Move from Spotify to Rekordbox.
Spotify tracks are streams you rent, not files you own: rekordbox 7 can play them live from a Spotify Premium account, but they cannot be stored offline, exported to a USB drive, or used in EXPORT mode. Here is exactly what carries across, what gets lost, and how to bring your whole library over without starting from scratch.
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Bring your collection across without losing your work.
Spotify inside rekordbox is playback, not a transfer. Logging in with a Spotify Premium account puts the catalog and your own playlists in the browser and lets you mix up to four Spotify tracks at once, but every one of them stays a stream: nothing lands on your drive, nothing works offline, nothing reaches a USB stick. Rebuilding the playlist properly means naming the tracks and buying them as files. Rekordbox treats Spotify as a live playback source in PERFORMANCE mode, so nothing from it becomes part of a collection you can carry into a booth.
What transfers from Spotify to Rekordbox.
| Capability | Carries | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Audio files | Streamed tracks never become files on your drive. There is nothing to move, so each one has to be bought or re-sourced. | |
| Playlists | Your playlists appear inside rekordbox while you are logged in, and from ver. 7.2.16 streamed tracks can be added to rekordbox playlists, but those entries stay streams and cannot be exported. | |
| Key & BPM | Rekordbox analyzes a streamed track when it is loaded to a deck, but the manual Analyze Track option is not offered for it and none of the values leave rekordbox. | |
| Hot cues | Memory cues can be set on a streamed track inside rekordbox, but streaming tracks are excluded from USB EXPORT and LINK EXPORT, so no cue reaches a player. | |
| Beatgrids | Grids exist only for the live stream, and rekordbox warns that grids and cues can shift when you change Streaming Audio Quality. Grids that last belong to files. | |
| Star ratings | Editing track information is not available on a streaming track, so ratings start fresh on the files you buy. | |
| Comments & tags | Same restriction: track information cannot be edited on a streaming track, so comments, tags, and colors only apply to files in your own collection. |
Checked against the rekordbox 7 streaming FAQ and the rekordbox Streaming Service Usage Guide: streaming tracks are excluded from USB EXPORT, LINK EXPORT, recording, capture, the sampler, and track-information editing. Rekordbox treats Spotify as a live playback source in PERFORMANCE mode, so nothing from it becomes part of a collection you can carry into a booth.
Moving from Spotify to Rekordbox, step by step.
A streaming playlist has no export button, and no DJ app can create one for it. The honest path is a rebuild: take the list out, source the files, and let rekordbox build the DJ layer on top of music you actually own.
Write the playlist down before you rebuild it
Spotify gives you no way to take the audio out, and no converter can turn a stream into a file you own without breaking Spotify's terms. What you can take is the list. Work through the playlist and record artist, title, and the exact version or remix for every track you actually play, not every track you once saved. That list is the only thing that genuinely crosses over.
Buy the files in a format rekordbox reads
Source each track from a download store as a file you own. Rekordbox 7 reads mp3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless, and FLAC, so any normal purchase works, and lossless is worth it for anything you will play loud. Expect gaps: extended mixes, edits, and older bootlegs that sit happily in a streaming catalog are often not sold anywhere.
Import the folder and let rekordbox analyze it
Put the purchases in one folder and add that folder to your rekordbox Collection. Open Preferences, go to the Analysis tab, and set Track Analysis, then Auto Analysis, to Enable so BPM, key, and beatgrids are calculated as tracks come in. This is the layer streaming never gave you: on a Spotify track the manual Analyze Track option is not offered at all.
Export a drive in EXPORT mode and check it
Switch rekordbox from PERFORMANCE to EXPORT with the mode selector in the upper-left corner, plug in your USB drive, and export the rebuilt playlist to it. Rekordbox's own limitations list excludes streaming tracks from USB EXPORT and LINK EXPORT, so the drive proves the point: only files you own reach the players. Load a few of them on the hardware before the gig.
Be clear about what this costs: it is a rebuild, not a transfer, and every track you keep has to be bought again as a file. Anything no download store sells simply will not come across. The honest way to use the integration is as a place to audition tracks, with the files you own as the library you actually play from.
The cleaner path
One library, every app.
Vibes works on files you own, so it has nothing to say until the purchases land. From that point it does the part a rebuilt playlist needs: it imports the folder, analyzes BPM, key, energy, and track sections, finds duplicates you bought twice, and exports playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points into Rekordbox. It does not stream, it cannot import from Spotify, and it is not a DJ app.
See the DJ LibraryOrganize once, export to Rekordbox.
Your playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points travel to the gear you play on, so nothing you do in Vibes is locked away.
Track 001
Artist A
Afterhours
Mysterious
Introspective
Track 002
Artist B
Cozy FloorPeaceful
Home
Track 003
Artist C
Rave
Aggressive
Festival
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The import worked perfectly. Have created several sets now and my life is so much easier
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