Reply to What if we could stream music directly from Beatport?

Hi,

This is actually not a support issue. Rather it's an idea I've been believeing about for a while.

You guys have most, if not all, the popular electronic dance music tracks most DJs need. You also have the key information, the BPM and all the other metadata necessary for a DJ to easily organize and find the right tracks when playing a set.

Wouldn't it be great if software like Traktor and Serato had access to all this music on the fly?

While in Traktor, I could click the Beatport button in the sidebar and have access to all the music available on Beatport for a monthly fee. This would work exactly like other streaming alternatives like Spotify, with the obvious advantage of being able to manipulate the music in a professional DJ application. This is of course not possible with Spotify.

Users would have to pay a monthly fee, probably higher than competing streaming services, but the benefits for a modern DJ would be huge:
- Stream all the Beatport tracks. Upon track loading, the track should begin streaming and download cached in the background so that there's no interruption should the Internet access go down.
- Manipulate streamed/instantly downloaded songs.
- All the songs would be tagged with the correct key, BPM and even beat gridded, saving digital DJs around the world hundreds of hours of time of preparing tracks.
- All downloaded songs would stay downloaded until manually deleted or be automatically deleted if not played for a user-configured amount of time.
- Since tagging information differs between Serato, Traktor and other software, the implementation would have to be software-aware so that Traktor users get metadata compatible with Traktor and vice versa.
- For this you could charge a premium and DJs would have access to the full Beatport library and save a huge amount of time.

I would like to have your input on this system. There's nothing like it out there today. Either you buy your songs and tag them manually, or you let people stream there own songs using Spotify and similar services, thus losing the ability to be able to DJ them. We would save so much time and most importantly, never have to say "no, sorry, I don't have that track" to confused people accustomed to Spotify.

Thanks for a great music store.

Sincerely,

Gabriel