You can play Soundcloud’s catalogue in Serato DJ

SoundCloud has made real efforts to stay competitive this year in an ever crowded market. One of their announcements has come to fruition. They have announced that users can now have access to their catalog in the Serato DJ software.

Serato DJ Pro 2.1 or DJ Lite 1.1 users who are also SoundCloud Go+ premium subscribers can now access SoundCloud’s catalogue of roughly 190 million tracks during DJ sets. You can also DJ using your pre created playlists.

They have also announced updates to the IOS app and Instagram. This is all in a bid to enhance their struggle for financial solvency. There is one big issue so far is that there’s no offline playback support so you will need an internet connection to use this feature. This is something that they say will be updated in the near future.

We will see whether this is a good move. We believe it makes sense for recording mixes and home use but for actual DJs it may be a struggle to use live due to connection problems. What do you think?