Releventful Playlist Management
In Releventful, you can build a custom experience for your client to choose their event straight from their portal. Once their song selections have been made, you can use our Playlist management tool to create and download the event playlist.
Releventful REMIX® Song Scanner - automatically match your clients song choices with your song library!
Creating playlists manually can be time consuming for your events. Our REMIX® Song Scanner saves you time prepping for your your events and drastically reduces the amount of time you spend creating your playlists.
What does the REMIX® Song Scanner Do?
The REMIX scanner will scan your song library to get all of the song names and file paths in your song repository.
The REMIX service will then automatically match your client song selections to the songs you have in your song repository to create your M3U playlist files to use in Serato, iTunes or your tool of choice.
What the REMIX Scanner does NOT do
The REMIX scanner will NOT scan any other directory other than the one you provide.
The REMIX scanner will NOT take any files off of your computer.
Setting Up REMIX® to Scan Your Library
To scan your song library for the first time
Go to the portal home
Click on Playlist
About Event Playlist Management
The event playlist management section is where you can pull together your client’s song selections and your song selections to create your final day-of playlist to download.
Step 1: Download the REMIX® Song Scanner
To download the REMIX® Song Scanner, do the following
Click on Playlist, then Download REMIX Scanner
The download will start automatically and further instructions will display on the screen.
Step 2: Run REMIX® Song Scanner
If you're using macOS and you're using macOS Venture or newer and running on the M1 architecture, you will need to perform these steps when running the REMIX Song Scanner for the first time:
Right-click on the Releventful REMIX Song Scanner app file
Click "Get Info"
Activate the checkbox for "Open using Rosetta"
Close the info window
Open the Releventful REMIX Song Scanner app
To scan your music
Open REMIX® scanner
Enter your username and password and click Connect
Click Music Directory to choose the directory with all of your music
Click Scan to scan your music
ℹ️ Note: if the Scan button isn't enabled, try steps 2-3 again.
After the scan completes, proceed to Step 3 in the event in Releventful.
Step 3: Create Your Event Song Playlist
After you have run the REMIX® Song Scanner all songs added to the Event Playlist will be automatically matched.
There are 3 kinds of matches
Partial – REMIX® found a match, but it doesn’t have the same song name as the selected song
Exact – REMIX® found an exact match
No Match – REMIX® couldn’t find a song in your library that matches the selected song
Building Your Event Playlist
The scanner will attempt to match the songs in the Event Playlist with the songs it found from the scan.
To choose songs for your Event Playlist, you can choose songs from either your Client Selections or Explore your songs that you've added to the Releventful Song Manager.
Here are the 3 sections of the Event Playlist area
Event Playlist – these are the songs that you've chosen from your client selections and from your song manager.
Client Selections – this is the list of all of the song selections your client chose
Explore – this is the listing of all of the songs you have imported or entered into the Song Manager.
Adding Songs to the Event Playlist
To add songs your client selected or any custom songs you would like to use, Click on Client Selections or Explore
1. To add the songs to the master playlist, check on the Add to Event Playlist checkbox.
ℹ️ Note: To listen to any of the songs, click the play button
2. To add of your client song selections at once, check the Add All checkbox in the Client Selections section.
3. Once you have added all of the songs, click on Event Playlist make more edits.
Step 4: Making Final Edits to your Event Playlist
Reordering Songs on the Event Playlist
Click on Event Playlist to view the event playlist
Drag the song up or down in the list
Edit REMIX® Song Matches
Starting off, the REMIX® Scanner will make its first choice to match your client song selections with your music. You can help the REMIX® Scanner learn by selecting your preferred match. As you change the selections, the REMIX® Scanner will learn your preferences and update the selections for future events.
To change your preferred song choice
Click on Event Playlist to view the event playlist
2. Click the edit button on the song you would like to view (icon shown above)
Under the Song File Details, there are the
Match Type – Partial, Exact, or No Match
Song Name – This will be the actual song file name the REMIX® scanner found on your laptop or desktop computer.
File Location – This is the path to the file on your computer. This file location will be used to in the M3U playlist file.
3. If the match is correct, click Confirm Match to finalize your match selection.
4. If you would like to find a different song match for your playlist, start typing the song name in the Search Your Library text area and choose the song from your computer’s song library that is a better match.
Edit Song Details & Timeline
To change the song match that the REMIX® scanner chose
Click on Event Playlist to view the event playlist
Click the edit button on the song you would like to view
Edit the Scheduled Time or Notes
Click Save to save your edits
Step 5: Download Your Playlist
Download an M3U playlist file
To download a the m3u playlist file to upload into Serato, Virtual DJ, Traktor, iTunes or your tool of choice, click on Playlist, then Download Playlist.
The playlist download will contain all of the songs listed in the Event Playlist with Partial and Exact matches from the REMIX® scanner.
ℹ️ Note: if no match could be found, the song will not be included in the playlist file.
Download a CSV Playlist File
Download a CSV playlist file to upload to CrateHackers or to open your playlist in Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, click on Playlist, then Download Playlist CSV.
Print a Copy of the Playlist
Click on Print to download a PDF version of the event playlist (icon shown above)