Great Video.., Question what is the cause of choppy waveform while searching for a song in Serato? As well as what size Lacie are you using and how full is it?
I have a 2TB Lacie and have like 800GB's free on it. So I'm using like 1.2 - The waveform get's choppy from your computer working extra hard to index and search through a large library of music. Smaller library the better.
Nick Spinelli the worst part is having to go through and get rid of stuff. That could take forever. Serato hates large libraries... yet I have seen vdj and it has no problem with that at all.
What should DJ's like myself, (who have wrongly just dragged over all their music into Serato, and made crates after) do to correctly add music to Serato as you put it in this video? I completely agree with the way you say Music should be added. I just want to know what should I do from now. Should I delete all my music out of Serato and then drag it back over the way you say, or do you have a better suggestion? Thank you for all the knowledge you are sharing.
Thank you so much for this video DJ Nick Spinell I did the same thing because Where I normally get my music is from RUclips Converter because I don’t want too waste money on buying music.
Thank you, Just started into Serarto, I prefer it instead that Rekordbox and decided to organize music by folders and now ... well thanks to this I see is not a simple Drag and drop
I just liked & Subscribed .. Really nice to have it laid down simple.. I've been having trouble organising my huge eclectic library especially after exporting to ext and using a new Mac and updated Serato DJ Pro.. Very helpful and just reminded me to go back and put more orgnisational effort in.. Thanks for the video ...
Dude😃 Thank you for sharing this information. This is exactly what I needed to see to get started. Now, my Serado account is set up the right way😃💯💪🏿👍🏿🙌🏿
Found your channel yesterday , I love how simple you explain everything , I do sometimes have trouble taking in how others explain but with your videos I get it straight away
Bro thank you for making it so simple I have been struggling with yellow question marks for a long time you have moved a boulder out of my way... #respect
Thank you for taking out to do this video. New to Serato and I am looking forward to downloading some tunes and drag. 2 thumbs up for the Analyze tip. All this time I've been loading each song to identify my bpm.
Hey Nick, just a quick thanks to you as you helped me on how to update my folders/music! I kept deleting the crate, and then re-adding the whole thing again... Cheers my man!
Nick I have a WD hard drive in my crate side of Serato a computer tech put a Hard drive icon on my Desk top of my Mac book Air with songs that don’t come up in the WD Hard Drive ( crate ) side I’ll go to file in Serato and drag a song into a Crate and then when I unplug the HD and back the song in not in the crate I’m going do what you mentioned in this Video.
Great video! I don’t use Serato I use Rekordbox but honestly it’s similar concept. Definitely never drag all your music entirely at once unless you want it to crash! Great idea on the update folder too!
Rekordbox can do it this way but it also does it the way u can load music in itunes (file/ import/ track or folder)- which is my preference. The no options on right-clicking a track in serato is a pain in d @$$
Whatever your utube clip about adding music to serato dj it was very good thank you. Just would like to ask some of my folders have album art do I need to delete that file before adding music
Hi Nick if you have to redo all your music in a new Mac where and how would you organize them. I could not find any information on this and end creating a master music file on my desktop. Not sure if it was the right choice.
Yo! Thank you for the help. If I connect my external hard drive to my laptop, open Serato, and follow your steps, will have to always have my hard drive connected as I DJ or will the music crates that I created save in Serato without needing it? Thank you again🙏🏽
sub folders in folders are fine as long as they have music in them. I have a reggae folder with no music directly, all I have is a sub folder for each artist, and under each artist folder I have their albums each in its own sub folder and that's where my music files are. IMHO if you have a large library that's a good way to organize it on a system level. So when I dragged the reggae folder into Serato it imported all 4500 tracks fine. I don't have a lot of different sub genre folders, but if you do you'll definitely want to drag folders in 1 by 1. But if you organize your music anything like mine, you can minimize the drags to next to none. I just checked my soul folder and it has 1,916 sub folders and 80 gigs. And all the music imported fine just by dragging the 1 main folder into Serato. Having your music tagged correctly (I use MusicBrainz) before you import into Serato is a good idea too imho.
Thank you so much! I'm new to using a LaCie hardrive and I was wondering do you use Velcro to attach you hardrive to your computer? If so how and why should I do it?
Always learn Something New with you... We need a video on how to clean (products) our gear... controller, mixer, speakers etc... Or is that Santi’s Job??
how do you get your crates on to a usb to play on someone else's laptop, but with your cues intact and the tracks ordered in the same way? sorry i have not found a video to describe this process for serato dj pro yet!
EVERYONE: Remember you cannot analyze with hardware (a controller, mixer, etc) plugged in. If it controls serato you will not see analyze unless the hardware is unplugged!
Have you ever had an issue scrolling all the way to the end of your library when moving the cursor? When I move mine with the cursor, it gets halfway through and then jumps back ti the top. It only occurs when I am in the All Audio Folder.
How do I load my folders on to Serato ? its more than 1000, but I recently loaded Franchise Record Pool and Now my folders are no longer in Serato when I connect by hard drive
Hi, since I bought MacBoock Pro 2023 (which is with SSD) yesterday, and want to move my all music from old MackBook Pro 2012 (wich is with hard disk), how sall I proceed? I mean where to put all my music from external hard drive together with folders Serato and Serato Backup? In User folder where the folder Music is or to another folder? Thank you in advance.
Hey I thought this was a perfect tutorial. I have one question and I honestly think U answered it for me but correct me if I’m wrong. I’ll walk U through my process then ask the question. From my understanding, if I’m ripping CDs it seems like the best way to do it is to create a folder 1st. Rip the songs from the CD to my desktop. After that place the ripped songs into the fold that I created on my desktop and once that folder is filled with the songs/tracks, I then create a crate in Serato and analyze that folder with the new tracks and it will be loaded in my crate in Serato. The question is this, if my CD doesn’t have any track/song info, do I have to name the artists and tracks before loading into Serato? I have a bunch of CDs that don’t have the artists and titles embedded on the CDs. They are hand written with just track numbers showing up when I load them into the computer.
Great video thank you. Just wondering if there is a way to import new music to an existing SDJ library without having to make a new crate every time. For example, I use promo only and bring in a new folder every week. I was hoping to just add it to the library. since it contains all different genres, I then drag and drop songs into existing crates like top 40, hip hop, house, etc. thank you
I have a lot of CDs I downloaded on Serato into folders some folders have music symbols some don't the ones that has music symbols play it was a doesn't have music symbol doesn't play why is that great video anyway.
I figured it out you have to go into the download setting and change the music to MP3 that would give you a music symbol and download and play on Serato
I've got a couple of questions. How does Ableton or Studio One work with Serato on a Roland DJ 505? I saw an older video that shows you how to convert .wav to mp3s in iTunes, but was hoping there is an easier way to go directly. I have seen a few videos of how Ableton links with Serato on the Roland 808 but I am hoping it will work with the 505 too. Also, wanted to know if you know about the Pioneer ddj-xp2 controller that now works with Serato? What I want to know is will it work with the Roland DJ-505? Will Pioneer gear play well with Roland gear?
All my stuff is in itunes.... Help.... Do i have to convert them to mp3??? If serato loaded itunes music like vdj it would be alot easier to pick serato as best program of the two.....but without stems and auto mix for during dinner i don't see serato being the go to program for mobile djjng ....clubs its def serato / rekrd bx but vdj holds the mobile dj program champ belt until they make some minor adjustments 💯
My question is my recently added on Serato is not showing up when i log onto Serato. So im unable to acccess newly downloaded tracks. How do i fix this issue?
So you don’t keep the folders on your internal hard drive ? Only the external? I am trying to do just what you did but with an extra step of adding it to internal HD so that once I disconnect hard drive the folder won’t disappear
I’m not new to serato, been using it for time, but I have a question, can I use the same external hard drive with thr same library on 2 macs, ? Because I have 2 Macs and one I use for DJing and the other I want to use for editing and adding new music only because the older mac is in the flight case all the time, so can I hot swap and go between the two or will it erase and rescan my library every time I use one machine then the other…
Thanks for the video. I am having issues where after I load my music everything will be good to go. Then a few days later I will open serrato and a bunch of corrupt files will appear. Do you know why this would happen? I now have a bunch of tunes that used to work without issues that are either missing or will no longer play and it is really irritating to say the least.
Hi Bro, sorento dj pro is my favorite program I use since 5 years ago learning to DJ. But I find it very difficult creat folders instead after downloading, iTune pick up then straight to sorento. How can I create folder since the song is already in sorento?
If you have any questions, list them below!
Great Video.., Question what is the cause of choppy waveform while searching for a song in Serato? As well as what size Lacie are you using and how full is it?
I have a 2TB Lacie and have like 800GB's free on it. So I'm using like 1.2 - The waveform get's choppy from your computer working extra hard to index and search through a large library of music. Smaller library the better.
Nick Spinelli the worst part is having to go through and get rid of stuff. That could take forever. Serato hates large libraries... yet I have seen vdj and it has no problem with that at all.
What should DJ's like myself, (who have wrongly just dragged over all their music into Serato, and made crates after) do to correctly add music to Serato as you put it in this video? I completely agree with the way you say Music should be added. I just want to know what should I do from now. Should I delete all my music out of Serato and then drag it back over the way you say, or do you have a better suggestion? Thank you for all the knowledge you are sharing.
How do you analyze like 10+ tracks at a time?
THANK THANK YOU THANK YOU JESUS CHRIST I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR A WHILE FINALLY I FIND IT THANK SO MUCH
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this video DJ Nick Spinell I did the same thing because Where I normally get my music is from RUclips Converter because I don’t want too waste money on buying music.
I searched ALL OVER for this answer (new music update). Thank you!!
Thank you! Please share!
3 years later and this video still helpful. Thank you for sharing :)
Thank you, Just started into Serarto, I prefer it instead that Rekordbox and decided to organize music by folders and now ... well thanks to this I see is not a simple Drag and drop
Thank you, this is super helpful. As a day 1 noob I dragged a folder of 20 sub folders in and all tracks landed in one big folder
I didnt realise I could update a folder by dragging the whole folder and it just updates it with the added files, bit tip, cheers dude, Subbed :-)
I just liked & Subscribed .. Really nice to have it laid down simple.. I've been having trouble organising my huge eclectic library especially after exporting to ext and using a new Mac and updated Serato DJ Pro.. Very helpful and just reminded me to go back and put more orgnisational effort in.. Thanks for the video ...
Thanks for this!! I was going crazy trying to load my music in Serato.
Word! Didn’t realize it was cleaner to drop in the sub folders.. like your rock example. I just dropped the whole thing in. Cleaning it now. 🧼 🧹
Nice work!
Dude😃 Thank you for sharing this information. This is exactly what I needed to see to get started. Now, my Serado account is set up the right way😃💯💪🏿👍🏿🙌🏿
Found your channel yesterday , I love how simple you explain everything , I do sometimes have trouble taking in how others explain but with your videos I get it straight away
It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.
This advice about the updating rocks
That’s why VDJ 2021 is so much smoother.
Can send me a link to download the cracked version please❤
Tight freakin work yo! Best video yet bro. U broke that down cuz appreciatecha!¡
Bro thank you for making it so simple I have been struggling with yellow question marks for a long time you have moved a boulder out of my way... #respect
Glad it helped bro!!
Thank you for taking out to do this video. New to Serato and I am looking forward to downloading some tunes and drag. 2 thumbs up for the Analyze tip. All this time I've been loading each song to identify my bpm.
I use Serato pro for my Roland 505 on a PC worked perfect thanx for the tips
Glad it helped!
Just here helping out with your algorithm 😉, great video brother👌🏽
Alberto Mora appreciate you 🙏🏼
Thank you that's what I was concerned since I had folders with sub folders
Wow! great tips and nicely presented. Thank you so much! Have a gig tonight and doing the analyze and crates now :)
Yup! This is is how I’ve been doing it for years. Good video man!
Mark Cutz thanks Mark! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
This Alaskan wedding DJ appreciates you sharing your knowledge, Nick.
Thanks so much for watching!
Hey Nick, just a quick thanks to you as you helped me on how to update my folders/music! I kept deleting the crate, and then re-adding the whole thing again... Cheers my man!
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much. It really helped me a lot with my music management. God bless you. Happy new year 2024 🎉🎉🎉🎉
thanks bro, have been looking on how to update my library on serator lite.
This channel is so dope
DUDE! Thank you so much for making this video!
my serato crates are taking forever to load..please help...thanks
Thanks for the tips Nick. I have been cleaning out my hard drive and I needed to hear this!
Nick I have a WD hard drive in my crate side of Serato a computer tech put a Hard drive icon on my Desk top of my Mac book Air with songs that don’t come up in the WD Hard Drive ( crate ) side I’ll go to file in Serato and drag a song into a Crate and then when I unplug the HD and back the song in not in the crate I’m going do what you mentioned in this Video.
Did it work out George?
Thanks bro 💯 i finally found a DJ That out it in simple words ...thanks man
great vid Nick thank you
Great video! I don’t use Serato I use Rekordbox but honestly it’s similar concept. Definitely never drag all your music entirely at once unless you want it to crash! Great idea on the update folder too!
DJ TMajor yessir thanks bro!
Rekordbox can do it this way but it also does it the way u can load music in itunes (file/ import/ track or folder)- which is my preference. The no options on right-clicking a track in serato is a pain in d @$$
excellent ive found out what the lighting sign is cheers pal
i really apreciate your help with dowloanding this software
thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.
Whatever your utube clip about adding music to serato dj it was very good thank you. Just would like to ask some of my folders have album art do I need to delete that file before adding music
This dude. HOOKIN IT UP
That's a very very very helpful video. Thank you for that!
Greetings vom Germany
You sir are the man....Thank you for this video!
Hi Nick if you have to redo all your music in a new Mac where and how would you organize them. I could not find any information on this and end creating a master music file on my desktop. Not sure if it was the right choice.
ty brotha, smooth clear and straight to the point
Always!!
Dope!! Just switched and will definitely follow these tips brotha! Thanks!!
Dam! I learned so much in this video. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much this helped a lot!!!! You saved my life
An excellent video turned out, everything is well thought out, a very clear instruction turned out)))
The only video that was helpful thanks! Also how would I go about backing up my hard drive?
Thanks for such a great video with this kind of information. New subscriber here.
Thank you very much. I appreciate the crate information.
I was wondering why I couldn't see the subfolders
Yo! Thank you for the help.
If I connect my external hard drive to my laptop, open Serato, and follow your steps, will have to always have my hard drive connected as I DJ or will the music crates that I created save in Serato without needing it?
Thank you again🙏🏽
sub folders in folders are fine as long as they have music in them. I have a reggae folder with no music directly, all I have is a sub folder for each artist, and under each artist folder I have their albums each in its own sub folder and that's where my music files are. IMHO if you have a large library that's a good way to organize it on a system level. So when I dragged the reggae folder into Serato it imported all 4500 tracks fine. I don't have a lot of different sub genre folders, but if you do you'll definitely want to drag folders in 1 by 1.
But if you organize your music anything like mine, you can minimize the drags to next to none. I just checked my soul folder and it has 1,916 sub folders and 80 gigs. And all the music imported fine just by dragging the 1 main folder into Serato. Having your music tagged correctly (I use MusicBrainz) before you import into Serato is a good idea too imho.
Love this!!
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS, NICK !!
Thanks man, good video! New to Serato, so this was helpful.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! I'm new to using a LaCie hardrive and I was wondering do you use Velcro to attach you hardrive to your computer? If so how and why should I do it?
Thank you for the tips and advice you are appreciated!
You bet!
Always learn Something New with you...
We need a video on how to clean (products) our gear... controller, mixer, speakers etc...
Or is that Santi’s Job??
DJ Djay that’s a great ass idea!
Love a simple explanation 🫡🙌🏾
how do you get your crates on to a usb to play on someone else's laptop, but with your cues intact and the tracks ordered in the same way? sorry i have not found a video to describe this process for serato dj pro yet!
Great video as always
EVERYONE: Remember you cannot analyze with hardware (a controller, mixer, etc) plugged in. If it controls serato you will not see analyze unless the hardware is unplugged!
Coming from Traktor, this definetely sucked at first lol
Thank god you said that, I've watched so many vids and had no idea
How can I analyze like 10+ tracks at a time like in this video
@@danrajk3368 drag em on to the analyze button
God bless you 🎉
What do you use to download the music!!?
Have you ever had an issue scrolling all the way to the end of your library when moving the cursor? When I move mine with the cursor, it gets halfway through and then jumps back ti the top. It only occurs when I am in the All Audio Folder.
Thank you champ… you nailed 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Hi when I add a folder to Serato it doesn't label properly for example the artist name the song name all goes under one
Sometimes that happens, serato uses the metadata and internal file names
How do I load my folders on to Serato ? its more than 1000, but I recently loaded Franchise Record Pool and Now my folders are no longer in Serato when I connect by hard drive
Did you follow the steps in this video?
Thanks Nick, that was fudging good lol . See you in Vegas Feb. 2020
Howie Darkstar lmao thanks see you then Howie!
Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
Hi, since I bought MacBoock Pro 2023 (which is with SSD) yesterday, and want to move my all music from old MackBook Pro 2012 (wich is with hard disk), how sall I proceed? I mean where to put all my music from external hard drive together with folders Serato and Serato Backup? In User folder where the folder Music is or to another folder? Thank you in advance.
Nick Another great video. What is your favorite music pool for getting MP3's?
Hey I thought this was a perfect tutorial. I have one question and I honestly think U answered it for me but correct me if I’m wrong. I’ll walk U through my process then ask the question.
From my understanding, if I’m ripping CDs it seems like the best way to do it is to create a folder 1st. Rip the songs from the CD to my desktop. After that place the ripped songs into the fold that I created on my desktop and once that folder is filled with the songs/tracks, I then create a crate in Serato and analyze that folder with the new tracks and it will be loaded in my crate in Serato.
The question is this, if my CD doesn’t have any track/song info, do I have to name the artists and tracks before loading into Serato? I have a bunch of CDs that don’t have the artists and titles embedded on the CDs. They are hand written with just track numbers showing up when I load them into the computer.
awesome video !!!
Great video thank you. Just wondering if there is a way to import new music to an existing SDJ library without having to make a new crate every time. For example, I use promo only and bring in a new folder every week. I was hoping to just add it to the library. since it contains all different genres, I then drag and drop songs into existing crates like top 40, hip hop, house, etc. thank you
I have a lot of CDs I downloaded on Serato into folders some folders have music symbols some don't the ones that has music symbols play it was a doesn't have music symbol doesn't play why is that great video anyway.
They may be smart crates? I'm not sure?
I figured it out you have to go into the download setting and change the music to MP3 that would give you a music symbol and download and play on Serato
Incredibly Helpful!
Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for that video 👊🏻
OUTSTANDING!
What are you using for the camera that’s zooming out
What if you move a folder from hard drive and drag it to Crates side and the file name of folder changes to createX
Ima download it thanks for sharing!!
hello friend ?? can you tell me if this program also works on iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 15.4 ??
I've got a couple of questions. How does Ableton or Studio One work with Serato on a Roland DJ 505? I saw an older video that shows you how to convert .wav to mp3s in iTunes, but was hoping there is an easier way to go directly. I have seen a few videos of how Ableton links with Serato on the Roland 808 but I am hoping it will work with the 505 too. Also, wanted to know if you know about the Pioneer ddj-xp2 controller that now works with Serato? What I want to know is will it work with the Roland DJ-505? Will Pioneer gear play well with Roland gear?
All my stuff is in itunes.... Help.... Do i have to convert them to mp3??? If serato loaded itunes music like vdj it would be alot easier to pick serato as best program of the two.....but without stems and auto mix for during dinner i don't see serato being the go to program for mobile djjng ....clubs its def serato / rekrd bx but vdj holds the mobile dj program champ belt until they make some minor adjustments 💯
Awesome program
My question is my recently added on Serato is not showing up when i log onto Serato. So im unable to acccess newly downloaded tracks. How do i fix this issue?
So you don’t keep the folders on your internal hard drive ? Only the external? I am trying to do just what you did but with an extra step of adding it to internal HD so that once I disconnect hard drive the folder won’t disappear
If I have all my music on TIDAL , how do I create a create a crate with all my music on TIDAL? Do I have to download the songs on mp3 ?
Thank you, it works perfect!
hey i put in all my crates analyze it and turn off my loptop for an hour when i turn it on bk all my crates gone
Thanks... it's working... Good Job...!
Nick I recorded some mixes on serato. No I want to delete them how do I delete songs from the recorded section
I’m not new to serato, been using it for time, but I have a question, can I use the same external hard drive with thr same library on 2 macs, ? Because I have 2 Macs and one I use for DJing and the other I want to use for editing and adding new music only because the older mac is in the flight case all the time, so can I hot swap and go between the two or will it erase and rescan my library every time I use one machine then the other…
Thanks for the video. I am having issues where after I load my music everything will be good to go. Then a few days later I will open serrato and a bunch of corrupt files will appear. Do you know why this would happen? I now have a bunch of tunes that used to work without issues that are either missing or will no longer play and it is really irritating to say the least.
Do you have to connect your hard drive always?
What are these Jason Jani tracks I saw in some of yiuwlr music folders ?
I need some help. I Just bought a flx4 but there is no áudio coming out.
what about wave files, aiffs, and appleMPEG audio? you can't have those either?
Hi Bro, sorento dj pro is my favorite program I use since 5 years ago learning to DJ. But I find it very difficult creat folders instead after downloading, iTune pick up then straight to sorento. How can I create folder since the song is already in sorento?