Import from Pioneer USB (OneLibrary)

You can import from a Pioneer / AlphaTheta USB drive. This will import all your playlists, cues, beatgrids, etc. The history sessions from the CDJs on that USB are imported too, you'll find them on the History page. After a gig, a Modified import brings back only what you changed on the players (see below).

To import, connect the USB drive, click Import at the bottom of the sidebar (above the Sync to DJ app button) or use File ➡ Import from… in the top menu bar, and choose Pioneer USB. Then pick the drive under Source USB drive and click Start importing.

To sync your Lexicon library to a USB drive instead, see Sync to Pioneer USB.

Bringing back changes from the players (Modified import)

Changed a rating, set cues or fixed a beatgrid on the CDJs during a gig? Choose Modified as the import type to bring in only those changes. This only works for a USB drive that you synced with Lexicon: every Pioneer USB sync keeps a record on the drive of what Lexicon put there, and the Modified import compares the drive with that record.

A Modified import brings in, for each track:

• the rating, cue points and beatgrid, if they were changed on the players since the last sync. Everything else about the track stays as it is in Lexicon.
• the play history recorded on the players since the last sync, as new sessions on the History page. Sessions you already imported are skipped, so importing twice never adds them twice.
• the plays counted on the players, added to the track's play count, and the date it was last played.

If you changed something both on the players and in Lexicon, the version from the USB wins, and the import report says so. When the import is done, the completion message says how many tracks were updated and links to a report of what changed per track.

The import window says when Lexicon last synced the drive. If it has no record yet, sync the USB with Lexicon once first. If most tracks on the drive differ from what Lexicon synced, another app has probably rewritten the USB, and Lexicon asks you to use a Full or Playlist import instead.

Modified always merges with your library, so it needs the Essential or Ultimate plan, the same as Merge.

Play history

The history sessions recorded on the USB are imported with every import type. The players do not store a date for a session. With Merge on, Lexicon gives the newest new session the date the players last wrote to the USB, and its tracks get that date as Last Played.

Music Files

Lexicon will attempt to match the music files on your USB drive with the files in your Lexicon library, by filename. If the files already exist, it will not copy them and just update their metadata.

If there is no matching file found in your Lexicon, it will copy the file from USB into the Music/Lexicon folder on your computer, in a subfolder with your USB name, then the artist and album. For example: Music/Lexicon/MY USB/Daft Punk/Random Access Memories/Get Lucky.mp3.

This folder can't be changed. If you don't want the files copied (for example because you already have them somewhere else), add those music files to Lexicon first, by dragging the folder into Lexicon. The import then finds them by filename and does not copy them.