r/mobileDJ

Fair cop on the numbers — a few of you called it out. Honest correction: the longest list a couple has ever sent me is 80 songs, not 200–300. Still a lost evening matching those by hand, which is the actual point of the post.

Curious how other working mobile/wedding DJs handle this, because it was driving me insane.

Every week, I get clients sending a 200–300 song Spotify playlist a few days before a wedding. I'd spend hours manually digging through my external SSD, making crates, and figuring out what tracks I actually owned versus what I needed to hunt down on record pools. Tuesday nights turned into pure admin dread.

Since I have a background in development, I finally got fed up and coded a desktop utility for myself to automate it. It takes a plain text/CSV playlist (I usually convert the Spotify URL via TuneMyMusic), scans my external SSD, and automatically builds a Serato .crate or VirtualDJ .m3u right where it needs to go.

Even better, it spits out an HTML report of the tracks I’m missing so I can just batch-download them from my pool instead of searching one by one.

I’ve been using it for my own gigs the last few weeks, and it's shaved hours off my prep time. If any other mobile/wedding DJs deal with this same bottleneck and want to check out how it works, let me know in the comments, and I can drop the info (don't want to spam links here).

How are you guys currently tackling client playlist imports without losing your minds?

Are any of you finding that those booking you are using "YouTube only" songs that aren't commercially available? Even with a YouTube subscription, I find myself putting extra effort into those tracks, so they don't sound like complete garbage when replayed on my setup.

Licensing issues aside, the time and effort required to do this often seems to go unappreciated.

Playing out on a DDJ-SX3 and it handles everything I throw at it. Keep seeing people treat controllers like theyre a step below real gear but for my gigs the SX3 is more than enough. When does standalone actually make sense and when is it just gear obsession

Since Youtube Premium has the ability to download some stuff, is the audio quality on them good enough to use for sets?

Cheap wireless cut out on me mid-speech at a wedding. I do weddings and corporate regularly and the mic dying is not something I can recover from. What wireless systems are people using that actually stay up

I'm an open format wedding DJ who has been gigging for some years. What are some good websites to find remixes and make quick edits?

I’m having a post-elopement celebration this Saturday and really don’t have the time to put together all of the music myself.

Basically I’m looking for someone to help finalize a playlist I’ve started, organize it so the songs flow well, and use Spotify’s DJ/crossfade/transition features (or whatever works best) to make it feel a little more like someone is actually DJing rather than just playing a giant playlist on shuffle.

figured I’d throw it out there in case anyone does this kind of thing or would be interested. Definitely looking to pay someone for their time, not asking for free help.

PM me if you’re interested and I can send more details! Also let me know if there’s a better sub for this.

Do you have a specific backup plan that you explain to clients, or do you generally just reassure them that you will be there and haven't ever missed a gig?