Now, if you're not familiar with Tidal,
it's a streaming service owned
by the rapper Jay-Z, and though
it's not as popular as, say, Spotify
or Apple Music, it is able to set itself
apart by having high quality music streams
in the form of FLAC files, and now
that Tidal is found inside of Serato DJ,
you can spin with those high res files
whenever you're spinning
the tracks from Tidal.
Now, before we get into that, why
would you want to spin using
a music streaming service?
Well, having access to a service
means you've got access
to millions of songs,
which you probably don't
have in your laptop,
and that means that you don't need to buy
or download those songs, yes, you can just
drag 'em over onto your Serato decks,
and you can stream them as long as
you've got an internet connection,
and we're going to see
that in action later on.
So, really, the only
thing you're paying for,
here, is your Tidal monthly subscription,
and when you sign up for Tidal,
you've got a 30 day free trial
at the time of this
filming, so if you've got
Serato DJ on your computer,
all you need to do
is update to the latest version,
whether it's Serato DJ
Pro, or Serato DJ Lite,
and then, sign up for Tidal and get
your 30 day free access.
So, imagine if you're just DJing at home,
or maybe you've got some friends over,
instead of having to download those songs,
you can just, you know, open up Tidal
and Serato DJ and look for those songs
and drop them into your Serato decks,
and, voila, you are able to spin
without actually having
to buy those tracks.
Saves you time, saves you money,
and saves you a tonne of effort.
So, having said that, let's take a look
at how Tidal works within Serato DJ.
over here on the left
side, just click on Tidal,
and now you're going to find all the songs
that you currently have in a playlist,
and these are songs that I actually added
in my own Tidal playlist,
and to view those playlists,
just click on the dropdown
arrow over here, and currently,
I have two playlists, Joey's New
Friday Picks as well as My DJ Music.
Now, check this out, all I need to do
is to drag and drop this
song over onto top deck,
and that is going to be
streaming straight from Tidal.
("Fingers" by ZAYN)
You can do it with any of the
songs that you've got in here.
("Kiss and Make Up" by
Dua Lipa, Blackpink)
("Girls Like You" by Maroon 5, Cardi B)
It's super simple, and
it works really well.
Now, if you want to
search Tidal for music,
all you do is click on this one,
and then type the name of the artist
or song that you like, say, Nicki Minaj,
drag and drop that, there you are.
("Roman Holiday" by Nicki Minaj)
Cool, now, you can manage
your Tidal playlists
from within Serato DJ, or
over on the Tidal site,
which I will show you in a minute,
but first, let's try
doing that right here.
If you notice, over here at the
top, you're going to find a new icon.
This is to add a new Tidal playlist,
so, let's click on that, here we are,
and let's rename this,
call it House Picks,
and let's start adding some songs.
Let's say I want to add
some tracks by Disclosure,
all I need to do is to click
on the Tidal logo over here,
and let's do a search, Disclosure,
alright, now we're going to
see the middle window populate,
and you're going to find that the songs
have the iTunes logo,
meaning these are songs
that are currently on my hard drive,
but if we scroll down,
you're going to find songs
with the Tidal logo beside them,
and that means these are coming
straight from the Tidal service.
Now, I'm trying to look
for songs by Disclosure,
not necessarily songs that
have Disclosure as their title,
so, currently, I'm not seeing any.
Right, and that can be a bit of a problem,
especially if you're not sure which
Disclosure song you want to play, so,
hopefully this gets sorted later on.
So, okay, let's try to get a
little bit more specific, here.
Let's say I want to add a
classic from this group,
Latch, right, okay, now I'm seeing,
like, a bunch of tracks
from Disclosure, the artist.
So, I want this version that I like,
let's drag that over into House Picks,
and you can also find a
lot of different versions
over here, you've got Chill Out version,
acoustic guitar version, all that stuff.
So, yeah, if you are a wedding DJ
and, you know, you're in a venue
that has a strong Wi-Fi connection,
and you need to play background music,
or even if you've got
requests from the dance floor
that somehow you would not be able to fill
just 'cause you didn't bring
it in your external hard drives
or it's not on your computer, well,
music streaming is a convenient
service to do just that.
That's why having that integrated
within Serato DJ is
such a huge, huge help.
Okay, so we've added one song, over here,
in House Picks, and we see that.
Let's add a couple more.
I'm just going to speed this up.
Alright, so far we've added four songs
into our playlist, and we can
just drag these to play them.
("Latch" by Disclosure, Sam Smith)
Yeah, there we are.
("All I Am" by Jess Glynne)
And it loads pretty quickly, though I am
on a strong Wi-Fi connection, so,
yeah, was not expecting to have a problem.
("Polaroid" by Jonas Blue,
Liam Payne, Lennon Stella)
("Love Lies" by Khalid, Normani)
Okay, cool, so, that is how you create
a playlist over in Tidal using Serato DJ.
Now, you're probably wondering, hey,
it would be cool if I
could have a playlist
that combines both my local
music, as well as music
from Tidal, and currently,
you are not able to do that.
For example, let's try
adding this remix by Britney
over into my New Friday Picks,
and you can't do that
because only streaming tracks
can be moved into streaming
playlists, so there you go.
Basically, we cannot mix a streaming track
into a local Serato crate, and vice versa.
your music stops playing,
and that is not true.
Actually, what happens
is, when you load a track
over onto a deck in
Serato, it downloads it
in the background, and this is basically
available to play even if
your Wi-Fi suddenly dies.
So, let's try that, I'm
going to play this track
right now, and while it's playing,
I'm going to shut off my Wi-Fi over here.
("Back 2 The Wild" by Basement Jaxx)
Turn off, and yeah, streaming
server could not be reached,
please check your connection, so,
I am currently disconnected
from the internet,
and as you can see, the
song continues to play,
and that's because
Serato DJ already caches
this song over onto your hard drive.
So, yeah, even if the internet dies,
or something happens,
maybe, you're tethered
to your phone, and suddenly,
it dies 'cause you're out
of battery, your music
does not stop with it.
I know where that
misconception comes from.
It comes from people
streaming music from YouTube,
or they're watching
YouTube, and then suddenly,
when the Wi-Fi dies, the music stops.
That is not the case.
That said, it only caches
one song at a time,
so know there is no offline mode
in Serato and Tidal, at least not yet,
so that means you have to be online
if you want to be able to search for music
over in the Tidal music stream service,
and if you want to access your playlists.
("Back 2 The Wild" by Basement Jaxx)
Alright, so we are back online,
and now I'm going to show you
how you can do the same thing
over on the Tidal interface
using your web browser.
So, let's do that, and open up Chrome,
and, over here, I am
in my Tidal dashboard,
and over here on the lower left,
you're going to find playlists
that we already have.
House Picks are there, all
four songs are in there,
and also, the other playlists
that I currently have.
Now, let's say I want
to make a new playlist,
just call this Hip-hop
Picks, there we are,
find that there, and I am
going to start adding stuff.
There we are, so, yeah,
it is a little bit easier
to do your playlist
management and song selection
from within the Tidal
interface compared to Serato
because, well, you've got
the graphic interface,
here, and you also have
like, a more extensive
browser over here on the
left side of the screen,
but, we expect the integration between
Tidal and Serato DJ to improve over time.
So, even if we did have
a bit of an issue earlier
when it came to searching for Disclosure,
in the future, I'm sure they're going to
iron that out, so that's going to be
a hell of a lot easier to do
that type of quick searching,
just like you were using
the Tidal web interface.
Alright, cool, so I already
got my songs in here,
and now, if we open up
Serato, you're going to notice
that that new playlist
that we just created
doesn't show up, and even if I close
and open the Tidal tree, you're
still not going to find it.
At the moment, you have
to restart Serato DJ Pro
in order to see that new
playlist that we just made
over in the Tidal
interface, so let's do that.
Okay, so we fired up Serato DJ Pro again,
and now, you'll find the
playlist that we just created.
Now, one last thing before we end.
I showed you earlier
that it wasn't possible
to mix local songs that you've got
on your hard drive with
songs that come from Tidal,
however, you are able to use
the prepare playlist over here,
just click on prepare,
we've got this little
blank at the top, and you
can drag and drop songs
from either Tidal or from
your local library in there,
and they exist in this
prepare window over here.
you can still access all of
your Tidal playlists and music,
and we do expect that
to happen at some point
in the future, 'cause it
just makes so much sense.
It adds something that Pulselocker had
when it was still a part
of Serato a year ago.
So, our review is that music streaming
isn't going to replace
a local music library,
meaning music that you've got
stored on your hard drive,
any time soon, however,
this is a really good start,
and Tidal does plug in that hole
that Pulselocker left,
which was the former
streaming service that
was big in Serato DJ
when it shuttered some time last year.
So, it really is a good start.
It's cool to have access
to those FLAC files
while you're DJing, and also, I like
the way that you're
able to create playlists
for Tidal within Serato DJ itself.
Now, of course, Tidal isn't the most
obvious choice when it
comes to music streaming.
Spotify and Apple Music are that already,
and that's why we've made a separate video
just for you, to show you how
you can get those playlists
in whatever music streaming
service you're using
over into Tidal, which
means that you can access
those playlists and those
songs from with Serato DJ.
I've got a link to that below
this video, so, if you're
curious as to how that
works, just click on it.
So, that's going to be it for me.
My name is Joey, thank
you so much for watching.
Give us a big thumbs up and share this
with your other DJ friends.
I'm going to see you next time.
