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Turn a rekordbox recording into a timestamped tracklist

Use the .cue file beside your rekordbox recording to recover track names and start times, then format a DJ tracklist for sharing.

Drop the .cue here and the tracklist is complete on arrival. You do not need a DAW, and you do not need to have planned ahead.

Drop your project or session file here

Ableton .als, FL Studio .flp, rekordbox .cue, Traktor .nml or Serato .session.

Your file is read in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

No file to hand?

Run a real mix through it and see exactly what comes out. A twelve-track recording running an hour and a quarter.

Or a sample from:

On your phone?

Your project file is probably on another computer. Send yourself the link and pick this up there.

What you get back

A list ready to paste into a YouTube, SoundCloud or Mixcloud description.

0:00 Kestrel Lane - First Light
6:12 Ardent Fields - Paper Harbour
13:15 Nomi Vale - Slow Transit
19:48 The Quiet Wire - Understory

Step by step

  1. 1Record your set with rekordbox's recorder.
  2. 2When the recording stops, rekordbox writes a .cue file next to the audio file.
  3. 3Find it in your recordings folder — same name as the recording, different extension.
  4. 4Drop the .cue file here.

Where the .cue file actually is

It sits beside the recording, with the same name and a different extension. The folder is set in Preferences under Controller and Recordings — worth checking there rather than guessing, because the default has moved between versions.

If you only have the audio and no .cue, the recording was made by something other than the rekordbox recorder, and there is no timing information to recover from the audio alone.

Track names come from your library

rekordbox names each entry from its own collection, so anything you played from an analysed, tagged track arrives with its artist and title already attached. Anything played from a source rekordbox could not identify has a time but no name.

Those unnamed entries are kept rather than dropped — the timing is the hard part and it is still correct. Fill the names in on the results page before you copy.

Timing is frame-accurate, not approximate

Cue sheets record positions in minutes, seconds and CD frames, at seventy-five frames to the second. That precision is preserved, so if you need sub-second timings for a video edit rather than a description box, you can switch the output to tenths or milliseconds.

Questions

Do I need a DAW for this?
No. That is the whole point of this route. rekordbox records what it played and when, so a recording produces a full timestamped tracklist without any other software involved.
My mix is over an hour. Will the times be right?
Yes. Cue sheets write long recordings as minutes past the start rather than rolling over into hours, and that is read correctly. The output switches to an hours format automatically once a mix passes sixty minutes.
Can I use a .cue from something other than rekordbox?
Usually. The format is a standard, so a cue sheet from another recorder generally reads fine as long as it carries INDEX times for each track.

Using something else?

Cue file format

Read a .cue file as a plain timestamped list

Open

Traktor

Turn a Traktor History playlist into a timestamped tracklist

Open

Serato

Turn a Serato History session into a timestamped tracklist

Open

There is also a full tutorial covering all five programs and what to do when the times look wrong.