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Switzerland
1 review
3 helpful votes
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PURE RIP-OFF
January 17, 2020

Beatport is a pure RIP-OFF and I am highly disappointed!

For a WAV file, you pay about 2.20$ per song (which normally would be fine). I bought different songs for $62 and wanted to download them overnight to my ipad. Unfortunately the download failed for several songs. No problem, you should think... You can download the music again, right? Yes, but only if you do it within the first 24 hours after the first download! What a cheek! I can't even stream a complete track anymore. Fortunately, I know the musicians and I can ask them to send me the files. I will also advise them to stop supporting Beatport and switch to another platform.

STAY AWAY!
PS: This is the first time I'm writing a review, but this really sets me up!

Date of experience: January 17, 2020
GB
10 reviews
57 helpful votes
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Huge range of music, and the previews with waveform display are a really nice touch. However, I found out after purchasing that the tracks I bought were available a lot cheaper elsewhere (and not on an illegal site either!). Just make sure you shop around when visiting mp3 stores.

Date of experience: December 15, 2012
Pennsylvania
4 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Pros: Excellent range of dance / electronic music tracks; house, trance, beats, drum & bass, chill out and more. Good search engine (advanced). Useful charts and features such as the download software and personalization of the website to follow artists or labels that interest you. High quality downloads (320 bit mp3, wav). IPhone app is available. Track previews are fairly long.
Cons: Price is higher than other websites, but sometimes discounts are offered through emails. Some tracks have restrictions on purchase due to where you live (perhaps better not to show those tracks to avoid frustration). Selection of 90's electronic music is a bit limited but expanding.

Date of experience: November 20, 2010
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Literally the worst service ever.

Even though I cancelled 30-days trial subscription on the first day when I subscribed with the website, they still charged me through Paypal after a month.

Obviously, no contact from them when asked wagwan.

DO NOT USE!

Date of experience: May 15, 2023
Turkey
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I have used beatport extensively for my music. The new version Pro Beatport has a terrible bug in it where they lost all the music I saved in their cart. I spent hours making a collection and as I was about to purchase the cart disappeared. What is worse is their customer services. It took them three days to eventually tell me that it is lost forever. :(. I believe they can fix it through back ups but it just seems they don't care! Such a pity, the concept and the site works but it is just not reliable. And the customer service people respond very slowly...

Date of experience: October 28, 2015
AE
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So frustrating always an issue, have to download 5 times or more just to get the tracks, have been through all the troubleshooting and its just a timewaster they dont do anything to improve, actually they just seem to make the site more user un-friendly... moving on

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
California
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I've been a Beatport customer for more than ten years: but they've changed. If you're a DJ or other consumer of dance tracks; don't waste your time here.

Date of experience: January 23, 2023
Netherlands
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I wonder if beatport is still alive amongs the normal customers. Nowadays from my own experience as musican only DJ's and other producers are buying my music from beatport. The normal crowd is more active on itunes and spotify. As a customer myself. The quality of the music isnt much better then other sites. And beatport is more expensive too.

Date of experience: October 3, 2019
Slovakia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Bought stems (4)
July 25, 2017

I bought stems from em with hope that I will receive 4 / 4 stems. Then? I received 1 MP4 STEM which when you rend into mp3, it will rends like full track, with all stems together (not stem as MP4 played) So even this 1 stem is useless because after rend it create full mp3 and not the single stem - sadly I says: stay away.

Date of experience: July 25, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been purchased many songs from Beatport for about a year now. They have no quality control for guidelines that must me met for the songs uploaded by Artist/Production companies. Several songs I was interested to purchase did not have the waveform/gridlines... only a straight line, but the song would still play. If you purchase one of these you cannot download it after purchase. And, without the waveform/gridlines a DJ can't even mark Cue Points. I have spent hours listening to songs to create my playlist and then after purchasing, spending hours trying to analyze the correct Key Note as some song key notes are difference from Rekorbox and also the Key Finder App. Therefore I cannot use the song for my playlist as I wanted to mix in key. I have sent a few emails to their customer service and 99% of the time they have not responded and of course you cannot get a live person as they don't care about providing good customer service. I am paying a monthly upgraded membership. I am now so frustrated that I am ready to cancel my account and join another platform with better quality and better customer service. I would like recommendation for a excellent site to purchase my songs.

Date of experience: September 16, 2021
Netherlands
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible
September 2, 2022

Wanted to listen and purchase some music/livesets of best dj's but what a "complexe" site to be able tot reliase that, why? Absolutely unfriendly website concept, useless, bye!

Date of experience: September 2, 2022
Texas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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All of the songs download quality is horrible. Definitely not for djs! I always have to rebuy songs on iTunes bc of this. Waste of money!

Date of experience: June 20, 2023
Illinois
8 reviews
9 helpful votes
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This is where it's at
February 10, 2011

This is where it's at. All the new releases from electronic dance music are on this website!

Date of experience: February 10, 2011

Overview

Beatport has a rating of 1.8 stars from 13 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Beatport ranks 862nd among Music sites.

service
6
value
7
shipping
3
returns
5
quality
6