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Bake'n Deck (baken), published by M-Igashi and currently at version 3.3.2 with seven versions released to date, is a Rekordbox-to-CDJ preparation toolkit aimed at DJs who need consistent, hardware-ready music libraries. It is the successor to the earlier headroom tool, having been renamed at version 3.0.0. Falling within the audio utility and DJ workflow category, the software is built around three subcommands that address common preparation tasks before exporting music to Pioneer CDJ players. The headroom subcommand analyzes audio files for loudness in LUFS and True Peak, then applies lossless gain adjustment in both directions so every track lands at the same True Peak ceiling; it supports MP3, AAC/M4A, ALAC/M4A, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats, offers batch processing, performs lossless MP3 and AAC gain adjustment via mp3rgain, and provides a scriptable non-interactive CLI mode for automation. The rbsort subcommand targets harmonic mixing preparation by sorting every playlist in a Rekordbox collection.xml export by Camelot Key and BPM, operating in place without touching any audio and requiring no ffmpeg dependency. The cdjsafe subcommand handles compatibility with pre-NXS2 CDJ hardware by converting every track in a playlist to 320 kbps CBR MP3 at 44.1 kHz, emitting an updated XML file in which converted tracks inherit beatgrids and cue points verbatim. Typical use cases include normalizing track loudness across a library without re-encoding, organizing Rekordbox playlists into key- and tempo-coherent order for smoother mixing, and producing CDJ-safe files that preserve performance metadata on older players. Together these functions make Bake'n Deck a focused command-line companion for DJs preparing Rekordbox collections for live performance on CDJ systems.
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