The new owners of the three popular DJ softwares will discontinue all DJ software, and aims to replace all DJ sets with curated, automixed Spotify playlists by early 2020.

Say Goodbye To DJ Software

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Goodbye deponia. In a surprise move, the corporation behind the largest online streaming music platform has made a strong move to eliminate the tools that hundreds of thousands of DJs use to perform.

Announced early on the first of April at Spotify’s headquarters in Stockholm, the NYSE-listed company outright purchased three big DJ softwares from their corporate holders. Handbrake rip dvd mac. Pioneer DJ sold to streaming giant the entire Rekordbox preparation and performance platform as well as the complete hardware division; Serato handed over Serato DJ Pro and Intro; and Native Instruments sold their complete Traktor division.

Rekordbox And Spotify

All three companies have made significant investment in in music production – and will expand their offerings in production software. An employee at Native Instruments remarked off the record to DJTT: “We always joked around the office that DJs who don’t produce couldn’t ever be successful – now nothing could be more true!” As a part of the deal, any tracks produced using Serato Studio, Komplete/Maschine, or a Toraiz device will get priority in Spotify’s recommendation engine.

DJ Software To Self-Delete

The deal between Spotify and each of the DJ software companies has been coming from some time. Surprisingly, if any of us read the long legal EULAs that pop up when installing any DJ software, we’d know that at any time the companies reserved the right to hit a remote “self-deletion” switch to delete the apps from DJs’ computers. The next update to each software will trigger the deletion – so for Serato DJ, next month; for Rekordbox, later this year; and for Traktor, sometime in the next two to four years.

• Although Spotify provides freemium service to anyone that loves listening to music, those music tracks available on the platform are protected by digital rights management. This action will limit the utilization of Spotify content in other places.
• Import and play Spotify Music on Rekordbox Launch Rekordbox program on your computer and then drag & drop the converted Spotify music files to the collection of Rekordbox. Or you could click on the ‘File’ ‘Import’ ‘Import Track/Import Folder/Import Playlist’ in Rekordbox program.
• Rekordbox Windows Free to download. To download this software, you first need to agree to the Software End User License Agreement. Note: In rekordbox (ver. 6.0 or later), you don't need to use 'rekordbox dj license key card' that came with your DJ equipment. For details, see here.
• While Pioneer DJ’s rekordbox DJ mixing application remains, arguably, slightly in the shadow of the ‘bigger guns’ Serato and Traktor, used with Pioneer’s new flagship DJ controller, the DDJ-1000 it’s the perfect pairing. In fact, the 1000 is the closest thing we’ve found to condensing a club CDJ setup down into controller form.

The reason why you can’t connect Spotify music with Rekordbox is simple: Spotify doesn’t integrate with Rekordbox. As is known to all, Spotify is a streaming music app, which offers free online music but charges subscriptions for offline music. More importantly, the offline music files are not playable without the Spotify app.

Rekordbox Spotify Support

We’re still not sure what will happen to DJ song libraries, but we have heard rumors that Apple Music and Algoriddim are in similar talks – so if your entire library is “safe” in iTunes, think again.

Vinyl-Only DJs Rejoice

There’s one group of DJs who aren’t worried: turntable-loving record collectors. After DJ software fades away, only these “real DJs” will remain, and you can expect to never hear the end of it from them.

April Fools, obviously.
Your DJ software won’t be deleting itself, no one bought Serato/Traktor/Rekordbox, and all of your DJ sets will (probably) not be replaced by Spotify playlists.