ORGANIZING YOUR SCRATCH LIVE LIBRARY

Do you want all your music in Scratch Live?

From earlier, you should have answers to the following:

How do you get new music? 

Do you want it all in your library?

Come up with a process for dealing with new music and put it into action. This should include building overviews, tagging correctly and adding to crates if appropriate.

Define crate structure

If you prefer working mostly from crates, making one for each type of gig you play is probably a good idea. Organize them into subcrates once they get past a couple of screens full.

Another popular way of organizing into crates is to make crate for each genre and subcrates for sub genres.

If you enable 'Include subcrate tracks' in the library panel of the setup screen, all the tracks in a crate including those in subcrates will be included in the track listing of the parent crate. 

Tagging files

Take the time to correctly tag all your existing library, and include a tagging stage in your process for incoming tracks. One time saver is to use the browse panel to check that you're avoiding multiple entries for the same artist, album etc.

Relocate lost files

Relocate lost files is a handy tool to assist moving files around. If you move a bunch of files, rescan tags so Scratch Live notices they've moved, then drag their new location folder onto the relocate lost files button. Their location is updated (even across drives). Magic!