Uploaded a mix and dreading the tracklist? Paste your video link, export in YouTube format, and paste the finished, timestamped list straight into the description box.
Build My Tracklist →A mix with a timestamped tracklist in the description is a different product from the same mix without one. Timestamps become clickable chapters on the player, so viewers jump to the sections they love and stay instead of scrubbing and leaving. The comment section fills with reactions instead of a wall of unanswered ID requests, and every artist name in the description is text that search can find.
The reason most uploads skip it is that writing one by hand is miserable: scrub, recognize, type, repeat, for two hours of audio. That is the part Setlist.ID automates. Your mix is fingerprinted from the link, every identifiable track comes back with its timestamp already attached, and a dedicated export renders it in the exact format YouTube descriptions expect.
Publish the mix (public or unlisted), then paste the YouTube URL into Setlist.ID. The full audio is fingerprinted in about five minutes per hour.
Open the export menu on the finished tracklist and choose the YouTube format: one line per track, timestamp first, exactly what descriptions expect.
Drop the lines into your video description. Add a 0:00 line for your intro at the top, since YouTube requires the first timestamp to be 0:00 for chapters.
Unreleased edits and exclusives come back as gaps. You know your own crate, so type those lines in by hand, then save. Chapters appear on the player automatically.
Chapters only activate when the description follows YouTube's rules: the first timestamp must be exactly 0:00, there must be at least three timestamps, they must be in ascending order, and each chapter must run at least 10 seconds. The export already gives you ascending, correctly formatted lines, so in practice the only thing to check is the top of the list.
If your mix opens with an intro before the first identifiable track, add a line like 0:00 Intro above the exported list and you are done. If the first track starts at 0:00, the list qualifies as exported. Either way, the chapters appear on the progress bar as soon as the description saves.
One line per track: the timestamp, then the title, then the artist. That is the plain-text pattern YouTube parses from descriptions. A fuller clipboard and .txt export also exists with album, label, BPM and key, and streaming links, if you prefer a richer listing.
YouTube generates chapters when the description contains ascending timestamps, the first one is exactly 0:00, there are at least three of them, and each chapter runs at least 10 seconds. The export gives you the ascending timestamped lines; add a 0:00 intro line at the top if your first track starts later.
Yes, and you should. The export is plain text, so rename anything, add the unreleased IDs only you can name, and trim lines you do not want public. Nothing is posted anywhere automatically.
No. Exports are text-based: clipboard, .txt download, and the YouTube chapter format. For a tracklist in a video description, plain timestamped text is what YouTube reads; SRT is a captions format and is not needed for chapters.
Every commercially released track has a fingerprint to match, and average match confidence is 94 percent. Your own unreleased edits and exclusives cannot be matched by any tool, so they come back as timestamped gaps for you to fill in by hand.
1 token per hour of audio, with a 0.25-token minimum. Bundles start at $5.00 for 3 tokens, so a one-hour weekly mix costs well under two dollars, and tokens are refunded automatically if identification fails.
Paste the video link and get a description-ready tracklist in minutes.