VIDEO: M3U Playlists to DEX

Here's how to move your entire DJ library from M3U playlists to DEX with all your playlists, beat grids, album artwork, track metadata, and all of your tracks. First, we're going to import our M3U playlists into MIXO. You can see here we've got a folder of M3U playlist files which we're going to import. So let's head over to MIXO, go to the import page and choose M3U playlists 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'll also build a waveform for every track and analyse the beat grid. If you turn Track Analysis off, then your import will be a lot faster, but you won't have 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. Next, let's click on Select M3U to import. From here we can choose the folder where our M3U playlists are and we can choose to import one or multiple playlists. MIXO will save the tracks using the info available from the playlist file, and MIXO will then go through and analyse each track to import all the custom metadata saved in the track tags, plus get the artwork and build the waveforms. This import might take a bit of time depending on how many playlists we choose and how big our 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 you'll see all our playlists, tracks, cue points, and album artwork have been imported from M3U playlists. 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 DEX. Before we do anything in MIXO, let's have a look at DEX and you can see 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 DEX from this list and from here we can choose to export the entire MIXO library or select individual playlists that we'd like to export. Once ready and we've chosen the playlist to move to DEX, simply click Start export. Once the export has finished, MIXO will confirm the export is complete and from here we can head over to DEX. In DEX, we right click on user lists and select new playlist. We give it a name, we press OK, then we select that playlist and click on the plus button, and then in the popup window we click Import Playlist. Next we choose the playlist file from the MIXO Export folder, which will be on your computer in the Music folder. And then you go to MIXO, Exports, DEX and in here you select the playlist that you'd like to import. From here you can see the playlists have all been imported into DEX and we can drag and drop any track to the deck. Play it and off we go.