# prolink-connect: implementing Pioneer PROLINK exchanges

> prolink-connect implements Pioneer PROLINK network exchanges in TypeScript for DJ equipment. It discovers devices through UDP announcements, joins as a virtual CDJ, receives player status and queries track metadata from Rekordbox-formatted media or a Rekordbox link.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/prolink-connect>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/prolink-connect/blob/26f8bbafe3487543e7c94d345ce90ee5022ff335/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/prolink-connect-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/prolink-connect-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/prolink-connect-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Pioneer PROLINK-compatible DJ equipment on a reachable network.
- **Prerequisites:** Node 20 or later, per the changelog.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/prolink-connect/blob/26f8bbafe3487543e7c94d345ce90ee5022ff335/README.md>

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