A MixesDB alternative that generates tracklists
The wiki archived twenty years of tracklists other people documented. For the mix in front of you right now, you need a generator.
Identify My MixMixesDB and setlist.id solve the same problem differently
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For almost two decades MixesDB was a volunteer-run wiki cataloguing radio shows, club nights, and classic mixes, over 200,000 sets across a hundred genre categories. The original site shut down in June 2024 when its aging codebase became unmaintainable, and the community has since revived the archive.
An archive answers one kind of question: what did people already write down about a documented mix. It cannot answer the other kind: what is playing in this recording nobody has catalogued. Wiki coverage always skewed toward famous shows and well-loved eras, and every entry depended on a volunteer having done the identification by hand.
Paste a link to any mix on more than a hundred platforms and the audio itself is identified, segment by segment, by our own recognition algorithm. The tracklist arrives in minutes with a timestamp on every identified track.
You do not have to take the output on trust: setlist.id publishes what it identifies. Every public set carries its full tracklist with a timestamp on each track, and the same catalogue reads by DJ or channel and by festival, club night or radio show.
MixesDB vs setlist.id
| Feature | MixesDB | setlist.id |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A wiki archive of community-documented tracklists | A tool that generates tracklists from the audio |
| New or undocumented mixes | No entry until a volunteer writes one | Any public link processes in minutes |
| Coverage | 200,000+ historic sets, strongest on classic shows | Anything streamable on 100+ platforms |
| Timestamps | When the contributor included them | On every identified track, automatically |
| Cost | Free to browse | Hours, from $6 for 5; never expire, unidentified time refunded |
The first rows setlist.id returned for one set, as they came back.
BLOND:ISH DJ set - Miller Mix: Tbilisi 2025 · identified by setlist.id
0:00A Tiger Never Loses it's StripesTiger Stripes- 210:39This Is Not The James Brown (Extended Mix)Vinter
14:21Mi GenteeChinonegro
18:03SimulationUs Two, Franksy
Archive or generator
For classic, well-documented material, search the archive first. Decades of Essential Mixes, legendary club nights, and radio shows were catalogued by people who knew the music intimately, often including unreleased IDs no software can name, and reading it costs nothing.
Use setlist.id for everything the archive does not hold: the undocumented mix you just found, the promo set from a smaller artist, your own recordings, or a documented set whose entry is incomplete.
Frequently asked questions
Is MixesDB still online?
The original MixesDB site shut down in June 2024 after nearly twenty years, citing an unmaintainable codebase. Community members revived the archive under new stewardship, so the historic catalogue remains reachable, though it remains an archive of hand-written tracklists rather than an identification tool.
Can setlist.id identify old mixes from the MixesDB era?
Yes. A mix from 1998 processes the same way as one from this week, as long as it is streamable at a public URL. Older commercially released tracks are in the fingerprint database like anything else; heavily degraded rips may leave some sections unidentified.
Does setlist.id build a public archive like the wiki did?
Yes. Once a tracklist passes our quality bar it gets its own public page, like the ones in the catalogue; the page never names the account that ran it, and a private SoundCloud link is never published.
What does it cost to process a classic two-hour radio show?
Two hours of audio costs two hours off a bundle, and bundles start at 5 hours for $6. Processing takes around ten minutes for a two-hour show, hours never expire, and any stretch that fails to identify comes back automatically.
Identify your mix
Paste a mix link and get the full tracklist in minutes.