The wiki archived twenty years of tracklists other people documented. For the mix in front of you right now, you need a generator, not an archive.
Identify My Mix →For almost two decades MixesDB was the encyclopedia of DJ culture: 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 under new stewardship, preserving that history.
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.
Setlist.ID is the generator side of that equation. Paste a link to any mix on more than a hundred platforms and the audio itself is fingerprinted, segment by segment, against a database of more than 100 million tracks. The tracklist arrives in minutes with a timestamp on every identified track, whether the mix is a 1998 Essential Mix rip or something uploaded this morning.
| 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 | Token-based, from $5.00 for 3 hours of audio |
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. The audio is the source of truth, and fingerprinting reads it directly.
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.
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.
No. Tracklists you generate are private to your account. Setlist.ID is a tool you point at a recording, not a public database of results.
2 tokens, one per hour of audio. Bundles start at $5.00 for 3 tokens, processing takes around ten minutes for two hours of audio, and tokens are refunded automatically if identification fails.
Paste a link from any of 100+ platforms and get the full tracklist in minutes.