# Engine DJ desktop. Playlist question
**URL:** https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283
**Category:** Engine DJ (Mac & PC)
**Created:** [March 21, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283 "2026-03-21T09:51:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@DJ\_Flatliner](https://community.enginedj.com/u/DJ_Flatliner)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/1 "2026-03-21T09:51:50Z")
Hi guys, I’m sure this has been asked already but I could not find it easily but is there any way to see which playlist a track in the Main Collection has been put into? i.e. child playlists under the main collection list.
Also is there any way to put a track into multiple playlists in one go without dragging and dropping multiple times? If not then how can I do feature request to request this feature?
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### Author:  [@djliquidice](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djliquidice)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/2 "2026-03-21T12:40:27Z")
No there isn’t a way to put a track in multiple playlist in one drop action.
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### Author:  [@androphonic](https://community.enginedj.com/u/androphonic)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/3 "2026-03-21T14:58:45Z")
@djliquidice is correct, except if you make smart playlists, when you drop a track in your collection, it will fall into all of those that match the criteria.
Oh, and here is a related feature request with 17 votes.
[https://community.enginedj.com/t/search-find-in-which-playlists-a-track-is-present/54884](https://community.enginedj.com/t/search-find-in-which-playlists-a-track-is-present/54884)
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### Author:  [@djliquidice](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djliquidice)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/4 "2026-03-21T16:26:38Z")
Thank you for this ❤. I don’t use smartlists.
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### Author:  [@androphonic](https://community.enginedj.com/u/androphonic)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/5 "2026-03-21T16:45:25Z")
@djliquidice that may be the “smart” choice. I use so many that Engine DJ sync melted down. It just quit syncing many of them. I had to switch to Lexicon DJ. When I sync from LDJ I have them made into regular playlists for the USB drives.
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### Author:  [@JasonSkye](https://community.enginedj.com/u/JasonSkye)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/6 "2026-03-22T00:02:04Z")
How many do you have that it broke sync?
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### Author:  [@androphonic](https://community.enginedj.com/u/androphonic)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/7 "2026-04-08T17:21:45Z")
I finally got around to a tally… about 200 smartlists in Lexicon DJ. There were probably around 100 when Engine DJ stopped syncing correctly. But, if you read various threads here, it may be syncing all sorts of playlists can become problematic, out-of-the-blue, with Engine DJ.
> [@Sync Manager doesn't export my playlists - Version 3.1.0](https://community.enginedj.com/t/sync-manager-doesnt-export-my-playlists-version-3-1-0/49410):
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> Since ver. 3.1.0 neither sync manager nor drag and drop playlists to my SD card is working properly. In Sync Manager, I select the playlists I want to export and after the process is finished, those playlists aren’t exported. Drag and drop the playlists is no solution either. Please, I need a bug fix because the weekend is close.
@djveleno reports a solution in the above thread.
> [@Missing engine smartlists](https://community.enginedj.com/t/missing-engine-smartlists/68488):
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> ths is unusual, maybe someone can advise whats happened or what ive done. ive been using engine with my sc6000s for about 2 years - mostly its been fine. however, ive just noticed about 6 smartlists i’d created are no longer in my collection root directory, and a few other smartlists have disappeared from within a folder… but all other folders still contain smartlists ive created and are fine. whats even weirder, when i use sync mgr to update a usb, it still shows the smartlists as existing, …
I’m still converting playlists to smartlists. But, for the most part I can just drop a properly tagged track in the collection and it falls into many of the appropriate smartlists. The exception is the Sets category of playlists.
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### Author:  [@djveleno](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djveleno)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/8 "2026-04-08T19:14:54Z")
I wrote that I found the solution! In the post you mentioned, no one had found a solution yet, I think?
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### Author:  [@androphonic](https://community.enginedj.com/u/androphonic)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-dj-desktop-playlist-question/68283/9 "2026-04-08T19:44:23Z")
Yep, I saw that and mentioned it below the link. I hope it holds up, but I’ve lost confidence in EDJ. Lexicon DJ is working perfectly at this point. Knock on wood.