How to Load Club Ready Songs Tracks Into djay Pro With Cue Points

djay Pro takes Club Ready Songs tracks as local files on Mac or iOS: import the MP3, and djay Pro reads title, artist, album, BPM, key and the cover from the standard tags, then you set cue points per track from the times in cue points.txt or in the DJ edit comment tag. The Serato hot cues inside studio tracks are not read by djay Pro, so a minute of cue setting per track is the whole job. The intro and outro on every Club Ready Songs file are exact bar counts, so the cues land on downbeats.

Steps

1. Get the files onto the device

On a Mac, press MP3 on a studio result or MP3 320 on a DJ edit, or download the DJ pack and unzip it to get the MP3 together with cue points.txt. On an iPad or iPhone, download the MP3 from Club Ready Songs in the browser and save it to local files; the Download MP3 button on a track's share page works the same way on a phone. Keep cue points.txt where you can read it on the same device.

2. Import as a local file

In djay Pro, open the library and import the MP3 as a local file, or point the library at the folder where you saved it. The track appears with title, artist, album Club Ready Songs and the cover art from the tag. Studio tracks carry their genre and the optional (Extended Mix) suffix; DJ edits carry the genre DJ Edit, which makes them easy to find in a search.

3. Check BPM and key from the tags

djay Pro shows BPM from the TBPM tag or its own analysis; both should agree, because the file was rendered at one fixed tempo. The key comes from the standard key tag in musical form, for example Am or F#. The Camelot and Open Key values, 8A and 1m in that example, are in the comment tag and in cue points.txt, so if you mix by Camelot keep the sheet handy or read the comment in the track info.

4. Confirm the grid starts at zero

Load the track to a deck. With the default Hard start on bar 1, a studio track begins on the first downbeat, and a DJ edit opens with its drum-loop intro on a bar boundary, so the first beat of the grid belongs at 0. If djay Pro placed the downbeat elsewhere, move it to the start; the tempo is constant so the rest of the grid follows.

5. Set cue points for a studio track

Open the cue points for the loaded track. For each line in cue points.txt, scrub to the m:ss.mmm time, snap to the beat and save a cue, named like the sheet: intro end, first drop, outro start and vocal in when present. Put intro end and outro start on the first two pads, as those are the mix points. First drop is useful for a quick cut in, and vocal in tells you where to be careful with a vocal on the other deck.

6. Set cue points for a DJ edit

A DJ edit has no sheet; its comment tag ends with start, intro end and outro start as m:ss.mmm times, for example intro end 0:30.476 and outro start 3:12.000. Save a cue at 0, at the intro end and at the outro start. Or count: the intro end is Intro bars after the start and the outro start is Outro bars before the end, both on the grid.

7. Try Neural Mix on the body, not the intro

djay Pro's Neural Mix separates a playing track into stems. On a Club Ready Songs DJ edit the intro is already drums only with bass joining at the halfway point, and the outro already fades vocals and melody while drums and bass continue, so Neural Mix is not needed at the edges. Use it on the body of the track, for example to pull the vocal from a studio track between the first drop and the outro start cues.

Tips

• Save cue points as soon as a track is imported. Two cues, intro end and outro start, make any file mixable.
• On iOS, keep one folder in local files for both the MP3s and their cue sheets so they are easy to find in the import picker.
• The comment on a studio track reads like 8A, 1m, A minor, 126 BPM, intro 16, outro 32, Club Ready Songs; searching the library for 8A finds every track in that key.
• A tempo-shifted DJ edit has its scaled cue times in the comment and the target BPM in TBPM. Trust the tag, not the original song.
• The WAV from the DJ pack has identical timing to the MP3, so the same cue times apply if you prefer lossless on a Mac.

Common problems

• No cue points after import. Expected. djay Pro does not read the embedded Serato cues. Set them from cue points.txt or the comment tag.
• The key shows in musical notation and you mix by Camelot. The Camelot value is in the comment and in cue points.txt. Read it from there or note it in the track comment field.
• A cue is a fraction off the beat. It was placed by time without snapping. Move it onto the grid; the sheet time and the downbeat describe the same bar.
• The file is on the iPad but djay Pro cannot see it. It was saved outside the local files the app can reach. Move it to local files and import again.