Ability to play stem.mp4 files

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I love that you are able to play with stems in djay! The stems are useable and sound super clean! But the problem is, those stems only work in real-time. Sometimes, we have studio quality stems of tracks (pretty rare, but not completely) that we can prepare in a file to play in our DJ sets.
I want the ability to play .stem.mp4 files or even better, a new stems file format that’s supported across all DJ platforms (djay, Rekordbox, Serato, etc.)

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Agree on the global stems file format, but I think you answered your own question with the studio quality stems files, if they are rare then it’s unlikely resource will be freed up to develop a solution for them.

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Thanks for the suggestion and welcome to the community @Nguy_n_Nam. I’ve shared this with our dev team for consideration.

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Glad I found this thread. I’m a Traktor user looking to move to DJay. I tend to work with a lot of older tracks and do harmonic mixes/mash-ups, so using Stems is key. I take the track, use SpectraLayers/Cubase to get stems and sometimes edit the mix/structure, then export the stems and use the Native Instruments tool to create MP4 Stem files. Quality varies (and I think it’s only 128/256 MP3 in the Stem files), but it’s always better than real-time analysis. Sadly, I think I’m going to have the huge task of converting all my stem files to mixed down stereo files to do the mixes live. So, I would add that it would be wonderful to be able to create some kind of file format (NI, MP4 or anything I can export from Steinberg Cubase/SpectraLayers) thaty could be loaded into DJay.

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Hi @Funky_Booth, welcome to the Community! Thanks for the additional input. Please don’t forget to Vote at the top left of this page.

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I would 100% use this feature. Ableton LIve now has built in Stem seperation, so for me this makes creating Stems far more accessible. I would go one step further and say that having the ability to import/tag/link stems to the "original” track file and those stems automatically load into the four stem slots (effectively giving you HQ offline stems) would be awesome.

I understand that this is all wishful thinking, but as someone that has spent over 30 years working in software development, I’ve learn’t that… “If you don’t ask, you never get!”.

Damo

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Thanks for the additional input @damofinn