How to play Spotify on djay?

djay is a well known music mixing tool popular among music lovers. No matter you're a beginner or professional, you can always use it to mix the music you love. In 2020, Spotify removed support for all 3rd-party DJ apps, including djay. However, in late 2025, Spotify has returned to major DJ software. Now, you can directly use Spotify with the desktop versions of djay (macOS and Windows), but only with Spotify Premium. While you can still use djay with Apple Muisc, TIDAL, SoundCloud, Beatport and Beatsource to access enhanced music service options and to take streaming to a new level.

As an alternative, djay allows you to play local music and songs from CDs, USB sticks and external hard drives. Simply drag & drop the file onto one of the turntables in djay. You can also drag one or more songs from a folder into the Automix Queue in djay.

So if you can download Spotify music to make local copies, you can play Spotify music on djay even with a free account. The key is how to make local copies of Spotify music. It's super easy. Follow steps below.

Download Spotify music to MP3

Spotify music downloaded with premium account can't be played with other music players as local songs since they are DRM protected. To play Spotify music with other music player, you need to download Spotify music to MP3, M4A, etc. Here we recommend Ondesoft Spotify Converter.

Ondesoft Spotify Converter is a professional Spotify music downloader that allows you to download Spotify songs and albums to MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, etc. It converts Spotify songs to MP3 with up to 320 kbps with all metadata preserved. Ondesoft Spotify Converter is available on both Mac and Windows. You don't need to install the Spotify app, just add the songs/albums/playlists from Spotify to the download list and click convert. So you can use it to convert Spotify to MP3 with even Spotify free account.

Follow below steps and learn how to download Spotify music to MP3 with Ondesoft Spotify Converter.

1. Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player, whether free or premium.

2. Choose output format (optional)

Ondesoft Spotify Converter will download Spotify songs in original format by default, mostly in M4A format. It also supports downloading Spotify music in MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF formats. Click the gear icon on the top right corner to change output format if you need. You can also change the output folder, quality, volume, file name format, etc. according your needs.

3. Select Spotify songs, albums or playlists

Browse or search to find the songs, playlists or albums you want to download with the built-in Spotify web player. Click the red Add to list button to load all songs.

All songs in the playlist or albums will be checked by default. You can uncheck the songs you don't want to download.

4. Click Convert button

Click Convert button to start downloading Spotify music to the format you choose.

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free Spotify songs, albums or playlists in MP3 format. You can then play them with djay as local music files.