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Install, connect, build a set

Install MixReady, connect your music and build your first set: about ten minutes. Everything after that is documented inside the app, under Help.

01Install on macOS

Open the .dmg From the download page, take the Apple Silicon build for an M1–M4 Mac and the Intel one otherwise (Apple menu → About This Mac says which; the wrong one won't open). Drag MixReady into Applications.
Open it Nothing to approve: MixReady is signed and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without a warning.

If macOS calls an old copy (0.1.1 or earlier) "damaged and can't be opened", install this build over it.

02Install on Windows

Run the installer MixReady-Setup-x64.exe, from the download page. It installs for your account only, so there's no admin password. Needs 64-bit Windows 10 or 11; there's no build for Windows on ARM or Linux.
Click through SmartScreen If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway. The box should name MixReady's publisher; if it says "Unknown publisher", the file isn't ours. SmartScreen only means it hasn't seen the app often yet, and it may show again after an update.
Give it a few minutes The installer unpacks about 600 MB while Windows Defender checks each file, so "Installing, please wait…" can sit for five to fifteen minutes with the bar barely moving. It isn't stuck. MixReady opens by itself when it's done, and the first launch is slow once.

If it really has stopped. Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and check MixReady-Setup-x64.exe's Disk column: above zero, it's still working. Flat at zero for several minutes? End it, end any MixReady or mixready-sidecar still listed, and run the installer again. If that happens twice, send us %APPDATA%\MixReady\logs\install.log; its last line says where it stopped.

Updates. New versions download by themselves and install the next time you open MixReady, so an update never interrupts a set. On 0.1.1 or earlier, install one new build from the download page first.

03Sign in and connect

Connect a music source Settings → Streaming has Beatport, TIDAL, SoundCloud and Apple Music; any one is enough. Beatport connects in the desktop app, with Sign in with Beatport. MixReady reads your playlists and library and can send sets back as playlists. It never buys or changes anything on your account.
Let your crate fill Playlists, purchases and follows come in by themselves and refresh every 12 hours. To pull in something new straight away, open the card's Updates and press Refresh now.

Two extras make sets noticeably better: scanning your DJ app's library in the desktop app (Settings → DJ software) and saving 1001tracklists setlists. The app walks you through both under Help → Set up your sources.

04Build your first set

Go to New set and describe the night. Only the vibe is required; everything below it is optional and mostly filled in for you.

120min melodic house, sunset rooftop into peak time
— like Adriatique and RÜFÜS DU SOL

Length, genre and reference artists are read from what you type and shown as chips you can correct. The controls worth knowing:

Control	What it changes
Length	Set duration. Taken from the vibe (`120min`, `2hr`) until you move the slider.
Where are you playing?	The energy arc: a warm-up climbs, peak time starts high and stays there.
How well-known?	From underground cuts to tracks the room will recognise.
Where do the tracks come from?	Your own files (desktop app), streaming, or a hybrid of both.
Must-plays	Tracks you'll definitely play. Pin one as opener, peak or closer and the set is built around it.

Press Build set. It takes a minute or two and keeps going if you leave the page. The set that opens grades every transition, previews the whole set as a trailer, and can walk you through each mix step by step.

05The rest lives in the app

Open Help at the bottom of the app's menu. It always matches the version you're running, and covers:

Reading a set: set health, the smooth / workable / tricky grades, the energy arc and fixing rough spots.
Hearing it: the trailer, auditioning a single transition, and the auto-mix.
Beginner mode and practice: step-by-step coaching and a practice sheet you can print and tick off.
Sending a set to your gear: rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, VirtualDJ and djay Pro, with cue points, or as a streaming playlist.
Your sources: streaming, DJ-app library scans and saved 1001tracklists sets.
Troubleshooting and known limits: what's rough in the alpha, and what to do when something breaks.

Learn to mix, next to Help, teaches the craft itself: bars and phrases, beatmatching, EQ, and 25 transition techniques.

06What happens to your data

Your audio stays on your computer. The desktop app analyses your files locally and sends only measurements (BPM, key, energy, phrases, mix points) and track details.
File paths stay local. The server never learns where a file sits on your disk.
Your DJ library changes only when you ask. MixReady writes to a DJ app when you send it a set or cue points, and backs the library up first. It writes a file's tags only when you ask (Serato cues live in a file's tags); the audio itself is never changed.
Streaming sign-ins are stored encrypted on MixReady's server and used only to act for you. Disconnecting deletes them.
Building a set sends what you typed, plus track titles, artists, tempo and key, to OpenAI. Never who you are.

The privacy policy has the full detail.

07When something breaks

Press the feedback button at the bottom right of any page: it sends your note with the page you're on, your app version and the last error. Or email support@mixready.art with what you did, what you expected and what happened. Every report gets read.

08Where to go next

That's it: MixReady is building sets from your music, checking every transition and sending the set, cue points included, to rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, VirtualDJ or djay Pro. Everything else is under Help in the app.

Still learning the craft? Two parts of this site are free and need no account:

Guides: gear, software, beatmatching and phrasing, EQ and cue points, organising a library, and playing live.
Resources: what more than 70,000 published DJ sets show about tempo, key, genre and set length.