Manual-
Organizing your music
Scratch
LIVE
can support an unlimited number of tracks – the only limitation is the size of the
hard drive of your computer. A number of features are included to help you to keep your music
organized and find songs quickly and easily.
Grouping tracks into crates
Scratch
LIVE
supports several ways of organizing and sorting your file library. iTunes™ users will
notice that Scratch
LIVE
automatically incorporates your existing iTunes library and playlists.
Scratch
LIVE
uses digital “crates” for quick access to your favorite collections. There 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 files into the following crates, where any one track would be
filed in more than one crate:
• Hip Hop
• UK Hip Hop
• French Hip Hop
• Instrumental Hip Hop
• Old School Hip Hop
• Hip Hop LPs
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: The
protect library
option in the
setup
screen applies to removing, editing and renam-
ing crates. Check this option to prevent changes to your crates. If you do delete a crate by accident,
you can get it back from the recycle bin / trash. Crate files have the extension
.crate
.
Sorting your files
The 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 col-
umn header so it highlights. For example, clicking
on the album column header will sort your library
alphabetically by album title. To move a column,
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.