How to Use Spotify Music in Traktor DJ

Part 1. Connect Spotify to Traktor DJ 2 / Traktor Pro 3 - Tool Required

First Released in 2,000, Traktor was available for Traktor DJ and Traktor Studio. With the version upgrade, Traktor DJ Studio has been replaced by Traktor Pro 2 and Traktor Pro 3.

Traktor Pro 2 provides a full-featured and flexible suite for creative DJ performance. And Traktor DJ 2 is an easy-to-use 2-deck DJ app for desktop and iPad. Traktor has the ability to deliver up to four virtual decks, mix favorite tracks, play music tracks, add music effects. All features make Traktor be your favorite DJ app.

The only drawback of this tool is Traktor DJ doesn't work with Spotify. Because up to now, there is still no Traktor Pro Spotify integration. You might consider that Traktor supports adding local files for mixing and editing. How about adding Spotify music to Traktor DJ?

Spotify is well-known as the top-leading streaming music service. Thus, it has the common special feature of streaming files. Spotify downloads are cache files, not local files. You even couldn't locate them on your devices.

Besides, Spotify music tracks are not playable on Traktor DJ software due to compatibility issues. Please check the Traktor supported audio formats out below:

Traktor Supported Audio Formats

WAV, AIFF, Audio CD, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC

In this case, it's necessary to convert Spotify music to local common audio files, like MP3 that can be recognized by Traktor.

Part 2. How to Download Spotify to Traktor DJ Supported Files

Spotify offers thousands of streaming music and playlists for DJing with Traktor. To use Traktor and Spotify together, here, you can meet AudFree Spotify Music Downloader. It's an excellent Spotify music and playlist downloading tool. It's able to download and convert Spotify to MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, and M4B with zero quality loss. No need to upgrade to Spotify's premium subscription, you can get offline Spotify music and integrate Spotify into Traktor.

Please download the AudFree Spotify Music Downloader on the device where Traktor is installed. Besides, this software needs to work well with the Spotify app. As a result, please install the Spotify app on your computer as well. When the preparations are completed, please refer to the following tutorial. You can download Spotify playlists offline for using in the Traktor DJ app.

Step 1Add Spotify music to AudFree to download for Traktor

It provides two methods to add Spotify playlists for downloading and using in Traktor DJ software. You can directly drag and drop Spotify music from the Spotify app to the main interface of AudFree Software. Or, you can click the 'Share' > 'Copy Spotify Link' to copy the Spotify URL of songs. And then, you can paste it to the search box of AudFree to upload them.

Step 2Set Spotify output format for Traktor DJ 2/Pro 3

Traktor supports the following audio formats, including MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Audio CD, and AIFF. So here, we can launch the setting window to adjust the output format as Traktor compatible one. To open the setting window, please navigate to 'AudFree Spotify Music Downloader for Mac' from Apple's top menu on Mac. For PC users, please click the AudFree's menu bar on PC to click the 'Preferences' > 'Convert' option. In the same interface, you can also customize other audio parameters of Spotify files, like bit rate, the sample rate.

Step 3Download Spotify to Traktor Supported Tracks

The last step you need to do is to tap the 'Convert' tab at the bottom-right corner of the main interface. it will work at 5X faster conversion speed to download Spotify playlists as Traktor-supported audio files. Just wait for a while, and you can locate all Spotify downloads by touching the 'history' > 'search' icon. After that, you can refer to the below steps to play the Spotify playlist on Traktor DJ apps offline.

Video TutorialDownload and Convert Spotify Playlist for Traktor DJ

Part 3. How to Use Spotify with Traktor DJ 2 / Traktor Pro 3

To link Spotify to Traktor, you can straightway add converted Spotify songs to Traktor DJ software. Here is a simple tutorial on how to use Spotify with Traktor DJ 2 and Traktor Pro 3 for editing.

Step 1. Launch Traktor DJ 2 or Pro 3 on your computer. Touch the 'Setting' > 'File Management' option, it will pop up a new window.

Step 2. In the new opening window, please check the mark before the 'Import Music - Folders at Startup' section. Please choose 'Music Folders' > 'Add' button.

Step 3. Now, you can start to find the music folder including converted Spotify music files. Click the 'Track Connection' > 'Import Music Folders' section to choose it to connect Tracktor to Spotify.

Step 4. It just takes a few minutes to transfer Spotify songs to Traktor DJ. Once this process finished, it couldn't be easier to play and use Spotify in Traktor DJ.

Part 4. Bottom Line

That's all to use Spotify with Traktor DJ 2 and Traktor Pro 3 without using Traktor Spotify plugin. The official Spotify Traktor integration couldn't expect soon. So you can refer to the solution mentioned in this article to achieve your DJ dream with Spotify and Traktor.

Since this AudFree Spotify music downloader can help you convert Spotify to MP3 and others, you can also Dj with Spotify in other DJ software. If you have met some trouble in doing this, please leave your issue in the comment area. We will fix your issue as soon as possible. Now, please start your trip to edit and mix Spotify music in Traktor DJ apps.