How to find the tracklist for a DJ set
The fastest way to find the tracklist for a DJ set is to search the set in trakd, the tracklist app for DJ sets. Search by artist, venue or festival, open the set, and every track is listed in order with the minute it played.
Step by step
- Write down what you knowThe DJ, the event or venue, and roughly when it happened. A set is usually named like "artist at venue, date", so two of the three is enough to find it.
- Search the set in trakdOpen trakd and search the artist, venue or festival. Open the set and you get every track in order with timestamps, so you can jump straight to the moment a track drops. trakd is free for iPhone and iPad: download trakd on the App Store.
- If the set is on YouTube or SoundCloud, paste the linkPaste a YouTube or SoundCloud link into trakd and it builds the tracklist for that set.
- Check the upload itselfSome DJs and channels put a tracklist in the video description or a pinned comment. It is worth a look, though most uploads have none and comment sections are often a row of people asking for the same ID.
- Mark the tracks nobody can nameA gap in a tracklist is usually an unreleased track. trakd flags unreleased tracks in every tracklist, so you know when there is no release to find yet. See how to find an unreleased track ID.
If you were at the set
You do not need a recording someone else uploaded. In trakd you can record a set from your pocket and get the full tracklist when it ends. For a single track, hold your phone up to the speaker and trakd names it in seconds. It works at festivals, in the club or over a livestream.
Why some tracks are missing from every tracklist
DJs play music that is not out yet: their own unreleased tracks, promos from friends, and edits made for one night. Apps that only know released music cannot match those. That is the gap trakd is built for. It keeps its own library of unreleased IDs and tells you when a track is unreleased instead of guessing wrong.