Serato To Rekordbox



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Cleaning up and updating your library within minutes is only the beginning. Made by DJs who care.

  1. A quick tutorial on how to setup Serato hardware for use with Rekordbox DJ!This can be done in a just a few steps. Once the setup is complete Rekordbox DJ wi.
  2. Supports Serato, Rekordbox 5 & 6, Traktor and VirtualDJ. What is rekordcloud? Rekordcloud eliminates the need for tedious manual work. Our software tool will organize, sort and process your music library smoothly and accurately. This will leave you with plenty of time to do what you do best, which is to be the life of the party!

Easy & powerful tools

Our set of tools made specifically for DJs will help you with almost anything.

No more tedious work

Stop doing boring manual work and let rekordcloud do it for you.

For those new to the digital world of DJing, both Serato and RekordBox are digital DJ software that provides you with a platform for collecting, organizing, and gigging. While Serato came as Serato Scratch live for the first time in the mid-2000s, RekordBox was a brainchild of Pioneer DJ. Rekordbox debate started ever since. You don’t need to buy a license for any controller made for rekordbox, DDJ-400 included. If your device is not in the list of controllers presented above, then purchasing Rekordbox may be an option. Indeed, Rekordbox can work with devices made for Serato. For instance, the DDJ-SX can work with Rekordbox if you subscribe to a monthly plan.

Automatic cue points

Rekordbox

Rekordcloud can create cue points for your tracks automatically.

Works on Windows & Mac

Supports Serato, Rekordbox 5 & 6, Traktor and VirtualDJ

Easy does it

Rekordcloud eliminates the need for tedious manual work. Our software tool will organize, sort and process your music library smoothly and accurately. This will leave you with plenty of time to do what you do best, which is to be the life of the party! Rekordcloud software is essentially a collection of tools which make things easier for you as a DJ. Which is why we proudly call it “the Swiss Army knife for DJs”.

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Quick introduction video of some of rekordclouds most important features

Made by DJs who care

Library Conversion

Convert your library to Rekordbox, Traktor, Serato or VirtualDJ while keeping all your hard work intact.

File Scanners

Rekordcloud will find duplicate, unused or broken files in your library in no-time. Even if duplicate tracks have different titles, Rekordcloud will have no trouble recognizing them.

Cue Point Generator

Adding cue points no longer equals manual labor. Rekordcloud can automatically provide your tracks with drop and breakdown cue points.

Track Discovery

Get track recommendations based on your playlists and only show those that you don't have yet.

Smart Fixes

Fix common problems that your messy library might have in one click.

Tag & Image Finder

Serato

Find missing tags and cover art for your tracks.

Track Editor

Edit your tags by the thousands instantly. You no longer need to worry about all that manual work.

Advanced Similar Tracks

Rekordcloud features advanced controls for filtering tracks based on your current track, so you will quickly find the next track for your mix. Functionality includes advanced options to suit any DJ library.

Genre Renamer

Quickly rename your genres. Rekordcloud allows you to rename your genres that are really identical in a few clicks.

Music Charts

No more tiresome searching for popular tracks. Rekordcloud will quickly find tracks not yet in your library, so you can easily add them.

Vocal Splitter

Split tracks into vocals and music, so you can use either one for mixing. Perfect for mashups!

Track Matcher

Cross reference a list of tracks with your own library. A great tool for wedding and event DJs.

Store Links

Quickly find webpages where you can buy tracks that you're looking for.

Exports

Export your playlists or tracks to formats such as CSV, M3U or PDF in the blink of an eye.

Relocate Files

Move your files so Rekordbox, Traktor and VirtualDJ can find them again.

Generate Set List

Create a set list from the tracks you last played and easily share it on social media.

What do our members say?

Testimonials

Sam 'Saboz' Bonthuis
“Finally a way to get control over your digital DJ music library. This tool is helping me navigate my music better, and it's making music selection way more fun again!”
Björn Grundmann
“This tool gives comprehensive ways to sort and add to your library in a meaningful way! Listing the possibilities would take too long due to the variety of tools that are available. For me not to think away anymore!”
Blair Studley
“Rekordcloud is awesome! I've totally cleaned up my library and the drop detection app is great, with more improvements coming all the time.”
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Who are we?

Rekordcloud is built for DJs, by the community. It's primarily a one man operation but with input coming from you, the Rekordcloud members, this platform is really built by many DJs.

Together, our goal is to make pleasant software that solves your problems.

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We offer a subscription that can be canceled at any moment. As a Rekordcloud member you can use all available features and submit requests for features to be added at all times. Whenever technically feasible and truly adding to Rekordcloud’s functionality we will waste no time trying to process your suggestion into a new asset to the unique collection of Rekordcloud tools.

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With this feature you can convert your from Rekordbox, Traktor, VirtualDJ or Serato to any of these.

Converting your library works on both macOS and Windows

Usage is simple, just press the download button for the library you want. All your track information and playlists will be converted accordingly.

The following information will be converted:

  • Track info (rating, comments, playcount, key and more)
  • Track paths
  • Cue points
  • Beatgrid markers
  • Playlists

There are some minor limitations since not all DJ apps have the exact same features, more on that below.

Partial download

You can choose to only download a partial library. This is especially useful for the bigger libraries with Rekordbox because it can take a long time to import back into Rekordbox.

Any track in the partial XML/NML will overwrite the same matching track in your existing library. Other tracks will not be changed.

Partial download is also available for VirtualDJ but only through the Companion App.

Beatgrid shift correction

There is a problem between how Rekordbox, Traktor, VirtualDJ and Serato read MP3 files. Most of the time they see the exact same MP3 file but in a small percentage of tracks, a tiny bit of silence (26 or 50 milliseconds) gets added to the start of the track. This causes your cue points and beatgrids to be shifted.

To correct this problem, you can use the Companion App to scan your library for files that are afflicted by this problem. You can download the Companion App here.

Libraries downloaded after you run the scan will be adjusted automatically.

This problem only occurs when converting between different systems. There is no need to use this if you don't convert your library.

This was discovered and researched by Pedro Estrela, you can find more information about this problem here.

Nearest color

All DJ apps have slightly different colors. You can let rekordcloud change your track and cue colors to the nearest similar color. If you disable this option, any color that does not exist in your target DJ app will be set to no color.

Exporting from Rekordbox 5

If you want to export your beatgrid, you have to select the BPM change points option in the Advanced tab under Rekordbox preferences.

Options

Add hot cues

If enabled, this will set the first 8 cue points of all your tracks as hot cues. This only applies to tracks that have no hot cues. You may want to enable this if you're converting from Traktor so that you'll automatically get hot cues in Rekordbox.

Copy to memory cues

If enabled, this will copy hot cues to memory cues. This only applies to tracks that have no memory cues yet. This is useful when converting from VirtualDJ because VirtualDJ only knows hot cues but in Rekordbox it is helpful to have memory cues too.

If you are coming from Serato, loop cues are prioritized. Loop cues will be set as memory cues first and then hot cues will be copied over in the available space.

Only edited tracks

This will only add tracks to your download that were changed by rekordcloud since your last upload. Your download will potentially be much smaller and faster to generate and import. Playlists will not be added to your download since these partial playlists would then overwrite your existing playlists.

This option is not supported by VirtualDJ.

Limitations

Hot cues

Traktor has no hot cues so Rekordbox hot cues are converted to regular cue points in Traktor. If any hot cue is on the same spot as a regular cue, only one is preserved. If you want hot cues in Rekordbox, you can enable the Add hot cues option, see above.

Serato Cues To Rekordbox

Cues

Traktor has no colored cue points. If you have colored cue points in Rekordbox or VirtualDJ, this will not be preserved in Traktor.

Last played

Rekordbox does not store last played date. This track information from Traktor or VirtualDJ will not be preserved in Rekordbox.

Remix Sets

Only Traktor supports remix sets. If you convert to Rekordbox or VirtualDJ, these will be lost.

Colors

Rekordbox memory cue colors can't be converted because Rekordbox does not add these to the XML file. Hot cue colors do work.

VirtualDJ looks like it adds colors to your cue points but it actually doesn't by default. If you go into the POI editor, you will see all your cue points have no color by default. That's where you have to set cue colors.

Transfer Serato To Rekordbox

Comment fields

VirtualDJ tracks have fields named Comment, Field1 and Field2. Comment fields are mapped appropriately. Field1 and Field2 are merged into the Comment 2 field in Traktor. Rekordbox has no extra fields so these extra fields can't be preserved.

Rekordbox

Rekordbox saves intelligent playlists as normal playlists to the XML, so there is no way for rekordcloud to distinguish them. That's why you'll see them as regular playlists when you are importing your new XML. Best thing you can do is to just ignore these, since the intelligent playlists that you already had will update as normal.

A maximum of 50 beat markers are uploaded per track, the rest is discarded. This is because dynamic analysis can add hundreds (sometimes thousands) of useless markers to a song.

Serato

FLIP entries are not converted. Only 1 beatgrid marker is supported in OGG files. AAC files are not supported.

If the amount of cues and loops cues together exceeds the maximum, then loop cues will be dropped first.

Your database file and crates are always backed up before rekordcloud changes them. You can find these backups in the Music/_Serato_/rekordcloud folder and on every drive that Serato has tracks on.

Importing your new library

After you download your new library in XML, NML or ZIP format you still have to import it back into your DJ app. To learn how to do this, check out the Download Library wiki page in the left menu.





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