How to save Cue Points for future use

All the data for BPM, Cue Points etc. is stored in the database file for Virtual DJ. Find it in Documents -> Virtual DJ and then copy the database.xml file (might be called something different for V7) – that is your backup. It’s probably worth backing up that entire “Virtual DJ” folder if I’m honest – it’s the quickest way to get all your data and settings back afterwards if you need to use a backup..

When you want to use the backup, install Virtual DJ first and open it. Then close VDJ. Then replace the “Virtual DJ” folder it has created – the new, blank, one – with your old one. Then open VDJ and all your data should be there.. 🙂

Different Note – I do not know of any way to turn VDJ cue points into a Recordbox compatible format – the format you need to transfer them to CDJ’s. Note that this only works with Nexus enabled CDJ’s anyway…

bob6397

Still a pain in the …

About time the industry grows up and comes up with a common, open format set of tags that will allow saving all the cue/loop info with tracks and not in the DJ software. After all, setting those points is YOUR work, YOUR time and it should remain with YOUR tracks.

Just me, of course.

As for beatgrids. I don’t think beatgrids are carried over. Every DJ software uses it’s own way of beatgridding and saving that information. I doubt that it can be transferred. Then again, I haven’t looked at RekordBuddy closely enough and perhaps I missed something 😀

This RekordBuddy 2.0 thing seems to hold the greatest promise for moving cues points between softwares but it seems much delayed in being released. Don’t understand why this is so difficult. I don’t think something like Serato writes Cue Point data in an encrypted form into the MP3 files.

Take VirtualDJ >> Serato for example. VirtualDJ has all of the cue point data clearly written in plain text in its XML database file. For a given track, why does it seem difficult for a utility to read the XML data and write equivalent (Serato compatible) data into the MP3 file of the same name? Mixed-In-Key for example knows how to write Serato cue point data into MP3s. Going the other way seems should be equally as easy.

Can anyone enlighten me??

Thx

@Vintage, maybe Beatgrid info cannot be migrated, but migrated Cue Points would at least reduce 1/2 of the re-work. I have to believe it is entirely possible to migrate Cue Points as evidenced by 3rd Party tool “Mixed in Key 7” which happily writes Cue Points for Serato and Traktor.

RekordBuddy 2.0 was promising to do this *I think*. Does anybody know what the hold up is?

RekordBuddy seems like only a dream. 3rd party tool, 4th party conglomerate, whatever it is… seems like wishful thinking.

There must be some sort of legal thing preventing this…..

I’m not sure it has anything to do with the companies protecting anything. The task at hand is to simply manipulate data that I don’t believe is encrypted. VirtualDJ being the most transparent with all of its data in a clear simple XML file. Serato I think writes some stuff to a database file of sorts but most of the Cue point data right in the Encpsulated fields of the MP3s. I don’t know where it is for Traktor and the others, but the point is that the 3rd party like RekordBuddy is only manipulating the data….. why would this be so difficult? I’m just having a hard time understanding the difficulty.

Why would Serato not want DJs to easily migrate to it from other softwares? If they had an importer, more DJs might convert. Look at Chrome and Firefox browsers, they can import competitor data. Linux Open Office can read Microsoft office data etc. There are many examples….. I just don’t get it.