Stop prepping.
Start playing.
Drop your tracks and Surco fills the metadata from Discogs, converts them to the format you need and organizes them in your Apple Music library.
Blink and it's done
From minutes to seconds per track
By hand it's several steps across different tools — convert, tag, fill the gaps, import — and tedious once you repeat it track after track. Surco does it all with one button.
- ~60 sConvert to AIFFanother app
- ~60 sWrite the metadatatag app
- ~45 sAdd grouping and tags the tagger leaves outby hand
- ~30 sImport to Apple MusicMusic
jumping between tools · repeating on every track
- · lossless AIFF, WAV or FLAC, or MP3
- · Discogs metadata
- · embedded cover art
- · grouping and tags
- · spectrum analysis
- · to Apple Music
one click · one track ready
* Manual flow shown as an example; steps and tools vary from person to person. Estimated times.
faster than by hand*
per track
shot, the whole flow
How it works
Three steps and you're playing
Drop your tracks
Drag your WAV, FLAC, AIFF or MP3. Surco reads the tags and cover art on the fly.
Pick the release
Search Discogs and apply artist, album, year, genre and cover art in one click.
Export and you're done
Convert to AIFF, WAV, FLAC or MP3, check the spectrum and send the track to Apple Music.
Anti-fake analysis
The spectrum doesn't lie
Some "lossless" files are just low-quality MP3s dressed up to look hi-fi — and they sound worse on a big system. Surco spots the missing highs and flags the track before it reaches your set.
full sound up to ~22 kHz — nothing missing. The real thing.
everything cut off at ~16 kHz — the highs are gone. A fake.
Features
The whole flow, in one app
Import and listen
Drop any audio — even whole folders. Surco reads the tags and cover they carry, and previews any track before converting.
Tag from Discogs
Search the release and Surco fills artist, album, year, genre, label, catalog and cover — plus BPM, key, remixer and grouping — in one click.
Match a whole record
Select a full release and Surco maps each file to the Discogs tracklist by length — even identically-named rips — then tags them all at once.
Clean a messy batch
Fill tags from filenames, find-and-replace across every tag (text or regex), and bulk-edit the fields a selection shares.
Convert to any format
AIFF, WAV, FLAC or MP3, any to any. Already in that format? Copied untouched, instantly — one track or the whole crate.
Even out the loudness
Optionally match every track to one loudness or peak — streaming, club or custom. Off by default; keeps Traktor cues on MP3 and AIFF.
Cues and ratings, intact
Re-export to the same format and your cue points and beatgrid stay untouched — plus the star ratings you set, written for Traktor and foobar to read.
No fakes, no duplicates
Sweep the whole crate to catch MP3s faking lossless, filter the suspects, and get a heads-up when a track's already in Apple Music.
Read every level
A colour-coded readout per track — LUFS, true peak, dynamics, balance and noise — plus the BPM and key detected from the audio itself, one click from applied.
Cover art, sorted
Pull cover art from Discogs or drop your own onto one track or a whole selection. Surco squares, resizes and embeds it.
Hands off to your decks
Send tracks straight to Apple Music —and keep their copies in sync as you edit—, or export the whole crate as a rekordbox or Traktor collection.
Name and sort files
Name files with {artist} - {title} templates into {albumArtist}/{album} subfolders, and show only the fields you use.
Keyboard first
Fly without touching the mouse
A command palette and shortcuts for the whole flow — add, tag, analyze and process track after track without leaving the keyboard, and remap any of them.
Pricing
Free, forever
Surco is free and complete — no account, no subscription, no limits. If it saves you hours, you can support its development.
Install
Download and install
Download it for your system or install it with Homebrew. Either way, it updates itself.
Or with Homebrew
$ brew install --cask vigosan/surco/surcomacOS only