Killer Feature? Full Library Management, Storage, and Sync via Cloud without Apple Music

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I’ve dabbled with djay off and on for years now, but inevitably seem to gravitate back to Serato even though Serato is disappointing in many ways. I’ve often felt a mix of joy and frustration with djay, but am so grateful and pleased to see such attention to detail in user interface and overall usability being taken seriously. It’s maturing beautifully, and I dream of the day this can become my workhorse.

I’ve been DJing for 15 years. I’ve watched with dismay as iTunes has slowly fallen apart and become Apple Music, with a gradually less usable interface. I’ve wished and wished that Apple would give me the ability to edit metadata on my mobile devices, but I know that feature isn’t coming. I have attempted to get Apple’s attention in every way I can think of to tell them about the interface issues, but nobody responds or listens. Unfortunately/fortunately, Apple Music still retains key library management functionality that is useful to me, and I imagine many other DJs who probably share a love/hate relationship with it.

I imagine with some tweaking of djay as it currently exists that users could store a music collection (ie files we own and have downloaded or created) in the cloud (even just iCloud would be great), be able to edit metadata like comments, grouping, rating, etc in any version of the app, and then see those changes synced between all versions of djay.

Imagine native smart playlists built directly in djay that respond to metadata changed on the road on a phone, and know that when you’re back on your laptop your smart playlists will reflect those changes automatically. Not just cue points or a few djay-specific things, but ALL metadata. Same music library in all versions of the app, stored and synced via iCloud. Imagine giving Djs the freedom to say goodbye to Apple Music completely with a full-featured library management platform integrated into djay. The auto mix interface could make this a better music player than anything else out there, even for casual users who aren’t interested in DJing.

I’d be stoked, personally. Anybody else out there interested in this?

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Definitely interested, there is already a thread asking for this. I do feel you described the wish for this in a great way. I wish Algoriddim would really look into this as you described.

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Thanks for the feedback and suggestions @chuckles. I have forwarded this to the dev team for consideration. In the meantime, please use the blue Vote button at the top left of this page so we can gauge user demand for this feature. Thanks!

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It’s a great idea. I hope it comes true someday. For now, the main problem with djay pro is working with the music library.

Binding to iTunes is a pretty strange solution. It’s inconvenient in every way. We’ve already talked about how slow it is to work with huge libraries of music tracks. We’ve also talked about metadata and the possibility of transferring and editing it.

I think the developers should focus on improving the music library. After Serato, Traktor, and Djuced, everything was fast and you could edit metadata, add ratings, etc. DJay Pro lets us do everything through iTunes and even on a Windows computer, which is a big change.

I know some people like working with iTunes or Apple Music, but I prefer not to tie music to any program. I have Beatport and I buy/download music on different sites. I sort it, sign it, edit metadata, rate it. Other programs understand this, but djay pro doesn’t understand flac comments or ratings, etc.

Anyway, we’ve already covered this a lot.
We just have to be patient and have faith that things will work out.
I think the DJ Pro program is pretty amazing overall, with some great features!

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