DigDeeper.

Changelog

What's new.

Every improvement that ships to digdeeper.fm, as it happens.

Similar sets, and a timeline you can drag

Every set page has a new tab: Similar sets. It lists other sets that sound like this one, and it compares them the way a set unfolds, opening against opening and peak against peak, so a warm-up into a techno finish finds sets that are built the same way. Each one shows how close the match is. Tap a row to listen to that set right in the player at the top, without leaving the page, and "Back to set" takes you back to where you were. "Open" takes you into it.

The timeline in the tracklist is now a proper scrubber. A dot on the line shows exactly where the set is, and the line fills in behind it. Grab the dot, or click anywhere on the line, and drag: a small label shows the time as you go, the passage underneath lights up, and the set jumps there when you let go. Clicking one of the dots on the line still starts that passage from the top.

Two smaller things in sets: search results now show whether a set is on YouTube or SoundCloud, and a passage we couldn't identify shows how close its best guess is, the same match percentage as the suggestions below it.

A new DigDeeper, with sets at its heart

DigDeeper looks different from today. There is a Home page with your last digs, a tab bar with five places (Home, Dig, Playlists, Collection, Sets), and a light mode that was reworked from the ground up. The first time you open the app you get a short tour of what moved where.

Sets. Paste a YouTube or SoundCloud link to a DJ set and you get every track in it. The set page shows the tracklist next to the player: tap a row and the set jumps there, and the list follows along as it plays. Tracks you already heard can be hidden with one switch. Under the tracklist you find tracks that sound like the whole set, not just a single moment of it. A free account can have one set analysis running at a time, Pro analyzes as many as you like.

Keep the sets you like. Heart a set and it lands in Liked Sets, right next to your Liked Songs in the library.

Dig later works for more tracks. Some tracks in a tracklist aren't in our catalog yet but can be found on YouTube. You can now bookmark those too and dig them whenever you are ready. And when a track can't be found anywhere, it tells you so and offers a quick search instead of leaving you at a dead end.

Dig again for free. A track you have dug before never costs a credit again, no matter how long ago it was. Reopen it from your history as often as you want.

Rate what you keep. Tracks in your playlists can get a rating, so the ones you love stand out from the ones that are just fine.

SoundCloud sets work now

Paste a SoundCloud link on the sets page and it gets analyzed, the same as a YouTube one. Same timeline, same track IDs, same similar sounds under every passage. And the player works the same way too: tap a passage and the set jumps there, with the list following along as it plays.

Plenty of sets only ever live on SoundCloud. Residencies, promo mixes, the podcast series your favourite label puts out every month. Those are now one paste away.

One difference worth knowing: track IDs come from published tracklists, and those are usually filed against the YouTube upload of a set. So a SoundCloud set finds its tracklist by title, which works less often. When it doesn't, the set still gets its full timeline (every passage, with the closest matches for each), just without confirmed IDs. If the same set also exists on YouTube, that link is the better one to paste.

Links copied out of a playlist or from the SoundCloud app land on the same set as the plain one, so nobody pays twice for an analysis that already exists.

Find the set before you analyze it

The field on the sets page does both jobs now. Paste a link and it checks the library first: if that set has already been analyzed, the button turns into "Open it" and costs you nothing. Type a name instead of a link and it searches: by DJ, by set, by series, and by the tracks inside the sets. Look for an artist and you get the sets they show up in, without analyzing anything.

The library underneath is sorted properly. Series like Boiler Room, HÖR and Cercle sit at the top as their own shelves with a count each, so you can go straight to the one you want. Below that, three ways to look: Yours, Trending and Newest. Yours is what you get first once you are signed in: the sets you had analyzed, then the ones you opened most recently, so you can pick up where you left off. Trending is what people are actually opening right now, Newest is simply what was finished last. Each card shows how complete it is, like "9/17 IDs", and carries its series badge.

SoundCloud links are recognized at the field. We can't analyze them yet, but the page says so plainly instead of pretending the link is broken.

Only one track plays at a time

Jumping to the next track could occasionally leave two tracks playing over each other for a moment. The player that quietly preloads your next track now always stays silent until it is actually your turn to hear it, so you only ever hear the track you are looking at.

Your playlist sources, always in reach

The playlist panel now keeps YouTube and SoundCloud where you can see them. Their rows sit at the bottom edge of the list until you scroll down to them, and once you are past them they stay at the top, so a long list of your own playlists no longer buries the sources. Not connected yet? The row carries the way in. Already connected? It shows how many playlists came across, and one click takes you straight to them.

Clicking the playlist count on a connection tile now lands on that source in the panel instead of just opening it.

A few smaller things while we were in there: a new playlist scrolls into view and is highlighted, a name you already used is caught before it costs you the text you typed, and messages no longer arrive twice. During an import the connection tile counts the tracks as they come in instead of showing zero, and the little spinner only turns for the source that is actually still importing.

Bring your SoundCloud playlists along

SoundCloud joins YouTube, Bandcamp and Discogs in your collection. Paste your profile link (no sign-in, no permissions to grant) and your public playlists show up in a picker, with your likes right at the top. Pick what you want and the tracks land in your collection, ready to dig from.

For a lot of diggers the likes are the real crate, so they come across in full, however many there are. Long uploads that read as mixes rather than single tracks are marked as sets, the same way they are everywhere else.

One thing worth knowing: only public playlists can be mirrored, because private ones stay invisible to us. And since nothing is tied to your account, you can just as easily paste someone else's profile and dig through their crates.

Bring your YouTube playlists along

Your YouTube playlists can now sit next to your Bandcamp and Discogs collection. Paste your channel link (no sign-in, no permissions to grant) and the playlists that channel makes public show up in a picker, with the music ones already ticked. Pick the ones you want and their tracks land in your collection, ready to dig from.

Two things worth knowing: only public playlists can be mirrored, because private and unlisted ones stay invisible to us. If a playlist is missing, set it to public on YouTube and hit Re-sync. And since nothing is tied to your account, you can just as easily paste someone else's channel and dig through their crates.

Connect your collection

Your record collection now lives in DigDeeper. Connect Bandcamp and Discogs, and everything you have bought or wishlisted shows up in one place under Collection.

From there, every record is a starting point: hit dig on anything you own and DigDeeper finds tracks that sound like it. Releases are broken down into their individual tracks, so you can dig from a single track on an album rather than the release as a whole. Previews play right in the page, and tracks you already own are marked in your search results so you do not dig up something that is already on your shelf.

New accounts are walked through connecting a source right after signing up.

Faster playback while digging

Skipping through results is now much snappier: while you listen, the next track quietly preloads in the background, so hitting "next" starts playback almost instantly instead of waiting for the player to load. This works across YouTube, Traxsource, and the other embedded players.

Invite friends, earn rewards

DigDeeper now has a referral program: share your personal invite link and earn rewards (extra credits and discounts on Pro) when friends join. Find your link in your account settings.

Daily free credits

The 14-day trial is gone. Free digging is now permanent. Every account starts with 10 credits, and you earn 1 fresh credit a day (stacking up to 3), forever. One credit unlocks the full result set for a track, and digging the same track again within 24 hours is free. Pro stays unlimited.

Discovery pages & blog

A whole new browsable layer around the search engine:

  • Similar Tracks and Similar Artists: explore what sounds like a track or artist without starting a search.
  • Genres and BPM pages to dig by style or tempo.
  • Database: live numbers on how many tracks DigDeeper has analyzed.
  • The blog launched, with guides and deep dives on music discovery for DJs and crate-diggers.

DigDeeper is live

digdeeper.fm is open to everyone. Paste a track link or search by name, and DigDeeper finds records that sound similar. It analyzes the audio itself, not what other people clicked. Dig through the results, hop from track to track, and save what you find to playlists.