DJ track finder powered by AI. Discover music from sets, charts, and audio DNA across Beatport, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Spotify — in one place, free to start.
No credit card — free forever plan
How it works
Playsway’s AI does the digging. You make the calls. Here’s the loop most DJs run dozens of times a week.
Drop in a track, paste a Beatport link, or describe a mood. The AI builds a starting fingerprint from audio DNA, BPM, key, and metadata.
Our model compares your seed against millions of indexed tracks across Beatport, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Spotify, and label feeds — surfacing the closest matches in seconds.
Crate Trail walks you through candidates one at a time. Keep what fires, skip what doesn’t, undo if you change your mind. Streaks unlock deeper trails into the long tail.
One click turns your trail into a smart crate — a living crate that keeps surfacing new tracks matching the vibe, even after you’ve walked away.
Built for the booth
Most tools match by genre tags. Playsway matches by what tracks actually sound like — energy, timbre, harmonic content, rhythmic pattern. The result is candidates that mix, not just candidates that share a Beatport sub-genre.
Pull tracks from any DJ set on Soundcloud, top-100 charts on Beatport, label release feeds, or your own following list. Playsway dedupes, enriches, and ranks them by relevance to your taste fingerprint.
Streaming algorithms care about retention. Playsway cares about set flow — tempo arcs, key progressions, energy curves, drop alignment. Every recommendation is filtered through "would this work in a set?", not "would a casual listener stay?".
AI vs. manual digging
Crate digging is taste — you can’t outsource that. But the surfacing, de-duping, and key-matching? That’s where the AI earns its keep.
| What you’re comparing | Manual workflow | With Playsway |
|---|---|---|
| Time to find 20 quality tracks | 4–6 hours | 15–30 minutes |
| BPM and key matching | Manual lookup, error-prone | Automatic, harmonic-aware |
| Cross-platform search | Beatport → Bandcamp → SC, 3 tabs | One unified index |
| Discover under-the-radar artists | Hope and luck | Audio-DNA similarity |
| Reusable as a workflow | No — one-shot | Smart crates keep updating |
| Cost per hour saved | High (your time) | Free |
FAQ
AI music discovery uses machine learning to surface tracks you would actually play — analyzing audio DNA, BPM, key, energy, and harmonic compatibility instead of relying on chart popularity alone. Playsway pulls from Beatport, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Spotify, then ranks tracks by similarity to a seed track or vibe so DJs and labels find new music in minutes instead of hours.
Streaming algorithms optimize for retention on a single-listener journey. Playsway is built specifically for DJs and labels — it understands set flow, genre conventions, and crate building. You can seed a Crate Trail with one track and walk through hundreds of harmonically compatible candidates, or run our AI on a full set list to find tracks you should be playing next.
Playsway pulls from Beatport, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Spotify, and major label release feeds. We surface promos, unreleased tracks, and underground releases alongside the catalog you already know — and link directly to the source so you can buy, download, or save in one click.
Yes. The free plan gives you AI music discovery, Crate Trail, smart links, and the basic promo workflow — enough to find tracks and ship a release. Paid plans unlock advanced analytics, larger campaigns, and team features for labels and agencies.
No — it accelerates it. Crate digging is taste, context, and instinct. Playsway is the tool that lets you spend more time on the parts that matter (listening, editing, sequencing) and less on the parts that don’t (scrolling, sorting, dead-ends). The AI surfaces candidates; you still pick the ones that go in the set.
Playsway works across all electronic genres — techno, house, drum & bass, dubstep, trance, breakbeat, electro, and beyond — and is increasingly used by hip-hop and indie crews too. The AI understands genre conventions, so the tracks it surfaces are appropriate for the seed you gave it, not generic top-100 fluff.
Every track Playsway indexes is run through audio DNA analysis — extracting BPM, key, energy, mood, and timbre fingerprints. When you build a Crate Trail or smart crate, the AI finds tracks that are harmonically compatible (key) and rhythmically aligned (BPM ±2%) so your selections actually mix.
Yes — labels use Playsway to scout artists and tracks based on similarity to existing roster, route demos through smart inboxes, and run promo campaigns to DJs with built-in feedback collection. The AI surfaces under-the-radar artists who match your label’s sonic identity.
Join the DJs and labels using Playsway to find tracks, build crates, and ship promo campaigns in one workspace.