History

The History panel is useful for three main reasons:

• Viewing or editing what you played during a previous set
• Exporting your set to the Serato Playlist website or to other formats
• Enabling live playlists

Pressing the “History” button in Serato DJ Pro opens the History panel. This is a complete log of all the tracks you have played (in sessions) and allows you to export your Serato DJ Pro session information as a data file or to Serato Playlists.

Each session is cataloged by date and time. Using the drop down arrow, you can navigate to and view detailed information of any previous sessions. There are columns for the period (i.e. date of session), name of track and artist name.

TIP: You can add or remove columns by right clicking one of the columns and selecting which column you would like to add from the list that appears.

In addition, these other categories listed below will give you more detailed information about your sessions.

Start Time: When viewing a track row, the start time of the track is displayed. When viewing a session row, the start time of the session is displayed with the date (in real time value).

End Time: When viewing a track row, the end time of the track is displayed. When viewing a session row, the end time of the session is displayed with the date (in real time value).

Playtime: When viewing a track row, the total played time of the track is displayed (e.g.00:03:00). When viewing a session row, the total elapsed time of the session is displayed with date (e.g. 10/09/08 01:38:16).

Deck: The virtual deck the track was played on will be displayed under the deck column. In the track row, either left or right is displayed. The offline player will be listed as offline.

Notes: Use this field to list particular information about your tracks and each session (i.e., note how you transitioned from one track to another).

Manage History

Clicking the Manage History button will open a menu with the following options: Start Session, End Session, Insert Track, Mark as Played / Unplayed, and Show Unplayed.

Start Session: Manually begin a new history session.

End Session: Manually end the current history session.

Insert Track: Allows you to manually insert a track into the history list. Use this to enter tracks you have played from other sources.

(e.g. If you played one of your favorite vinyl or CDs), select the track you want to insert after and click the insert track button. Double-click the inserted track fields and edit your information accordingly. (Note that when exporting an .m3u playlist [see exporting below] inserted tracks will not be present.)

Mark as Played / Unplayed: Mark an unplayed track in your history session as played or visa versa.

Show Unplayed: Slide this across to show tracks that were added to deck but not played in the history session.

Export Playlist

Exported files can be located in the History Export folder contained in your Serato folder. Select a session, then choose your preferred file format, and click export. There are four possible export formats:

• Serato Playlists (SEE SERATO PLAYLISTS FOR MORE INFORMATION)
• txt file, to create a simple text file with your session information contained within.
• csv file, to create a file for use in spreadsheet software.
• m3u file, to create a playlist which can be imported into media players. Note that an .m3u does not contain audio itself, it only points to the location of your audio files. (Inserted tracks within sessions will not be included in an .m3u playlist.)

TIP: To make a new Serato DJ Pro crate containing your session information, select a session and drag it to the + plus crate button. (This will automatically name the crate with the session date).

Delete History Session

To delete a history session, highlight the session, then press control + delete.

Listing Behaviour

Serato DJ Pro considers a track played if you have cross faded to the track and brought the line level fader up. If you don’t do both these actions, the track will continue to stay unplayed or “white”. If you have played the song and then ejected it, it will become a played song, go “grey” or "blue" (depending on the played track color settings) and be listed in the history. You can choose to show tracks which you have auditioned, but not actually played, by checking the show unplayed tracks box. The session will then also list these tracks in grey, along with actual played tracks.

TIP: To revert played tracks to “white” click on the “Reset Played Tracks” button, located in the ‘Library + Display’ tab of the Serato DJ Pro setup menu.