Add tracks

A list fills up from wherever your music is: links from YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify or a shop such as Beatport, a whole Spotify playlist from its link, tracks dragged in from another window, a rekordbox export, or a track typed by hand. Mix them as you like. Everyone who can edit the list can add tracks, and everyone on the list sees them land. If setlist.DJ does not know your name yet, it asks Who’s this? the first time you add a track or change anything else. Type your DJ name and press That’s me, so the others know who added what. If you have an account, press Or sign in instead.

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Where to add

On a new, empty list the add panel opens at the top of the page, under the title. Once the list has tracks, it moves under the table, with the heading Add tracks. The yellow Add tracks button at the top of the list takes you there, and opens the panel if it is folded away. Hide folds the panel away to keep the page quiet, and Show opens it again; this browser remembers your choice.

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The ways in

Whatever way a track comes in, setlist.DJ then finds its BPM, key and energy, usually within a minute (BPM, key and energy).

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Paste links

Open the Paste links tab, paste one link or many, one per line, and press Add. It takes:

• YouTube videos, in any form you copy them: from the address bar, a share button or YouTube Music.
• SoundCloud tracks, short share links included.
• Spotify track links, and a whole Spotify playlist’s link (From Spotify).
• Any other track page, such as a track on Beatport, a release on Bandcamp or an entry on Discogs. setlist.DJ reads the title, the artist and the cover from the page, and keeps the link so you can open it again.

A few links do not come straight in as tracks:

• A YouTube playlist or a SoundCloud set. setlist.DJ asks whether to import the whole lot, with Import all. A video link that also points at a playlist offers Just this one as well. Where the site cannot read playlists or sets, it says so: paste the tracks one by one.
• A playlist, chart or release page on a shop such as Beatport. That cannot be read as a list. Drag or paste the tracks themselves.
• A Spotify album link. Select the album’s tracks in Spotify, copy and paste them (From Spotify).

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From Spotify

A whole playlist comes in from its link. The playlist has to be public. Each track keeps who added it to the playlist, by the name Spotify shows: the Added by in the track’s details says Anna, on Spotify. When several people added tracks, setlist.DJ names them once the playlist is in (Added to the playlist by Chris, Anna and Jules.). A new list without a name takes the playlist’s name. Spotify’s own playlists, the ones Spotify makes, come in the same way. Paste the same playlist again later and only the new tracks are added. The tracks already on the list are left as they were. A list holds up to 500 tracks. If the playlist is private, setlist.DJ says That playlist can’t be read: it’s private, or gone. Make it public in Spotify, or copy the tracks themselves: You can also select a few tracks instead of all of them, or paste the copied tracks into Paste links: it is the same thing. An album works this way too: its link on its own adds nothing yet.

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Drag tracks in

On a computer you can drag tracks straight onto the list: from the Spotify app or web player, from another browser tab, or straight out of rekordbox. The drop box says Drag tracks here, but the whole page takes the drop. While you drag, the page darkens and says Drop them here.

• From Spotify, drag a whole playlist from the sidebar, and it comes in as from its link. Or select tracks inside a playlist (click one, then select them all) and drag those over.
• From a browser, drag a track’s link, for example from YouTube, SoundCloud or Beatport.
• From rekordbox or a folder, drag the tracks or files themselves (Audio files).

You can also start on the home page: drag tracks into the box headed Or start with the tracks, and a list is made for them. The new list opens and says Your tracks landed here. while they come in.

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Import from rekordbox

rekordbox can export your collection as one file, and setlist.DJ reads it in your browser. The file stays on your computer: only the tracks you pick are sent to the list.

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The collection export

In the track drawer these tracks carry the badge Your copy: they are your own files. They come in with what rekordbox knows about them, the BPM and key included. A track in a playlist that is missing from the collection part of the file is skipped, and the picker says how many.

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Playlist files

For one playlist, right-click it in rekordbox and export it as a .txt or .m3u8 file. Drop that file on the page or choose it on the Import from rekordbox tab. setlist.DJ says how many tracks are in it; press Add to bring in the title, the artist and whatever else the file carries. A .csv playlist works the same way, and Serato, Engine DJ, Mixxx and VirtualDJ export playlists in these formats too.

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Audio files

You can also drag tracks straight out of rekordbox, or audio files from a folder: MP3, AIFF, WAV, M4A and FLAC. setlist.DJ reads the tags inside the files in your browser (the badge says Reading 3 files) and adds the title, artist, album, genre and year, plus the BPM and key where rekordbox wrote them into the tags. The files themselves are never uploaded. A file without tags gets its name split into artist and title. Tracks from a rekordbox export or your own files have no player on the list: the music is on your computer.

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Type a track

For a track that is nowhere online yet, an unreleased edit or a dubplate, open Type a track. Fill in the Artist, the Title and, if you like, the Length (as 6:52), then press Add track. A title is the one thing it needs.

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On a phone

On a phone you cannot drag tracks in from another app, so the panel says what to do instead:

1. In Spotify, YouTube or SoundCloud, tap Share on the track, or on a whole Spotify playlist.
2. Copy the link.
3. Paste it into the field on the list and press Add. Several at once is fine, one per line.

The Import from rekordbox tab still takes a file from your phone, and Type a track works as on a computer. The From Spotify tab is not there on a phone: a playlist’s link does the same there, in Paste links.

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While tracks come in

A badge counts along, Reading 14 of 48, and the rows appear as they land. When it is done, it says how many were added.

• One import at a time. While one is still running, Add does nothing and a drop gets the line One import at a time: this one is still running. Paste or drop again when it is done.
• Duplicates are skipped. A track already on the list is left as it was, and the badge says how many. That includes the same recording from another source, a Spotify track pasted again from SoundCloud for example, when both say which recording it is.
• A full list. A list holds up to 500 tracks, the set and the maybe list together. What does not fit is left out, and setlist.DJ says how many: 12 more didn’t fit: a list holds 500 tracks. Remove some to make room.
• Tracks the source would not describe, because they are private or gone, still go on the list with their link and a grey Not found badge. Fill in the title and artist yourself with Edit title and artist (Read the list).

New tracks land at the end of the set.

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BPM, key and energy

For every track it can identify, setlist.DJ finds the BPM, key and energy, and the other figures, such as danceability, mood and popularity. They usually arrive within a minute of the track landing, and the page fills them in by itself. They are estimates. Where a track already has a BPM or key, from your rekordbox collection for example, or because someone typed it, that stays as it is. A track setlist.DJ cannot identify, such as an unreleased edit, keeps a dash in those columns. If you can edit the list, type its BPM and key yourself with Edit title and artist, in the row’s ⋯ menu or the track drawer.

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If a track does not come in