Serato Software Feature Suggestions

What features would you like to see in Serato software?

Search improvement

DJ Rich (AU) 5:15 AM - 4 October, 2025
The search bar also is not very powerful.

If you want to search for only a particular artist. E.g. "David Guetta", and exclude things like "Vs The Egg"., you can only do so using Smart Crates, which are too slow when you have 10,000s of songs.

It's about 15 -30 seconds to make the Smart Crate, then 10 - 15 seconds to populate the Smart Crate. On top of that, you can ONLY seem to use your mouse pointer to start the search - no apparent keyboard shortcut.

Then, if I want to change the search, back into the smart crate, adjust your settings, realise you can't use both those arguments in the search, fix it, wait another 10 to 15 seconds to have Serato find your results and put in in the main window.

In multiple other music programs, you can search within specific fields and have Boolean operations.
Examples are:
Artist:David Guetta,
Artist IS David Guetta
Artist MATCHES David Guetta
Artist HAS David Guetta

Add additional arguments like
AND title HAS Love
AND NOT title HAS Love

Use wildcards: title HAS B*ra Str*and (cos not everyone has their library so organized that everything is spelled right)
Starts with,
End's with,
HAS/Contains, IS, NOT HAS/Does not contain, etc.

Can we please have an advanced search accessible from the main screen or use of keyboard shortcuts to bring up an advanced search box.

Thank you