Mixxx

feature request: Serato SL Cue import

Bug #741613 reported by acacaa
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Mixxx
Fix Released
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Jan Holthuis
Mixxx 2.3.0

Bug Description

This feature would save many days spend making cue-points second time.

Maybe somewhat useful information is that Serato Scratch Live will save Cue-points in the mp3 file, I think some hidden ID3-tag.
Serato is also downloadable for free @ http://serato.com/downloads (you don't even have to put your real email address there, download will start immediately)
Only 1 deck + no DVS without Rane hardware but making cues and playing a song work just fine.

Thanks.

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RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)
Changed in mixxx:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Ferran Pujol (ferranpujol) wrote :

We could also try the same with Traktor and Virtual DJ and we would have covered 95% of djs.

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na (formirthonly) wrote :

Serato DJ cue points would be HUGE, also crates would be nice. I have over 5k tracks, usually with multiple cue points. Would be a shame to lose all that time.

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Daniel Schürmann (daschuer) wrote :

Lets focus this bug on Serato DJ cue points. You may file a separate bug for crates.

Is there any license free docs available that describes Serato tag format?

It would be also a good start if one can attach a copyright free file, decorated with additional Serato tags, including a description what the decoration includes.
Maybe we are able to reverse engineer the format.

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Be (be.ing) wrote :

Importing beat grids should also be supported.

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Be (be.ing) wrote :

At least for MP3 files, Serato stores cue points in the ID3 v 2.3 GEOB tags of the music files. Source: http://serato.com/forum/discussion/345668

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Be (be.ing) wrote :

I started a wiki page for documenting Serato's cue storage format: http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/serato_cue_storage_format

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Jan Holthuis (holthuis-jan) wrote :

Since there isn't any documentation of Serato's GEOB tag internals publicly available, I sat down an started to reverse-engineer the format.
Hotcues and Saved Loop are stored in the "Serato Markers2" tag.

More information:
http://homepage.rub.de/jan.holthuis/posts/reversing-seratos-geob-tags
https://github.com/Holzhaus/serato-tags/blob/master/docs/serato_markers2.md

Jan Holthuis (holthuis-jan)
Changed in mixxx:
assignee: nobody → Jan Holthuis (holthuis-jan)
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Jan Holthuis (holthuis-jan) wrote :

Code to parse/unparse Serato tag data has been added in PR #2323:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/2323

Integration into Mixxx (e.g. Conversion of Mixxx Cues <-> Serato Cues) is still missing though.

Jan Holthuis (holthuis-jan)
Changed in mixxx:
milestone: none → 2.3.0
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)
Changed in mixxx:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Swiftb0y (swiftb0y) wrote :

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/5832

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