Can’t Import Spotify Music to Serato DJ Software? [Solved]

"I'm a professional DJ and usually use Serato DJ software in my working. I have collected more than five hundred tunes as the material in my iTunes library. Unfortunately, after converting these tracks from Tidal to Spotify, I can't use them on Serato DJ software anymore. Is Spotify available for Serato DJ software?" Asked from a Serato DJ user on forum.

Serato DJ as specialized digital music mixing program, which has cooperated with some streaming music services like Tidal, SoundCloud. With the streaming music integration, you can transfer tracks to Serato DJ effortlessly. But Spotify music can't add to Strato DJ via integration. Please don't be depressed, here in this article, we will share a proven method to enables you to import Spotify playlists to Serato DJ with ease.

Part 1. Why You Can't Cast Spotify Music to Serato DJ

Since streaming music service is more and more popular on the market, it also becoming a vital tunes' source for DJ. Spotify as one of the largest streaming music platforms, which has more than 40 million songs. Unluckily, Spotify music is incompatible with Serato DJ. Currently, there is not an official method to transfer Spotify music to Serato DJ.

Why you can't add Spotify Music to Serato? The real reason is that all of Spotify tunes are encrypted by DRM technology. DRM causes you can't sync Spotify to Serato DJ since you are restricted to play Spotify music on authorized programs only. Serato DJ is not in the authorized player list.

Part 2. Best Spotify Playlists to Serato DJ Converter

After learning the behind reason you can't add Spotify to Serato DJ, it's time to fix it. The key point you need to do is removing DRM protection from Spotify. To get Spotify music into Serato, firstly, you need to find a professional Spotify Music Converting tool.

AudFree Spotify Music Converter is a one-stop audio converter can help you to get rid of DRM lock from Spotify once for all. No matter free or premium Spotify users, AudFree can decode Spotify DRM lock and convert Spotify music to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A, and M4B losslessly. Then you will able to sync Spotify to Serato DJ with easy.

Part 3. Easy Tutorial to Transfer Spotify to Serato DJ Software

AudFree Spotify Music Convert is suitable both to Windows and Mac operating system. You can free download and install AudFree Spotify Music Converter on your computer. And then you can refer to this tutorial to convert Spotify music to the common formats compatible with Serato DJ.

Step 1. Load Spotify Playlist to AudFree Spotify Music Converter

AudFree provides two ways to add Spotify songs to this converter. The first one you can directly drag & drop Spotify songs from Spotify to AudFree main interface. Otherwise, you can also copy the playlist's URL link in Spotify by clicking the three dots next to the playlist name, then paste this link to AudFree search box and touch the "+" button to load tracks.

Step 2. Set OutPut Format for Serato DJ Software

Now, please tap on "Menu>Preferences>Convert" options to enter the format settings window, where you can customize the output format as MP3(default), WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A, and M4B. If you'd like to get the high-quality tracks after converting, you can set the bitrate as 320Kbps and sample rate as 48000HZ. Also, you can set the destination folder in this window.

Step 3. Convert Spotify Playlists to Popular Formats

When all settings been done, please touch the "Convert" button at the right-bottom corner of AudFree main interface. Then AudFree will start to remove DRM lock and Convert Spotify Music to the target format. When the conversion process finished, you can locate DRM-free Spotify music by hitting on the 'history' button. Not only you can stream converted Spotify music to Serato DJ but also you will able to listen to them on any program without DRM limitations.

Step 4. Import Converted Spotify Tracks to Serato DJ

The last step you need to sync converted DRM-free Spotify tunes to Serato DJ software. Open Serato program on your computer and move to the "Files" option to open this computer's local folder. Browse and choose the converted audio files to import them to Serato DJ. Moreover, you can also directly drag and drop these converted Spotify songs to Serato DJ to add them.