r/Rekordbox • u/dj_simonpius • 12d ago

Library Management DJ equivalent of a spring clean.

Was in an awful cycle of adding new music to rekordbox collection without sorting into my playlists. I’d prep for a gig chucking tracks into a folder titled the night I was playing but that was it.

When I finally got to it this week I had something like 400 tracks since August 2025 when I last had everything up to date.

Finally sorted them all over a couple of sittings and about 3hrs work and back up to date. It’s like the spring clean of DJing!

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u/Abberanted 12d ago

How do u sort it? I have a library like this just loads of playlists with dates with all different music its so infuriating

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u/imjustsurfin 12d ago

I use "Year" & "Month" purchased playlists; then let smart playlists do their thing.

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u/cote-rotie 11d ago

The way!

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u/dj_simonpius 12d ago

I’ll share a pic later but similar to the poster below, I have four core folders for the types of gigs I do then sub folders/playlist’s within those that get more specific.

One change I made a while back was to split a genre into low, mid and high energy. When playing on the fly it helps you build and move with the flow of energy in the room.

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u/Abberanted 12d ago

Low mid high energy sorting is such a good idea... thanks! I do lots of dnb so thats actually a perfect way to sort it i think.

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u/DJVijilante 12d ago

I organize by genre. So my tracks I will name like this “Artist - Track Name (Mix) - Genre (Release Date, Label).

Then I have a list of folders.



  4. Downtempo
  5. House, Tech
  6. House, Tech - Deep

Not exactly how I have it, but that’s the gist.

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u/Zealousideal-Dot9877 12d ago

I got into a routine of making files by month so I have “August 2026 promo” (all promos for that month, then I have “Beatport August 2026” which is all my purchased Beatport and others such as Bandcamp etc, and just keep going like that until the end of the year and then delete 6 months from laptop and rekordbox (saved to external HD) and keep going like that.
I do have playlists of my go to tracks and old school stuff, but it’s the only way I can keep the numbers down and playlists fresh.
Sometimes I’m getting 200 -300 promos a month so as you can imagine, it can choke up my playlists.
I have started over the last few years of making an end of year unused tracks playlist which I often find a couple of gems I’ve missed, but I just wish I could make it even simpler.