Oi guys I wanted to look for some 2026 experiences with the different streaming services that are offered by denon.
What service do you use? Did you tried others and experienced some bad stuff etc.?
I once tried Amazon music but had a really hard time to search something because often it just wouldn’t load properly.
Thx for reading and sorry for my bad grammar. Cheers!
None for me. i download songs and play. I prefer using local songs collection not to rely on wifi that at any point it might get intrupted or my subscription has ended, and i must keep running to renew so i can play
I just got a trial for Soundcloud Go+. You have to do a lot of the research and playlisting by yourself but it’s pretty good. Lots of label catalogs and interesting remixes.
I don’t think I will use it much though, but it’s fun to poke around. Will stick to buying digital files and playing vinyl.
Oh, a fellow SoundCloud Go+ user! I’d expect that most users use tidal for streaming on Engine, but I do as well use Go+ as my primary streaming provider. I also share the view on the “additional research” problem.
SoundCloud which started as music social network where users where able to upload stuff has as of today nearly all the major stuff onboard (the music catalogues/licensing) you need for casual listening. But due to the fact that user uploads are still a thing tracks may exist multiple times: as the artist upload (or the music distributors) and a user upload. When you use a transfer-your-playlist service like Spotify → SC migration those services will not necessarily pick the “correct” version of the song or sometimes just won’t find it. This is the extra work a user has to put in and which is bugging me. Also like on all streaming services tracksy disappear without notice and re-appear as a new track with the same name. So I do take the time once a year and search for the greyed-out trackes if they are available as a “new” track. Maybe the catalogue changed, don’t know what’s happening to there from a licensing perspective.
These are trade-offs I decided to live with and overall I do enjoy using SC.
Of course streaming is only an addition, main source of music is ZipDj but they don’t offer streaming like Beatport does.
Ah, I had not thought about using a playlist migration tool. I’m also heavy on Spotify for discovery and casual listening at home/office/car/balcony.
But good one, It might make a bit more sense to migrate some of the more interesting dj playlist from Spotify to SC!
When I migrated playlists, I tried different migration service but there was no real difference to me… Meanwhile the feature was also added to the SC app below Settings → Import my music
Looks like they’re using a 3rd party service https://musicapi.com/
So anyway, I’d expect that the copied playlists have to be manually finetuned track by track here as well 
Beatport is the best solution. For mixing, the largest list of tracks. You have categories by genres already made, curatorial playlists, and you can sort by BPM if you put the playlist in “preparation”. The integration with Engine, perfect. Just have good wi-fi…
About 99% of my library and what I play is on my Engine desktop synced to internal HDD’s on my SC6000’s. However, there’s something to be said for streaming services for certain instances. While I’m curating music, SoundCloud is a great option for new, independant, not yet released tracks, that I can put in a playlist and then try out (as well as the free downloads). On the Beatport side, similar where I can put tracks I could potentially purchase but try them out first by streaming (from a playlist I make) then download and purchase later. Again, for me streaming is not to be relied on but it’s a nice option.
I normally use USB drives, but if I have any specific requirement during an event, I would like to have the possibility of using Deezer like VDJ does.
I had the same issue with wrong versions and manual playlist fixing, so I built EinGin for exactly this workflow.
It matches Spotify/TXT playlists against your existing Engine DJ library, flags uncertain matches for review and avoids duplicate tracks.
Free to try - €4.99 lifetime during Early Access: https://eingin.com
Thanks for the replies so far.
I also have my music offline since, duhh!
In the near future I will have an event where I probably also have to play “normal radio stuff” and for that I would have used the streaming service, since I cant buy all the classic music from the last 30+ years :D.