Tips
Timbre does more than meets the eye. It’s all in one place here – pick what fits your workflow.
Your music comes to Timbre.
Give Timbre read-only access to your online storage. Timbre still analyzes everything – and can’t change a thing.
HowImport → Online storage → “Test connection”.Works on your phone too, easier on a computer.timbremusic reads your folders directly, offline too.coming with timbremusic
Load your Rekordbox XML. Your browser reads the file, nothing gets uploaded. With the play counter, the Explorer finds what you’ve never played.
HowImport → Rekordbox → tick “Play counter”.Import on a computer – then it’s all on your phone too.Same as in the browser.
Timbre storage takes whole folders. If the connection drops, Timbre picks up right where it stopped – with time left.
HowImport → Timbre storage → “Choose folder”.Works on your phone too. Keep the page open.With a preview before anything goes up.coming with timbremusic
One look, everything’s there.
o calm · + warm · ++ driving · +++ peak. Up always means more – in playlists, curves and the Explorer.
HowColumn E in your library, sortable.Far right in every track row.Same as in the browser.
● fits · ▲ works · ◆ jump. Timbre looks at key and BPM – the weaker one counts. A rule of thumb from the booth, not a verdict.
HowWherever two tracks meet: playlists, Explorer, queue.Between the rows of your playlists.Same as in the browser.
Filter by 1m and “+ neighbors” brings in 12m, 2m and 1d too – the keys that mix in harmonically.
HowLibrary → Filter → Key → “+ neighbors”.Filter → Key, top of the sheet.Same as in the browser.
Keep going from the track.
Q W E boost the key, Z X C drop it, A holds, D changes the mood. Add Shift and the best track of that way becomes Now right away.
HowPress keys in the Explorer. ? shows them all.On your phone the Explorer opens straight into the Dig controller: tap a direction or swipe across the pad.Same as in the browser.
When Auto-Listening plays something that misses, just tell Timbre. That track and artist stay out.
HowPlayer → ⋯ → “No more like this”.In listening mode via ⋯.Same as in the browser.
Home keeps your last track on the platter – at the exact spot you stopped. One tap and it plays on.
HowHome → “Resume”.Home → tap the platter. In listening mode, swipe the cover for the next track.Same as in the browser.
Playlists that think along.
One tap on + drops the track into your Tag List. Hold + a moment to pick where it goes: another playlist, play next or end of queue.
HowThe T key adds to your Tag List – or just drag the row onto a playlist.Bottom center: hold +.Same as in the browser.
In your library, swipe right to play next, left to send the track to your Tag List. Long-press a row for every action.
HowOn a computer: N = play next, Q = add to queue.Swipe a track row right or left.Same as in the browser.
Turn on “Grows with your library” for an intelligent playlist. After every analysis, fitting new tracks join – and you can undo any addition.
HowPlaylist → Rules → “Auto”.Playlist → ⋯ → Edit → “Auto”.Same as in the browser.
Back to the booth.
The export editor adds filter tokens like [e++] or [lead:deep-house] to the comment. In Rekordbox the rule reads “Comments contains [e++]” – and the intelligent playlist sorts itself.
HowExport → block “Filter tokens”.Export happens on a computer.Same as in the browser.
Timbre prefers writing tags to a copy: “Name (Timbre).mp3”. The original only with a backup – and you can roll everything back for 30 days.
HowExport → Write tags → “Create a copy”.Write tags on a computer.timbremusic writes straight into your folders.coming with timbremusic
The full package comes with a guide matched to your export: which playlists, which rules, what to click in Rekordbox and in what order.
HowExport → 3 Export → “Your guide for Rekordbox”.Read it on your phone, next to the computer running Rekordbox.Same as in the browser.
Press ? in Timbre to see them there too. Turn them off under Account → Appearance.
Short and sweet, for everyone who digs deeper.
Write to hello@timbremusic.app – the best ones end up here.