The library contains all the music that you have added to Serato DJ Pro. By using browse and search you can easily narrow down your selection to the track you want.
TIP: You can change the size of your library text by using the keyboard shortcuts control and + and control and -.
Mouse and Keyboard Navigation
You can use the cursor keys and mouse to navigate the library. The cursor keys work as up, down, forward and back.
Hardware Navigation
You can use the hardware controls to navigate the library.
Note: This will depend on the hardware you are using.
Right Click
From Serato DJ 4.0 onwards, you now have the option to right-click making managing your music and organising your library much easier.
Searching
Serato DJ Lite includes a search function to help you find tracks quickly and easily. Just enter text into the search box and Serato DJ Lite will automatically find as you type.
SEE SEARCHING FOR MORE INFORMATION
Library Status Icons
Serato DJ Lite has detected a problematic file. It is possible this file may not play correctly, and/or make your library unstable. If possible, re-encode the MP3 or remove from the library.
SEE PROBLEM FILES FOR MORE INFORMATION
The track cannot be found and will appear yellow in the library. Most likely the file has been renamed or moved location since it was first used in Serato DJ Lite.
SEE RELOCATE LOST FILES FOR MORE INFORMATION
The track has been imported from the iTunes library.
SEE SHOWING YOUR ITUNES LIBRARY
The track is locked.
SEE LOCK TRACKS FOR MORE INFORMATION
The track’s BPM and Beatgrid is locked.
SEE LOCK BPM FOR MORE INFORMATION
Prepare
The Prepare Panel lets you queue up tracks to play next. It’s great as a temporary holding area for preparing sets.
Serato Software Compatibility
Serato DJ Lite uses the same library as all other Serato software. If you are an existing Serato software user all your music, Loops and Cue Points will be available in Serato DJ Lite. If you create a library in Serato DJ and then install Serato ITCH or Scratch Live the music Loops and Cue Points from Serato DJ will automatically be available in Serato ITCH and Scratch Live. Any changes made in either program will be written to the library so if you have existing Loops and Cue Points, be aware of this when moving between systems.
Crates
Serato DJ Lite uses digital crates for quick access to your favorite collections. There is no limit to the number of crates you can create, and any given track can be placed in multiple crates. The crate area is on the left-hand side of the library.
SEE CRATES FOR MORE INFORMATION
For example, you could organize your tracks into the following crates, where anyone track would be led in more than one crate.
- Hip Hop
- French Hip Hop
- UK Hip Hop
- Instrumental Hip Hop
- Old School Hip Hop
- Hip Hop LPs
To create a new crate click the button shown below:
To rename a crate, double-click the crate name. You can change the order of tracks within a crate by dragging them up or down.
You can drag and drop crates into other crates to make subcrates. If you drag a crate to the very left of the crate panel, it will stay in the top level of the crate structure. If you drag the crate a little to the right, onto the name of another crate, it will make the crate you are dragging a sub crate of this crate.
Subcrates can be opened and collapsed, allowing you to have a large number of crates whilst making them easy to browse.
As of Serato DJ Lite 4.0.0, you can now add streaming tracks to crates. Simply drag and drop the streaming tracks you wish to be added to the crate.
You can also now add smart crates to Serato DJ Lite. To do this, click on the button shown below:
SEE HOW TO USE SMART CRATES FOR MORE INFORMATION
Copying and Managing Content
SEE COPYING AND MANAGING CONTENT FROM THE FILES TAB - SERATO DJ PRO & LITE
Setting up Columns
The track information display area can be customized to display any of the columns listed below.
- Added
- Album
- Artist
- Bitrate
- BPM
- Color
- Comment
- Composer
- Filename
- Genre
- Grouping
- Key
- Label
- Length
- Location
- Plays
- Rating
- Remixer
- Samplerate
- Size
- Track
- Video Track
- Year
You can re-size columns by grabbing the edge and dragging to the width you want.
You can click on any columns to sort by that column, and you can also assign a secondary sort column. Holding CTRL (CMD on macOS) on your keyboard, and clicking on the second column will assign the secondary column. Clicking a second time on a primary or secondary column will change between an ascending and descending sort.
Holding CTRL + SHIFT while clicking on the secondary column will disable it.
Rating column
You can add a rating to any track in Serato DJ Lite from 0 to 5. Each of these values are represented by a star emoji by default. You can customize the emoji used for ratings by right-clicking the track and selecting ‘Select Rating Emoji’
TIP: You can do this for multiple tracks at once by highlighting the tracks you wish to edit within your library.
Library Auto Back-up
Serato DJ Lite will create a folder on your hard disk called _Serato_ where it stores your library database, crate information, and other information. The _Serato_ folder is located in the Music folder on both Windows and macOS. Serato DJ Lite will also create a _Serato_ folder on any external drive that you have added files from into the library.
Exiting Serato DJ Lite will also prompt a backup. This creates a copy of the _Serato_ folder on your system drive and on any connected external drives containing a _Serato_ folder. The backup folder is called “_Serato_Backup.”
ON VERSIONS 3.3.5 AND BELOW: After the initial backup, you will be prompted to back up again if the last backup on that drive is older than a week or if no backup exists. Serato DJ Lite will only keep ONE backup at a time, so each time you backup Serato DJ Lite will overwrite the previous backup.
Re-Scan File Info
Click to force Serato DJ Lite to read all file tags. Use this feature if you have edited or modified tags outside of Serato DJ Lite.
Rescanning also identifies which files cannot be found by Serato DJ Lite.
TIP: Sort your library by the status column to group missing tracks together. You can also drop a selection of tracks or crates directly onto the button, if you do not wish to rescan your entire library.
Relocate Lost Files
Relocate Lost Files searches through all the connected drives for the files that show gold (missing) in your library. If you know where these tracks may be. You can drop this folder or selection or tracks from the location on your computer onto the ‘Relocate Lost Files’ button. This will narrow down the relocation process
Drag and drop a folder from Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows) onto the Relocate Lost Files button to search it, and any subfolders, for files currently marked as not found in your library. Doing this will update the database with their new location.
Note: Clicking the Relocate Lost Files button will search through all attached drives for missing files but may take a very long time depending on the size of Serato DJ Lite library and complexity of hard drive file organization.
SEE RELOCATE LOST FILES FOR MORE INFO