Serato Metadata Format

For various file types, Serato stores cue points in the metadata of the music files (e.g. as ID3 v 2.3 GEOB tags).

The format of these binary blobs has been partially documented here and in this blog post.

Launchpad issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/741613

Mixxx support status

This in an overview of which tags are currently read and parsed by Mixxx:

	ID3	FLAC	M4A	Ogg Vorbis	Description
Analysis	No	No	No	No	Serato Analysis version
Autotags	No	No	No	No	BPM and Gain values
BeatGrid	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Beatgrid Markers (#2958)
Markers_	Yes	n/a	Yes	No	Hotcues, Saved Loops, etc.
Markers2	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Hotcues, Saved Loops, etc.
Offsets_	No	No	No	No
Overview	No	No	No	No	Overview Waveform data
RelVol	n/a	No	No	n/a
VideoAssoc	n/a	No	No	n/a

See the file format documentation for details.

See also serato_database_format.