rekordbox Tutorial Series How to use Streaming Services
rekordbox 6 provides centralized music management with the integration of music streaming services,
Beatport LINK, Beatsource LINK, TIDAL and Soundcloud Go+.
You can access millions of tracks from their extensive catalogs,
and stream directly to rekordbox.
All your files are analyzed by rekordbox, enabling you to view waveforms,
create playlists, set hot cues, and tag tracks – wherever they come from.
All the streaming services available in rekordbox are only available in performance mode.
TIDAL
To use tracks from TIDAL, you’ll need a TIDAL account.
You can sign up at TIDAL.com.
All the streaming services in rekordbox are visible here - in the side panel of performance mode.
Log in and link your TIDAL account to rekordbox.
Once you’ve logged in you can view tracks, albums and artists you have saved.
You can also view TIDAL curated playlists by genre and mood.
You can import tracks to your collection by selecting them, right-clicking, and selecting import to the collection.
Simply drag a track into one of your decks to load it.
The track will appear in your deck once it's loaded.
It's also important to your rekordbox collection. You also have the option to stream
and lossless FLAC format.
To do this, you need to access the settings menu.
Then click the advanced tab and then the others tab.
Then select lossless FLAC from the streaming audio quality section.
Beatport LINK
To use tracks from Beatport in rekordbox, you’ll need a Beatport LINK subscription.
You can sign up at Beatport.com.
Click on the Beatport panel and sign in to your account,
then follow the on-screen instructions to link your account.
Once rekordbox and Beatport are linked, you can browse your Beatport library.
Access playlists you've created, and all the available tracks in the Beatport catalog.
You can also browse the top 100 playlists for many different genres of music,
and specially curated playlists.
Beatport has also categorized its extensive library by genre.
Let’s search for the track ‘Funk Machines’ and load it to a deck.
When you load a track to a deck, rekordbox buffers it to its memory.
A progress bar shows this process happening.
The track will appear on the deck once it’s loaded.
It’s also imported to your rekordbox collection.
You can easily spot Beatport tracks in your collection as they have this symbol next to them.
You can add Beatport tracks to a playlist and edit metadata and cue points in the same way
as all other streaming services.
Beatport’s offline locker enables you to store tracks offline, so you can access them
without needing an internet connection, if you subscribe to Beatport LINK PRO or PRO+.
You can add tracks to your locker by right clicking and selecting store offline.
You can store 50 tracks with a Beatport LINK Pro
subscription and 100 tracks with a Link PRO + subscription.
Beatsource LINK
Beatsource LINK is a streaming service for open-format DJs, built by music distribution
website Beatport and record pool DJcity.
You can access and play millions of tracks from its genre-diverse catalog from
inside rekordbox 6 Performance mode.
Beatport LINK and Beatsource share the same link technology, and the way they’re integrated
with rekordbox is similar.
To get started, you’ll need to create an account and subscribe to
one of the Beatsource subscription plans.
Click on the Beatsource panel, and follow the instructions to log in or sign up.
Once you’ve logged in and linked Beatsource with your rekordbox account,
you can access the Beatsource catalog.
You can search for a track from the entire Beatsource catalog,
and browse the top track genre playlists from Beatsource here.
You can also access curated playlists here, which feature tracks that are hand-picked
by some of the world’s top DJs.
Similarly to Beatport LINK, you can access your own playlists, which you’ve previously
created at Beatsource.com.
There’s also an offline locker available, so you can access a certain number of tracks
you’ve chosen to store there – without needing an internet connection.
This is done in the same way as for Beatport tracks.
SoundCloud Go+
To use tracks from SoundCloud in rekordbox, you’ll need a SoundCloud Go+ account.
You can sign up at SoundCloud.com.
Navigate to Soundcloud and click Log In.
Follow the on-screen instructions to link your account.
Once you’ve linked SoundCloud, expand the SoundCloud tab to reveal your library.
Under the Library tab, you’ll see folders for songs you've liked, your saved playlists,
albums,
artists you follow,
and the history of tracks you've recently played on SoundCloud.
Let’s like a track on SoundCloud and load it onto a deck in rekordbox.
After you make a change on SoundCloud.com, you’ll need to refresh SoundCloud in rekordbox.
Press here to refresh SoundCloud.
Let’s navigate to the likes section, you’ll see the track we liked is now available here,
and saved to your library.
When you load a song from your SoundCloud library to a deck, it’s automatically imported to your collection.
A bar appears on the deck as the track is loaded into the rekordbox memory.
Once loaded, it’s available to play.
You can also right-click on a track and select import to the collection.
Once a track has been imported, it’s automatically analyzed and you can add hot cues
and other metadata - and add it to a playlist.
If we go back to the SoundCloud area, we can also see what's popular right now in the
SoundCloud charts folder.
There's a huge variety of genres to choose from which are regularly updated.
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