IntroEdits

In your browser · Mac app for your whole library

Make an intro edit for any track. In a few clicks.

Half your collection never gets played, because those tracks start cold and there is nowhere to mix in. Pick the point where you want the record to drop — IntroEdits builds the intro for you, out of the track's own audio, with the vocal lead-in over the top so it flows.

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16 bars of instrumental run-up, built for you the record, on the one

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Drop a track in and hear it.

No account, no install. Pick where the record should drop and you will hear the intro built out of the track's own audio, with the vocal walking in over the end of it. Sign up only when you want to keep the file.

1

Drop in a track you already own

2

Choose where it should drop

3

Hear the edit, then keep it

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Works in any browser. For your Serato, Rekordbox or VirtualDJ crates — and unlimited edits — the Mac app does it all on your own machine.

The Mac app

The whole crate,
not one track at a time.

This site makes one edit so you can hear what it does. The Mac app is where the work gets done — straight out of your DJ software, ten tracks at a time, all on your own Mac.

The IntroEdits drop board: four tracks stacked, each with its waveform, its likely drop and Set the drop here

Ten drops on one screen

Tick up to ten tracks and they come up stacked, each with its waveform and its likely drop already marked. Check it, set it, next — then choose the intro once for all of them.

Every finished edit in a batch, each with Hear the changeover, a lead-in control, Change and Save

Hear every edit before you keep it

They build one after another on your own Mac. Play each changeover, carry the vocal in where a line would be cut, and save the lot in one zip.

Changing one edit in place: the record with the new drop marked, the length and what the intro is made of

Change any one, right there

Move the drop a bar, make it 8 bars or 16, drums and bass only — and rebuild just that one on the spot. The full editor is a click away for anything finer.

A Serato crate in IntroEdits, with four tracks ticked for a batch

Your crates, already there

Serato, Rekordbox, VirtualDJ and Engine DJ, read the way that program shows them — and a Needs an intro list of every track in your library that has no intro yet.

On this website
  • One track at a time
  • Drop the file in yourself
  • Sent to our server to separate
  • 3 edits a month free
In the Mac app
  • Up to ten at a time, built one after another
  • Straight from your Serato, Rekordbox, VirtualDJ or Engine crates
  • Your music never leaves your Mac
  • 3 a month free — unlimited with Pro
Download for Mac Free macOS 12.3 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · no card

Why you need it

Your record pool never made
an intro for that one.

Pools edit what is current. Intro versions get cut for new releases while they are being pushed, and the back catalogue almost never gets the treatment — so the older records in your crate, the ones that would actually go off, are exactly the ones with no intro version anywhere.

Until now, the only fix was a DAW and an hour a track.

Making one before
  • Buy and learn a DAW
  • Run the track through stem separation
  • Hunt for the first real downbeat by ear
  • Copy, paste and tile a section to length
  • Nudge the join until the drop sits on the one
  • Bounce it, listen back, do it again
Making one now
  • Click the track in your crate
  • Click where you want the record to drop
  • Choose 8, 16 or 32 bars
  • Audition the seam
  • Save

What it does

You pick the moment.
It does the work.

Everything that made this a studio job is handled for you — the separation, the phrasing, the tiling and the alignment. What is left is the one decision only you can make: where the track should come in.

F1

It does the hard part

Finding the downbeat, pulling the instrumental out, tiling it to length and lining the drop up to the grid — that is the whole job, and it happens on one click. You choose where the track should come in. IntroEdits does the rest.

F2

The vocal lead-in comes too

It lays the vocal pick-up over the end of the run-up, so the track walks in instead of appearing. That is the detail that separates a proper intro edit from a track with a loop stuck on the front.

F3

Choose where the loop comes from

The bars at the drop are the usual choice, but if they are too busy, or the vocal will not come off cleanly, there are often better eight bars elsewhere in the record. Audition each one with the vocals already stripped before you build anything.

F4

Star now, edit later

Going through a crate and spotting the tracks that need an intro is a different job from making them. Star them as you find them and the prep list brings the lot back together, across every library.

Your library

Your crates, down the side.

IntroEdits opens the crates out of whichever DJ program you already use and shows them nested the way that program does — with artist, title and BPM from the library itself, so you are picking tracks, not filenames.

Serato

Crates and subcrates straight from the Serato library, including Serato 4.

Rekordbox

Opens the Rekordbox database and lists your playlists with their real track counts.

VirtualDJ

Your playlists and browser folders, nested the way VirtualDJ nests them.

Engine DJ

Your Engine library and playlists, with the beatgrids Engine already worked out.

Nothing is ever written back to your library. On Traktor or djay, drag and drop works the same — you just pick the file yourself.

How it works

Three clicks and a listen.

01

Pick the track

Click it in your crate list, or drag the file in. Artist, title and BPM come from your library.

02

Click where it should drop

Find the moment it kicks in on the waveform, set the drop there, and choose 8, 16 or 32 bars. That is the only decision you make.

03

Audition and save

Hear just the join before you commit, then export the edit wherever you like and let your DJ software find it.

Quantized edit · beta

A record that drifts,
back on a steady grid.

Old records and live bands wander a few BPM, so no beatgrid holds. Drop one in and get back a copy on one steady BPM, with its Serato beatgrid already set. Your original is never touched.

How a quantized edit works · Quantize a track

FAQs

Intro edits, explained.

What is a DJ intro edit?
An intro edit is a version of a track with an instrumental run-up on the front — usually 8, 16 or 32 bars — so you have something to mix into before the record proper starts. Most edits sold in DJ packs are exactly this. It is what lets you bring a track in on the phrase instead of dropping it cold.
How do you make an intro edit?
By hand it means finding the first downbeat, separating the instrumental from the vocal, repeating a section to fill the length you want, and aligning the join so the drop lands on the one. That is a DAW job. In IntroEdits you click where you want the track to start after the intro and it builds all of that for you.
Do I need a DAW to make intro edits?
Not any more. Making your own used to mean Ableton, Logic or Pro Tools, stem separation, and a good hour per track once you had learned how. IntroEdits is that job as a few clicks, and it renders on your own Mac.
What is a vocal lead-in?
The vocal pick-up that arrives just before the track drops — the line or ad-lib that tells the floor what is coming. IntroEdits overlays it on the tail of the instrumental run-up, so the transition flows rather than switching abruptly from intro to record.
Why don't record pools have intro versions of older songs?
Pools edit what is current. Intro and clean versions get made for new releases while they are being pushed, and the back catalogue mostly never gets the treatment. That is why the older records in your crate are the ones with no intro version anywhere — and why making your own is the only way to get one.
How many bars should a DJ intro be?
16 bars is the usual answer and a safe default — long enough to beatmatch and ride the blend, short enough that the floor does not lose interest. 8 bars suits a quick cut in a busy set, 32 suits a long blend or an opener. IntroEdits does all three so you can try the same track at each.
Which DJ software does it work with?
It reads crates from Serato, Rekordbox, VirtualDJ and Engine DJ and shows them nested the way that program does, beatgrids included. It never writes back to your library. On Traktor or djay, drag and drop works the same — you just pick the file yourself instead of picking it from a crate.
Can I make intro edits for a whole crate at once?
In the Mac app, yes. Tick up to ten tracks and every one comes up on one screen with its likely drop marked: set each drop, choose the intro once, and they build one after another. Then hear each one, change any of them on the spot, and save the lot in one zip. The editor on this website does one track at a time.
Is my music uploaded anywhere?
Not by the app. IntroEdits is a Mac app and every edit is rendered on your own computer — your files are read where they already are and the edit is written next to them. The editor on this website is the exception: a browser cannot separate a record, so a track you drop in there is sent to our server, separated, and deleted the moment your edit is made. We keep no copy either way.
What does it cost?
Nothing to start. The app is free and so is everything in it — your whole library, every option, as much listening as you like. What is counted is finished edits: three a month free, unlimited on IntroEdits Pro for £9.99 a month. No card to download it and no trial clock.

More in the guides — how long an intro should be, and how to work through a whole crate.

The tracks you never play are one click away.

Give them the intro the record pool never made, from the audio you already own, in about a minute each.

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