methodology that I've been using for a while, in case it helps others:

  1. Purchase / download tracks, and put them in a unique folder
  2. Drag folder of new tracks into iTunes sidebar (this imports the tracks & creates a new playlist with them)
  3. Select all tracks in the new playlist, and edit Info (Cmd+I); Clear the "Comments" field and click OK
  4. Drag the already-selected tracks from iTunes straight into MIK and wait for MIK to finish processing them
  5. Back in iTunes, right-click the still-selected tracks, choose "Convert ID3 Tags…" (use newest version), click OK;
  6. Converting the ID3 tags refreshes the tags and should bring in new info from MIK (set MIK to override "Comments")
  7. Edit your track tags in iTunes (confirm genre, add rating, category, grouping, artwork, etc.)
  8. Import playlist into rekordbox via Bridge function
  9. Select tracks and use "Reload Tags" to help rekordbox get all the info it inexplicably misses when you import

To "copy" the Camelot values from the Comments field to the Key field, you can sort the playlist (or your entire collection) by Comments, which makes selecting all your 7A tracks (for example) really simple. Even if most of them already have 7A in the Key field as well, you can open the Info pane and add "7A" in the key field to update the ones that don't.

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