How to Stream Your Rekordbox Library to Your iPhone

Your whole crate lives in Rekordbox on your laptop. Your phone is in your pocket. Getting one to the other is more annoying than it should be — so here are the three real ways to do it, and the honest trade-offs of each.

The short answer

To listen to your Rekordbox tracks on your iPhone you have three options:

• rekordbox for iOS + CloudDirectPlay — official, but you pay a subscription and your files get uploaded to the cloud.
• Dropbox / cloud sync — works, but you're duplicating your whole library into someone else's storage.
• Stream from your own computer — your files stay on your drive, your phone just plays them. This is what Rimeo does.

Below is what each one actually means in practice.

Option 1 — rekordbox for iOS + CloudDirectPlay

AlphaTheta's own answer. You install rekordbox on iPhone, turn on CloudDirectPlay, and your library syncs through their cloud so you can browse and play it on mobile.

It works. The catch: CloudDirectPlay is a paid plan, and your tracks are uploaded to their cloud to make it happen. If you've got a 200 GB lossless crate, you're uploading 200 GB and paying for the storage to keep it there.

Option 2 — Dropbox or another cloud drive

The DIY route: drop your music folder into Dropbox/Google Drive, install the app on your phone, play from there. rekordbox can even point at a Dropbox-synced folder.

It's fine for a handful of tracks. For a real library it's the same problem as option 1 — you're copying your entire collection into the cloud, paying for the space, and waiting on uploads every time you add tracks. Your playlist tree, cue points and Rekordbox metadata don't come along for free either.

Option 3 — stream straight from your own computer

Here's the part most people don't know is possible: you don't have to upload anything. Your computer already has the files and the full Rekordbox library — it can just serve them to your phone directly.

That's the whole idea behind Rimeo. You run a small app on the Mac or PC where Rekordbox lives. It reads your library — the real playlist tree, BPM, key, waveforms — and streams the audio to your iPhone and your browser over a secure private tunnel. Nothing is uploaded; the files never leave your drive.

What you get on the phone:

• Your full playlist tree, exactly as it is in Rekordbox.
• Waveform, BPM and key for every track.
• Search across the whole crate.
• Cast to speakers or a TV over Chromecast.

Which one should you pick?

If you only ever carry a small playlist and don't mind a subscription, the official cloud is the path of least resistance. If your library is big, lossless, and you'd rather not copy it into anyone's cloud or pay per gigabyte — streaming it from your own machine is the cleaner answer.