I hope you all are well and enjoying your summer gigs!
The Engine DJ team is pleased to announce the release of Engine DJ v2.3.0. Bringing new connectivity to Nanoleaf light panels, Quantize button back on the performance screen, significantly improved key detection as well as a number of quality of life improvements. Virtual DJ and Prime Go users will be excited to see we have now enabled computer mode, allowing for the forthcoming Virtual DJ compatibility.
Nanoleaf Smart Lights Integration - Engine Lighting now has the ability to sync music and manually control Nanoleaf smart lights over Wi-Fi.
Quantize is now a touchable icon on the toolbar
Beat Jump size and Auto Loop size can now be adjusted independently. To adjust the Beat Jump size, hold Shift and press the Beat Jump back or forward button to decrease or increase the size respectively.
Added Computer Mode and support for Virtual DJ (PRIME GO)
Improvements and Fixes
Improved key detection accuracy during analysis
The last selected playlist is now recalled when switching between external drive sources
Shift + Track Skip now performs the track Search function
Improved stability/robustness of Wi-Fi connectivity
Fixed an issue where tracks with extended character sets would show up as missing when loaded from FAT32 drives
Fixed an issue where certain compatible drives would falsely show up as incompatible when connected to a player
Fixed an issue where the Beatport/Beatsource session would force the user to re-login if ran for an extended period of time
Fixed an issue where the ‘Load to Deck’ dialog would show upon boot if an LC6000 was connected (SC5000/M, SC6000/M)
Fixed an issue that caused the ‘Update Available’ message to show when already on the latest version
Fixed an issue where Engine Lighting would not use Movement Effects when Autoloops were engaged
Other various stability enhancements & improvements
Release Notes | Engine DJ (Desktop)
New Features
Added a new Drive Preference option for Default Beat Jump Size
Improvements and Fixes
Improved key detection accuracy during analysis. To utilize the improved key detection, select the desired tracks and choose ‘Re-analyze tracks’.
Improved Sync Manager export times for large libraries and nested Playlists
Various improvements to ‘drag & drop’ export
Various improvements to track highlighting
Fixed an issue where Sync Manager export would fail if the album or artist name exceeded 255 characters
Fixed an issue that caused the ‘Update Available’ message to show when already on the latest version
Fixed an issue where an iTunes library would fail to import fully if the library contained a Smart List and a Playlist with the same name
Fixed an issue where tracks imported from iTunes could have incorrect metadata
Fixed an issue where the ‘Sync To Engine’ button in Sync Manager displays the sync state incorrectly
Fixed a Sync Manager issue where ‘read only’ tracks were not removed when a playlist was un-synced/unpacked from the drive
Fixed a rare crash when removing tracks from the collection
Other various stability enhancements & improvements
Here is a setup video showing the connection process for Nanoleaf and Engine Lighting.
Not only am I disappointed that none of the top feature requests have been implemented, but I also really don’t like the way you have to select your beat jump size. I mostly beat jump by 64 and keep it on 32 so it was easy to just quickly dial it over by one, now I have to hold shift and press beat jump each time.
Nah. I’ll be going back the the last update and staying there for good, I think.
Thanks for all the updates until this one, though, Denon.
Sorry to hear that. We understand that not every release will please everyone, but we try to balance new features with quality of life improvements that strengthen the ecosystem for all users. We are working on a number of features from the request area now, so you may be more interested in one of our future releases.
Regarding beat jump size, the user profile now offers a setting to reset this value upon track load. For your workflow, you may want to set this to 32 beats.
I do set it to 32, but it was much easier to use the dial and scroll it over one when I needed to. Now I need to either use two hands or thumb and finger to change it. It’s just a pain that way and not as streamlined as before.
Apologies if my last post came off a little salty. That wasn’t my intention. I just don’t think this update works for me, although I do understand lots of people will be happy with it. That’s why I thank you for all the updates until this point, because as long as the beat jump operates this way (it’s a feature that I use a lot) I don’t see me updating again.
Not a huge fan of this at all - speaking specifically on the beat jump change. Please give us the option to use it the previous way. This is now muscle memory and that isn’t so nice to change on us.
Am very thankful for the fixes though but the Beat Jump change seems like an odd one.
It does feel a little unfair. I didn’t see anybody on here asking for the beat jump and auto loop size to be independently controlled. If there was demand for it, then fair enough, I can accept that, but it just feels like they’ve tried to fix something that wasn’t broken.
Might have been requested (certainly not a highly requested item that’s for sure) but just please let us set it to work the previous way, so it works the way we’re all used to.
Normally if you have a system that’s been in place for years, make the updated way to affect it an option.
Like I said above, I’m sure there will be many who like this and find it useful, but it would’ve been good if we had the option to keep it like it was before via the settings.
I guess this leads me to the question. @JWiLL Do I have to update my Engine OS to the same version as the Desktop version? Because at the moment I would love the updates for the Desktop version at least. Gonna have to hold off on the OS at the moment and cross my fingers there’s a Beat Jump option in the future. : /
Please, please - please add searching within a folder and allow us to at least choose and view one specific metadata column. The star section could be the field that we can chose to customize with one other type of metadata. These two features keep me from using Denon in a professional environment.
And especially the bugfixes 
awesome work!