MixID FAQ — How DJ mix identification works
By the MixID team at Rekordcloud B.V. · Last updated May 17, 2026What is MixID?
MixID identifies the tracks in DJ sets. You submit a YouTube link to a mix and we return the tracklist across the timeline — artist, title, BPM, key, label and links to each streaming platform for each track we recognise.
How does MixID work?
Paste a YouTube link to a DJ mix and MixID listens to the whole thing for you, picking out every track it recognises — from the moment one starts to the moment it fades into the next. Each identified track lands on the timeline at the exact second it plays, tagged with the artist, title, BPM, musical key, and record label, and linked out to Beatport, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube, and SoundCloud so you can hear it or buy it. A typical hour-long mix takes a few minutes, and the page fills in live as tracks are recognised. MixID also tests several playback speeds, so a track a DJ has sped up or slowed down still matches. When a section is too unclear — layered, heavily filtered, or simply not in the catalogue — MixID leaves it blank rather than guess wrong.
How is MixID useful for DJs?
A few common reasons. Chasing IDs: that unreleased track in your favourite DJ's set, the one you've been trying to name for weeks — MixID gives you the artist and title so you can go buy it. Record-shopping: turn a DJ's tracklist into a wish-list and dig from someone whose taste you trust. Studying mixes: see exactly when and how every transition happens, so you can learn from the way a great set is built.
How is MixID different from Shazam?
Shazam answers one question — "what song is playing right now?" — for a single track in isolation. A DJ mix is a different problem entirely: twelve to twenty-plus tracks across sixty to ninety minutes, often layered two or three deep, blended through filters and echo, and pitched a few percent up or down from the original. Point Shazam at a mix and you get, at best, whatever happens to be loudest in one short window. MixID is built for the whole set. It walks the mix end to end, identifies every track it can recognise, and pins each one to the timeline with a timestamp — so you come away with a complete tracklist, with BPM, key, and label for every ID, instead of a single guess. Sections it can't be sure of are left blank rather than filled with a wrong answer.
What can I submit?
Right now: a YouTube URL pointing at a single DJ mix or set (no playlists). Mixes shorter than 25 minutes are rejected — they're usually individual tracks rather than mixes.
Can I submit a Mixcloud or SoundCloud mix?
Not yet. Today MixID only works with YouTube links — that's where most public DJ mixes live. More sources are on our list; if there's a specific one you'd love to see, let us know.
Are the mixes I submit visible to other people?
Yes. Once a mix has been identified, its tracklist page is public — anyone with the link can see it, and finished mixes appear on the Latest and Popular pages with your username shown as the submitter. If you don't want a mix to be public, don't submit it.
How long does it take to identify a mix?
A typical 60-minute mix takes a few minutes end-to-end. The page updates live as tracks are identified, so you'll see results land before the run finishes.
Why aren't all the tracks identified?
Two main reasons. First, the track may not be in our catalogue yet — we cover a growing slice of electronic music but we're not exhaustive. Second, layered or heavily-effected sections (filter sweeps, loops, acapellas) can be too distorted for a confident match. When we aren't sure, we leave the segment unidentified rather than guess.
How accurate is the identification?
When MixID names a track, it is almost always right. The system is deliberately tuned for precision over recall: it would rather leave a segment blank than print a confident-looking wrong answer, because a tracklist you can't trust is worse than one with a few gaps. So the honest tradeoff is coverage, not correctness — a mix might come back with eighteen of its twenty-five tracks named and the rest left open. A track goes unidentified for one of two reasons: it isn't in the catalogue yet, or that stretch of the mix is too layered or heavily effected — filter sweeps, loops, acapellas — for a confident match. You can help close the gaps: on any mix page you can suggest a track for an unidentified segment, and those suggestions feed back into the matching pipeline so it improves over time.
Will MixID identify a track even if it's been sped up or slowed down?
Yes, within the range DJs typically use. We try a few different speeds when matching, so a track played a couple of percent faster or slower than the original still gets recognised. Tracks pitched far outside that — say, half-speed edits — are harder.
Can I correct a wrong identification?
Yes. On a mix detail page you can suggest a different track for any segment. Suggestions feed back into our matching pipeline so the system gets better over time.
Can I export the tracklist?
Yes, you can save to a Beatport and Spotify playlist directly from the mix detail page. You can also save as CSV file or copy to clipboard.
What genres are covered?
MixID's catalogue is electronic music, sourced primarily from Beatport. Drum and bass has the deepest coverage right now — close to four hundred thousand tracks — so a drum and bass set is where MixID performs best today. House, techno, trance, dubstep, breakbeat, and hardstyle are all covered and growing as the catalogue expands across the wider Beatport library. Boiler Room sets, festival recordings, radio shows, and label podcasts in those genres are all strong candidates. Sets that lean on pop, hip-hop, or rock come back with fewer matches for now, simply because most of those tracks aren't in the catalogue yet. If a mix you submit returns gaps, that's usually catalogue coverage rather than a matching failure — and the catalogue keeps growing, so a set with gaps today may come back fuller in a few months.
Do I need an account?
Yes — submitting a mix requires an account. Browsing already-identified mixes does not.
Is MixID free?
Yes. MixID is free to use. We're considering an optional premium tier later for power users — extra conveniences only, nothing that would gate the core identification feature behind a paywall.
What do you do with the YouTube videos I submit?
We listen to the audio just long enough to identify the tracks, then throw the audio away. We don't keep the YouTube source itself. What we keep is the resulting tracklist plus the title and thumbnail of the video — none of which can be traced back to anything personal about you.
Can I delete my account?
Yes. From your profile settings you can delete your account at any time. Your account is anonymised, your tokens invalidated, and your data is removed in line with our Privacy Policy.
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