How to Export Your Whole Club Ready Music Crate to rekordbox With One XML

The Crate page in Club Ready Music has a rekordbox.xml link that exports every ready studio track in your crate, up to 500 of them, as a single rekordbox collection with a playlist called Club Ready Music. Save that file, download the MP3s into a folder named Club Ready Music, point rekordbox at the XML under Preferences > Advanced > Database, and drag the tracks from the rekordbox xml node into your Collection. Every track lands with its beat grid at 0.000, its BPM and its coloured hot cues, so a crate of fifty renders takes one import instead of fifty.

Steps

1. Download the audio into a folder named Club Ready Music

Open the Crate and set the filter to Tracks so only studio renders show. Download the MP3 for each track you want in rekordbox, or the DJ pack if you also want the WAV and cover. Put the MP3s in a folder named Club Ready Music and keep the downloaded file names, "Artist - Title (Extended Mix).mp3". The XML's Location entries point at that folder with those names, and matching names mean rekordbox finds every file without a relocate prompt.

2. Save the crate's rekordbox.xml

Click the rekordbox.xml link on the Crate page, or open /api/rekordbox.xml directly, and save the file somewhere permanent, for example next to the audio folder. The export only includes tracks whose status is Ready, so if a render is still in progress it will be missing; download again later. The file holds one collection of up to 500 tracks and one playlist named Club Ready Music that lists them all.

3. Point rekordbox at the XML

In rekordbox, open Preferences > Advanced > Database and set the rekordbox xml path to the file you saved. A rekordbox xml node appears in the tree on the left. Expand it and you will see the collection and the Club Ready Music playlist. Nothing is in your library yet; the node is a view of the file.

4. Drag tracks into Collection

Select the playlist in the xml node and drag it onto Playlists to import both the tracks and the playlist in one move, or drag individual tracks into Collection. If rekordbox asks where the files are, point it at the Club Ready Music folder once and it relocates the rest. The tracks start hard on beat one, so the imported TEMPO grid at 0.000 matches the audio without a shift.

5. Check the hot cues

Load a track. You should see the hot cues from the XML as POSITION_MARK entries with their colours: intro end red, first drop orange, outro start blue, vocal in green when the render knew where the vocal started. BPM and key come from the tags; rekordbox runs its own key analysis, and the Camelot and Open Key values remain in the comment, "8A · 1m · A minor · 126 BPM · intro 16 · outro 32 · Club Ready Music", if you want to compare.

6. Keep the import current

After new renders, download the new MP3s into the same folder and save the rekordbox.xml again, overwriting the old file. rekordbox re-reads the xml node when you reload or restart it. Drag only the new tracks into Collection. Tracks already present are matched by file path, so re-dragging a track you already have does not create a second copy but also does not update its cues.

Tips

• The one-track rekordbox.xml in each DJ pack and the crate-wide file are the same format. Use the DJ pack version when you only need one track.
• Keep the folder per computer at a stable path. Moving the folder later means relocating every track.
• The imported playlist is a convenient staging area. Make your own gig playlists from it and leave it as the full archive.
• Hot cues arrive as hot cues. If you prefer memory cues on the waveform overview, convert them in rekordbox after import.
• DJ edits are not in the XML. Import those by dragging the MP3 in and setting cues from the comment tag.

Common problems

• The xml node is empty. The Preferences path points at the wrong file or the file was saved while no tracks were Ready. Check the path and re-download.
• Every track shows a missing-file icon. The MP3s are not where the Location says. Put them in a folder named Club Ready Music or use the relocate dialog once.
• Hot cues did not appear. The track was already in your Collection from an earlier drag, and rekordbox kept the existing entry. Remove it from Collection and drag it from the xml node again.
• Only some tracks are in the file. The export covers up to 500 ready tracks and skips anything still rendering. Wait for the renders to finish and download the XML again.