DJ.Studio has a powerful library manager that allows you to import, organize, and sort your music collection - making it easy to find and add songs to your mix.
The library is the interface for managing imported music in DJ.Studio and browsing your machine’s music libraries, allowing you to access connected DJ libraries, tracks added to DJ.Studio, and folders on your computer—just like a typical file explorer.
If you add tracks to a DJ.Studio Mix or Mashup, the tracks will be added to the library automatically.
How to access your Music library in DJ.Studio
You can acces your library in DJ.Studio in three ways:
Homescreen > click Library in the left side navigation
When you are in Mix project > Click Library in the top navigation
In a Mix or Mashup project > Click Add tracks > Click Library
Here, you will be able to see every track that has been imported into your library.
Click on the + Import local files button to add a song to the current mix.
Library Tabs
The library is divided into tabs along the top.
Home helps you find music, with shortcuts into Beatport, Charts, Spotify, 1001Tracklists and Crate Hackers, and buttons to pull in tracks from your local libraries. Library holds the tracks you have imported into DJ.Studio, and Explorer browses your hard drive. The remaining tabs are the external 3rd party software you have connected
Closing and Restoring Library Tabs
If the tabs at the top of the library screen feel overcrowded, you can close any tab you don't need.
Simply click the + button at the end of the tabs and uncheck the tabs you don't want to see.
To restore a closed tab, click the + button and select the tabs you want to reappear
Adding Tracks to Your Library
There are two ways to add tracks to your library.
A) DJ.Studio's Internal File Explorer
With DJ.Studio's Internal File Explorer you can browse your local file system and gather the tracks that you want to add to your mix.
Open the Library from the Home screen of the app, via the Main header navigation if you are in a Mix or Mashup project or through the add tracks button.
Navigate to the Explorer tab to browse your PC's file system.
Browse through your folders to find tracks in your library. Open folder by clicking on the > symbol.
On the right you see the list of tracks in that specific folder.
Click the + button a the end of each row to add tracks to your selection.
Import the selected songs into your DJ.Studio Mix or Mashup project with the yellow button in the bottom right corner.
B) Drag-Drop Import:
Open the library.
Find files you want to import in your PC's browser (Finder/Windows Explorer)
Drag and drop files into the DJ.Studio interface. They will now be imported.
Either drag and drop new files in, or use the file browser to locate tracks.
Library
DJ.Studio lets you browse the contents of your hard drive, to find and import music.
Open this simply by clicking the Library tab, in the left navigation bar of the home screen, or in the header of a project.
The first tab Library shows you your imported tracks in DJ.Studio. What you see here points to the audio files on your drive, so the library is not a second copy of your music collection.
If you move a track to another folder, or rename it, DJ.Studio loses sight of it and asks you to relocate the file the next time you need it. Keeping your music in a stable folder saves you that step.
On the left top you can see:
All tracks, showing all tracks you have added to mixes and mashups in DJ.Studio.
Instrumental, showing the instrumental versions you save when you separate a track into an instrumental.
Imports, grouping your imported music by year, then month, then day, which makes it easy to find something you added recently.
Track Details
When you start playing a track the track details panel opens on the right side of the screen. Here you can see all the details about your track like:
BPM, Duration and Release year
Key
Genre
Rating
History - when did you import the track and last use it
Explorer Path
Playlists
The playlist panel sits below in the sidebar and is available throughout the library.
Use the row of source buttons to show only the playlists of one source:
All / DJ.Studio / [Your library connections]
When you open one of the integration tabs, DJ.Studio selects that source for you, so you see the playlists belonging to the software you are browsing.
The three icons next to the Playlists heading let you refresh the connection with your DJ software, sort the list, and create a new playlist.
Creating your own DJ.Studio playlists
While browsing through your library within DJ.Studio, you might see some interesting tracks that would sound great together in another mix. You can use the Playlist feature to make your own playlists with tracks from your local library.
There are two ways to start a playlist.
Go to playlists on the left and click the + button, then give your playlist a name.
Choose 'New playlist' or 'New smart playlist'. A smart playlist creates a playlist based on a filter you define.
Or find a track you want to use, click the right mouse button and choose Add to playlist, and create a new playlist from there.
Once a playlist exists, you can fill it in two ways.
Click the right mouse button on a track and choose Add to playlist, then pick the playlist you want to add it to.
Or drag the track onto the playlist in the left sidebar.
You can select several tracks at once and add the whole selection in one go.
Browsing the Library
The library has several features which make it easy to find the song you need.
Browse your imports folders
Use the top bar or sort to sort tracks by Title, Artist, Length, Key, BPM, and date.
You can select the columns you want to see in your library using the fields button
Use Filter for advancedly filtering your library by:
Title/ Artist
Rating
Genre
Date added
Year
Last used
Used in mixes
Length
Key
Bpm
Deleting Tracks From Your Library
You can easily remove tracks from your recently used library if you no longer need them.
In library view, right mouse click the track you want to delete.
Click Remove track
Explorer
The Explorer tab allows you to access all your folders and music tracks on your machine, from within DJ.Studio, just like what the Finder or the Explorer on your machine will show. You can look for tracks you want to use, without having to add them to your DJS library.
Note: If you have used DJ.Studio before, the Explorer used to sit inside the Library view. Since version 5.0 it has its own tab.
The folder tree runs down the full height of the left side, and the tracks in the folder you select are listed on the right, with the path to that folder shown above them.
You can Pin music folders you want easier access to by clicking the pin icon that appears on hover
You can listen to the tracks by clicking on them.
You can add a track to your open DJ.Studio project by clicking on the + icon at the end of a row and clicking on the Add tracks to the mix button in the bottom right corner. DJ.Studio will analyse the track's key and BPM and create the beat grid.
Analyze Tracks
Sometimes tracks in your library don't display the BPM and Key information, which makes it hard to know if they are compatible in your mix.
You can easily analyze any track in your library to reveal the information.
Locate the track you want to analyze
Right-click, and select Analyze
Wait for the analysis to complete, and you will now see the BPM and key information
DJ.Studio keeps track of what it has already analyzed. Since version 5.0, importing your music again only analyzes the tracks that are new to your library, so you no longer wait for your whole collection to be processed a second time.
Connecting Your Other DJ Software
You can connect DJ.Studio to a range of other popular DJ apps like rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, Engine DJ and Virtual DJ. This lets you use your playlists that you created in your music library inside DJ.Studio.
Find out how to connect your other DJ software using out specific guides: 3rd Party Integration Guides.
Frequently asked questions about the music library in DJ.Studio
How can I import all of my tracks in DJ.studio?
You don't need to import all of your tracks into DJ.Studio. DJ.Studio is not a standalone music library tool — it's designed for mixing and mashups. When you add tracks to a mix or mashup project, they are automatically added to your DJ.Studio library.
Starting with DJ.Studio 4.1, tracks you add to a project are no longer copied to the DJ.Studio database. Instead, DJ.Studio stores a reference to the original file on your drive, which saves significant disk space. If you move or rename a file after adding it to a project, DJ.Studio will ask you to relocate it when you open that project.
You can also use the Explorer tab in DJ.Studio to analyze all of your tracks without copying them into your DJ.Studio database.
What if I don't have my own tracks or music?
If you don't have your own tracks, you can use the Beatport integration, which you can also access on the library screen. Beatport has an extensive music collections that you can browse from within DJ.Studio, if you have a Beatport Streaming subscription.
For more information about our Beatport and Beatsource integrations, be sure to check out these articles: DJ.Studio Beatport integration
What Happens To Imported Files?
When you import audio files into DJ.Studio, it makes copies of them in your DJ.Studio directory folder: (Default:'{User}/Music/DJ.Studio/Database')
If I want to delete DJ.studio, what folders do I need to delete?
If you want to delete DJ.Studio and need to remove the files from your hard-drive, you can find them at the default location {User}/Music/DJ.Studio/
You can also check at Settings > Folders > Database folder which location you have your DJ.Studio database.
How do I organise my tracks into playlists before mixing?
If you have a large music collection and want to organize your tracks into playlists before adding them to a mix project, you can do this directly in the Library using the Explorer and the playlist feature. This is useful if you want to sort your tracks by genre, event, or mood first, without creating a mix project for each category.
How to create and fill playlists from your local files:
Open the Library from the home screen or the top navigation.
In the area on the left navigate to the playlist section
Click the + button to create a new playlist
Select the tracks you want to add and drag them in the playlist or;
Right-click on one of the selected tracks and choose Add tracks to playlist, then select the playlist you want to add them to.