Importing Your Apple Music / iTunes Library

Apple Music and iTunes do not store cue points or beatgrids, so an import from them brings in none. If your cue points and beatgrids are in a DJ app, import from that DJ app instead.

On a Mac

Lexicon reads your library straight from the Music app, so there is nothing to export first.

1. Click Import at the bottom of the sidebar, just above the Sync to DJ app button, or use File ➡ Import from… in the top menu bar
2. Select iTunes / Apple Music
3. Leave Read from on Music app. Lexicon shows how many tracks it found in your Music library
4. Leave the other settings at their default
5. Click Start importing
6. Start using Lexicon!

Lexicon imports the tracks that are stored on your Mac and your playlists and playlist folders. Songs that only live in iCloud or Apple Music, without a downloaded file, are skipped. Smart playlists are imported as normal playlists with the tracks they hold at that moment.

Lexicon reads the library as the Music app last saved it. If a change you just made in the Music app is missing, quit the Music app so it saves the library, then select iTunes / Apple Music again.

If Lexicon says Could not read your Music library, set Read from to XML file and import an exported library XML instead, see below.

You can still import a library XML on a Mac: set Read from to XML file and follow the steps below.

From an XML file (Windows, or on a Mac with XML file selected)

Lexicon can import XML files exported from iTunes or the Music app. These XML files contain your tracks and playlists. On Windows this is the only way to import your library.

Follow these steps:

1. Open Apple Music / iTunes
2. Go to File ➡ Library ➡ Export Library
3. Save the XML file
4. Open Lexicon
5. Click Import at the bottom of the sidebar, just above the Sync to DJ app button, or use File ➡ Import from… in the top menu bar
6. Select iTunes / Apple Music
7. On a Mac, set Read from to XML file
8. Point Lexicon to the earlier created XML file
9. Leave the other settings at their default
10. Click Start importing
11. Start using Lexicon!

Playlist import

You can create an XML with only selected playlists and import it in iTunes by choosing Import Playlist in the menu. But this only imports the playlist and not the tracks inside the XML. So your track tags will not update if you import a playlist in this way. To update your track tags in iTunes, you always have to do the above steps with an XML generated by a Full Sync.