How to · djay Pro

Use your Apple Music library in djay Pro.

Apple Music integration is djay Pro's signature feature: your playlists and the full catalog, mixable on real decks. Here is how to set it up, and the DRM realities to understand before building your sets on it.

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Music library browser with playlists and tracks

Streaming access is enormous for discovery; the trade-off is that the music never truly becomes yours.

Use your Apple Music library in djay Pro, step by step.

djay Pro is the only major DJ app with full Apple Music streaming integration, and it works remarkably well: your playlists, your library, and catalog search, all loadable onto decks with full BPM and key analysis. It also comes with hard limits imposed by DRM that no setting can remove.

Sign in through the source list

Open the library browser and select Apple Music in the source list, then sign in with the Apple ID that carries your active Apple Music subscription. A subscription is required; the integration does not work with a free account. Once connected, your Apple Music playlists and library appear as browsable sources inside djay Pro.

Browse, search, and load tracks

Navigate your playlists or search the catalog directly from djay Pro, then load tracks onto decks like any local file. djay Pro analyzes streamed tracks for BPM and key, though Neural Mix stem separation is not available on Apple Music streams for licensing reasons. You can save cues on streamed tracks and mix them into playlists in My Collection alongside local files.

Understand the DRM restrictions

This is where honesty matters. Apple Music tracks are DRM-protected streams: djay Pro disables mix recording while a streamed track is playing, and there is no way to export, back up, or extract these tracks. They exist in your sets only as long as your subscription is active and the track remains in the catalog. If either changes, the track and everything you prepped on it becomes unplayable.

Plan around the internet requirement

Streaming needs a connection, and gig venues are exactly where connectivity gets unreliable. djay Pro has no offline mode for Apple Music, so streamed tracks need a live connection every time, and any critical set needs either a verified connection or local file backups of the tracks that matter most.

The catch

Streamed Apple Music tracks can never leave the streaming ecosystem: no recording while they play, no export, no backup, no use in any other DJ software. A set built purely on streaming is a set you rent rather than own.

Auto-tag learns from vibes you picked. For newer vibes, it can still make a name-based guess.

Ready

5 learned3 guessing

Afterhours61

Euphoric48

Club34

Mysterious27

Rave22

Sectionalguess

Sustainedguess

Tenseguess

Learned uses tagged tracks and is more accurate. Guessing uses the vibe name, so it still works but is less accurate.

Where Vibes fits

Own the core of your library

Vibes has no djay Pro integration and no streaming integration at all; it works on local files and exports to Rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, and Engine DJ. That is exactly why it is relevant here: the tracks you actually own are the ones Vibes can analyze, organize, and keep gig-ready, forming the reliable local core that your Apple Music discoveries in djay Pro layer on top of.

See how it works

Use streaming in djay Pro for discovery, then buy the keepers as files Vibes can analyze and organize

Your purchased library gets BPM, key, genre, and energy data that stays yours regardless of any subscription

Organized local folders load into djay Pro's file browser cleanly next to your streaming sources

If you also play on Rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, or Engine DJ, only that owned local core can follow you there

Organize in Vibes, export to djay Pro.

Your playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points travel back to the gear you play on, so nothing you do in Vibes is locked away.

Track 001

Artist A

128

Afterhours

Mysterious

Introspective

Track 002

Artist B

124

Cozy Floor

Peaceful

Home

Track 003

Artist C

132

Rave

Aggressive

Festival

Build & Release

Playlists

Vibes

Mood

Aggressive

Euphoric

Melancholic

Mysterious

Peaceful

Playful

Tense

Function

Arrangement

Sets

Club Night 12/28

NYE Closing Set

Rooftop 01/04

Frequently asked questions

The honest answers, including the trade-offs.

No. djay Pro disables recording whenever a DRM-protected streaming track is playing, and Apple Music tracks fall under that restriction. If recording your sets matters, the tracks in those sets need to be local files you own. This is a licensing constraint, not a djay Pro shortcoming, and no setting bypasses it.

No. Vibes works exclusively on local music files and has no streaming integrations and no djay Pro integration. Streamed tracks cannot be analyzed, organized, or exported by Vibes because there is no file to work on. Vibes helps with the owned side of a hybrid library, the local files that back up your streaming habit.

They stop being playable. The tracks, along with the cues and playlist placements you built on them in djay Pro, depend on an active Apple Music subscription and on the track remaining in the catalog. Your metadata may persist in My Collection, but the audio is gone until you resubscribe or buy the track as a file.

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