VIDEO: Cross DJ to Rekordbox

Here's how to move your entire DJ library from Cross DJ to REKORDBOX with all your playlists, cue points, beat grids, album artwork, track metadata, and all of your tracks. First, we're going to import our library from Cross DJ into MIXO. You can see here we've got our entire library in Cross DJ with all our playlists, tracks and metadata. To export our library from Cross DJ, right click on each playlist and choose Export as M3U playlist. Choose the folder to export to and remember where this folder is as we'll need it in the next step. Next we head over to MIXO. Go to the import page and choose Cross DJ from the list of DJ software. At the top of the import page, you can choose to turn off Track Analysis if you like, although we recommend keeping it on. Track Analysis will go through all your tracks and get the album artwork saved in each track and it will also build a waveform for each track and analyse the beat grid. If you turn Track Analysis off, you won't have the artwork, waveforms or beat grids in MIXO, but if you're just exporting your library directly to another DJ software then you might not need that data. If you do turn Analysis off then your import will be a lot faster. Then we click on select M3U to import. From here we can choose the folder where our M3U playlists are saved and we can import one or multiple M3U playlists. MIXO will save the tracks using basic info available from the Cross DJ M3U playlist. It will then go through and analyse each track to import all the custom metadata saved by Cross DJ in the track tags, plus get the artwork and build the waveforms. This import may take a bit of time depending on how many playlists we choose and how big your library is, so you might want to get a cup of tea or even leave your import overnight. Once the import is complete, we can head over to the library in MIXO and we'll see all our playlists, tracks, and album artwork have been imported from Cross DJ. We can now use MIXO as our main DJ library. MIXO lets us edit our playlists, import music from other DJ software, sync our entire DJ library to the cloud, listen to our music on all our devices, and export our library to other DJ software. Now we've imported our library into MIXO, let's transfer everything over to RekordBox. In this video we're using the RekordBox direct method, but if you'd like to also try the RekordBox XML method, then check out our other video guide for that one. Before we do anything in MIXO, let's have a look at RekordBox. And you can see here there's nothing showing in the library. So it's ready for us to import everything from MIXO. So we load up MIXO and from the menu at the top we click on the Export tab, which gives us a list of all the DJ software we can export to. Select RekordBox from this list and from here we can choose to export the entire MIXO library or select individual playlists we'd like to export. At the top of the export page, if we like, we can tick the option to export MIXO tags to My Tag, which allows us to carry over any tags we've added to tracks in MIXO and apply them to the My Tag setting when used in RekordBox. We can also tick the option to save MIXO tags to Comments, which will overwrite the Comments field on each track with the tags that have been added to MIXO. If you like, copy Hot Queues to memory queues will mean that any hot queues added in MIXO on export can be converted into memory queues in RekordBox. The final setting is Beat Gridlock which does exactly as it's named. Enabling this setting will prevent any automatic analysis in Record box, which would reset all the track beat grids. This will also make the import a lot quicker in RekordBox. MIXO should automatically locate the master database for RekordBox. However, if you changed it locally, we can use the Change Location button here before exporting. Once we're ready and we've chosen the playlist, to move to RekordBox, simply click Start Export. Once the export's finished, MIXO will confirm the export is complete and from here we can head over to RekordBox to see all our playlists and tracks with their cue points, loops and beat grids ready to go. Now we can just drag any track into the deck, play it, and off we go. Now we've moved our library, let's have a look at what else we can do with MIXO. The first thing you'll definitely want to do is connect your Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive so that MIXO can sync your DJ library across all your devices. Once you're connected, MIXO will upload all your tracks and playlists to your own cloud storage, so they're backed up in your own secure and private cloud. You can then download MIXO on your phone, tablet or any laptop or desktop and MIXO will automatically sync all your playlists and tracks to all your devices, so you can edit, access and export your music from anywhere to any device. You can also use MIXO to export your tracks to USB, ready to play in your favourite hardware. With MIXO, you can export directly to the REKORDBOX, USB Device Library or Device Library Plus to Engine DJ format or as a Virtual DJ library. When exporting to USB, your MIXO library will look just like it was exported from your DJ software, including all your playlists, cue points, beat grids, album artwork, metadata, and more. Export to USB is also available on the mobile app so you can export your playlists directly from your phone once your library is in the cloud. You can also play your library with CarPlay or Android Auto in your car so you can enjoy all your purchase music on the go, just like you can with Spotify, Apple Music or your favourite streaming service. MIXO also has a Spotify Track Matcher tool that allows you to put together playlists in Spotify and then have MIXO locate the tracks from your own collection and save it as your own playlist in MIXO. MIXO also comes with lots of library management tools such as Track Analysis, Duplicate Finder, Que and Key converter, Find and Replace scanners, and all the general playlist and track management tools that you'd expect. Have a look at our website or YouTube channel to find detailed tutorials on all these amazing features or e-mail us at team@MIXO.DJ and we'll be delighted to help with your DJ library.