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Prepare

How do I get tracks gig-ready?

Process

Workflows

Workflow

Library Intake Pipeline

How does a new track become a gig-ready file?

  1. Discovery
  2. Inbox
  3. Review
  4. Purchase
  5. Analyze
  6. Tag
  7. Cue
  8. Crate
intermediate8 steps

Workflow

Prepare a Set

I have a gig on Saturday. How do I build the set?

  1. Slot
  2. Crate
  3. BPM curve
  4. Key path
  5. Energy arc
  6. Escape routes
intermediate7 steps

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Buy MusicWhere to legally obtain a track, digital or physical.13VinylRecord shops, pressings and marketplaces.6Track AnalysisBPM, key, energy and structure detection.5Library ManagementCrates, playlists, cues, backups and migration.11Metadata & TaggingClean tags, artwork and consistent filenames.5Set PlanningShape BPM, key and energy across a set.2

Tools

30 resources

30 resources

Artist-and-label-first store. Lossless downloads, deep label catalogs, editorial tags.

PaidstorelosslessFeatured

The music database. Releases, credits, label catalogs, pressings and a vinyl marketplace.

FreemiumdatabasevinylFeatured

The mainstream club store. Fast releases, DJ charts, key and BPM metadata.

PaidstorechartsFeatured

House-focused store: soulful, deep, afro, jackin — plus strong DJ charts.

Paidstorehouse

Broad digital catalog across dance genres, with generous previews.

Paidstorebroad catalog

Vinyl arm of Juno: new pressings, repress alerts, worldwide shipping.

Paidvinylstore

Warp-founded store with curated electronic releases in WAV and FLAC.

Paidstorecurated

Opinionated Manchester store covering the outer edges of electronic music.

Paidstoreeditorial

German vinyl shop with fast new-release turnaround and audio previews.

Paidvinylstore

Berlin store spanning hip hop, soul, jazz and dance vinyl plus reissues.

Paidvinylreissues

Soho shop with staff-chart curation across house, techno and disco.

Paidvinylrecord store

Berlin institution. Terse reviews, essential techno/dub/electro selection.

Paidvinylrecord store

Discogs-run directory of physical record stores worldwide.

Freerecord storesdirectory

Key and energy detection with Camelot notation written back into tags.

Paidkey detectionenergyFeatured

Open-source musical key detection for large batches of files.

Freekey detectionopen source

Look up BPM, key, energy and danceability for a released track in seconds.

FreemiumbpmkeyFeatured

BPM, key and Camelot lookups plus playlist-wide analysis views.

Freemiumbpmkey

Track analysis and set-planning views built around energy and structure.

Freemiumenergystructure

Visualises a planned set as BPM and energy curves across time.

Freemiumset planningenergy curve

Pioneer DJ's library manager and performance software; the CDJ standard.

FreemiumcdjlibraryFeatured

Controller-and-turntablist standard, strong crate model and DVS support.

Freemiumdvscrates

Native Instruments' four-deck software with deep effects and remix decks.

Paidfour deckeffects

Denon DJ ecosystem: library prep for standalone players and streaming links.

Freedenonstandalone

Free, open-source DJ software with DVS, four decks and broadcasting built in.

Freeopen sourcefreeFeatured

Convert and sync libraries between rekordbox, Serato, Traktor and Engine.

Paidconversionsync

Software-agnostic library manager: dedupe, tag, fix metadata, sync to any DJ app.

PaiddedupetagsFeatured

Free tagger that pulls metadata, artwork, key and BPM from Beatport, Discogs and more.

FreetaggingartworkFeatured

Acoustic-fingerprint tagger that repairs messy metadata at scale.

Freefingerprinttagging

Open-source duplicate finder with a fuzzy music mode for near-identical files.

Freeduplicatescleanup

Precise tag editor for stamping mix files with artwork, chapters and metadata.

Freemiumtagsartwork