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> RekordBox playlist writing support

Without the Rekordbox beat analysis, you'd only be getting track names, and you can achieve similar functionality on the Pioneer side by just putting the files for a each playlist in a separate folder.

There's a kaitai bin format parser config file for the usb db file but kaitai isn't expressive enough to read it properly from that.

Pioneer (err Alphatheta)'s stranglehold on the industry is a shame due to lack of interoperability, among other issues with Rekordbox.




An export db with title, artist, album and rough BPM could be useful to interoperate with the native browse and search menus on a CDJ.

Without beat grids have to best match by ear but that’s par for the course for many DJ scenarios.


https://djl-analysis.deepsymmetry.org/rekordbox-export-analy... (and playlist entry rows) should have a complete enough description if someone wants to give it a try


The Rekordbox.xml format [1] is quite simple. Note the `<TEMPO>` and `<POSITION_MARK>` tags.

But Pinoeer can be weird and there's a lot of old (even ancient) equipment out there, so sometimes it's a case of finding the lowest common denominator and sticking to that.

[1]: https://cdn.rekordbox.com/files/20200410160904/xml_format_li...




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