Today we are quietly launching something we have been building for a while. TrackRadar is a tool that identifies tracks from DJ content on Instagram — and links every identified song directly to Spotify. It is invite-only for now, and we want to tell you why we built it.
The Problem Every Music Fan Knows
You are scrolling Instagram. A DJ you follow posts a video — maybe a clip from a club set, a vinyl session at home, or a carousel of the records they just pulled. The music is incredible. You have never heard it before. And now you need to find it.
So you try the usual things. You open Shazam, hold your phone up to the speaker, and wait. Nothing. Shazam is brilliant for clean, radio-quality audio, but DJ content is a different beast — the track might be pitched, layered with another record, or playing under crowd noise. Shazam gives up.
Next, you check the comments. Maybe someone asked "track ID?" and the DJ replied. But more often than not, the question is there — unanswered, buried under dozens of fire emojis. You try messaging the DJ directly. No reply. You post in a Reddit thread or a Facebook group: "Can anyone ID this track?" and hope for the best.
Sometimes you get lucky. Most of the time, you move on and forget about it. That track — the one that gave you chills for 15 seconds — is gone.
What If You Could Just Paste the URL?
That is the idea behind TrackRadar. Copy the URL of any Instagram post where a DJ is playing music, paste it into TrackRadar, and get back a list of the tracks we can identify — each one linked directly to Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, and Discogs so you can listen immediately.
No Shazam-ing through your phone speaker. No scrolling through comments. No waiting for a DJ to respond to your DM. Just paste a link and get your answers.
Our analysis goes beyond simple audio recognition. We look at everything the post contains — captions where DJs tag their tracks, comments from the community, visual content in the video, and the audio itself. By combining all of these signals, we can identify tracks that no single method would catch on its own.
Why Now?
Instagram has become the primary place where DJs share music. Not SoundCloud, not Mixcloud — Instagram. Every day, thousands of DJs post clips of tracks they are playing, records they are buying, and sets they are recording. It is the largest real-time feed of music discovery content in the world, and until now, there has been no good way to extract the actual music from it.
We think this is a problem worth solving properly. And we want to be the first to do it right.
Invite-Only for Now
TrackRadar is not publicly launched yet. We are opening it to a small group of early users — DJs, music fans, crate diggers — who live and breathe this problem every day. We want real feedback from people who will push the tool to its limits.
If you have ever lost a track because Shazam could not identify it from a DJ set, if you have ever spent 20 minutes searching for a song you heard in an Instagram story, if you are the person in the comments typing "ID?" — this is for you.
We are starting with Instagram because that is where the problem is most acute. But we have a roadmap that goes much further: SoundCloud mixes, vinyl record identification, multi-platform linking, DJ monitoring, and more. This is just the beginning.
What Is Next
Over the coming weeks and months, we will be sharing updates as we add new features and expand what TrackRadar can do. Every major milestone will get its own post here on the blog — we want to build this in the open, with our community along for the ride.
For now, if you want early access, sign up for the waitlist. Spots are limited while we are in this early phase, but we are adding new users every week.
We built TrackRadar because we needed it ourselves. We think you will too.