Apple Rane Computer Accessories User Manual


 
Manual-13
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,