DJ You Need to Back up Your Music Library Again and Again!

0:00 The most important thing you've got is your music

So, you've got the kit, you've got the lights, you've got the CDJs, or you've got the mixer, you've got your controller, you've got a van, you've got your cards, you've got your website, you've got everything. You've got everything you need to be, to become and also to continue as a mobile DJ. Or maybe you've got everything to be any kind of DJ. And you're probably thinking the most important thing that you've got is your decks, is your mixer, are your lights. Well, you're wrong. The most important thing you've got is your music. So, you're a new DJ. You've just started two or three months ago. You've got a bunch of tunes on your thumb drive. Cool. You're a DJ, you've been around for 10, 15 years. You've got a few CDs, you've got a whole bunch of MP3s.

You've got MP3s on your laptop, you're good to go. You're a really old school DJ. You've got a whole bunch of vinyl like me over there. And you've got a whole bunch of CDs. And you've got a load of MP3s. But what you tend to do is as time moves on, you think, well, do I really want to carry all the vinyl around? No, it's easier. It is! It's easier on a thumb drive or a hard drive. So, let me show you something. That is a 32 gigabyte. It's a big USB 3.0 thumb drive. That one there is the same, OK? That there is a hard drive. This here is a CD.

1:38 An old school vinyl LP

And that is a piece of vinyl. An old school vinyl LP. Street Sounds by the way. Killer LP. So what's this video about? Well... You may be the biggest twat. Idiot. F-face in the entire world. You could be an absolute dickhead of a prat. Do you know why? Because your entire music collection is in one place. On your laptop. You've got no backup. Or, your entire music collection is on what you feel is the safest place. A hard drive. Whether it be a solid state drive SSD. Or a hard drive like that. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter the gig. It doesn't matter the size or the make. What does matter... Is this. You need backup. You need to make sure that your collection is backed up. Not once. Twice. Or even three times. Now if you think for one second

3:06 Collection, copy, touch

You have got, for example, a Toshiba hard drive and this is a model AB whatever. OK? So you've got it backed up on number one. Then you've got a Toshiba 123 whatever backed up number two. A Toshiba 123 backed up number three whatever. You think that's cool, that's great. Well it's actually not. Because if that hard drive goes wrong there could be a problem with that make of hard drive. So I highly recommend that you copy your entire collection on a different make of hard drive two or three times and you have one copy of all of your tracks locked up in a cupboard somewhere out of the way. Kids can't touch it, your missus can't touch it, the dog cat can't touch it, no one. If someone robbed your house it would be the only thing left in your house

Because they wouldn't be able to find it. That's how secure it needs to be. Because your collection may have taken you years and years to get. OK? If someone heavens forbid took something, a piece of kit from under your nose get another one. If someone takes your music collection you cannot get that exact music collection again that you put together through blood, sweat and god damn tears! So simple copy it. As soon as you've finished watching this video if it's daytime and you've not copied your collection I suggest you turn the mother fricking computer off you go out there, you get a hard drive and you copy your damn collection NOW! Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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