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Import Spotify Playlist into RadioDJ?

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Someone recently asked if they could import a Spotify playlist into RadioDJ. I'm writing this post so people understand the complexities when it comes to Spotify playlists and RadioDJ. Firstly: You cannot import Spotify playlists into RadioDJ they're two completely different things. It would be handy to have Spotify and RadioDJ linked with playlists and libraries but that is never likely to happen. Rebroadcasting music from Spotify on your Internet radio station is against their Terms and Conditions and that's down to how the service is licenced by the various Royalty collection agencies There are other ways to get music from Spotify Into RadioDJ but even then that would mean Piracy. Even recording a song and then playing it on your stream is still a no go! If you need a song to play on your radio station just pay for it from one of the plethora of digital download stores. I hope this clears things up for users of RadioDJ Its

Spotify Killed The Radio Star?

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This past few years has seen a rise in the big music streaming services such as Deezer, Amazon Music & Spotify etc. There's to much competition from services like Spotify Pandora and Deezer and they are slowly killing Internet radio. One station owner had this to say: Over the last 3 years my listeners have dropped off to almost nothing I have promoted my station lots on social media. Internetradio gets beaten on all fronts, if isn't the rise of the streaming services, it's the royalties pricing pushing stations offline. There's just been a rise in the amount of royalties paid by Internet radio stations and it has forced lots of stations to go off air. The licencing agencies want to drive broadcasters out of the market by demanding more for Royalties. Internet radio station owners keep getting screwed over time and again when it comes to royalty payment agencies It emerged a few years back that a provider called Loudcity hadn't been paying the ri