Beatport launches Track ID, in-app music discovery feature for DJs

Beatport announced the launch of their newest app feature, Track ID, a new music discovery feature inside the Beatport mobile app. Built specifically for DJs, the feature helps to identify tracks in real time, but its unique technology goes beyond the average song identifier like Shazam or Google Voice.

Track ID is designed to combat the difficulties that come with trying to identify a track at a venue. It accommodates for “pitch-shifted transitions, layered blends, edits, remixes, crowd noise, and those blink-and-you-miss-it moments when a track hits and everyone starts scrambling for the ID,” Beatport explained in a press release.

With headquarters in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin, Beatport is an electronic music online retailer owned by LiveStyle. The store is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs and other resources for remixes, as well as a specialized music streaming service.

Track ID is powered by an array of expert sound identification tools, such as

high-level beatmatching tolerance that allows it to recognize tracks that have been pitch-shifted, time-stretched, and edited.

The feature’s multi-track detection is built to work with overlapping tracks in mixes and multi-track blends, along with remix & edit support that helps to identify the correct version of tracks by accurately recognizing them across different edits, mashups, and remixes.

Track ID’s live recording optimization also allows it to excel in the loudest, most challenging club and festival environments, where identifying music through crowd noise can be difficult.

The feature was developed in partnership with the AI-powered music recognition platform seeqnc, and utilizes AI-powered audio cleaning to reduce effects, crowd noise, and background audio in order to pinpoint the track.
The Beatport mobile app is available on both iOS and Android. The Track ID feature can be accessed through the icon located in the center of the app’s bottom navigation bar. Once opened, let the app listen and get instant results. The identified track is then added to your Track ID-dedicated history, where you can preview it, save it to a playlist, stream it or purchase it later.