Importing tracks into Rekordbox means hunting for tiny buttons in buried submenus. Finding a track I own takes too long. Fixing a beatgrid is its own little ordeal. The basics were probably fine twenty years ago and haven't really moved since, while the rest of the software world figured out how to make tools that feel good to use.
I spent ten years building products as a PM, and I hit that same wall every time I sat down to DJ. So I'm building Ora DJ: a modern alternative to Rekordbox that does the whole job, from getting your music in to handing a USB to the booth.
Start with the library. Import what you already have in Rekordbox, then tag it, fix grids and cue points, clean up the metadata, and dig out tracks you forgot you owned. The daily library grind Rekordbox makes slow is the first thing Ora DJ makes fast. From there you plan the night as an arc: chapters on a visual canvas, so you can see the shape of a set before you play a note. Want to know if a transition works? Plug in your controller and rehearse it on a real audio engine, hands on the decks, cues, loops and EQ, until it's muscle memory. When the set's done, export it back to Rekordbox for the USB and the booth. Rekordbox becomes the last step, not the place you suffer.
Prepping a set should feel like play, not data entry, and the software should too. The things you do over and over, importing, analyzing, tagging, sorting, should be quick and obvious. And it stays fast as the library grows, even at tens of thousands of tracks.
It's in open beta and free right now, and there'll always be a free tier.
