feature request: Serato SL Cue import

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Reported by: lyyak
Date: 2011-03-24T11:07:54Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp741613
Tags: metadata

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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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Commented by: ferranpujolcamins
Date: 2015-01-05T16:41:47Z

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

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Commented by: formirthonly
Date: 2015-05-26T22:47:01Z

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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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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-05-27T06:38:22Z

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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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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2015-07-20T15:31:32Z

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Importing beat grids should also be supported.

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2015-08-03T03:13:56Z

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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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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2015-08-03T03:27:29Z

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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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Commented by: Holzhaus
Date: 2019-07-12T15:15:10Z

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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

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Commented by: Holzhaus
Date: 2019-10-27T19:52:27Z

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Code to parse/unparse Serato tag data has been added in PR #⁠2323:
#2323

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

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Issue closed with status Fix Released.