The banner has been up all day, but here’s the official news that Serato DJ 1.9 is out, and with it comes Pulselocker integration. You can try it for free for a couple of weeks before deciding if you want to drop $10 or $20 a month for a subscription.
The words, most which you’ve seen before in one form or another:
Serato DJ 1.9 with Pulselocker support is now available.
DJs can now access unlimited music downloads and offline storage, as well as streaming in Serato DJ 1.9 with Pulselocker. This integration allows DJs with a Pulselocker Pro account to search, stream and store an unlimited number of tracks from the Pulselocker catalogue offline in Serato DJ.
Try Pulselocker FREE for two weeks easily by signing up to a trial inside Serato DJ, or on the Pulselocker website. A Pulselocker Pro subscription is USD19.99 and is available in the United States, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands.
For Serato DJ Intro users that have been thinking of upgrading – we’ve reset all previous trials, giving you another 14 days to try Serato DJ and Pulselocker at the same time to see if it’s right for you.
Pulselocker support is available in Serato DJ 1.9, available to download here – http://serato.com/dj/downloads
Pulselocker is unique as it’s not only a full streaming service but allows unlimited downloads and offline storage for DJs to hold Pulselocker music and play it back, without being connected to the internet. With a library of around 44 million tracks from nearly 500,000 labels as well as public performance rights, Pulselocker is a great option for DJs wanting flexibility in their music.
As well as Pulselocker support, Serato DJ 1.9 also includes a number of important stability updates and changes for all Serato DJs – including tempo matching display option, returning by popular demand. Read the full list of changes in the Serato DJ 1.9 release notes.
Serato CEO, AJ Bertenshaw says: “At Serato, we always try to carefully choose each feature to be aimed at the professional DJ. When it came to connecting to a music subscription service, we wanted to make sure our offering was the very best available. With unlimited offline storage, and a deep catalog of music pulled from an incredible range of independent and major labels, we believe Pulselocker is the ideal choice for the working DJ.”
For the full list of changes, check the release notes.
Finally, we’re in the home straight, with v2 on the horizon. I wonder what delights it will bring? Well I wouldn’t hold your breath because the original v1 was released back in 2012, so Serato is clearly in no rush to get v2 out, especially in the every changing landscape we find ourselves in. Normally my long distance vision is good, but I wouldn’t even like to guess at what will happen between now and BPM.
We all thought NI was going to push Traktor 3 after 2.9, but they went with 2.10 – i can see Serato doing the same…. 1.10…
Are the offline tracks encrypted or can you copy them to a backup folder?
probably encrypted. But no need to worry about backing up files. Backup your serato folder.
I don’t mean to be negative but I don’t think too many dj’s are really gagging to pay a monthly bill to have access to Pulselocker (which from what I’ve read, needs work.)
In the mean time Rekordbox DVS has come to fruition and has amazing library search/tagging/filtering system. Traktor allows filtering by bpm range. Serato… You have to use smart crates or playlists as a clunky work-around to be able to find tracks in a similar bpm range.
If I was Serato, I’d start putting more effort into the core SDJ software on not these superfluous extras that only a small percentage of users will use.
I would use Pulselocker before Stems dude.
Why is that? Are you comparing Pulselocker & Stems as additions that will have a monthly/occasional extra cost?
Stems look really interesting to me. Not enough to pull me over to NI from Serato but total respect to NI for adding something new & interesting to the game… but the ability to better sort through my library seems like such a base component of digital dj’ing that I’m amazed Serato still doesn’t have any real comprehensive library sorting/filtering system except for Smart Crates… It’s something that’s been lacking since SSL.
Oranges and apples?
There’s no point of comparing Pulselocker and STEMS. In fact, do you know the difference?
Of course I know the difference you fucking imbecile. I mentioned stems because a lot of Traktor users feel the same way about STEMS as you guys do about pulselocker: an extra feature that doesn’t appeal to most DJs.
At the end of the day, I feel like a library of millions of songs would cater more to most DJs, for example it eliminates the possibility of not having a request during a gig.
STEMS on the other hand cannot even be used unless you have an adequate MIDI controller. On top of that not a lot of popular songs are in STEMS format.
Firstly, I wasn’t the only person to question your comparison. Not sure why you singled me out in profanity. Not to mention, I don’t “feel the same way about STEMS as you guys do about pulselocker.” I’m a DJ; an artist. I use everything because everything to DJing are tools of crafting your sound and skill. Give me a double tape deck with two tape cassettes, and I’m good. So no, I’m not complaining that they implemented Pulselocker. I just wished they focused more on the core elements of SDJ, and not just add-ons and more sound effects that all ultimately cost more money.
Not to mention, everyone who’s complained about bugs, issues, controller malfunctions, and even those that stick to SSL for stability reasons, clearly don’t believe in SDJ as a successor yet. I think Serato should figure out how to get THOSE people to buy the product, which brings us back to the Core.
For a wedding or private event DJ, that obviously helps them. But the last I checked, Virtual DJ kinda dominated that market of wedding DJs, and Serato has been more acquainted with Hip Hop heads (hence “Scratch” Live). NI is obviously more acquainted with artists, producers, and live performance, which is why STEMS makes sense for that population.
Everyone has their niche, yet Pulselocker + Serato? Was that ever in demand? Why can’t they stick to the Hip Hop niche and populus? Make more limited edition “famous turntablist/hip hop producer-endorsed” shit? (Probably because it doesn’t make much money).
I switched over from Traktor to Serato this past year, I prefer Serato’s library management 100 times more than Traktor’s… It is one of the main reasons I left traktor.
What do you like about Serato’s? Do you use itunes?
I switched from Serato to Traktor and back a few years ago.
I loved Traktors’ magnifying-glass symbol above the library that when clicked would only show songs within a mixable bpm range.
I switched back to Serato though. Traktor felt a little too ‘computer programmish’ for my liking. I felt like I was too involved in using the software as opposed to dj’ing. But I think that’s because I didn’t give it enough time to get comfortable with it.
I give full respect to Traktor though. I think Serato would be great if they made their software a little more flexible like Traktor (i.e the ability to choose what info/tags are displayed on the virtual deck)
I’m not surprised, and I doubt they’re gonna improve it anytime soon. Maybe in a 2.0?
I think it should have been improved as the software officially released ~3 years ago. But I highly doubt it’ll change.
Yeah, I agree with you on the flexibility of displaying custom info on the track deck. I don’t use iTunes to manage my files anymore, I find that managing them in Searto works better for me. I don’t know how to explain it but in the heat of the moment while DJing and browsing the library, I find that I am less frustrated using Serato and traktor always seemed to frustrate me.
I’d like to debate this if you have the time, especially since you said “100 times more”. I actually believe that SDJ/SSL has flawed and very weak library management.
Name certain things that SDJ/SSL library’s have that Traktor doesn’t, and I’ll do vice versa.
100 times more is just a number I pulled out of thin air. All I can say is after using both Traktor and Serato, I prefer Serato’s library management. It just fits my needs when I need to find a track quickly. On that note, I only use Serato to manage my files, I do not use iTunes.
I totally agree. Serato should be focusing on the core elements of its software. I feel like it’s hanging on the bells and whistles (such as Pulselocker), because in my opinion, they don’t know how to improve and design software. Which kinda goes back to my argument that SDJ is just an updated SSL, but with Itch included. There is nothing innovative, new, or different with SDJ. It’s just SSL + Itch with a price tag.
Adding more cue points to tracks is not new. Adding controllers with a DVS program is not new. Chainable effects is not new. These are features that Traktor has had since 2007. Adding OS stability, updated graphics, high resolution, is just the basics that software has to do if they wanna keep up with more powerful computers.
Bottom line: Serato is trying to catch up to everyone’s robust software, such as Traktor and Rekordbox DVS, and they were also losing money from not selling the software in the first place since SSL and Itch were free. Also proves that you can’t just make money selling hardware (with Rane) all your life.
What would be nice is seeing Bridge again. That was innovation and that was a bit different (even though Traktor has samples decks and remix decks already. And now stems decks).
True. Bridge did look amazing.
I never had the right mixer to go along with the Bridge but more and more people have midi capable mixers these days.
You’re right. That was a real innovation from Serato.
Still no midi clock out, we now live in a DJ world of synths, drum machines and other ways to add to our sets, soon they’ll only have the turntabilists or now with Pulselocker wedding DJs as there customers :(
serato 1.9.11 without pulselocker