Guide · Mix tracklists
How to get the tracklist of a YouTube DJ set
Updated August 2026
The short answer
Copy the video link, read the description in full and then the pinned comment, then paste the link on CrateWire. YouTube sets usually take the long way: the exact match against 1001tracklists is skipped, so the audio gets listened to and the names come back with timestamps.
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Paste the YouTube link
Watch links, youtu.be share links and music.youtube.com links all work. What the scan hears comes back with the point in the video where it starts.
Copy the video link
The address in the browser bar works. So does the youtu.be short link the Share button gives you, the m.youtube.com address from the mobile site, and a music.youtube.com link. Paste any of them.
The description and the pinned comment
YouTube is where tracklists actually get typed out. Expand the description in full, then read the pinned comment, because a set that has been up a while often has the whole list in the top comment with cue times attached. Sort the comments by newest if the pinned one stops halfway.
Festival streams and radio recordings are the best case here. A phone recording from the floor is the worst, and that is the case the audio scan exists for.
Why YouTube sets usually take the long way
A YouTube link is a watch address followed by an opaque video id. There are no words in it, nothing naming the DJ or the set, so a match against 1001tracklists could never be corroborated against the link. That shortcut is skipped for YouTube on purpose, rather than risk handing you somebody else's tracklist.
The set goes the long way instead. Once the audio is in, the title and channel are searched against 1001tracklists; if that misses too, the audio is walked in 30-second windows and each one fingerprinted, up to 3 hours in a single scan. It takes longer than a SoundCloud link. It gets there.
What comes back
A list of track names, each carrying the second of the video where the scan heard it. Gaps are real results: an unreleased cut, a dubplate or a same-day edit has no released version to fingerprint against, so nothing can name it yet. The timestamp still tells you where to cue and what to ask about.
Frequently asked questions
- Does a youtu.be link work?
- Yes. youtu.be short links, youtube.com and m.youtube.com addresses, and music.youtube.com links are all accepted.
- Why does a YouTube set take longer than a SoundCloud one?
- The exact match against 1001tracklists is skipped for YouTube links, because a watch address carries an opaque video id and no words that could confirm the match. The set goes to a title and channel search first, then to the audio.
- Do the times line up with the video chapters?
- They line up with the video itself, not with whatever chapters the channel marked out. Each track the scan hears carries the second it starts at, so you can drop that after a t= in the link and land on it. A set pulled off 1001tracklists instead brings the cue times whoever logged it entered.
- How long a YouTube set can be scanned?
- Up to 3 hours per scan, which is where most sets on YouTube sit. A six hour livestream has to be trimmed to the stretch you actually want, or cut in two, before it will run.
- Why is there a gap with a time but no title?
- It has no released recording anywhere to match against. Unreleased cuts, dubplates and same-day edits all land that way, and the timestamp stays so you know exactly where the track sits.
The next set, dug before you ask
A two hour video is a long way to go for four IDs. Follow a DJ and the tracks they post on Instagram get identified as they land, so the video becomes a second listen instead of the only source.
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