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Apple Music Now Integrated With More DJ Apps

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Apple today announced that Apple Music is now integrated with many DJ software and hardware platforms, allowing DJs with an Apple Music subscription to build and mix sets from Apple Music's catalog of more than 100 million songs.

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The popular DJing app djay by Algoriddim already offered Apple Music integration since last year, and additional platforms that are now supported include AlphaTheta, Serato, and inMusic's Engine DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, and RANE DJ. For example, you can now access the entire Apple Music catalog in AlphaTheta's rekordbox app for iPhone and iPad.

"Apple Music support has finally arrived," says the release notes for today's rekordbox update.

The integrations are part of a new "DJ with Apple Music" program, with more DJing platforms likely to participate in the future.

Apple Music has launched a related "DJ with Apple Music" page that spotlights a series of DJ-friendly editorial playlists and more.

"Apple Music is committed to supporting DJs," said Stephen Campbell, Global Head of Dance, Electronic & DJ Mixes at Apple Music, in an emailed press release. "This innovation brings the full power of Apple Music into the creative workflow, making it easier than ever for DJs to access, play, and discover music in real time."

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Jgreg00 Avatar
Jgreg00
12 months ago

Apple Music is garbage. I ask my HomePod Mini to play some music I own via Apple Music and it can’t find it our some error occurs. On my iPad I go to search for songs I own (I still sync music from my Mac) and it searches the Apple Music Library by default. There is no setting to change that and it doesn’t “remember”. Recently I couldn’t figure out how to actually purchase a song using Apple Music on my Mac. Apple went from having a product everyone loved to a steaming pile of garbage.
I never have trouble searching Apple Music...35,000 songs in my library. And to buy a song from within AppleMusic is like one click to go to show in the iTunes Store. It's not that complicated.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Agent007 Avatar
Agent007
12 months ago

That’s the services demon rearing its ugly head. There’s no profit in Apple serving up things to you that you’ve already bought.
Exactly. Anything to do with storing or syncing one's own media has been slowly crippled over the last decade. Don't even get me started on the Music or TV app Home Sharing option - another one-time feature that fails more often than it works - "An unknown error occurred" is a constant refrain. Something Jobs truly would never have tolerated.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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CarAnalogy
12 months ago

Apple Music is garbage. I ask my HomePod Mini to play some music I own via Apple Music and it can’t find it our some error occurs. On my iPad I go to search for songs I own (I still sync music from my Mac) and it searches the Apple Music Library by default. There is no setting to change that and it doesn’t “remember”. Recently I couldn’t figure out how to actually purchase a song using Apple Music on my Mac. Apple went from having a product everyone loved to a steaming pile of garbage.
That’s the services demon rearing its ugly head. There’s no profit in Apple serving up things to you that you’ve already bought.

Perfect example of enshirtification. Every time you listen to something you own is a missed opportunity for them to push Apple Music on you.

User choice is a profit killer that must be mitigated through manipulative design. This is software design 101 these days.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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sotosoul
12 months ago
I am a professional DJ, resident at Miami Bar ('https://www.instagram.com/miamibar_cph'), and looong-time Serato user. I can tell you that, in a professional DJ setting, streaming should absolutely never be used as a primary source of music. The main reasons they should be treated as purely nice-to-have are:
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* They are not reliable enough (failure rate around 5% I'd say for us club DJs). The fact that local caching of tracks is disabled or discouraged adds salt to injury.
* Their catalog is missing those special remixes, extended edits, or clean versions that us DJs prefer

A common practice for DJs is to subscribe to music pools where we pay a monthly fee and we can download music (usually mp3s). One song may have more than 10 variants, such as acapella intro/outro, clean/dirty, extended, quick-hitter, etc.

That being said, a somewhat exception to the rule are wedding DJs who have to cater unforeseen song requests. Even then, streaming is nothing more than a good to have.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Mr_Ed
12 months ago

Apple Music is garbage. I ask my HomePod Mini to play some music I own via Apple Music and it can’t find it our some error occurs. On my iPad I go to search for songs I own (I still sync music from my Mac) and it searches the Apple Music Library by default. There is no setting to change that and it doesn’t “remember”. Recently I couldn’t figure out how to actually purchase a song using Apple Music on my Mac. Apple went from having a product everyone loved to a steaming pile of garbage.
I have similar issues with Siri not finding music I loaded on my phone while in the car. Frustrating as hell.

“It just works.” 🤡
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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NoIdentity
12 months ago
Very interesting change to the DJ scene, but I think any person performing probably wants to have local files that aren't prone to licencing changes. Imaging preparing for a set and only discover that one or few songs you planed to use were pulled form Apple Music overnight.

I really wonder how will this turn out and if it's something that professionals can even rely on.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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