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Djay iOS app adds Spotify integration
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 29 May 2014
Music app maker Algoriddim has partnered with Spotify for the latest version of its iOS-based DJing software, Djay 2. The hook-up means that Spotify premium subscribers can access the streaming service’s full catalogue while DJing on the app. Previously, users could only access MP3s or AACs held locally on their mobile device.
The app also adds a number of other features, including ‘intelligent song selection’. Powered by the now Spotify-owned Echo Nest, this feature recommends tracks that will ‘work well’ with the one currently playing, thus eliminating most of the thinking involved in DJing and, therefore, the fun. Hooray! I hate fun.
And if thinking really isn’t your thing, you can also use the new ‘automix radio’ feature, which just does all the thinking and mixing for you, leaving you to just enjoy the music. Unless it plays a load of stuff you don’t like. That would really put a downer on it. Good. That’ll teach you to be lazy.
This isn’t the first DJ app to provide Spotify integration, the Pacemaker iPad app having beaten it to the party back in February. However, Djay is aimed at slightly more serious music mixers (or at least people who consider themselves to be more serious about mixing music). It’s also available on iPhone, which Pacemaker isn’t, and is free in that version until the end of today.
DJing apps seem like an obvious market for streaming services to try to tap, and with its Algoriddim partnership, Spotify has bagged one of the most popular. It’s not alone in making moves in this area though. Earlier this month, Rhapsody announced that it had invested in Dubset, a service which helps DJs to monetise their mixes.