Find the Song in Any Instagram Reel or Live

Club clips shot from the booth, Reels with untagged audio, and hour-long IG Live sets. Paste the link and every identifiable track comes back with a name.

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Identifying Music on Instagram

Instagram is full of music that exists nowhere else: Reels filmed in the crowd, clips posted straight from the DJ booth, and IG Live sessions that were never re-uploaded anywhere. When the audio is untagged, which club footage almost always is, the app gives you nothing to tap on and the comments fill up with the same unanswered question.

Setlist.ID identifies the music from the audio itself. Paste the link to the Reel, video, or saved Live, and the recording is fingerprinted against a database of more than 100 million tracks. Each match comes back with artist, title, the exact timestamp where it plays, and links out to YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, and Beatport.

Reels are short by design, so they usually surface one or two tracks at the 0.25-token minimum. Saved IG Live broadcasts are the sleeper feature: an hour-long booth stream comes back as a full timestamped tracklist, the same output a YouTube or SoundCloud set would get.

How to Get a Tracklist From Instagram

  1. 1

    Copy the Instagram URL

    Open the Instagram DJ set you want to identify and copy the URL from your browser address bar.

  2. 2

    Paste it into Setlist.ID

    Paste the Instagram URL into the input field. Sign in or create a free account to get started.

  3. 3

    Confirm and process

    Review the video duration and token cost, then confirm. Audio fingerprinting analyzes every segment of the recording.

  4. 4

    Get the full tracklist

    Every identified track comes back in play order with its timestamp, plus YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, and Beatport links. Copy it, download it as text, or export it as a playlist.

Built for Full DJ sets and live videos, Not Snippets

Shazam listens to a few seconds of audio and names one song, which fails on a Instagram DJ setwhere tracks are blended, layered, and EQ'd across the whole recording. Setlist.ID processes the complete audio instead, so every identifiable track is caught no matter where in the video it plays. The full comparison is on the Shazam for DJ mixes page.

The same pipeline reads links from more than 100 platforms, so if the video also exists on YouTube, SoundCloud, or anywhere else, any copy of it produces the same tracklist. And when a section stays unidentified, the timestamps show exactly where the mystery track lives, which is half the battle of hunting down an ID.

Frequently Asked Questions

The clip was filmed on a phone in a loud club. Will it still work?+

Usually, yes. Audio fingerprinting is designed to match music through phone microphones and background noise, which is the same problem Shazam solves in the same room. Very heavy crowd noise or sections where people talk over the music can reduce matches, but the recorded track underneath is what the engine locks onto.

Does it work on Instagram Stories?+

Stories expire after 24 hours and are usually not reachable at a stable public URL, so they are hit or miss. Reels, feed videos, and saved Live broadcasts are the reliable formats: if the link plays in a logged-out browser, it can be processed.

How many tracks will a Reel come back with?+

A Reel runs seconds to a couple of minutes, so expect one or two identified tracks with the exact moments they play. A saved IG Live DJ set returns a full tracklist, often dozens of tracks with timestamps.

How accurate is the identification?+

Average match confidence is 94 percent, and commercially released tracks identify reliably. No recognition tool can name unreleased music, so unreleased edits and dubs show up as timestamped gaps rather than guesses.

What information comes back with each track?+

Every identified track includes its timestamp in the recording, artist and title, album and label where available, BPM and key, and links to YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, and Beatport. The full tracklist can be copied, downloaded as a text file, or exported as a playlist.

Is Setlist.ID free to use?+

Setlist.ID uses a token system where 1 token covers 1 hour of processed audio, with a 0.25-token minimum for short recordings. Bundles start at $5.00 for 3 tokens, and tokens are refunded automatically if identification fails.

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