At a glance
Tangofy opens in your browser and works with the music already on your computer, plus Spotify if you like. The path is always the same:
We recommend Chrome or Edge on a computer: they are the browsers that can remember your folders and send the pre‑listen to headphones.
Projects
A project is a container: it keeps a library, its tandas and its playlists together. Use one for everything, or one per event ("Saturday Milonga", "Festival 2026", "Práctica").
The active project sits at the bottom left of the sidebar: from there you create a new one or switch to another.
Importing music
- Open the Library and press Import.
- Choose the folder with your tango music. Tangofy reads its subfolders too.
- Tracks appear with title, orchestra, singers, year and cover art, read from the files' tags.
Supported formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and OGG. Orchestras spelled a thousand ways ("Orq. Típica", "y su Orquesta", "con…") are recognised without changing your files. If something is off, use Edit track on the track's row.
Cortinas
Cortinas have a library of their own: in the Library switch from Tango Tracks to Cortinas and import their folder. That way the generator knows what to put between tandas.
Spotify
Once Spotify is connected you can search and import tracks into the same library, next to your files. Playing them in full needs Spotify Premium.
Your music stays ready
Tangofy does not copy or upload your audio files. When you import a folder it only saves an "index": each track's information and where it sits on your computer. The index stays in your browser (and in your account, if you use one), so you never have to import your music again.
After closing or reloading the page
For safety, the browser locks folder access again on every reload. Tangofy turns them all back on at your first click on the page: nothing to pick, nothing to re-import.
To stop being asked: when Chrome or Edge show the prompt, choose Allow on every visit. From then on your music is ready as soon as you open Tangofy.
On the milonga computer
If you run Tangofy installed on your own computer (local version), the computer itself finds the folders: tracks play straight away, with no prompt at all, even after a restart.
If you move your music
If you rename or move the folder, Tangofy can no longer find it: import it again from its new place. Your tandas and playlists stay.
Tandas and generator
You can build tandas by hand or let the Generator prepare the night. Automatic tandas follow the tango DJ's rules:
- one orchestra per tanda, with the same singers;
- never instrumental tracks mixed with sung ones;
- recordings from the same period.
In the Generator choose the length, the pattern (Traditional: Tango, Tango, Vals, Tango, Tango, Milonga), 3 or 4 tracks per tango tanda, the source, the orchestras and the decade. Tick Cortinas to put one between every tanda, press Generate and then Save as Playlist.
Playing the milonga
Open the playlist and press Play. Tandas run one after the other, with the cortina in between. You can move them, edit them or play a specific one while the night goes on.
Room-ready sound
In Settings › Audio you will find the rules between tracks:
- Even volume: Tangofy measures each track once and turns the louder ones down, so a 1935 recording and a modern remaster play at the same level.
- Silence trimmed: tracks start where the music starts and end where it ends.
- Pauses: how many seconds between the tracks of a tanda and after the cortina.
- Cortina length: after how many seconds the cortina fades out and stops.
Every track played goes into the history (History button in Playlists), grouped by night.
Headphone pre‑listen
- Plug your headphones into the computer (or use an audio interface with two outputs).
- In Settings › Audio press Detect devices: the browser asks for the microphone only to show the outputs' names, and Tangofy closes it at once.
- Choose where the milonga plays and where the pre‑listen goes, then turn on Pre‑listen in headphones.
- A headphones button appears next to every track: you hear it, the room doesn't.
Dancer display
From the player bar, open the dancer display in a second window and move it to the venue's projector or TV. It shows the genre of the tanda, the track and orchestra playing, where we are in the tanda and what comes next, with a spinning turntable.
Double-click or press F for full screen. It updates on its own: you never need to touch it during the night.
Account, sync and backup
Without an account everything stays in that computer's browser. With an account, projects, playlists and preferences sync on their own: sign in on another computer and they are there. On each computer you import the music once, from its folder.
In Settings › Data you can also download a backup: a single file with all your nights and settings, without the audio. Keep it safe: it is what you need if you change computer or clear your browser.
Clearing your browser data also clears Tangofy's library. With an account or a backup you get it back in a moment.
Tips and common fixes
A track won't play
Usually the folder has moved or the external drive is unplugged. Plug it back in, or import the folder again.
Wrong orchestra or year
It comes from the file's tags. Fix them with Edit track: the change applies inside Tangofy only, your files stay as they are.
My headphones aren't listed
Plug them in before pressing Detect devices and use Chrome or Edge: other browsers don't let a page choose the audio output.
Before the night
- Play a few seconds of each tanda: Tangofy measures a track's loudness the first time it meets it.
- Keep the computer plugged in and turn off sleep and notifications.
- Download an up-to-date backup.