Overview
Bulk search takes a playlist of tracks from one platform and finds them across other supported platforms (Bandcamp, Beatport). TrackDen handles the messy reality of electronic music naming — different “feat.” spellings, mix-type suffixes, remix labels, formatting differences — so you get accurate matches without searching track-by-track.
Results are grouped by confidence: strong matches are added automatically; borderline ones are queued for your review.
Running a bulk search
- Open the playlist you want to search.
- In the playlist header, click Search Tracks (or Search Tracks (X) if you have tracks selected). With nothing selected, the button searches every track in the playlist that’s missing on the target platform.
- A progress modal shows live stats: how many tracks have been processed, how many matches found, and how many were strong enough to add automatically. You’ll also see the current track being searched.
- When the search completes, a review modal opens with the results grouped by confidence.
The result groups
Strong matches. TrackDen is confident these are the same track, so the new platform source is added to the existing library entry automatically — no action from you.
Likely matches that differ in small ways — a slightly different artist credit, a different mix label. Both tracks appear side by side. Accept to add the source, Skip to ignore, or use Accept all / Skip all to clear the rest of the review queue in one go.
No reliable match was found on the target platform. Click any of these rows to open a search on the platform and look manually.
How matching works
TrackDen normalises track names before comparing so common naming variations don’t trip up the search:
- Different artist credit styles (“feat.” / “ft.” / “featuring”).
- Mix-type labels (“Original Mix”, “Extended Mix”, “Club Mix”).
- Symbol and formatting differences (”&” vs “and”, brackets vs parentheses).
Tips
- Start with smaller playlists. Bulk search works best on playlists of 20–50 tracks. Larger ones work fine but take longer.
- Searches are paced. TrackDen staggers requests to avoid hitting platform rate limits — bigger playlists take proportionally longer, but results are more reliable.
- Review before accepting. Glance at the side-by-side comparison before accepting borderline matches.
- Compare prices afterwards. Once tracks have sources on multiple platforms, use price comparison to spot the best deal.
FAQs
TrackDen paces its requests to each platform to stay under their rate limits. The trade-off is a longer wait on larger playlists in exchange for results you can actually trust. Expect roughly proportional time for proportional track counts.
Yes. Select the tracks you want and the button switches to “Search Tracks (X)”. With nothing selected, it searches the whole playlist.
Open the track in the selected-track panel and remove the unwanted source from the sources list. The library entry stays; only the bad platform link is dropped.