Rekordbox And Soundcloud

Rekordbox And Soundcloud Downloader
Rekordbox And Soundcloud Player

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To access your SoundCloud content from Rekordbox, you will need a SoundCloud Go+ subscription, as well as a Rekordbox subscription. New users to SoundCloud Go+ are eligible for a free 30-day trial. You can purchase and learn more about SoundCloud Go+ here. We’ve partnered with the leading performance software brands (like Serato, Virtual DJ, DEX 3, Native Instruments, Pioneer’s WeDJ and rekordbox) so you can build sets using SoundCloud’s massive catalog of tracks. Learn how to find and mix more music with Serato, Traktor DJ 2 and rekordbox.

Movavi screen capture studio for mac. Traktor, Virtual DJ, Serato and several other DJ apps will soon have SoundCloud integrated for DJing directly from the platform, the company has announced here at ADE 2018.

The news came hot on the heels of Serato announcing integration with SoundCloud and TIDAL, and means that users of all of these DJ software platforms will be able to tap into SoundCloud’s huge catalogue of music, accessing their playlists directly from inside their DJ software.

Other DJ software integrations announced include with DEX3, Mixvibes (presumably a resurrected version of its Cross platform – Cross 4?) and “Hercules” (so we’re guessing that means the DJUCED platform) – although there was no mention of Rekordbox in the press release, meaning users of Pioneer DJ’s software may not be getting this – not yet, at least.

Users will need a SoundCloud Go+ subscription, but in other news, SoundCloud has announced that soon that will also mean lossless audio – a boon for DJs chasing the best sound quality possible in their sets.

This is good news for DJs who use SoundCloud for music discovery. Many tracks on SoundCloud aren’t available for download, and having such a large library of music at your fingertips when DJing – much of which is unavailable elsewhere – should prove a lot of fun for many DJs.

We’ll be keeping you updated as to how it works in practice as soon as the first integrations drop: SoundCloud is saying “2019” for most, but we are hoping to test this on Serato rather sooner – we’ll keep you posted.

What do you think of this? A good move for SoundCloud? For DJs? Or doesn’t it interest you at all? Let us know your thoughts below…

What does Rekordbox do?

The software Rekordbox prepares your music for the XDJ and CDJ players by Pioneer, like the CDJ 2000.
Rekordbox let’s you do a number of things:
• Check and change detected beatgrid and BPM
• set cue points, cue point names, (auto) loops
• set hot cues and hot cue names
• set CDJ or XDJ settings (like wave form color, auto cue and much more)
• analyses the beatgrid so it will load fast on your CDJ or XDJ
• warns you for incompatible file formats
• make playlists / smart playlists
• set My Tag labels to find your songs quickly
• record song matches
• set related track requirements (i.e. key and tempo)
• add song notes/description

Technically you could slap some mp3 files on a USB drive and load it in the CDJ 2000.
However, the machine is extremely picky in its accepted file formats.

On top of that, the CDJ needs to analyze the file on the fly.
This takes a while and is sometimes wrong.
Nothing is more confusing than a wrong beatgrid when you are spinning.

To get the most out of your DJ set, use Rekordbox to prepare your USB drive for spinning with the CDJ and XDJ machines.

Format your USB drive correctly

An essential part of preparing your USB drive is to format your USB drive correctly.
It needs to be formatted as FAT32 or HFS+ on the MBR (Master Boot Record) setting.
If you don’t know how to do this, check out my Rekordbox USB formatting tutorial for Mac and Windows.

Import songs

Before you can export songs from Rekordbox to USB, Rekordbox needs to have songs imported to begin with.
I’ve written tutorial on how to import songs in Rekordbox, check it out if you don’t know how to do this.

Export songs to USB drive

There are mainly two ways to get songs from Rekordbox on your USB
• via Synchronisation
• via Exporting

Synchronization

I’m not a fan of synchronisation, because there were some bugs in older versions of Rekordbox which led to improper synchronisation.
This meant missing songs on my DJ gig.

Instead I would advise you to opt for exporting.
This does basically the same thing.
It looks also for files that already exist on your USB drive and skips the ones that already exist to reduce export time.
The difference between synchronisation and exporting is that synchronisation will delete files on your USB drive when you delete them from Rekordbox, exporting does not.
How to delete files from your USB drive, see exporting later in this article.

To synchronize:
• In the bottom left corner of the screen click Sync Manager

check the checkbox Synchronize playlists with a device

check all the playlists in column in the middle that you want to synchronize

Click on the big arrow next to the Rekordbox playlists.

This will start the the synchronization process. You can follow the progress at the bottom of the screen

Exporting to USB

There are several ways you can export songs from Rekordbox, which do basically the same thing.
You can export a playlist or one or more individual songs.

Exporting all songs in playlist

Exporting all songs in a playlist can be done in on of two ways:
• Click a playlist
• Select on the top of the screen Playlist
• Select Export playlist
• Click [name of your USB drive]
• A progress indicator on the bottom of the screen shows the progress

Or
• Right click on a playlist
• select Export playlist
• Click [name of your USB drive]
• A progress indicator on the bottom of the screen shows the progress

Exporting one or more individual songs

Look for the song you want to export by clicking on a playlist or search for it
You can select multiple songs by holding Shift and clicking on more songs
Right click on one of the selected tracks
Select Export tracks
Click [name of your USB drive]
A progress indicator on the bottom of the screen shows the progress

Delete songs from USB drive