Auto Cue for Serato DJ Pro

Hot cues on every track, without the afternoon of clicking.

Auto Cue finds the start of the track and the points where it lifts, snaps them to 4-bar phrases, and writes them as real Serato hot cues. You see every proposal on the waveform first, keep the ones you want, and undo the whole batch in a click.

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macOS · Studio feature · Writes real Serato hot cues · Fully undoable
Crate Cleaner Auto Cue review queue proposing Serato hot cues across a library, each cue with a timestamp and confidence score
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Hot cue slots, only empty ones filled
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Bar phrases every cue snaps to
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Click to undo a whole batch
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Existing cues, loops or grids touched

Placement

Cues where the music actually changes.

A cue half a bar out is worse than no cue at all. Auto Cue builds its grid from Serato's own beat analysis, then places every cue on a phrase boundary, so what you drop into is always in time.

Grid

Serato's own downbeat

The first cue is pinned to the first downbeat Serato analysed, not to a tempo guessed from scratch. It is the cue you reach for most and the one you can trust most.

Phrase

Snapped to 4 bars

Dance music is arranged in 4 and 8 bar units. Cues land on phrase boundaries so a drop is a drop, not a beat and a half before one.

Energy

Where the low end lifts

A breakdown keeps its melody and loses its drums, so Auto Cue watches the low band rather than overall loudness to find the moments that matter.

Confidence

Every cue scored

Each proposal shows how strong the evidence for it is, so you can accept only the near certain ones across a whole library, or take everything on a track you know.

Safety

It cannot quietly ruin your library.

Serato stores hot cues, saved loops, track colour and BPM lock in one block of tag data. A tool that only understands cues destroys the rest. This one reads the whole block, changes only what it should, and proves it can put everything back.

Review

Nothing is written until you say so.

Analysing and writing are two separate steps on purpose. Proposals appear on the waveform in the player as dashed markers, clearly different from the solid cues already saved in the file. Click one to hear the moment, drop the ones you disagree with, then write the rest. Across a library, the same review runs as a table: every track, every proposed cue, and a confidence filter to take only the strong ones.

Crate Cleaner crate browser showing a Serato crate with inline BPM, Camelot key, cue counts, waveform, format, plays and star ratings

How it works

From an uncued library to a cued one in three steps.

  1. Pick a scopeThe whole library or a single crate. Tracks that already have hot cues are skipped by default, so you only ever fill the gaps.
  2. Review the proposalsEvery track with its cues, timestamps and confidence. Filter to the confident ones, drop what you disagree with, preview any of it against the waveform.
  3. Write, and undo if you wantClose Serato and write. The cues are there next time you open your library, and the whole batch reverses in one click if you change your mind.

FAQ

Questions DJs ask about Auto Cue.

Does Auto Cue overwrite the cues I already set?
No. Auto Cue only ever fills empty hot cue slots, and it never renumbers or moves a cue you placed. If a track already has all eight slots used it is skipped, and if a proposal lands on a spot you have already cued it is dropped rather than duplicated into a second slot.
What happens to my saved loops and BPM lock?
They are preserved exactly. Serato keeps cues, saved loops, track colour and BPM lock together in one block of tag data, so a tool that only understands cues can wipe the rest. Crate Cleaner reads that whole block, changes only the cue entries, and writes it back byte for byte identical everywhere else. Anything it cannot read with confidence is left untouched.
How accurate are the cue points?
The first cue is the most reliable: it is pinned to the first downbeat Serato itself analysed, so it lands where a start cue belongs on the large majority of tracks. The rest are proposals. They snap to 4-bar phrase boundaries where the low end steps up, which is usually a drop or the main groove starting, and each one carries a confidence score so you can see how strong the evidence is before you accept it. Auto Cue is built to give you a strong starting point in seconds, not to replace your ears.
Can I undo it?
Yes, completely. Every file is copied before it is touched, and a whole batch is one restore session. One click puts every file back exactly as it was, and the cue counts in your library are re-read from the restored files so nothing is left out of step.
Do I need to close Serato first?
Yes, and Auto Cue enforces it. Serato caches tag data in its own database and writes it back when it quits, so cues written underneath a running Serato get overwritten. If Serato is open, the whole batch refuses to run and tells you why rather than writing work you would lose.
Which files does it support?
MP3 and AIFF, the two formats that carry Serato cue data as an ID3 tag. FLAC and other formats are read and displayed as normal, but Auto Cue will not write to them.
Which plan includes Auto Cue?
Auto Cue is a Studio feature, the same tier as the other tools that write to your files at scale.

Stop cueing tracks one at a time.

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