Guides

DJ guides

Straight answers to what DJs ask about tracklists, track IDs, digging and prep. Every guide says the day it was last updated.

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How to get the full tracklist of a DJ set from a YouTube or SoundCloud link (with timestamps)Every way to find out what was played in a DJ set: the description and comments, 1001Tracklists and MixesDB, ryser.id's set library, tools that listen to the set from its link, phone apps for one track, and asking people. With steps, and what to do about the IDs nobody can name.Updated 14 October 2026
How to find the tracklist of a festival set (Tomorrowland, Awakenings, Creamfields, Boiler Room)Open the festival's page on ryser.id first: every set it has from that festival, each with its tracklist. Not there? Check 1001Tracklists and the official upload, then paste the set's link.Updated 16 October 2026
How to find new music as a DJ: dig in other DJs' setsSomeone else's set is a record shop where a DJ with taste already picked every record. How to dig in it: pick the sets, get the tracklist, listen at the timestamp, keep what you want and buy it.Updated 11 October 2026

Finding tracks

Tracklists, track IDs and festival sets: what was played, and how to find out.

What does ID mean in a tracklist? ID - ID, ID remix and the restID means unidentified: a track nobody has named yet. What ID - ID, Artist - ID and ID remix mean, why so many tracks stay ID, and how to find out what one was.Updated 11 October 2026

Digging and buying

Where the records in DJ sets come from, and where to get them.

Mixing and prep

Getting ready for the gig, alone or back to back.

Using ryser.id

How the tool works, what the setlist says and what it costs.

In short

ryser.id has 14 guides for DJs: 3 on finding tracks, 3 on digging and buying, 2 on mixing and prep, 6 on using ryser.id.
Each one answers its question in the first lines and shows the day it was last updated; the latest update was 16 October 2026.
They are written by Ryan Poser, a DJ who builds ryser.id. Facts about other tools and services come from their own sites, and no guide gives ryser.id an accuracy figure.

Got a set link? Get its tracklist.

Paste the link and ryser.id names every track it can, with the time it starts. No account? The quick peek under the box does the first 30 minutes for free and mails you the list.