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Graham
Community Manager
Community ManagerHow DJs organise their music library with Dropbox
- jski
Dropbox Staff
I DJ and use Dropbox for managing my music library. I use a folder structure with all of the songs I use for performances backed up in my Dropbox. I've organized roughly by music genres, e.g. Trance, House (and various subgenres), Techno, etc. The folder syncs to my laptops that I use for performing so I have all of the songs available locally.
I currently use Rekordbox so with that I can export playlists to USB, and then I can copy the playlist files into Dropbox too alongside my DJ music library so they are also backed up in the cloud. I have also used Rekordbox's sync integration with Dropbox to pull things down directly, but I prefer to also have a USB copy of everything (songs and playlists) in case of network connectivity issues. Some things in Rekordbox are path-sensitive so at times I may need to edit playlist files to fix the file locations (like from the USB path to my Dropbox path). I wish I had an easier way to do that today that could auto-locate each file and update its location based on folders I tell it to search in, but I make it work.
Here, we are using Serato for first import, crate sorting, and exporting to an OS folder that matches the Crate. Then that folder is imported into Rekordbox to keep matching crates and playlists between the 2 software.
Until recently, I was using Dropbox Backup to keep an offline copy of this folder structure incase something bad happened at home. I have lot of feedback about Dropbox Backup for DJ's if you would like to hear about it. This is a huge opportunity
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