Serato DJ supports 4 music streaming services – Beatsource, Beatport, SoundCloud, and TIDAL, which give you access to the expansive catalog of music, ready for any gig. You can search music from all streaming service catalogs, directly within Serato DJ Pro. Click the streaming services provider next to the search bar and enter your search query. When you load a streaming track to deck the entire audio stream will be downloaded. Once the download is complete Serato DJ Pro will analyze the file quickly and provide you with track information such as Key, BPM and a waveform overview. All this information will be saved and displayed in your library for the next time you play the track.
Streaming with TIDAL in Serato DJ Pro gives you access to an endless music library at the highest audio quality available. TIDAL users have the option to choose between lossless FLAC streams, and high-quality AAC streams. However, you can’t store TIDAL music on your device and play without an internet connection.
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How to connect TIDAL with Serato DJ?
How to use TIDAL with Serato DJ?
Click the TIDAL icon next to the search field to access millions of songs.
Click the new playlist button to create a TIDAL playlist directly in Serato DJ.
Download TIDAL’s desktop or mobile app to manage playlists and find new tracks. Click the Heart icon on the TIDAL app to add playlists to Serato DJ.
Make sure you have subscribe to the Individual(or Student) + DJ extension Add-on. Or you will get “Streaming server could not be reached, please eject track and load again” error.
Only Individual and Student plans have DJ Extension option. Tidal family subscribers can’t get the DJ extension Add-on. If you are in Tidal family subscription, the only way to use Tidal with Serato DJ is to download TIDAL music as FLAC/MP3 and use them in Serato DJ as local music.
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However, you can only stream Tidal songs with Serato DJ with internet connection, songs can’t be downloaded to play offline. Luckily, there is an alternative. All you need to do is download TIDAL music to MP3 or FLAC and then add them to Serato DJ.
The best way to download Tidal music to MP3 with Pazu Tidal Converter, which allows you to download any Tidal songs, albums and playlists to M4A/MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF on your Mac and Windows. Follow below steps and learn how to download Tidal music to MP3.
Download, install and run Pazu Tidal Converter on your Windows, which features a built-in Tidal web player.
If you have purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. If not, continue using the trial version.
Follow the onscreen instructions to log in your Tidal account. Enter the credentials and hit Log In to proceed.
In addition to MP3, Pazu Tidal Converter lets you download Tidal songs to M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. Click the Settings option (the cog icon) located at the top right corner to change output format or output folder if you need.
You can also customize output song name with any combination of Title, Artist, Album, Track Number, Playlist Index.
Click any playlist you want to download.
Then click the red icon to load songs. All songs in the playlist will be added by default. You can uncheck the songs you don’t want to get.
Click Convert button to start downloading Tidal music to MP3.
After conversion, click the folder icon to quickly locate the downloaded Tidal songs in the format you choose.
Now that Tidal songs have been downloaded, it’s time to sync them to iTunes/Music to use in Serato DJ. Add the downloaded TIDAL songs to iTunes/Music and they will be shown on Serato DJ.
Download Tidal songs/albums/playlists to M4A etc