Quick Guide: How to Play Spotify on Rekordbox

As a popular audio controller, Rekordbox provides several functional features and advanced special tools to help DJs better manage their music library and remix music via controlling the computer with ease.

 

In this article, you will learn about how to use Rekordbox and Spotify for DJing in a simple method.

 

Part 1. Use Spotify on Rekordbox: What You Need

It is known that Spotify and Rekordbox are not integrated. So how to transfer Spotify playlists to Rekordbox for DJing? The key point is simple. What you need is an additional tool to remove the protection from Spotify then you can import Spotify songs to Rekordbox.

 

Here I suggest you try AudFree Spotify Music Converter. Specially designed to fix the protection issue, this powerful tool is capable of converting Spotify to MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, M4B, and other formats that are supported by Rekordbox.

 

Depending on the advanced converting technology, the converted music quality of Spotify songs stays the same as the original ones. With the help of AudFree Spotify Music Converter, you don’t need to worry about any quality loss of Spotify and import them to Rekordbox for remixing with ease.

 

 

Part 2. How to Load and Play Spotify on Rekordbox

 

Step 1 Add Spotify playlists from AudFree

Download and open AudFree Spotify Music Converter on your computer. The Spotify app will automatically open. Copy the link of the tracks or playlists from Spotify and paste it to the search box in AudFree. Next, tap the '+' icon beside to stream tracks. Or you can just drag and drop tracks or playlists from Spotify to the main interface of AudFree. Wait a few seconds until all selections are imported into AudFree.

 

Step 2 Change the output formats for Rekordbox

For Windows users, please click the top title bar of AudFree. And choose the menu icon to find the "Preferences" > the "Convert" tab. For Mac users, please enter the top-left corner to find the menu option of Mac. Then open "AudFree Spotify Music Converter" to get to the Preferences. Now, you can edit the output formats to FLAC, WAV, MP3 or AAC, all of them are playable on Rekordbox. Then reset other output parameters if you need to.

 

Step 3 Convert and download Spotify music for Rekordbox

Now you can hit the big Convert icon to begin the conversion. The conversion will run at 5X speed if the network situation is good. After the process ends, please follow the on-screen tips to find the local music folder. All converted Spotify files will list there.

 

Step 4 Transfer Spotify songs to Rekordbox

Finally, please move Spotify tracks to Rekordbox by the following steps.

 

1. Open the Converted folder that saves the converted Spotify files.

2. Open Rekordbox. Maintain the 'Collection' icon highlighted on the left side of the playlist. Drag the converted Spotify files into the track window on the bottom of the Rekordbox interface.

3. After Rekordbox analyzed the data, you can transfer this track to the playlist in Rekordbox by dragging and dropping.