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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Moving a DJ library 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. There is no native Engine DJ to Serato transfer.

What transfers from Engine DJ to Serato DJ.

Capability	Carries	What happens
Audio files		Your tracks move with the library and the files are never modified.
Playlists & crates		Folders and playlists are rebuilt in Serato DJ.
Key & BPM		Analyzed values carry across, or are re-analyzed cleanly and accurately.
Hot cues		Cue points carry into your Serato library.
Beatgrids		Beatgrids carry so your tracks stay locked in time.
Star ratings		Serato's flat crate format does not carry ratings inside crates; they live in the library.
Comments & tags		Comments 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. There is no native Engine DJ to Serato transfer.

The easy way

Let Vibes move your library for you.

Vibes imports your whole library, keeps it organized, and exports it to any DJ app with your cues, grids, and tags intact. No manual rebuild, nothing lost.

See how Vibes fits your style

Vibes desktop app showing a library organized by vibes

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

There is no clean one-click transfer between Engine DJ and Serato DJ that preserves everything, so this takes a deliberate process.

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.

Rebuild or convert playlists

Serato DJ will not read Engine DJ's crates and playlists directly. You either rebuild them by hand or use a conversion tool to translate them.

Carry cues, grids, and tags

Hot cues, beatgrids, and tags do not move on their own. A library tool is needed to map them from Engine DJ into Serato DJ.

Verify before a gig

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

A manual rebuild loses your cues, grids, and tags, and the clean path otherwise runs through paid conversion tools. That friction is exactly why library tools exist.

A+Dfocus vibes

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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

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. Serato DJ cannot read Engine DJ's crates and cues natively. You import the audio files and then rebuild playlists by hand or use a library tool to carry crates, cues, grids, and tags across.

A manual rebuild loses them. A metadata-aware library tool preserves them. Vibes imports your Engine DJ library and exports cues, grids, tags, and ratings into Serato DJ so the work carries over.

Yes. Vibes acts as a hub between apps, so you can keep one organized library and export to both Engine DJ and Serato DJ as needed, rather than maintaining separate collections.

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