Every ID in a tracklist is a track somebody could not name. Paste a link to the set and audio fingerprinting resolves them, with a timestamp on every match.
Resolve the IDs →In a DJ tracklist, ID stands for an unidentified track: a song that played in the set but has not been named. A listing of ID - ID means both the artist and the title are unknown, while Artist - ID means the artist is known and the track is not. The convention exists because DJs routinely play unreleased music and obscure records that listeners cannot recognize by ear.
IDs are the unfinished business of every tracklist. Crowdsourced databases fill some of them in when a community member happens to know the record, but most IDs in most sets stay open forever, because the people who could answer never see the question.
The traditional route is asking: post in the comments, wait, and hope a fellow digger answers. The second route is searching: databases like 1001Tracklists hold community-built tracklists for famous sets, and if someone already documented the ID you are hunting, the answer is a search away.
The third route does not depend on anyone else. Audio fingerprinting reads the recording itself: the full set is cut into overlapping segments and each segment is matched against a database of more than 100 million released tracks. Anything with a release identifies in minutes, no matter how deep the cut or how blended the transition, with an average match confidence of 94 percent.
The honest caveat applies to every method that is not a human insider: unreleased tracks have no fingerprint in any database, so software cannot name them until they come out. What fingerprinting gives you for those is the exact timestamp range where the mystery track plays, which turns a vague hunt into a precise one.
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The complete audio is cut into overlapping segments and each one is matched against a database of more than 100 million tracks.
Every identified track comes back in play order with its timestamp, artist and title, BPM and key, and links to YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, and Beatport.
ID marks a track that nobody has identified yet. It is a placeholder meaning the track's name is unknown, common in DJ set tracklists because DJs play unreleased material and obscure records that listeners cannot name by ear.
The double form covers both halves of a track credit: the first ID stands for the unknown artist and the second for the unknown title. A listing like Artist - ID means the artist is known but the track title is not.
Sometimes, for a single released track playing cleanly. Shazam samples a few seconds and names one song, which fails on blended, pitched, and layered club audio, and it cannot process a whole recording. Setlist.ID analyzes the entire set from a link instead, which is what resolving a full tracklist requires.
No, and no honest tool claims otherwise. Fingerprinting matches released catalog, so unreleased tracks, private edits, and dubplates cannot be named by software until they come out. Community insiders occasionally name unreleased IDs, which is where crowdsourced databases still have an edge.
Some protect unreleased material ahead of a launch, some guard exclusive edits that set their sets apart, and some simply never list what they played. The debate over tracklist secrecy is as old as dance music; fingerprinting settles the part of it that involves released tracks.
Setlist.ID uses a token system where 1 token covers 1 hour of processed audio, with a 0.25-token minimum. Bundles start at $5.00 for 3 tokens, and tokens are refunded automatically if identification fails.