How many songs in your travelling library?

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Jeff Romard

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How many songs in your travelling library?

It isn't as important to have every song on hand like it was in the old days we have millions at the tips of our fingers so I'm curious how many do you have with you. I carry about 12,000 on my laptops in reality I could do most of my gigs with less than 100
 
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I can't say a number but I’d say about 3.5 TB of mostly music-videos and that includes the karaoke stuff. I ripped all my cds 20 years ago but I didn't rip all my DVDs. That was done as needed, now many of original music videos were replaced with newly downloaded updated versions. Without playlists I wouldn’t be able to find anything, just too much music.
 
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I don't even know. 92% or so of the songs on my laptops have only been played once or twice over many years. I could probably narrow the amount of mp3s on my Laptops down to a Top 100 most requested list, a wedding ceremony folder, a wedding cocktail hour and dinner folder, a country folder for the seldom times I need some country requests, a Dance/EDM folder for rare requests, a Disco/70s Folder, a General 80s, 90s, 2000s Pop/Hip Hop Folder with popular songs from each decade, and a Newer music folder. The Newer Music Folder would have less than 60 songs in it to choose from. The wedding folders would have less than 40 songs each in them, and the other general folders might have between 150 and 200 songs in each of them.

That would give me between 860 and 1,060 songs to work with phyiscally on my hard drive. I could realistically make that work for all the events that I do, and just stream everything else that I don't have from Spotify, Tidal, or You Tube Music. If I don't have the ability to stream from the internet, then I can be fine with what I have, and still pump out successful events. Just may not please the 1 or 2 people with a new song or off the wall request that I wouldn't have.

I probably have over 35K songs on my laptops though. I'm not going to check and add them all up.
 
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I carry about 30k songs but I am looking to trim that down. I keep it all on my internal drive. Having the ability to stream from Tidal really helps cut down on the random songs that I will only play once. My Macbook Pro has 512 GB of space. I'm currently looking to upgrade my Mac but the cost of a 1TB model made me take another look at how much music I carry with me and what can be deleted.
 
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The issue is not really the size of your library. Knowing what it contains , having the right contant , how to find a song & when to play.
My crates change over time . Always adding or moving songs to the top of the crates.
 
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sonic-vision said:
The issue is not really the size of your library. Knowing what it contains , having the right contant , how to find a song & when to play.
My crates change over time . Always adding or moving songs to the top of the crates.
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So it's not the size it's how you use it?

tunes4046 said:
I’d be very surprised if I played more than 500 different songs for an entire wedding season
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I was thinking maybe 200
 
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I know my CD library was around 30K songs back when I ripped it all to MP3. Then I started getting my music on MP3 directly and never really counted after that. I have lots of duplicates that I can't be bothered removing. I only removed bad tracks such as lousy covers so I don't accidentally play them. After all space is cheap these days.
 
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I have just over 10k, but like the rest of you, the number of songs I've actually played is less than 1000. I've thought about trimming down the total number by getting rid of songs I've never even heard of that I have in there, but then I think, why? Storage space is super-cheap, and you never know when you may get "that one" request and it would make their day if you could play it. Now for the guys that stream everything, no biggie, but a lot, if not the majority of my events are in locations that don't have cellular service, and I can't depend on a venue to have wifi, so I like to have as much as I can downloaded and with me.
 
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I have at least one 2 TB portable HD for backup. I keep both in my laptop bag that's on wheels. What else is in there are 2 laptops, a wired mic, 2 pair of headphones, some wires and batteries.
 
I have been VJing for almost a decade so my mp4 videos outnumber my mp3 audios.

As of this post, I currently have and bring to every event table 27,987 music videos. All four of my roadshow laptops have 6tb of internal SSD storage, so there's no concern over space nor speed. I love my VDJ software which makes my VDJ/DJ life smooth and troublefree.

I subscribe to Xtendamix which has a formitable selection of top 40, urban, country, alt rock, ethnic, dance, grime, oldies, and such. New tracks are added daily with a preview feature for each selection. I pick and choose carefully based on lyrical vulgarity and visual t&a (which eliminates 90% of the urban stuff).
 
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Cap Capello said:
I subscribe to Xtendamix which has a formitable selection of top 40, urban, country, alt rock, ethnic, dance, grime, oldies, and such. New tracks are added daily with a preview feature for each selection.
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I have been with Xtendamix for almost 10 years best choice I have ever made as far as music goes. I have the videos stored and convert them to MP3. Quality is top notch
 
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I don't have a large libray as like many here, its around 10k or so, always adding it too tough, like most, probably only playing a very small portion of it at gigs, maybe a couple hundred get played. At gigs I have the library mirrored on the secodnary laptop and an extenral HD , and then my main laptop I use at home and the 3 back up HDs .
 
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