DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

I steer clear of Apple products, but I&#x27;ve still had a lot of fun in this space thanks to DJ Studio (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dj.studio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dj.studio&#x2F;</a>), a desktop app that helps make offline (rather than real-time) mixes. I use it to make a monthly personal mixtape, which is a nice way to remember what I used to listen to. They call it a &quot;DAW for DJs,&quot; which is accurate.<p>I especially admire the team that makes it. The CEO records demo videos that are so filled with enthusiasm and accessible expertise that you can&#x27;t help but appreciate the product more each time you watch them, and the COO sends out email announcements that are actually useful and not spammy.<p>It&#x27;s a niche product, but they fill that niche well.

I’m the developer of Transitions DJ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dj.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dj.app&#x2F;</a>). If anyone can connect me with the team at Apple Music, I would be interested in doing an integration.

Probably isn&#x27;t huge for existing DJs who would need the reliability of having stuff on a USB in venues which might not have great internet access. But I can see this being good for the casual users at home since this is the first streaming integration which doesn&#x27;t charge an additional DJ subscription on top of the standard subscription.

Im a little confused, if I wanted to create a mix with my favorite parts of songs, is this something I can do relatively easily from Apple Music? Or do I need to get additional hardware or buy some extra software?<p>I love a lot of jam bands, but dont always want to listen to the uhhh lengthy preambles and wandering postludes, just want the gravy. Would love to mix together some highlights along with other non jam songs. Also think my wife and daughter would appreciate Phish more if it wasnt just so. much. phish.<p>Or is this different?

I&#x27;ve been testing this for a few days on the latest build of rekordbox.<p>It seems...fine, on par with other similar integrations (Tidal, Beatport), but it&#x27;s unclear which audio quality it&#x27;s using to stream the tracks. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s using 256kbps&#x2F;aac files? Bit of distortion while timestretching heavily compared to the lossless version of the same song. Also, no offline storage option?

Is there support for Rekordbox?<p>It would be awesome so that you can use Apple Music alongside normal USB sticks &#x2F; Rekordbox libraries on the Pioneer XDJ line of equipment.

Spotify used to have this, and it&#x27;s very annoying that they removed the feature about a year ago.

Djay’s killer feature is algorithmic stem extraction. The streaming audio services that have integration (Tidal, now Apple Music) don’t allow this processing. It’s an arbitrary technical limitation that I suspect is rooted in a licensing agreement from the rights holders.<p>tl;dr this is great for playing with sequencing, but a lot of modern djays will want to be able to do stem separation even when exploring, and live use was always a tough sell with a no-internet kill switch.

I just want to be able to splice songs in a playlist

Will there be open APIs to create apps for this? I have stemDJ.com as a next gen successor to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;STEMPLAYER.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;STEMPLAYER.com</a> that I&#x27;d like to integrate this into

Are these tracks high enough quality not to sound like shit on a club system? Legit question - it’s why I purchase 320 kbps mp3s via Beatport.<p>Also, does this mean the tracks are licensed for public performance? So I can get paid $500 a gig and put on these tracks and not need to be at an ASCAP paying venue or liable for the rights?<p>These things matter, especially in such a bullshit “you only bought a license” music world where often they don’t tell you about the license itself (not the consumer’s fault, only really interests musicians and copyright geeks like me).

Great to have my AM library accessible, but falls short for a couple big reasons:<p>- Some of my best playlists were created using the mobile app, and AM seems to have a hard schism between its mobile and desktop versions (the playlists aren&#x27;t there and would take a long time to recreate &#x2F; multiple errors when trying to rebuild them).<p>- The features I want to use (recording, real-time acapella) aren&#x27;t available for licensing reasons (understandable but kneecap what I want to actually do).

So if you looking to get started, get ddj-flx4 (or flx2) controller, plug it into your iphone, download rekordbox app and link Apple music into it.<p>Makes really nice bedroom&#x2F;portable setup.

Dangit, from the title I was hoping this was like Spotify DJ for Apple Music, but with a bit more control. Like &quot;Give me a Linkin Park mix, mostly older stuff, a good mix of hits and deep cuts&quot; rather than whatever Spotify thinks I want at that moment. Anyone have a good suggestion for that?

Until they get Pioneer DJ to cooperate (iI doubt it as they have their own platform) it will be hard to reach mass implementation. Pioneer has become the de facto standard for pro DJ equipment.

Tidal has something similar.

I recently learned that DJs today just press a button to mix two tracks. Growing up mixing and beat matching used to be a skill to be proud of. Now it&#x27;s just a button. So I was told.

At gym I use light weight MP3 player + earhook style wired earphones<p>At home i use mopidy + speaker system.<p>Other times I use DAC + IEM.<p>I just make my own remixes for gym and home use. Other times I listen to youtube podcasts while running.

Just a hobbyist here but I’ve been using loop back on my RME interface for years. It was annoying…so this is a welcome addition and should speed up my AI music tools quite a bit.

I&#x27;ve been wanting to try DJing so this could be quite good for me as someone at entry-level who generally doesn&#x27;t buy music unless it&#x27;s only on Bandcamp.

Question is can I access MY library and playlists synched to Apple Music with this? I don’t care about being able to access the Apple Music library.

I just want to be able to play two songs on top of one another (on any streaming platform) and have them have 2 separate volume sliders...

How is this legal? I thought you could not use streamed music commercially? If you’re a DJ making money on a gig you’d be violating that law.

Just checked, and I still can&#x27;t create an &#x27;intelligent&#x27; playlist&#x2F;radio station based on multiple artists.

Yet another layer of abstraction for the DJ.<p>Apple owns the rights to the music catalog. Apple controls the access, and can limit or remove access to the music catalog.<p>Apple owns the rights to the tools and any subset of tools or virtual devices. Apple controls the access, and can limit or remove access to the tools and any subset of tools or virtual devices.<p>What was it Agent Smith said? &quot;Me, me, me...&quot;<p>This model doesn&#x27;t seem long on the long-term for users or content creators.

I never understood Apple’s obsession with DJ-ing, like that cringe showcase of the Macbook’s touch bar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=OsUZSod82bA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=OsUZSod82bA</a>

Apple Music would be interesting to me if I could add my own legally purchased music. Mixing your own sets was possible with the iPod, even more so with a good operating system like Rockbox. This is old and still too limited a feature to be marketed as new, well done Apple marketing department.