That’s a dark road to go ……. “I ll pay you more to hurry up and fix things “. Not me!! I am paying for what the product is currently doing. Can’t sell me no pipe dreams😂
Algoriddim has always lead the game - Spotify, Neural Mix, Fluid Beatgrids, Apple Music as well as the quest stuff. Problem now is that they are required to release updates on all platforms together - iOS, Android, Mac, PC. That’s a lot. Then they have the Apple vision and quest updates to do. They have spread themselves too thin. My 2 cents.
Basically, it’s a good idea to do this independently of a single application and also outside of it, so that you can also use it with another product if necessary. If you have built up and structured your music collection over years, it can be an incredible amount of effort to change everything just to be able to continue using it as usual just because you are using different software. Unfortunately, there is no common standard that really works everywhere.
Sorting into folders is only natural because we’ve all been used to it for a long time, many of us for decades. Ultimately, however, this is also just a habit. And in earlier years, of course, it made sense and was practical. In the meantime, however, the use of tags is basically the better and more universal way, just as it is with photos. Of course, this only works if the software can process it accordingly. This hasn’t been a problem with photos for many years, nor with the management of music libraries, but unfortunately it’s still not standard within DJ software itself.
Probably a good idea to have a singular folder and an organised folder to be prepared for all circumstances then?
It also depends on how you operate.
I like to curate for gigs and more advice I have been advised is to take twice as much music as you will need so I will create playlists accordingly.
I don’t need to take 30 days worth of music to play a 3 hour set.
some people do oviously because they operate in a different way
Thanks for the continued feedback on this topic everyone! There’s some great input in here for sure.