I think it would be really cool if you could use any of the tracks on Spotify from within djay. I listen to nearly all my music on Spotify now so the only reason I have music store on my hard drive in iTunes is for dj-ing. If djay was able to access my Spotify playlists, I would have no need to keep all those .mp3’s hanging around my hard drive.
Integrating with Spotify would give djay users access to 1000’s of songs to mix together right from the first time they launch djay.
This might be something that would only be available to Spotify Premium users, but it would be a awesome feature to have.
copyright issues…Spotify isn’t available in some countries
you wont be able to record your sets in djay
you will always need a rock solid internet connection for streaming
streaming bitrate qualities are much lower than anything most folk would want to use in their DJ sets - particularly if you’re playing out somewhere on a decent sound rig.
…this is before you even touch on the functionality (or lack of) offered with the other app.
This is one suggestion I’d prefer to see sunk without trace.
You wont be able to record the sets as you don’t own the music that you’re streaming. Your spotify membership only gives you the privilege of streaming it / downloading it into the Spotify app (and I suspect the API is limited to this app only for download)…and without checking the T’s & C’s, I would imagine that use is strictly personal and not for playback in public situations - clubs, bars, paid for parties etc. There’s a similar situation to Deezer integration - Deezer have been more open to API use in other apps than Spotify in the past.
OK, so perhaps if Spotify could provide an API that allowed for high-res tracks to be downloaded (& encrypted) locally then maybe the sample bitrate issue is removed…however, you would need to plan your entire set & do the downloading prior to a gig - whereas a real benefit in Spotify would be for somewhere that you’re receiving high numbers of requests (eg weddings)…even then, you’d need a solid internet connection for that, high-res or not.
As Warren states, I’m just a fellow djay (& iOS DJ) user…nothing to do with Algoriddim or any other company.
We are excited to announce our partnership with Spotify and a major update to djay for iPad and iPhone. With this latest release of djay 2.5 – a free update for all existing users of djay 2 – you can now mix over 20 million songs from Spotify on your iPad and iPhone.
Having lost my iTunes a fair few times, from my laptop crashing I can no longer be bothered to rip my CDs back on to iTunes and have now turned to using spotify premium Which I find a lot easy to use then iTunes it’s self.
However haveing a big interest to this app, I don’t believe it let’s you run spotify through this app and I though it would be a great addition to add this feature to it.
Streaming and mixing songs together live with efx…that’s a pretty tall order. My pioneer aero does it from a hard drive and usb…couldn’t imagine it trying to stream the same mp3s from a cloud based storage system.