Import a Rekordbox Playlist with Cues

Step 1: Export the collection from Rekordbox

In Rekordbox, open the File menu and choose Export Collection in xml format. Save the file anywhere, the Desktop is fine.

The file holds the whole collection and every playlist. You pick the playlist in TimecodeLink.

A playlist's right-click Export a playlist to a file won't work. It saves a .txt or .m3u8 track list with no cue points.

Step 2: Open the file and pick a playlist

In the TimecodeLink track list, click Import, then Open XML file, and pick the file from Step 1. You'll see your playlist folders and playlists with their track counts. Select one and click Next.

Step 3: Set timecodes for new tracks

New tracks start at 01:00:00:00 and go 10 minutes apart, in playlist order. You can change both. Tracks already in the list don't move, and their OSC triggers stay. They only get fresh cues, file paths and lengths. If a timecode is already in use, the new track takes the next free one.

Tick Don't change timecodes to import everything at 00:00:00:00 and set timecodes later by hand or with Align.

Merge (the default) adds to the current list. Replace the whole list removes every track and its OSC triggers first, except the default track. Use Save As before replacing if you want a copy.

Step 4: Check the preview and import

The preview counts new and updated tracks and imported cues. It also warns about tracks with the same name, tracks longer than the interval, and playlist entries missing from the export. Nothing changes until you click Import.

Step 5: Import again after cues change

Export again from Rekordbox and import the same playlist. Tracks are matched by file, so a track you renamed in TimecodeLink keeps its name, timecode and triggers, and only its cues update.

Fire OSC triggers on cues

Expand a track's OSC triggers, click a trigger's time and choose At cue. The list shows hot cues A to H and the track's memory cues with their times. Pick one and click Save.

The trigger fires every time the deck lands on that cue: playing through it, pressing the hot cue, seeking onto it, or a loop that starts on it. Cues the DJ jumps past are skipped. Two presses of the same hot cue within a fifth of a second count as one.

With Rekordbox, cue triggers use the cues from the import. If the DJ moves a cue, export and import again. Unnamed memory cues are matched by their position and marked ⚠: give them a name in Rekordbox so a moved cue still matches.

Align: re-space the whole list

Align in the track list gives every track a new timecode in list order, from a start timecode and interval you choose. Align moves timecodes you may have set by hand, so the dialog shows how many tracks will change before you apply it.