You have all the appropriate liceneces to use a laptop ect. So that side of DJing with a laptop is sorted.

How do you go about categorising your music. Do you put the music in one folder or several?
If you organise your music in serveral folders what do you label these folders?
By decades? By years? Genre of music?

If its genre, how do you choose a genre of music for a song (because on persons rock music, could be another persons pop music).

Is there another way you do it? I'm interested as to how people organise there music?

Cheers
DM

I use itunes to arrange into folders, and then just keep them like that, works damn well if you ask me.

as albums

I do it as such:

2 top folders

ARTIST
- Contains all albums by single artists with a folder for each artist, and then underneath each artist, a folder for each album by that artist
VA
- Contains all the rest...see below

Ballad - Not many albums, so 1 folder per album
Chart - Contains
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2005 - which will eventually move into 2000s when 2006 is fully underway, has chart albums in date order, so I can see what is the latest stuff, such as 2005-12 DMC DJO083 etc
- 2006
Chillout - as ballad
Comedy - as ballad
Dance - As Chart
DJ - Contains all Mastermix Issue and DMC monthly CDs in date order
DJ Utils - contains items like DJ Box
DnB - date ordered albums
Football - as ballad
Garage - date ordered albums
Halloween - as ballad
Jazz - as ballad
Kids - as ballad
Latin - as ballad
Party - contains year folders and generic party albums
- 1960s - motown, pop etc
- 1970s - disco, soul etc
- 1980s - Greatest 80s album in the world ever etc.
- 1990s
- 2000s
- then albums that can't fit in the year categorys such as the classic cuts party albums
Reggae - as ballad
RnB - date order
Rock - as ballad, contains indie etc as well
Soul - as ballad
Soundtrack - contains grease album, dirty dancing, blues brothers etc
TV - Contains all MAstermix TV Sets
Wedding - wedding albums such as Mastermix wedding box
Xmas - all xmas albums

PS

I also have loads of different categories in OTS which are assigned to each mp3/OTS file...so I can have a rock song, which is also categorised as a party song...so I can find it easily...eg Darkness I believe in a thing called love or queen we will rock you.

That is the beauty of OTS.