How Now Playing Finds Artwork

Now Playing 2 has many ways it tries to find album artwork. It varies between each DJ software. This post will help you understand the priority order.

Rekordbox

• 1) Artwork from Rekordbox's database that is on that computer.
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

Traktor DJ Pro

• 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

Serato DJ Pro

• 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

Mixxx

• 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

Virtual DJ

• 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

ProDJ-Link

• 1) Artwork from Rekordbox's database on the computer Now Playing 2 is running on.
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

Currently ProDJ-Link does not pull album art directly from the media file.

It is technically possible to transfer artwork from the USB/SD card or from Rekordbox Link Export but during testing the file transfer was very slow (30+ seconds for an MP3, even longer for a WAV / AIFF).

So for now Now Playing 2 doesn't support read artwork directly from the USB stick in your CDJ. Instead if the Rekordbox database is on the same computer as Now Playing it will try to use that.

Denon DJ (StageLinq)

• 1) Artwork embedded the media MP3/WAV/AIFF file downloaded from the device
• 2) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 3) Artwork from Discogs
• 4) Your default artwork
• 5) The Now Playing logo

DJuced

• 1) Artwork from Beatport / Beatport Link
• 2) Artwork from Discogs
• 3) Your default artwork
• 4) The Now Playing logo

Currently DJused does not pull album art directly from the media file.

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