Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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If you've been away from DJing for a while, the music side of things has changed beyond all recognition: gone are the record boxes, the record shops, the CD wallets and the burned discs. Now it's digital files, online stores, streaming services and metadata. It's enough to put anyone off before they've even started.

So in this video we strip it all back and make it simple. The goal isn't a 10TB archive of every tune you've ever loved, it's your first virtual record crate: around 60 songs, an hour or so of music, enough to get you mixing again.

I walk you through seven golden rules for building that collection mindfully, from buying songs rather than albums to sorting your metadata and backing everything up properly.

Then I answer the questions we get asked most at the school, including where to actually buy music today, whether you need any extra software, and why streaming services aren't the shortcut they look like.

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