coming from the Tidal
music streaming service.
Now, Tidal isn't the most popular
music service out there,
you're most likely
using something like
Spotify or Apple Music
and that's why it's handy to be able
to transfer those playlists
that you've already curated
in those services over onto Tidal
so you can then spin with
them from within Serato DJ.
or $19.99 for the premium
HiFi subscription,
which gives you access to high
resolution FLAC streaming.
Next up, you're going to need a copy
of the latest version of Serato DJ,
whether that's Serato DJ
Pro or Serato DJ Lite,
and finally, and most importantly,
you're going to need to sign
up to a service called Soundiiz.
The URL will show up over here.
Now, Soundiiz acts as the middle man
between all of your
current streaming services,
maybe it's Spotify,
maybe it's Apple Music,
or maybe it's even Napster, and then,
it sits in the middle, and it is
able to convert all of the playlists
that you currently have in
those services over on to Tidal.
Now, once you've
transferred your playlists
over onto Tidal, it can then access them
from within Serato DJ, and you
can spin with those tracks.
Now, Tidal doesn't have the
largest music library out there,
especially not compared
to Apple Music or Spotify,
and in our experience,
there were a handful
of songs that didn't make the transition,
and we had a couple of playlists
with like, a few tracks missing.
It's not a total deal breaker at all.
Your mileage may vary,
and if you're curious
as to how that works, well, let's
try it out right now, let's go.
Alright, so this is the Spotify app,
and I just want to show
you really quickly,
over here on the left side, these are all
the playlists I've made
ever, and we're going
to try to transfer three of these
from Spotify over onto Tidal
using the Soundiiz service.
So, I am going to open up my web browser,
and this is the Soundiiz dashboard.
So, just a quick overview,
over here on the left,
you're going to find all of
the music streaming services
that you can integrate into Soundiiz.
You've got Spotify, which
I've currently got connected,
Tidal, as well, you've got Deezer,
Apple Music, Google Music, Napster,
YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud,
Yandex Music, you've got
basically all of the available
music streaming services
over here in Soundiiz.
I think that's awesome, and then
you've got my library over here.
So, currently, I've got 139 playlists
from both Spotify and
Tidal, and over here,
the right side of the screen, you're going
to find all the playlists
that are currently available,
and these are sorted
according to the service,
so, what you can see right now
are all my Spotify playlists,
and, if I keep on scrolling down,
I'm going to find all the
others that I currently have,
and you've got Tidal over here,
and also Soundiiz playlist.
So, let's try transferring
one playlist, first.
I'm going to scroll
right back up to the top,
and let's say I want to transfer this one,
Pop Weekend Must-Drops, I click on that,
there we go, and yes,
the service is Spotify,
and it's currently got 14 tracks,
so now that I've got that selected,
I can just click on this button over here,
this convert button, there we go.
So, I can change the title if I want to.
I can add a description, here.
I don't want to do that, just
click on save configuration
and move on over to the next step,
and this basically asks me if I want
to transfer all of the
songs in that playlist,
and, yes, I do, so just
confirm the track list,
and then now I get to
pick the destination.
As I said earlier, I want to
transfer this Spotify playlist
over onto Tidal so I can spin with it
in Serato DJ, so I'm just
going to click on Tidal.
There we are, now it's
going to start converting,
shouldn't take too long,
and yeah, it's done,
so, conversion success,
playlist transferred to Tidal.
Now, click on show, and now, we've got
our playlist from Spotify
now appearing in Tidal.
So, yeah, all of the tracks
made it, so 14 tracks, there.
Okay, cool, so, let's try
transferring another one,
so we go to playlists
and let's go to this one,
JT Special, this is
basically a Justin Timberlake
themed playlist that I created.
So, we click on that,
let's try converting this.
This is more pop music,
bigger named artists
compared to the playlist earlier,
so let's see if all 28 tracks
make it over onto Tidal.
Click on that convert, set configuration,
yeah, confirm tracklist,
here, then I click on Tidal.
Soundiiz will do the converting,
let's just wait a few seconds, alright,
here we are, conversion success,
playlist transferred to
Tidal, click on show,
and yeah, all the 28 tracks
made it over onto Tidal,
meaning all of these songs are available
in the Tidal music library,
which is super awesome.
Now, let's do one last conversion,
this time, let's try something
a little bit more obscure.
How 'about this one,
Electronic Avant-Garde,
so, these are like ambient, maybe noise,
or like, experimental music that is,
actually, it's part of a Spotify playlist,
so, let's try converting this and see
if all 50 tracks, that's
a larger playlist,
if all 50 tracks make it over onto Tidal.
So, I'm going to click on convert.
Save configuration, yes, I want
all 50 tracks to be in there
as much as possible,
and then click on Tidal,
and let's wait for it
to do the conversion.
Alright, so, conversion success,
however, we do have an alert here.
Playlist transferred to Tidal with errors,
so if you click on five errors,
ah, so these are the songs that are not
available in the Tidal music library,
and these won't appear
in the Tidal playlist.
So, let's go back, click on show, so yes,
instead of 50 tracks, we only have 45 now.
That's alright, it's
not a real deal breaker.
I still have a huge chunk of the songs
in that playlist
transferred over onto Tidal.
Alright, so we already
copied three playlists
from Spotify over onto Tidal.
Now, let's open up Serato DJ and try
spinning with those tracks.
Alright, so if you go to Tidal,
yeah, you're going to find
three playlists that we copied.
Now, I can just drag and drop these
songs over on to the playlist.
("Mudafossil" by Ash Koosha)
(laughs) Yeah, I did say these
were more experiments, right?
("Into Imbalance" by METRO SKIM)
That's the Justin Timberlake
playlist, sounds okay.
("Ayo Technology" by 50 Cent,
Justin Timberlake, Timbaland)
Yeah.
("Pray for Me" by Smallpools)
("Cut to the Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen)
Alright, everything sounds good.
over onto Tidal, but again,
it's not a deal breaker,
and a huge chunk of the
songs in those playlists
actually made it, so, a big
part of the thing here is,
now I can spin with
them from within Serato
thanks to the new Tidal integration.
If you'd like to know more
about how Tidal works within
Serato DJ, we've made a
separate video review for that.
I've got the link to it below this video.
I want you to go click on it right now
and share it with your
DJ friends, as well.
So, that's going to be it for me.
My name is Joey, thank
you so much for watching.
Please like and share this video.
Let us know what you
think in the comments,
whether you think this is a good way
of transferring your music
from existing music streaming
services over onto Tidal
so you can spin with them,
or maybe, you've got a better workaround
that you can share with us.
Thank you so much, I'm
going to see you next time.
