How to · Engine DJ

Organize your library in Engine DJ.

Engine DJ structures your music with crates, playlists, and colors you build by hand. Here is how to set up a system that holds up, and how to organize by feel in far less time.

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A library you can navigate on a player, with no laptop.

Organizing in Engine DJ.

Engine DJ keeps your structure in playlists that travel to your drive and standalone players, so build it deliberately.

Import your collection

Add your music folders to Engine DJ Desktop and let it analyze the tracks for BPM, key, and waveforms before you sort.

Build playlists and playlist folders

Create playlists for your main groupings (Engine DJ no longer has a separate crates type - everything is a playlist since v2.0), and use playlist folders to keep related playlists nested together as the library grows.

Use Smartlists for rule-based groupings

Right-click your collection and choose Create Smartlist to auto-populate a list by genre, BPM range, key, or other metadata rules. Smartlists update dynamically as your collection changes and are a faster alternative to manually curating every playlist.

Order within each list

Sort each playlist by BPM or key so it is already mix-friendly when you open it on a standalone deck.

The catch

Engine DJ organizes by genre, BPM, key, and comments, all applied manually or via Smartlist rules. There is no native track color tag field and no energy field, so feel-based organization has to be improvised through naming conventions, comments, or playlist structure.

Mood

Euphoric

Melancholic

Mysterious

Energy

Aggressive

Peaceful

Rave

Function

Afterhours

Club

Home

The faster way

Tag by feel, prep for the player.

Vibes imports your Engine library, lets you organize by energy, mood, and role with AI help, and exports it back so a standalone player can navigate it cleanly.

See how it works

Build your own categories for energy, mood, and role

Auto-Tag suggests vibes from each track's sound and learns your taste

Combinations turn tag overlaps into ready-made crates

Export the organized library back into Engine DJ

Organize in Vibes, export to Engine DJ.

Your playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points travel back to the gear you play on, so nothing you do in Vibes is locked away.

Track 001

Artist A

128

Afterhours

Mysterious

Introspective

Track 002

Artist B

124

Cozy Floor

Peaceful

Home

Track 003

Artist C

132

Rave

Aggressive

Festival

Build & Release

Playlists

Vibes

Mood

Aggressive

Euphoric

Melancholic

Mysterious

Peaceful

Playful

Tense

Function

Arrangement

Sets

Club Night 12/28

NYE Closing Set

Rooftop 01/04

Frequently asked questions

The honest answers, including the trade-offs.

No. Engine DJ organizes by genre, BPM, key, comments, and color. There is no native energy field or custom multi-tag taxonomy, so DJs improvise one with colors and comments.

It works alongside it. You organize in Vibes by feel with AI help, then export the playlists and colors back into Engine DJ so the structure is ready on your drive and players.

Yes. Once exported back into Engine DJ and out to your drive, your playlists and colors appear on the player like any other Engine library.

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