Music list

[Dance FX]

I have been thinking that maybe buying a laptop and loading all our CD's on to it would be the easiest way of listing our music.

The only other way of getting a list together would be to type every track into Excel and print it off and take it with us. This will take a lifetime to do but how on earth do we find which disc to look on for a requested song?

Also with a laptop we could play the song directly from it via the decks! (I think:confused: )

Suggestions please as I don't relish the idea of inputing tracks off of the dozens of CD's we have already bought :(


Sarah

[Jiggles]

Well for what you are saying you need a program like PCDJ Red, Blue or FX, Virtual DJ ect these are all DJ programs that do whay you say :)

[Shaun]

There are software applications that can put together music lists for you. Pop the cd in your drive and the software will connect to an online database to fill in the information.

This topic may be of some help >> CLickity Click (http://www.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=6773)

[Vectis]

Or for something very cheap, feature rich and intuitive to use, look at OTS Turntables. Can be upgraded later to the full DJ product but I find this is usually all I need.

Linky (http://otsturntables.com/)

[PropellerHeadCase]

This will take a lifetime to do but how on earth do we find which disc to look on for a requested song?

So long as your spreadsheet has at least 'song', 'artist', 'album' it won't be a problem... assuming the CDs are in a sensible order.

[Dance FX]

Thanks for your advice and links.

I have had a look at a few laptops but need to know from any digital guys what size hard drive I need. There is a 100GB ultra mobile laptop in PC world for £599, quite like the look of that and its much smaller than the laptop I use at the moment for work!

Already have an external HD for backups but may get another one just for music.

Sarah

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Thanks for your advice and links.

I have had a look at a few laptops but need to know from any digital guys what size hard drive I need. There is a 100GB ultra mobile laptop in PC world for £599, quite like the look of that and its much smaller than the laptop I use at the moment for work!

Already have an external HD for backups but may get another one just for music.

Sarah

I would more likely to be looking at the speed of the processor and the RAM etc, than the size of the HDD.

[Dance FX]

Ah, right!

OK the one I am interested in is
Intel Core Duo T2250 Processor 1.73GHz
533MHz FSB
2MB Cache
1024MB RAM
100GB Hard Drive
Dual Layer DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
12" TFT Display
Microsoft Windows Vista Premium
128MB Intel GMA950 Shared Graphics

Any good?