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Organizing your music
Scratch LIVE software can support an unlimited number of songs
– the only limitation is the size of the hard drive of your com-
puter. A number of features are included to help you to keep your
music organized and nd songs quickly and easily.
Grouping tracks into crates
Scratch LIVE supports several ways of organizing and sorting your
le library. iTunes™ users will notice that Scratch LIVE automati-
cally incorporates your existing iTunes library and playlists.
Scratch LIVE uses digital “crates” for quick access to your
favorite collections. ere is no limit to the number of crates you
can create, and any given track can be placed in multiple crates.
For example, you could organize your les into the following
crates, where any one track would be filed in more than one crate:
• Vocal Jazz
• Cool Jazz
• Jazz Funk
• Modern Jazz
• Jazz Groove
• Fusion Jazz
To make a new crate, click the
+
button. To rename a crate,
double click the crate name.
You can change the order of tracks within a crate by dragging
them up or down.
Tip: e protect library option in the setup screen applies to
removing, editing and renaming crates. Check this option to
prevent changes to your crates. If you do delete a crate by ac-
cident, you can get it back from the recycle bin / trash. Crate
files have the extension .crate.
Subcrates
You can drag and drop crates into other crates to make subcrates.
If you drag a crate to the very left of the crate panel, it will stay in
the top level of the crate structure. If you drag the crate a little to
the right, onto the name of another crate, it will make the crate
you are dragging a sub crate of the first crate.
Sorting your files
e track information display area can be customized to display
the columns listed below:
• Album
• Artist
• Bitrate
• BPM
• Comment
• Composer
• Filename
• Genre
• Grouping
• Label
• Length
• Location
• Remixer
• Sampling Rate
• Size
• Track
• Year
Click on the column button to select which columns you
want to display.
To sort your library by a column, click the column header so
it highlights. For example, clicking on the album column header
will sort your library alphabetically by album title. To move a col-
umn, drag the header to the left or right. To resize a column, click
on the column boundary and drag it to the left or right.
Using the song browser
e song browser allows you to lter your song list by Genre,