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ToBeSorted2

Built for DJs. Built by DJs.

What ToBeSorted2 does

Plug in the stick rekordbox exported to, and ToBeSorted2 reads the library straight off it — Device Library, OneLibrary, every folder and playlist — right there on your phone. Just the track list, playlist structure, and metadata — no artwork, nothing copied over. Preview a track and it plays straight off the stick. The music stays on the drive where it belongs.

iPhone, iPad, MacSame drive, same library, every screen. iPhone Duo too, open or closed.
Search by BPM & keyClassic (Am) or Alphanumeric (8A) — search either, see both.
Check before you goCatch a missing or broken file before it catches you on the night.
Remembered via iCloudPlug in once — the track list and playlists follow you to your other devices. Never the audio.
Your remembered USB drives, on Mac
Your remembered USB drives, on iPhone
Your remembered USB drives, on iPad
Your remembered USB drives, on iPhone Duo, closed
Your remembered USB drives, on iPhone Duo, open
A playlist being verified, on Mac
A verified playlist, on iPhone
A verified playlist, on iPad
A verified playlist, on iPhone Duo, closed
A verified playlist, on iPhone Duo, open
Searching a library, on Mac
Searching a library, on iPhone
Searching a library, on iPad
Searching a library, on iPhone Duo, closed
Searching a library, on iPhone Duo, open
For this first version, browsing and searching use a file-system metaphor — folders, playlists, drives. It's a familiar place to start, and it'll evolve as the app grows.

What's in a name?

Before rekordbox, there was iTunes — and a habit of stuffing metadata into the Comments field on every track: female, vocals, whatever would help it surface later. The original ToBeSorted scraped one playlist folder and turned every BPM and comment keyword it found into a button. Tap a few, see what's left. It sold a handful of copies, then a day job got busier than a side project could compete with, and it quietly bit-rotted out of the App Store.

The name comes from that one folder it scraped — never the whole library, that would take all night — called, literally, "ToBeSorted": tracks still waiting to be sorted. The app just borrowed the name off the folder it was built to search.

The original ToBeSorted: a grid of BPM and keyword filter buttons The original ToBeSorted: a track's detail The original ToBeSorted: the Sets screen

ToBeSorted, circa 2013 — tap a BPM, tap a keyword, see what's left.