No, I don't.
However, given the contortions people go through over other people's claims of music and karaoke tracks, I'd like to point out something.
Every year Billboard publishes it's list of the Top 100 songs from that year. Could you actually think of 100 songs in any given year that people would care to hear? If you could, (most people can't) then from 1955 to present that would only account for 5,500 songs.
Even if you merge the charts of a half-dozen other genres (County, R&B, Dance, Jazz, etc.) you'd have a hard time reaching a number like 50,000.
I believe my hard drive shows some 15,000 tracks. If you ask me how much music I have I'm gong to give you a number more like 5,000. That's because I figure when I adjust for multiple versions of the same song, outright duplicates, different formats (audio, video, karaoke), plus a lot of crap no one cares about (like 60% of Promo only) - I've got about 5,000 tracks that would be of interest to you.
For the past 25 years 5,000 has been the magic number for me. It best represnted my total vinyl collection, and each of my mobile CD collections, and the targets I used when purchasing for dance clubs and hotels. Anything over 5,000 and I needed to do some serious weeding (it was easy to eliminate things that were never getting played or requested.)
Weeding is important; especially if you are managing music for other DJs or venues. Anything a DJ doesn't need just gets in his way - slowing him down, presenting distractions and potential dance floor killers. It becomes harder for the DJ to connect with the tracks he really needs or wants. The younger or less experienced the DJ - the bigger problem this clutter becomes. Today, with the simplicity of computer filters and hard drives these weeds or "musical dust bunnies" tend too just pile up. It's generally cheaper, easier, and wiser to get a bigger hard drive than waste valuable time weeding computer files. Yet, the magic number representing the "active" collection still seems to be 5,000.
So, how does 5,000 popular tarcks actaully work out in when you carry a trimmed collection to the more diverse world of mobile events? Quite fine actually. If you track such things - you're going to hit 9 out of every 10 requests you receive - because, as I pointed out earlier the list of popular music over the last 50 years isn't that long even when you diversify it.
Having provided supprt services and products I've also had the opportunity to evaluate the music libraries of many other DJs. The same principle applies there as well. DJs carrying around 5 times as many CDs still had collections that boil down to the same magical 5,000 popular tracks. They too suffered from massive duplicates across different compilations, alternate versions, and just plain wasteful organization and useless filler.
Consider this: If you take the top 40 hits of any given year, for the last 50 years, and multiply that across the most useful 5 genres - that's only 10,000 possible tracks of significant interest. (Most DJs don't collect across 5 genres.)
So how fare thee?
However, given the contortions people go through over other people's claims of music and karaoke tracks, I'd like to point out something.
Every year Billboard publishes it's list of the Top 100 songs from that year. Could you actually think of 100 songs in any given year that people would care to hear? If you could, (most people can't) then from 1955 to present that would only account for 5,500 songs.
Even if you merge the charts of a half-dozen other genres (County, R&B, Dance, Jazz, etc.) you'd have a hard time reaching a number like 50,000.
I believe my hard drive shows some 15,000 tracks. If you ask me how much music I have I'm gong to give you a number more like 5,000. That's because I figure when I adjust for multiple versions of the same song, outright duplicates, different formats (audio, video, karaoke), plus a lot of crap no one cares about (like 60% of Promo only) - I've got about 5,000 tracks that would be of interest to you.
For the past 25 years 5,000 has been the magic number for me. It best represnted my total vinyl collection, and each of my mobile CD collections, and the targets I used when purchasing for dance clubs and hotels. Anything over 5,000 and I needed to do some serious weeding (it was easy to eliminate things that were never getting played or requested.)
Weeding is important; especially if you are managing music for other DJs or venues. Anything a DJ doesn't need just gets in his way - slowing him down, presenting distractions and potential dance floor killers. It becomes harder for the DJ to connect with the tracks he really needs or wants. The younger or less experienced the DJ - the bigger problem this clutter becomes. Today, with the simplicity of computer filters and hard drives these weeds or "musical dust bunnies" tend too just pile up. It's generally cheaper, easier, and wiser to get a bigger hard drive than waste valuable time weeding computer files. Yet, the magic number representing the "active" collection still seems to be 5,000.
So, how does 5,000 popular tarcks actaully work out in when you carry a trimmed collection to the more diverse world of mobile events? Quite fine actually. If you track such things - you're going to hit 9 out of every 10 requests you receive - because, as I pointed out earlier the list of popular music over the last 50 years isn't that long even when you diversify it.
Having provided supprt services and products I've also had the opportunity to evaluate the music libraries of many other DJs. The same principle applies there as well. DJs carrying around 5 times as many CDs still had collections that boil down to the same magical 5,000 popular tracks. They too suffered from massive duplicates across different compilations, alternate versions, and just plain wasteful organization and useless filler.
Consider this: If you take the top 40 hits of any given year, for the last 50 years, and multiply that across the most useful 5 genres - that's only 10,000 possible tracks of significant interest. (Most DJs don't collect across 5 genres.)
So how fare thee?
