MLT Blog
Tips on fixing, cleaning and managing your Serato library - and what's new in Music Library Tools.
7 October 2026
Blank genres, "Other", five spellings of Hip-Hop and genres that show up as numbers. How to clean them up by hand, and how to do a whole library in one pass.
Read more →7 October 2026
A messy Serato library is fixable without starting again. The six steps, in the order that stops each one undoing the last, with the free way to do most of it.
Read more →7 October 2026
How Serato Smart Crates work, how to set the rules, the Live Update box everyone misses, and eight Smart Crates you can copy today.
Read more →12 September 2026
Spotify streaming works in Serato, and tracks can go in crates. But you cannot record, store offline, or use it for paid work. Here is where the line sits.
Read more →9 September 2026
Filename sorting misses most duplicates, and deleting the wrong copy costs you cue points and crates. How to find them by sound and keep the right one.
Read more →9 September 2026
Orange tracks almost never mean your music is gone. What Serato actually lost, the four things that cause it, and how to relink without breaking crates.
Read more →8 September 2026
Your crates and cue points are not in your music folder. Here is what a real Serato backup has to include, and how to make one you can actually restore.
Read more →8 September 2026
Going Rekordbox to Serato is harder than the other direction, and MLT does not do it yet. Here is the manual method, and what you will and will not keep.
Read more →8 September 2026
Move your Serato crates, cue points and tags into Rekordbox without rebuilding your library by hand. What transfers, what does not, and why.
Read more →8 September 2026
Moving to a new laptop without losing your crates or cue points. What has to come across, what usually gets left behind, and the order to do it in.
Read more →8 September 2026
Subscription or one-off, all-in-one or single-job tools. An honest look at what Serato library software should do, and what MLT does and does not do.
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