Beatport LINK Is Almost Ready To Launch Streaming, page 1

Beatport has been very quiet about their plans for launching an in-DJ-software streaming service since they acquired the remnants of Pulselocker last April, but we all kind of assumed they were working on it. In Amsterdam at ADE last year, we revealed how Beatport Cloud and LINK were set to launch in 2019. Now there’s a new update: development is nearly complete to integrate the Beatport LINK streaming DJ softwares.

Beatport LINK


Beatport LINK is the name for in-software integration of Beatport’s library, and is based on the same techonology as Pulselocker. With Pulselocker, DJs could store (copy-protected) songs in an offline locker that are playable in DJ apps or dynamically load tracks into your software on the fly. The issue wasn’t ever the technology, it was the library – which was incredibly limited and underwhelming.

So naturally, everyone got really excited when Beatport bought the company after it crashed and burned. The funny thing is that Beatport has never actually formally announced Beatport LINK – they’ve been mentioning it behind closed doors to artists, but it wasn’t until today’s press release covering the new relaunch of Beatsource that we’ve seen them publicly acknowledge the project, its name, and the official development status:

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