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Serato Metadata Format

Jan Holthuis edited this page Aug 16, 2020 · 4 revisions

For various file types, Serato stores cue points in the metadata of the music files (e.g. as ID3 v 2.3 GEOB tags).

The format of these binary blobs has been partially documented here and in this blog post.

Launchpad issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/741613

Mixxx support status

This in an overview of which tags are currently read and parsed by Mixxx:

ID3 FLAC M4A Ogg Vorbis Description
Analysis No No No No Serato Analysis version
Autotags No No No No BPM and Gain values
BeatGrid Yes Yes Yes No Beatgrid Markers (#2958)
Markers_ Yes n/a Yes No Hotcues, Saved Loops, etc.
Markers2 Yes Yes Yes ? Hotcues, Saved Loops, etc.
Offsets_ No No No No
Overview No No No No Overview Waveform data
RelVol n/a No No n/a
VideoAssoc n/a No No n/a

See the file format documentation for details.

See also serato_database_format.

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