How to play Spotify on djay?

Since July 1, 2020 Spotify was no longer be playable through 3rd party DJ apps, such as djay. As an alternative, djay has introduced new streaming services that will enable you to continue mixing all of the great music you love, plus give you extended access to new content and features. Djay partners with TIDAL, SoundCloud, Beatport and Beatsource to provide djay users enhanced music service options and to take streaming in djay to a new level.

Well, djay allows you to play songs from CDs, USB sticks and external hard drives. To play a song that is not in your iTunes/Music app library, simply drag & drop the file from the Finder onto one of the turntables in djay. Or you can search your entire hard drive with the "Finder Library". You can also drag one or more songs from the Finder into the Automix Queue in djay.

So it means if you can download Spotify music to make local copies , you can still play Spotify music on djay. The key is how to make local copies of Spotify music. It's super easy. Follow below steps.

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 and flac. It converts Spotify songs to MP3 with 100% original quality, up to 320 kbps. It will preserve all metadata. Ondesoft Spotify Converter is available on both Mac and Windows. You don't need to download Spotify music, just drag&drop the songs/albums/playlists you want to 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.