Seven tips this month, split across three themes: features most people never switch on, library hygiene that pays off every gig, and a couple of workflow habits for anyone who came to Lexicon from Rekordbox or Serato.
Underused features
Turn on Rekordbox memory cues in Lexicon. Lexicon hides memory cues by default because only Rekordbox supports them. Open the Lexicon settings, click Configure next to DJ App Specific Features, enable Rekordbox Memory Cues and restart. Your cues in the music player now show an M you can click to mark that cue as a memory cue, and the same option appears in the Cue Point Generator and in the smartlist editor under the Cue Points field. One catch: set the Cue Destination to Default when you sync, because "All to hot cue" still sends everything as hot cues. See Lexicon Settings.
Find the tracks no playlist is using. In the top menu bar, go to Utility ➡ Playlist Occurrence. Choose Occur in exactly with 0 playlists and you get every track that sits in your library without ever making it into a playlist: a great starting point for a cull or for rediscovering forgotten bangers. Flip it to Occur in at least 2 to see your most reused tracks, and tick Include smartlists if you want those counted too. Select the results and hit Save to playlist. Playlist Occurrence is available on the Essential and Ultimate plans.
Library hygiene
Run Smart Fixes before Find Tags & Album Art. Find Tags & Album Art (right-click tracks ➡ Track tools ➡ Find tags & album art) matches on your artist and title, so a title stuffed with 01. prefixes, URLs or & will miss or mismatch. Clean first with Smart Fixes such as Remove Number Prefix, Remove URLs, Fix Encoded Characters, Fix Casing and Extract Remixer, then run the lookup to fill genre, year, label, album, album art and energy from SonoVault, Lexicon's own music database.
Deduplicate with a plan, not a panic. Find Duplicates (top menu bar ➡ Utility) compares your tracks two ways:
- Audio Match: an exact audio signature match, even across file types, so an MP3 and a WAV of the same track are caught.
- Tag Match: an artist/title match. Very likely the same track, but not guaranteed.
If a scan finds more than 100 duplicates, Lexicon locks all Tag Match results for safety, so you can review them in batches. Use Prefer... to bulk-select keepers (for example, everything inside your main music folder), check the Review screen, then archive. Your playlists are updated so the kept copy replaces the archived one, and the archived files wait in the Archive until you delete or move them. More in the Find Duplicates manual page.
Keep a smartlist of missing files. Create a smartlist with the File Missing rule and you always have a live view of tracks whose file no longer exists. Lexicon re-checks every 5 minutes at most; if you just moved or renamed files outside Lexicon, restart Lexicon or open a track's Edit popup to force a re-check.
Coming from Rekordbox or Serato
Pull in only the cues you changed in your DJ app. When Lexicon syncs a track, that track's cues in Rekordbox are replaced by Lexicon's. So if you tweaked cues in your DJ app at a gig, bring them back first without touching anything else:
- In your DJ app, put the changed tracks in a new playlist with a unique name.
- In Lexicon, do a Playlist import of just that playlist with Merge with current library enabled.
- Enable Import specific fields only and tick only Cue Points.
- Delete the temporary playlist afterwards, then sync back out as usual.
Playlist import and Merge are available on the Essential and Ultimate plans. Details in Syncing to Rekordbox.
Let Rekordbox analyze Phrase only. After syncing, you can still add Rekordbox's waveform and phrase data without losing the beatgrids you built in Lexicon: in the analysis window uncheck the beatgrid and check only Phrase. It is also worth turning off auto analysis in the Rekordbox settings so your grids never get overwritten behind your back.
