Rekordbox import and export

Import from Rekordbox

Ora DJ reads the Rekordbox database on this computer. You don't export anything from Rekordbox first.

Open Settings, then Library, then Import Rekordbox. Ora DJ finds the database on its own:

• macOS: ~/Library/Pioneer/rekordbox
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Pioneer\rekordbox

If your database is somewhere else (an external drive, a second library), click Change and point it at the folder that holds master.db.

Ora DJ reads from a copy of the database and never writes to it. Nothing in Rekordbox changes.

Choose what to import

The first step is a tree of everything in your Rekordbox library. Tick what you want to bring across:

• Music Library: every track, with the total count.
• Playlists: your folders and playlists, in the same hierarchy as Rekordbox. Tick a folder to take everything inside it, or pick individual playlists. Tracks used by a playlist you select come in even if you leave the Music Library unticked.
• Tags: your My Tag groups (Genre, Mood, and so on).

Smart playlists are marked smart (see Smart playlists below).

Choose how it merges

The import options decide how the incoming data meets your existing Ora DJ library:

• Import new tracks: brings in tracks that aren't in your library yet.
• Update tracks: also updates tracks you already have. Under it you choose what to overwrite: the BPM and cues, the key, and the rating.
• Import new playlists and Update playlists based on name and folder location.

What gets imported

Per track: the BPM, the key, hot cues (up to eight), memory points (up to ten), the rating, play count, and comments. The Rekordbox track ID is kept too, so the same tracks line up if you export back later.

Your My Tag structure comes across in full: the groups (Genre, Mood, and the rest), the tags inside each one, and which tracks carry them. This is the part a Rekordbox XML file leaves out.

Ora DJ builds its own beatgrid from analysis. The database holds the BPM and cue positions but not the grid itself, so cues settle onto the Ora DJ grid once a track is analyzed.

Smart playlists

Supported Rekordbox smart playlists become dynamic playlists in Ora DJ. Their rules run against your whole Ora DJ library and its metadata, so the results can differ from Rekordbox and update as your library changes.

A snapshot keeps the current Rekordbox matches as a static track list. Turning off Tags makes tag-based smart playlists snapshots. Playlists with rules Ora DJ cannot evaluate are skipped and reported.

Playlists match by name and folder location. When updating matching playlists is enabled, the result depends on their types:

Unmatched playlists are created when importing new playlists is enabled. Open How playlists are imported in the import dialog to review these rules.

How tracks are matched

Each Rekordbox track is matched to one in your library in order of confidence: exact file path first, then file name, then artist and title, then duration within two seconds. If a match is genuinely ambiguous, the import stops and lists the tracks rather than guessing.

Import from a file instead

If Rekordbox is on another computer, import a Rekordbox XML file instead. In the import window, click Import from XML instead. Export the file from Rekordbox first: open File, choose Export Collection in xml format, and save it. Then pick that file in Ora DJ. The merge options and matching work the same way.