Today marks the first public stable release of Seabass, your DJ toolbox. Seabass gives you the tools to explore, sync, back up and maintain the music library on your USB stick.
With Seabass, you can confidently move between Pioneer and Denon ecosystems by easily transferring your personal metadata, such as cue points and loops, keeping the rekordbox and Engine DJ libraries in step.
Seabass is available free of charge for Linux, Windows and macOS. No subscription needed, no hidden costs.
- Explore your library by viewing playlists and listening to your music. Seabass shows the metadata relevant to your performance, all in a visually attractive way.
- Sync the Pioneer and Denon libraries on your USB stick and seamlessly switch from Denon to Pioneer hardware and back without losing your cue points, loops and other valuable metadata. Enjoy the freedom to use whatever hardware you prefer, not what the industry forces you into!
- Back up your whole library and create the USB stick that saves your gig, or back up just the cue points and loops and restore them easily, while being in full control of what you sync. Nothing is opaque in Seabass and you always know exactly what is happening. Don't sweat your next gig and concentrate on your performance.
- Maintain your library and keep it clean. Let's face it, our library can sometimes feel like a growing organism, and we would all rather concentrate on our craft and music, not so much on chores. Seabass makes it easy to find duplicates and to free up space without losing any (meta)data. Seabass has advanced tools to tidy up without losing anything precious. Free some space, check if your USB stick is still healthy, uncover problems in your library before they bite you at just the wrong moment.
Seabass is a Free Software project, built by DJs for DJs out of enthusiasm (and admittedly frustration about the lack of proper, user-centered tools for us). It's not backed by some anonymous company but set up as an open space, open for your input, your ideas. We believe that high quality tools should be available for everyone and not tied to (monthly) costs, requiring accounts or at the cost of sacrificing your data or privacy. Get involved, try Seabass today, let us know what you like and what you'd need and like to see improved!
Seabass 1.0 is both a solid set of tools that make a DJ's life easier, as well as a first stab at how we imagine that software that is central to your workflows should work. We want to make it fun to prepare your gigs and sets, and we hope you like what we deliver today.