Serato DJ: Host of new Crate management options lead its 4.0 updateFollowing a public beta period, Serato DJ’s latest update is good to go. With the company labelling Serato DJ 4.0 as “the biggest update yet to the software’s library interface”, the improvements to both the Pro and Lite editions include a slew of Crate management features and powerful new tools to streamline your workflow.
Inspired by its user base, the new update welcomes onboard feedback from customer support tickets, Reddit threads and other ideas directly from the Serato community. Most significantly, the DJ software has improved its Crate management, allowing far more flexibility when sorting, searching and organising your Crates.

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In terms of organisation, you can now sort your Crates alphabetically, by date or even lay out your own customised order. There’s also the option to colour-code your Crates to make it even easier to navigate through your tracks.
Better yet, a new shortcut option also allows you to jump straight into your favourite Crates and tracks, which can be accessed via a handy right click menu. Even if a track isn’t worthy of being in your ‘favourites’, there’s another way of ranking your tracks by preference. You can give each track its own emoji-rating, making it easier than ever to scan through your Crates to curate a killer set.
The update also adds the ability to see the total playtime and number of tracks within a Crate within the Crate’s footer. This should be a total game changer if you’re in a rush, as you can just scan through your Crate info without having to actually open each individual Crate. Alongside that, you can even right click on a track to see any other Crates it features in, without having to hunt around.

Speaking of hopping in and out of Crates, there’s also a new option to add certain streaming tracks to your Serato DJ Crates. That means you don’t have to stress about hopping between Crates and Spotify playlists in the middle of a set, allowing you to fully keep your head in the game.
There’s also a new ability to ‘analyse’ your tracks. This means Serato can automatically detect the BPM, key and more about a track when you import a track into your library.
As well as the new organisational perks, Serato has introduced a new Slip Release feature to customise your release times in Slip mode. It should allow for some even more creative scratching potential – but this is one of the few features only available with the Pro version of Serato DJ.
The only other Pro-exclusive update is the expansive Crate Search. All other Crate organisational features, however, are included on Serato DJ Lite 4.0.
For more information, head to Serato.
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