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Migrate · Engine DJ to Serato DJ

Move from Engine DJ to Serato DJ.

Leaving Denon standalone gear for a Serato laptop setup means rebuilding your library in Serato. Here is exactly what carries across, what gets lost, and how to bring your whole library over without starting from scratch.

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A DJ library organized in Vibes with BPM, key, and vibe tags intact after moving from Engine DJ to Serato DJ

Bring your collection across without losing your work.

Switching from Engine DJ to Serato DJ, or running both, means moving your collection without losing the cues, grids, and tags you have built up. Serato has no Engine DJ importer; crates and subcrates rebuild what Engine kept as playlist folders.

What transfers from Engine DJ to Serato DJ.

CapabilityCarriesWhat happens
Audio filesYour tracks move with the library and the files are never modified.
Playlists & cratesFolders and playlists are rebuilt in Serato DJ.
Key & BPMAnalyzed values carry across, or are re-analyzed cleanly and accurately.
Hot cuesCue points carry into Serato's eight cue slots per track; sources with more than eight lose the extras.
BeatgridsBeatgrids carry so your tracks stay locked in time.
Star ratingsStar ratings are not stored in Serato's crate files; they live in the library database, so verify them after the move.
Comments & tagsComments carry; Serato's tag writing is limited, so keep a clean source.

Using a metadata-aware library tool. A manual drag-and-drop rebuild loses everything except the audio files. Serato has no Engine DJ importer; crates and subcrates rebuild what Engine kept as playlist folders.

The easy way

Moving from Engine DJ to Serato DJ, step by step.

Serato cannot read an Engine DJ library, and remember that Engine keeps a database per drive in an Engine Library folder, so the conversion starts from whichever drive actually holds your collection.

01

Get the audio files in

Add your music folders to Serato DJ so the tracks themselves are in the collection, then let it analyze them.

02

Rebuild or convert playlists

Serato DJ has no importer for Engine DJ libraries, so playlists are rebuilt by hand or translated by a library tool.

03

Carry the cues within the limits

Engine's eight hot cues map straight onto Serato's eight cue slots, so counts are safe. Saved loops carry where the tool maps them into Serato loops; confirm a few tracks with loops before trusting the batch.

04

Verify before a gig

Spot-check a sample of tracks to confirm cues, grids, and keys landed correctly before you rely on the library.

Point the tool at the right drive: Engine libraries often live on the performance USB rather than the laptop. Star ratings land in Serato's library database, and Engine playlist folders need subcrate-aware conversion to keep their shape.

DJ Software
Rekordbox
Rekordbox
Import XML or Database
Serato
Serato
Import Library Database
Traktor
Traktor
Import NML Collection
Engine
Engine
Import Engine Database
File System
Local Folder
Scan directory
Audio Files
Select files

The cleaner path

One library, every app.

Vibes imports your Engine DJ library and exports it straight into Serato DJ, keeping playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points intact, so the move does not mean starting over. Keep one organized library and send it wherever you play.

See the DJ Library
Import your full library directly from Engine DJ
Export playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points into Serato DJ
Keep one organized library that is not locked to a single app
Run Engine DJ and Serato DJ side by side without maintaining two collections

Organize once, export to Serato DJ.

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

Track 001 by Artist A

Track 001

Artist A

128
3A
Track 002 by Artist B

Track 002

Artist B

124
5B
Track 003 by Artist C

Track 003

Artist C

132
8A
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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. Serato reads your files and an iTunes or Music library only. A library tool reads the Engine Library database from your drive and writes Serato crates, mapping cues, loops, and grids into Serato's format on the way.
That USB. Engine DJ keeps a separate database in an Engine Library folder on every drive, so the laptop copy may be empty or stale. Run the conversion against the drive you actually play from, or consolidate drives in Engine first.
Cues map cleanly, eight slots to eight slots. Loops depend on the tool's mapping into Serato loops, so verify a handful of loop-heavy tracks after converting. Beatgrids carry with a metadata-aware tool, keeping your cue positions honest.

Methodology

How we keep this honest.

Verified against the apps

What transfers is tested against the current versions of Engine DJ and Serato DJ.

We own our bias

We make Vibes. We show the native process and its limits honestly, and we are upfront about what no tool can carry across.

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Last reviewed June 2026.

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