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Learn this detailed guide on saving Spotify music as DJ audio, and then moving Spotify songs to Serato DJ for mixing.

Numerous DJ enthusiasts invested a lot of time planning and mixing their music to create an incredible DJ masterpiece. DJ tools like Serato DJ are ideal for that exact purpose. To mix with more tracks in genres, DJs may have considered importing songs from the most popular streaming music platform - Spotify. Yet, they are out of luck - Serato DJ software did not partner up with Spotify.

It is not necessarily a dead end. In this article, we'll enlighten you on adding Spotify songs to Serato DJ with several easy steps. Check it out!

Part 1. Does Spotify Work with Serato DJ?

The answer is negative in one sense. Currently, Serato DJ, in cooperarion with TIDAL, Beatsource LINK, Beatport LINK, and SoundCloud only. Spotify has yet to be integrated, so you cannot directly migrate your music files from Spotify and use them in your Serato DJ mixes.

Nonetheless, there are alternative approaches to this. Like other popular DJ softwares, Serato DJ supports importing the local tracks somewhere to the internal Library. To do so, you're required to convert OGG-formated Spotify tracks to Serato DJ-supported audio files using a professional AudiCable Spotify Music Recorder. Check out this handy music streaming service below!

Tool Required: AudiCable Spotify to Serato DJ Converter

AudiCable Audio Recorder boasts itself as professional Spotify music to Serato DJ converter, which works to output your cherry-picked Spotify playlists/albums/podcasts as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, and ALAC formats. Furthermore, this streaming tool is specially designed for downloading Spotify tracks to your local drive while preserving their lossless audio quality and ID3 tags, enabling you to easily import them into most DJ programs, including Serato DJ , Virtual DJ, Rekordbox, Traktor DJ and so on.

Built with powerful conversion core, AudiCable also supports recording music from various streaming music platforms, such as Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Pandora, etc.

Part 2. How to Move Spotify Songs to Serato DJ?

Before adding Spotify music to Serato DJ, please get AudiCable Audio Recorder installed per the matching OS of your computer. Please feel safe that the program 100% safe and clean.

Step 1 Download and Install AudiCable Spotify Music Recorder

Run AudiCable program on your computer. Most popular music streaming platforms are displayed on the main interface of AudiCable. Navigate to "Spotify" and click.

Note: Using the "Add other sources" button, you can also add other music services that you want. Just copy the official website, customize it with a new name, and then implement a new music platform.

Step 2 Select the Recording Mode and Sign in

Please tick the option you want to download from Spotify. After that, sign in with your Spotify Free or Premium account.

Note: The first option will bring up AudiCable's built-in web player window, and the second will pop up from your Chrome.

Step 3 Adjust the Output Format for Spotify Music

On the top-right corner of AudiCable, click on a "gear icon". Choose "MP3" as output format. Then close it to apply the changes.

Note: Apart from the output format, you can also freely customize the output quality, output folder, output files name, output organized and output path as you like. Among them, the audio quality varies from 128kbps to 320kbps.

Step 4 Start Recording Spotify Music to Local Audio

Choose your preferred Spotify songs, playlist, or albums to play. As soon as you play the song, AudiCable will start recording simultaneously. All recorded Spotify songs are saved in the MP3 format you set before.

Note: If you want to have Spotify downloaded in the background on mute, you can go to the top right and click on the "sound" icon to switch to mute mode.

Step 5 Check Downloaded Spotify Songs Locally

Click the "Recorded" menu, then the "folder icon" behind a song, then you'll be redirected to where Spotify downloads reside. Or you can directly tap the "folder icon" in the conversion interface, here can quickly find all downloaded Spotify songs.

Step 6 Import Spotify Tracks to Serato DJ Program

Once the Spotify tracks are downloaded locally, you can choose one of solutions below to import the downloaded Spotify tracks for Serato DJ mixes.

Solution 1: Through Serato DJ Library

1) Launch Serato DJ program, click "Files" to open the files panel.

2) Locate and select the folder or directory where your Spotify downloads are stored, drag the folder or audio files onto the "All... icon. Then Serato DJ will take a few moments to analyze and import the music files into its library.

Dragging and dropping files and folders from Windows Explorer (PC) or Finder (Mac) into Serato DJ Pro's library is also workable.

Solution 2 Through iTunes Library

1) Open iTunes, click "File > Add Folder to Library" . Then import the Spotify downloads to your library.

2) Click "Edit > Preference > Advanced", then uncheck two advanced options.

3) Tap Setup screen, tick the Show iTunes library in the Library + Display tab.

4) Go to Serato DJ program, create new crates by clicking on the crate icon, then name it as an iTunes playlist.

5)Click Files tab. Then find your iTunes Music folder, here drag and drop the entire iTunes Music folder directly onto your new crates. Later, you can find all newly imported files in "Added" column.

Bravo! No matter which solution you choose, you can use your DJ controller to mix, blend, and perform with the loaded Spotify tracks now!

★ Disclaimer

1. All these methods are for personal or educational use only.
2. You should not use this tool to distribute music or for business.

Conclusion

Being able to import or migrate your Spotify tracks to Serato is crucial for creating incredible sounds. It's meant to expand your library of DJ material and give you more options when DJing. But in fact, It's not an easy task because of the encoded protection of Spotify tracks. For this purpose, we've prepared a proven AudiCable Spotify Music Recorder that save Spotify tunes as generic formats. Once you've converted Spotify music, copy it into Serato is a breeze. Now is the time to try it!

Note: The free trial version of AudiCable enables you to record a maximum of 10 Spotify songs. To get the full conversion, please become a registered member by buying a license from AudiCable.

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