For DJs and hosts
An evening is not a folder full of tracks. It has an arc.
DJ Set Planner turns your host's wish list — or a track selection of your own — into an evening with phases, time windows, tempo and key, and tells you beforehand which tracks you are still missing.
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The evening lasts four hours. Preparing it takes longer.
Playing is not what costs the time — everything before and after it does. That is exactly where DJ Set Planner comes in.
By hand, for one evening
- Go through the wish list and find duplicates30–45 min
- Build the order and the transitions60–90 min
- Check what you already own45–60 min
- Find and buy the missing tracks30–45 min
- Create playlists and get them into rekordbox20–30 min
- Review it afterwardsusually never happens
Together3 to 5 hours
With DJ Set Planner
- Import the playlist, duplicates drop out2 min
- Let phases be proposed, the order comes with them5 min
- Scan the folder, matching runs by itself3 min
- Missing tracks with prices, one click to buy10 min
- Playlists and the rekordbox file appear on their own1 min
- Upload the history, the review is there2 min
Togetherunder 30 minutes
Experience values for an evening with around 200 requested tracks, not a measurement. How much you save depends on how carefully you prepare today — anyone who does not prepare at all saves no time, but gains a plan.
What is a DJ set planner?
A DJ set planner is a tool that turns a collection of tracks into the course of an evening. It splits the playing time into phases — arrival, build-up, peak, wind-down —, assigns each track to a phase by tempo and genre, and tells you in advance which phase is still short of material.
The difference to a playlist is the arc. A playlist records an order; a set planner plans when things stay calm, when they rise and how long the peak carries. It counts playing time rather than tracks, checks transitions by tempo and key, and notices when an hour is meant to be carried by eight tracks.
DJ Set Planner reads a playlist from Spotify or your own rekordbox library, plans the evening in phases, and writes the result back as a Spotify playlist or as an M3U for rekordbox. Nothing is played back — you play in your own software, from your own files.
A plan does not make you rigid
The trade press names “sticking to what you planned at home” as one of the most common DJ mistakes — MusicRadar 2024 and Digital DJ Tips 2018, independently. The objection is fair, and it holds against any plan meant as a timetable.
This one is not. The plan does not decide what you play at half past one — it makes sure the right tracks are within reach when you get there. For a three-hour set, Club Ready DJ School recommends at least 200 pre-sorted tracks to choose from. Sorting two hundred tracks in your head while people are dancing is the real imposition.
And a time window makes visible the mistake those same two sources rank even higher: peaking too early.
Tools for preparation, no account needed
Camelot wheel, tempo and key converters, transition timing, metronome, tracklist with timestamps, tempo and key from a file: everything runs in the browser, costs nothing and needs no account. The same calculations sit inside the planner.
See all toolsWhy evenings fall apart
The wish list is a heap
The host sends a Spotify playlist with 200 tracks spanning four decades. Nowhere does it say in what order that becomes an evening.
There is not enough material
Four hours to fill, two and a half hours of music — usually noticed in the tent, not at the desk.
The file is missing
You plan in Spotify and play from your own library. Nobody knows which of it is actually on the laptop — until it is too late.
The transitions stumble
Two tracks in keys that do not belong together sound wrong in the transition, even when the tempo matches. By hand, every single change has to be thought through.
From the wish list to the morning after
- 1
Create the event
Occasion, date, time, length. Everything else follows from that — above all how much music is needed at all.
- 2
Import the wish lists
One or several Spotify playlists from your host, your own collection, or all of it together. Title, artist and length come along, duplicates drop out.
- 3
Set the phases
Warm-up, rock block, peak, wind-down — each with a time window and a tempo band. An AI model will propose the structure if you want; it never sees a single track.
- 4
Assign and write back
Tempo decides which phase a track belongs to; the key decides where inside that phase. You adjust as you see fit — whatever you place by hand stays put. At the end there are playlists in Spotify and a file ready to download and import into rekordbox.
- 5
Play
Whatever you are missing, you buy straight from the track list — price and preview sit in the same row. Import the files into rekordbox and play them from your own gear. Without your own setup, take the Spotify playlists and follow the same plan.
- 6
Review
After the gig you upload the rekordbox history. You see what actually played and what did not, where the phases drifted from the plan, and which of the host's requests came up. Out of it comes a playlist to send them — and the basis for the next evening.
No credit card. You create an account and plan a real evening with it.
Works with what you already use
Spotify brings the requests, your own library brings the music, rekordbox plays it. What was missing in between was the plan.
Spotify
Import playlists, import liked songs, write finished phases back. With your own credentials — your token never reaches our servers.
rekordbox
One M3U file per phase, with relative paths. After the gig you read the history back in and see what actually played.
Your music folders
Matching against your own library reads tempo, key and ISRC straight from the tags of the files you bought — more accurate than any lookup service.
iTunes Store and Beatport
If a track is missing, the price sits in the same row, with a preview and a link to buy. Buying is up to you — planning happens here.
Pexels
For the offer sheet we look up a header image to match the occasion — free of charge and usable commercially. Your own photo beats it, so you can upload one instead.
If you play as a DJ
- The arc of the evening is settled before you get in the car.
- The transitions sit, because the order follows the key.
- On Tuesday you know which tracks you are missing for Saturday.
- The host's requests are reliably in there — spread across the evening, not stacked at the start.
- Afterwards the rekordbox history shows you where the plan held and where it did not.
If you are hosting
- A playlist for your own party that does not sound like shuffle.
- Guests collect requests in a shared Spotify playlist, and you put them in order.
- What you end up with is a finished playlist in your own Spotify account.
One feature set, two ways to pay
Everything in, for less than a drink
There are no tiers and no add-on packs. Only the choice between paying monthly or once a year.
Monthly
No minimum term. Cancel any time, effective at the end of the month.
Keeps running until you cancel. Switch to yearly any time, settled pro rata.
Try it freeYearly two months cheaper
That is 4.17 € a month. Twelve-month term.
No second year: then 5 € a month, cancel any time. To end it at the term, give four weeks' notice.
Try it freeOne month free, on both
Included in both
- Unlimited events
- Import playlists and liked songs from Spotify
- Phase proposals from two AI models
- Matching against your music folder — tempo and key from the tags
- Order along the Camelot wheel — transitions that belong together
- Prices, previews and buy links for missing tracks
- Playlists back to Spotify, a file to import into rekordbox
- Review of the played history after the gig
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Common questions
- What is a DJ set planner?
- A DJ set planner is a tool that turns a collection of tracks into the course of an evening: it splits the playing time into phases, assigns each track to a phase by tempo and genre, and tells you in advance which phase is still short of material. Unlike a playlist, which merely records an order, it plans the arc of the evening.
- Can I try it out?
- Yes, for a month, at no cost and without a credit card. You create an account and plan a real evening with it — that is the only test that tells you anything. If it is not for you, the trial simply ends; nothing carries on that you would have to cancel.
- Do I need Spotify Premium?
- For your own account, yes. Your guests need nothing beyond the link to the shared playlist.
- Does the application play music?
- Not whole tracks — playing happens in rekordbox, from your own files. What you can listen to here are the short previews iTunes supplies next to a purchase offer, so you can recognise a track before buying it.
- Does it sort by key as well?
- Yes. Inside a phase the order follows the Camelot wheel: neighbouring keys end up next to each other, wide jumps are avoided. The key comes from the tags of the files you bought, or from what you entered. If a track's key is unknown it simply stays where it was — nothing is guessed.
- What happens to my Spotify data?
- The connection runs in your browser with your own credentials. Your Spotify token never reaches our servers — we only see the track list you take over.
- Is this legally in order?
- Yes. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is copied. Spotify is reached through its official interface with your own account, and playing happens later in rekordbox from files you own. What is created here is an order of play — your plan, not the music. What it does not take off your hands: playing to an audience needs the usual licence, and that is a matter between the venue and the collecting society, not this application.
- Can I cancel monthly?
- On the monthly plan yes, with one button, without logging in and without giving a reason. The yearly plan runs for twelve months; you end it with four weeks' notice, after which it continues monthly and can be cancelled any time. The first month is free on both.
- Does this work without DJ experience?
- Yes. For your own party it is enough to import the wish list and accept the proposed phases.