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With the inception of online music stores, a DJ’s task of finding the right music for their sets has completely changed. Before the internet, a DJ would have to scour the record stores, thrift shops, and even retailers for that exact album…

We've all heard automated end-of-song crossfading in iTunes and Spotfiy - and many casual music listeners expect this behavior when playing tunes at home. But in a new development, Spotify is now trying dynamic auto-mixing technology in…

To some DJs, integrated streaming music services are the pinnacle of modern music collections. To others, the unreliability and dependence on good internet, service is too risky. In the last month, Spotify has made a minor-but-impactful…

Guest contributor Steven Maude has put together ideas for how every streaming service could improve for listeners, music producers, and DJs.  

Based on an initial report from the Financial Times, there's a reasonable chance that streaming-music giant Spotify could buy SoundCloud. We've heard numerous times before that SoundCloud was on the market, including famous talks with…

Similar to the news we heard earlier in the year that Apple Music would start streaming mixes and bootlegs, today at IMS Ibiza Spotify has announced that they will be integrating Dubset's MixBANK into their library, allowing user-generated…

This week two companies have made additional forays into the casual DJ mixing market - Spotify and Pacemaker. With a new Party mode, Spotify hopes to automate DJing for a lot of casual music consumers; while Pacemaker's new update adds…

We've seen time and again in the music industry how streaming services are taking over - but in the DJ world, owning your own music has stayed the norm. Today Ean takes a closer look at how Algoriddim's djay Pro could be changing that,…