Traxsource vs Direct Music Service
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Traxsource
Discover and purchase music from a vast catalog, featuring new releases, charts, and curated selections. Preview tracks in high quality and manage your music collection, carts, and wishlists seamlessly across devices.
- Browse featured releases and charts
- Listen to track previews
- Manage carts and wishlists
- Sync with online account
- Search extensive music catalog
- Industry-leading sales charts
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Browse, listen, and add music to your cart from anywhere, making purchases quicker and easier from Traxsource online, available from your computer. Or transfer your cart items to your wishlist or other carts with ease. All you need is a Traxsource account. Dig Deeper than Ever - Browse the latest featured releases from your favorite genres. - Listen to charts from the world's greatest DJs. - Check out the current biggest tracks in our industry-leading overall and genre-specific sales charts. - Keep track of the best new music, with our weekly A&R-led Hype Chart and Weekend Weapons selections, and Essentials in key genres. - Search our extensive catalog with ease. Preview Tracks With Ease - High-quality track previews of every track on the store. - All new player with “now playing” view & advanced playlist features. - Use skip forward and back buttons on your headphones and in your car to control playback. Manage Your Cart And Wishlist - Delete from, add to, listen to and edit your carts and wishlist anytime. - The Traxsource Mobile App is fully integrated with your account on Traxsource.com. - Changes made to your account, carts and wishlist are synced with your online account. - Craft the perfect set anytime, and from anywhere.
Direct Music Service
Access a vast music catalog for DJs on the go. Browse, search, sort, and listen to tracks, add them to a wishlist, and sync with Dropbox for easy file management. Streamline your DJ workflow from anywhere.
- Vast music catalog access
- Search, sort, and browse tracks
- Add tracks to Wishlist
- Dropbox integration for file syncing
- Download music from website
- Search by new releases, top downloads, decades, year, genre
- Sort by BPM, artist, recently added
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The official mobile app of Direct Music Service (directmusicservice.com). The DMS mobile app brings the functionality of our website straight to your mobile device and changes the way DJs get their work done. You can now get your DJ work done wherever you are! Members can log into their account, browse, sort, search and listen to our vast music catalogue. Members can add their desired tracks to their Wishlist by clicking the heart icon. With added Dropbox support, customers can link their Dropbox account and send music files directly from their DMS Wishlist to their personal Dropbox. If Dropbox isn't an option, members can add files into their Wishlist for later downloading directly from the DMS website. The DMS music library on the mobile app is searchable by new releases, top downloads, decades, specific year or genre and can be sorted by BPM, artist or most recently added. The best site for DJs just got better with the DMS mobile app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Traxsource at every 5 weeks against Direct Music Service's every 5 months. Direct Music Service's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (64% vs 46%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Direct Music Service holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Traxsource's written reviews are positive against 64% of Direct Music Service's.
Traxsource ships an update every 5 weeks, Direct Music Service every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Traxsource | Direct Music Service |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (23 ratings) | 3.8 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.1% of reviews | 64.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Digistics, Inc. | DIRECT MUSIC SERVICE Llc |
Customer experience
Traxsource
Direct Music Service
Bugs and requests
Traxsource
Reported bugs
11 issues- App freezes and crashes after a few songs
- Purchased tracks list is blank
- App crashes when trying to listen to top tracks
- Cannot listen to purchased tracks on the app
- Playlists play random tracks
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- App crashes on login
- App doesn't work on new iOS versions
- Cannot log in to save tracks
- Preview doesn't work, audio errors
- App freezes constantly
- App closes when trying to log in via Gmail
Requested features
12 requests- Library and player for purchased music
- Send tracks directly to Rekordbox
- BMP and key information display
- Update for larger iPhone screens
- Ability to stream purchased music
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- Add tracks to preview playlist without stopping playback
- Add tracks to wishlist without adding to cart first
- On-screen controls to skip tracks
- Play all button for genres
- Airport streaming possibility
- iPad version
- Keep me logged in setting
Direct Music Service
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Traxsource
No in-app purchases
Direct Music Service
No in-app purchases
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