# Cannot successfully drag tracks from Engine to any folder on desktop or another app
**URL:** https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009
**Category:** Engine DJ (Mac & PC)
**Created:** [September 24, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009 "2026-09-24T12:52:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/1 "2026-09-24T12:52:47Z")
I did search and found nothing on this but I noticed you cannot drag tracks from EDJ to another program like “Music” which is pretty annoying. I created a playlist for a cocktail each week and then drag the tracks to Music so they can mix and shuffle but none of the tracks play and they all show “0” for time. I also cannot drag them to a folder on my desktop at all which I was hoping would be a workaround to get them in to Music
took a screen shot of one track I added in quick
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### Author:  [@djdragon](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djdragon)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/2 "2026-09-24T13:25:29Z")
You can’t.
Right click on the song in EDJ and “Show in Folder”, then drag & drop from there.
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/3 "2026-09-24T14:35:16Z")
Yes for one ir two tracks as a workaround, That would be totally insane if you had to do that for a set of 30-40 tracks in a playlist. Any other software you can drag between apps with no issues in bulk.
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### Author:  [@djdragon](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djdragon)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/4 "2026-09-24T14:53:29Z")
I know it’s not great, IMHO make a feature request.
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/5 "2026-09-24T15:27:26Z")
i feel this is more of a bug then a request because you can drag to Music but it wont play .
ill do a request soon, thx!
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### Author:  [@ErikMinekus](https://community.enginedj.com/u/ErikMinekus)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/6 "2026-09-24T15:45:12Z")
Why not make the playlist in Music and use the Apple Music tab in Engine DJ to view/import them there?
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/7 "2026-09-24T16:01:28Z")
because all of my music is in EDJ, nothing isa in Apple Music, i want to just make a quick playlist, drag it to “Music” to play so theres no dead air in cocktail hour or dinner rooms we dont mix live in,
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### Author:  [@PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/u/PKtheDJ)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/8 "2026-09-24T16:17:41Z")
I was wondering about this since the start of the thread.
Why involve two apps? If you have the music in EngineDJ then presumably it’s on your computer, so why not just use Music to create the playlist (import your library to Music)?
Also if you have EngineDJ then presumably you have Engine hardware (which can run a playlist) so why not use that?
IMO you’ve created the “issue” yourself. There’s no real need to drag and drop from one app to the other.
🤦♂️
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/9 "2026-09-24T16:46:23Z")
because everytime i add new music i dont want to have to manage 2 libraries just because EDJ does not have a simple function thats programming 101 on every other software in the world, LOL
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/10 "2026-09-24T16:50:51Z")
> IMO you’ve created the “issue” yourself. There’s no real need to drag and drop from one app to the other.
there is a reason when i want to make a small playlist in EDJ but play it in Music app so it fades nicely at the end and theres no dead air,
the lists get put on ipads for the guys to toss in cocktail hour, so now i have to constantly manage 2 libraries just to make a small list when i add new music vs simply having an app side by side like every other piece of dj software can do just to make a quick ipad playlist, this is why so many people dont use this crap software and hate it, the most basic function that 15 year old software has, this program cant even do
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### Author:  [@PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/u/PKtheDJ)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/11 "2026-09-24T17:13:45Z")
…but Engine is not “DJ software” like VirtualDJ, Serato, Djay Pro, Traktor, Rekordbox etc.
Neither is Apple Music.
TBH even DJ software is not designed for swapping music between them - hence the likes of Lexicon. Things are improving slightly these days with OneLibrary but that’s not 100% supported yet either.
Surely it’s not that hard to copy a few files from your computer’s drive to the iPad(s) to play?
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/12 "2026-09-25T15:18:29Z")
here’s what I am trying to do that I can do in any other software BUT engine
create a playlist I want to use for cocktail hour in engine since all my music is in there and updated weekly
open up the Music app on my MacBook since I want to esport this list to an ipad
drag the music from engine to Music app, nothing happens
open serato and do the same test, it works perfectly
here’s a video - [https://youtu.be/F9GrT5KYysU](https://youtu.be/F9GrT5KYysU)
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### Author:  [@SirReal](https://community.enginedj.com/u/SirReal)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/13 "2026-09-25T18:01:03Z")
But you can export your playlist to be imported to Music.
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### Author:  [@brichi](https://community.enginedj.com/u/brichi)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/cannot-successfully-drag-tracks-from-engine-to-any-folder-on-desktop-or-another-app/71009/14 "2026-09-25T18:25:23Z")
thank you, yes thats been my workaround so far