Now Playing for PRO DJ LINK

PRO DJ LINK on screen. Automatically.

CDJs straight to your stream. Now Playing speaks Pioneer's link protocol, no laptop DJ software required.

Screenshot: CDJs on a PRO DJ LINK network with a track playing on the deck, captured beside Now Playing on the laptop showing that same track detected, with artwork, BPM, and key.

How it connects

How Now Playing reads PRO DJ LINK

PRO DJ LINK is the protocol Pioneer DJ (AlphaTheta) hardware uses to link players and mixers over ethernet. Now Playing joins that network and captures real-time track data directly from the players, including play from USB drives and SD cards with no computer in the booth. With a DJM mixer connected, mixing modes decide when a track goes on air: smart, silence, or master-tempo.

From there it's the same everywhere: tracks flow to your overlay, Twitch chat, files, and every other output the moment they go on air.

What works

CDJ-2000NXS/NXS2, CDJ-3000, XDJ-700/1000, XDJ-XZ, XDJ-AZ, and DJM mixers with link support, the DJM-V10 included
Up to six linked CDJs on one network
USB and SD playback with no DJ software running
On-air detection from mixer faders (Nexus 2 and newer mixers)

Known limits

XDJ-RX series and Opus-Quad don't offer full PRO DJ LINK standalone, so use their rekordbox modes instead
Artwork comes from a local rekordbox library; players don't transfer it over the link

Setup

Three steps, then forget it's there

1
Download Now Playing free and open it
2
Connect your players and computer to the same router
3
Add the overlay to OBS and play
The overlay updates itself for the rest of the set.

VIDEO (60–90s, muted with burned-in captions, poster frame): screen recording of the whole PRO DJ LINK setup, done once at real speed — open Now Playing, connect PRO DJ LINK with the exact settings visible on screen, add the overlay to OBS, then play a track and watch the overlay fill in by itself. Ends on the live overlay, no narration needed.

Open the PRO DJ LINK setup guide

In the app