Made a Mac app for converting long mix MP3s into tracklists and Apple Music playlists
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cueid/id6762413993?mt=12
I built this mostly for myself after using a pretty janky script for years.
I listen to a lot of long DJ sets / radio shows / Mixcloud-style recordings, and I kept running into the same annoyances:
- hearing a track I love and not knowing what it is
- wanting to skip a track but being stuck inside one huge MP3
- losing my place in a 3 or 4 hour file
- wanting the whole thing as a proper Apple Music playlist instead of one long audio file
So I turned the workflow into a small Mac app.
CueID scans a long audio file, identifies tracks where it can, adds timestamps, and lets you export the result. The .txt tracklist export is free permanently. Apple Music playlist generation is behind a paywall.
It is definitely imperfect because track ID depends on audio quality, edits, transitions, remixes, and catalogue availability, but it has already saved me a lot of manual searching.
Would be curious if anyone else has this same workflow, especially DJs, radio-show listeners, or people with folders full of long mixes.