Recently I have been setting up smart playlist by year, duration, and title [contains] due to the fact I like podcasts. I mix them together for that awesome custom seamless DJ one-off feel I am taking people on a trip through time or times experienced and now into the future all shifting between blended in. So not only does the smart playlist accommodate my offset style of mixing and blending full-on hourly sets, keeping track of the old and the new with certain characteristics, it helps me sort of create a flux between the realities then-to-now then back again through space-time and mood. Like a Drum & Bass set going from old-school almost jungle or garage breakbeat hinting today, but then arranged [sort by] to the more complex Neurofunk styles promoting cyber-futuristic-funk mixed with today's all meshed in one long journey :)

Very informative video. I admit to my playlists being “dumb” lol. Great video man keep em coming!

You are my newest go-to for tips and tricks .. this smart crate info gave a big understanding of the rules with in a crate .. now I dont feel as slow .. lol

I was doing this in iTunes (smart playlists) for BPM ranges, but this is making more and more sense to use this in Serato! I just have to make sure my songs are tagged correctly. Especially with year. Thanks for the great info!

Apart from 'Smart' playlists and crates, there are filter features on a different level that exists in rekordbox and virtual dj that makes finding tracks much easier once tagged with a particular name given.

Great video as usual! I preview tracks on the dj city app on my phone than the ones I like I selected the app and it sent it to my desktop for download. Then I make a crate in Serato just named the month and year, dump all the dj city tracks in there that I preapproved, then I make a crate of that month and add the word pics to it and those are mostly the house tracks that I end up playing at the club. Once I have the picks I make record box folders on the same SD card/USB drive where I keep all my music.

Love your videos! Very helpful. I’ve been using my iTunes folders and files forever with Serato. I’ve now been thinking I want to switch over to crates and smart crates. And I love how easy it is using Smart Crates. My only problem is, my music files are set as I purchases or acquired them. Title, artist, genre, etc. To use Smart Crates, I would have to go into my files and rename a large amount of my music to make this transition. There are songs I use all the time when I DJ, but I don’t see how I would set up a rule with Smart Crates, to create a file.

Thank you so much better I was so much wasting time dragging my songs over manually oh my God it can take years before you get it completed thank you thank you thank you I am now a subscriber to you all your videos

I got my crates under each genre and then i has year too, but your idea is definitely good as well, Thanks PDOTT’👊🏽🤓

Very useful video, thank you! I was revisiting your previous tagging system video from 5 years ago. The two together help me a lot to decide between Rekordbox and Serato. Rekordbox tagging system and Related tracks system are very powerfull. But Serato has TR-Sync, Flip, emoticons in the list, much better Grid edit, Pitch'n'Time, easier Mixed in Key integration.

You earned yourself a new follower. That's very informative.

Shoutout to having my 6LACK/J Cole edits in your Serato. Love you bro!

This is very helpful I had no idea how smart crate works now that I do I want to give it a test drive. I normally create my crates on my documents on my Mac and have folders that match my crates on Serato. As time went by I want to make playlists to play songs I might not play as often. The question I have if for example if I make a 80s smart crate is there away for it to also go to my folder in my documents? or is this only a Serato software thing?

I just started organizing my music collection, so thanks for this video. How do you remove items from a smart crate when the reference no longer exists?

Cool video, when you talk about the date of the track, do you mean when it was released or when you downloaded it? I'm new to this, so maybe it sounds like a silly question. Thanks

I'm currently switching mine to smart crates based on the old videos you did. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks bro!

I’ve tried smart crates a few times but I need to use it more

This tip was dope man!! It just saved me loads of time, as a new starter in the world of DJING Thanks bro

Only thing about smart crates is they dont serve their primary purpose which is to let you make a playlist? to retain the sequence of the songs you would like to play.. if they could populate the smart crate automatically then let you rearrange it, perfect...

Good afternoon Mr DJ, I have accidentally deleted crates before and have to start all over again, I saw subcrates, is there a way to reopen those subcrates ?

where do you get your clean versions of your songs please help?

This is smart. I'm gonna do this. Thanks!

DJs remember, you are SMARTER than some stupid algorithm. Take the time consuming way and consume yourself with YOUR music and decide where it belongs. You become better acquainted with your music and crates. This is cool for some on the fly shit, but spend TIME with your music. Peace!

Now is this with having music in ur internal hard drive, external or both?

I had noooo idea!!!

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Thanks I gotta try this

I wish you went through tagging a song, that would have helped.

where you get your music from im a new dj trying to find all the 2000 R& B songs can’t found a good dj pool

could you explicit the import in serato.i prefer library management like traktor that import folder or newer track on the launch . this system can be an addition that make it better to found out songs or ideas... there is a way that we have not to manually drag song to serato ...? i quit traktor for video mixing....i hate to drag manually things since i experienced traktor. library management and freestyling with it ...

how about all of my files i put on my external hdd

Does anyone know how to add music to crates on serato dj?😅

Question, if I label my hot tracks with a fire emoji, can this be used to create a smart crate?

The Problem with Smart Crates is that when you have several it slows down your computer. It continuously re analyzes the crates and puts strain on the computer. I switched back to regular crates because of this. Smart crates in a perfect world is great though just not practically efficient yet unless you have a supper powerful computer

someone said that "I used to have a ton of genres and decade crates on my hard drive, but then dumped all my music into a single folder and created smart crates for all genres and decades. Smart crates make life simpler, for me at least". but my question is How would you manage songs if you have folders for different genres and events, each with subfolders? Dumping them all into one giant folder would create a long list, making it hard to find songs. How do you handle this?"

I am incredibly envious of all DJs who live in regions where they dont have to make Country crates... seriously... I am in OKC and almost every gig I play I have to scrub through country songs because you will be chastised if someone requests country and you dont have any here. But best practice is just sprinkle it in, it pleases crowds here but I HATE IT! Lol...

can smart crates be backed up for use on multiple laptops?

A star ratings systems would be useful in Serato.. rather than us having to make one up. or the ability to just pull in high/low quality tracks.. or to pull in tracks over a certain size or length.. the smart crates are very very limited, i often find myself needing more.

All you need is hotfire bangers 😂 the rest is old 🖤

How many tracks do you have? Adding tags will cost me a couple years as i have over 200k tracks.

super video!

What version of Serato you using I have my software set up in horizontal mode but I don't get the long waveform in the middle it's shorter

Smart crates are really cool, however, I took my out because it duplicated the son on my hard drive and filled it up. Not sure if I can remove that.

What if that doesn’t work?

whats the track ID 1:15

Do you have a residency in vegas?

That is very great

Worst part about smart crates is that they only exist on the PC you make them on..... WHY DONT THEY LIVE ON THE SAME DRIVE AS MY OTHER CRATES?? I spend hours tweaking and building smart crates at home then if i want to plug my drive in at the club, they dont come with me by default... why????

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just I thought as you could use these for when artists get cancelled 😅😬😬

Issue is tagging. If you have thousand of tracks ensuring that all tracks are correctly tagged either with the correct year or genre can be pretty time consuming.

I have to try smart crests

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is that all there is as a DJ... Doing weddings?

tagging your music correctly that's my problem

Naww.....it doesn't get specific. Every hip-hop song is not going into my party playlist . This is actually a on going thing throughout your dj career.

How to renamed my smart creates

serato library is the worst i ever seen on a dj software period.

Why are you worried about the headliner he not a good DJ

Your video title is pretty dumb 🙄🤣