How to · Engine DJ

Transfer your library to Rekordbox in Engine DJ.

Engine DJ and Rekordbox use incompatible databases. This guide walks you through the native workaround and shows how Vibes bridges both without a third-party tool.

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Vibes library view showing imported Engine DJ tracks ready for export

Vibes reads your Engine DJ m.db and writes directly into Rekordbox.

Transfer your library to Rekordbox in Engine DJ, step by step.

Engine DJ and Rekordbox do not share a common format, so there is no built-in export path between them. The closest native route is exporting your tracks to a USB drive from Engine DJ, then adding those audio files into Rekordbox manually. Metadata such as playlists, hot cues, and beatgrids does not carry over natively and requires a third-party tool (such as Lexicon or MIXO) to convert.

Export your Engine DJ collection to USB

Connect a USB drive and open Engine DJ 4.x on desktop. When the drive appears in the Device Panel, use the Sync Manager (accessible from the lower-left area of the app) to select the playlists you want to transfer, then click Sync to export them to the drive. Alternatively, you can highlight playlists in your library and drag them directly onto the drive in the Device Panel. Note: Engine DJ 4.x uses playlists only; crates were removed in v2.0. This writes tracks and Engine DJ metadata to the drive in a format for standalone players, not Rekordbox directly.

Locate or export an XML-compatible file

Engine DJ desktop does not natively export a Rekordbox XML file. You will need to either copy your audio files from the USB drive to a folder Rekordbox can scan, or use a third-party tool such as Lexicon or MIXO to convert the Engine DJ database (m.db, located at Music/Engine Library/Database2/m.db) into a format Rekordbox can import. Note any hot cues, BPM values, and key data you want to preserve so you can verify them after import.

Import the tracks into Rekordbox

Open Rekordbox 7.x and drag the folder containing your audio files into the Collection panel to add them. If you used a third-party converter, follow its instructions to import the generated XML or direct sync output into Rekordbox instead. Rekordbox will re-analyze each track for BPM and key using its own engine, so results may differ from Engine DJ's analysis. Hot cue positions brought in via third-party XML tools may import, but review them track by track.

Rebuild your playlists and cue points in Rekordbox

Because there is no native playlist migration path between the two apps, you will likely need to recreate or verify your playlist structure inside Rekordbox unless a converter handled it. Add hot cues on each track and set memory cues where needed (Rekordbox supports both hot cues and memory cues, unlike Engine DJ which supports hot cues only). Organize tracks into the playlists you want available for export to CDJs via Export mode.

The catch

Engine DJ 4.x has no built-in Rekordbox XML export, so a fully automated native transfer of metadata (playlists, cues, beatgrids) is not possible. Audio files can be moved manually, but metadata fidelity requires a third-party bridge tool such as Lexicon or MIXO.

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Energy

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Club

Home

The faster way

Import from Engine DJ. Export into Rekordbox. Keep everything.

Vibes reads your Engine DJ m.db directly, so your tracks, analysis, and any organization you add in Vibes travel with you. It then writes directly into Rekordbox (master.db via SQLCipher, with XML fallback), no manual rebuilding required.

See how it works

Imports your Engine DJ library via m.db: BPM, key, and hot cues land in Vibes ready to work with

Tag tracks by energy, mood, and role using Vibes. then export a playlist per vibe into Rekordbox automatically

Exports cue points, ratings, and vibes-as-comments into Rekordbox with per-platform toggles you control

Combinations auto-detect tracks sharing multiple vibes (e.g. House + Peak Time) and land in Rekordbox as ready-made crates

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.

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Artist A

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Afterhours

Mysterious

Introspective

Track 002

Artist B

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Cozy Floor

Peaceful

Home

Track 003

Artist C

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Rave

Aggressive

Festival

Build & Release

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Vibes

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Euphoric

Melancholic

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NYE Closing Set

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Frequently asked questions

The honest answers, including the trade-offs.

Vibes replaces the manual rebuild step. It is a prep and library app, not a performance mixer. It imports your Engine DJ m.db, lets you organize and analyze tracks, then exports the result directly into Rekordbox. You still use Engine DJ and Rekordbox to perform; Vibes handles the migration and organization work between them.

When Vibes imports your Engine DJ library it reads the cue data stored in your m.db. On export to Rekordbox, cue points are written into the Rekordbox database and you can toggle that export on or off per session. Review cue positions in Rekordbox after export since Engine DJ and Rekordbox can measure grid positions slightly differently.

Yes. Vibes imports from and exports to both Engine DJ and Rekordbox independently, so you can maintain both libraries from one source of truth in Vibes. Tag and organize once, then export to whichever app you need for a given gig.

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