How to get the full tracklist of a DJ set from a YouTube or SoundCloud link (with timestamps)

1. Read the description and the comments

The quickest check, and free. Many uploads carry their own tracklist, and on popular sets somebody usually posts one in the comments.

1. Open the set and expand the full description (“more” on YouTube, “Show more” on SoundCloud). Timestamps written in a YouTube description become clickable.
2. On YouTube, read the pinned comment and sort the comments by Top: a timestamped tracklist is often the most liked comment.
3. On SoundCloud, read the timed comments along the waveform. “ID?” questions and their answers sit at the moment the track plays.
4. Search the page (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) for “tracklist”, “ID” or a timestamp such as “47:”.

Limits: It only works when somebody has done the work, and a comment tracklist can be incomplete or wrong. Check a few names against the audio before you trust the rest.

2. Search 1001Tracklists and MixesDB

Two community databases where people write tracklists down. 1001Tracklists is strongest on festival, club and radio sets by well-known DJs; MixesDB is a wiki of DJ sets, podcasts and radio shows.

1. Search 1001Tracklists for the DJ's name plus the event, venue or date.
2. Open the matching tracklist. Tracks are listed in order, many with a cue time, and tracks nobody has named yet are listed as ID.
3. No match? Search MixesDB by DJ, radio show or podcast name.
4. Check that the date and venue match your recording: the same DJ plays many sets with similar names.

Limits: Only sets somebody documented. Headline festival sets and radio shows are well covered; a small stream or a mix uploaded last week usually is not. More on that in the 1001Tracklists alternative for sets nobody documented.

3. Search ryser.id's set library and festival pages

ryser.id keeps every public tracklist it has made: sets people analysed and shared, a library of the most watched new DJ sets that it identifies by itself every day, and a page per festival. Searching it is free and needs no account.

1. Search for the DJ, the event or a track in the set library.
2. For a festival, a series or a club night, open its page among the festival tracklists: Tomorrowland, Awakenings, Boiler Room and more, each with every set it has and that set's tracklist. How to find the tracklist of a festival set walks through it.
3. Open the set: its page lists every track it could name with the time it starts, a page per track and artist, and where to buy the record. Rows nobody has named read ID - ID.

Limits: Only sets somebody analysed, or that the library picked up. Library tracklists are made automatically and nobody checks them, and their page says so.

4. Paste the link into a tool that listens to the set

For a set nobody documented, use a tool that identifies the audio itself. It fetches the recording from the link, cuts it into parts, matches each part against a database of released music and returns the tracklist with the time each track starts.

1. Copy the link of the set: the YouTube video, the SoundCloud track or the Mixcloud show.
2. Paste it into ryser.id (YouTube, SoundCloud, or any link on the track ID finder). Without an account the first 30 minutes of a set are a free preview, a free account gives you 120 free minutes every month, and plans start at €2.50 a month or €25 paid once for life.
3. Wait while it runs. About a third of the set length from paste to done: a one-hour set takes around 20 minutes, and tracks appear while it runs.
4. Check the result: every row carries a mark that says how sure it is (what the marks mean), unknowns sit at their timestamp, and a wrong ID is corrected in a few taps. Export it for the YouTube comments or your DJ software. Serato, Traktor and VirtualDJ (M3U8), CSV and text from Opener (€2.50 a month).

Limits: Every tool in this group only names released music that is in its database. Pitched, layered and unreleased parts are where the tools differ, so the fair test is the same set in two of them.

Tools that make a tracklist from a link

All of these identify the audio from a link (some also take a file). Prices, inputs and limits per tool, from their own sites, are on the comparison of DJ set tracklist finders.

• setlist.id: YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud and 100+ other platforms; pay per hour of audio, unidentified time refunded.
• SetSplit: YouTube, SoundCloud or a file; free.
• CrateWire: SoundCloud, YouTube or a file; scanning on a paid plan, from a 7-day trial.
• Scanamix: SoundCloud, YouTube, Mixcloud or a file; first mix a free 30-minute preview.
• set79: SoundCloud only; a large free library of sets already analysed.
• Traklyst: YouTube or SoundCloud; checks published tracklists against the audio.
• IDThisMix: YouTube, SoundCloud or Mixcloud; first mix free, then packs per mix.
• TrackSniff: Links from seven platforms or a file; a limited free plan.
• TrackRadar: Instagram, SoundCloud, YouTube, TikTok, Mixcloud or a file; Discogs and Bandcamp links.
• VerifAI Audio: SoundCloud, YouTube or a file; label per track, a human check on request.
• TracklistFinder: YouTube only; turns the result into a Spotify playlist.
• TrackID.ninja: YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Vimeo, TikTok and more; in beta.
• trackid.dev: YouTube, SoundCloud or Mixcloud; free, built on open-source fingerprinting.

Working from a file on your own computer:

• MixSleuth: A Mac app for files; matches your own library first.

5. Use a phone app for a single track

Shazam and SoundHound name one song from a few seconds of audio. Good for the one track you want right now, not for a whole set.

1. Play the set at the moment you want named, through speakers at a clear volume.
2. Pick a stretch where the track plays on its own, not in the middle of a blend.
3. Open the app and let it listen. No result? Try again a minute later, once the next track has faded out.

Limits: One track per try, so a whole set means dozens of tries, and pitched or blended parts often return nothing. Why one-shot recognition struggles with a mix.

6. Ask the community and the DJ

For the tracks no database knows, people are the last resort, and often the only one.

1. Note the exact timestamp, for example 47:20, and the link to the set.
2. Ask in the comments: a timed comment on SoundCloud, or a reply under the YouTube video with the timestamp in it.
3. Post on Reddit in r/IdentifyThisTrack or the subreddit for the genre (r/Techno, r/House, r/DnB), with the link, the timestamp and the genre.
4. Ask the DJ, under their own upload or on Instagram. Many answer once a release date exists.
5. On a public set on ryser.id, other DJs can suggest a name for an unknown row and vote on it: see crowd IDs.

Limits: Slow and not guaranteed. A track that is still unreleased often stays unnamed until it comes out.