Track Matcher

You can find the Track Matcher in the left sidebar menu, or in the top menu bar under Go ➡ Track Matcher

The Track Matcher is a powerful tool for DJs who get lists of tracks they should play. This is really useful for wedding and event DJs.

With the Track Matcher, you upload or paste a text file and Lexicon will go through your entire library and find close matches. The results can be saved to a new playlist.

Preparation

The Track Matcher compares the artist and title fields in the list you upload with the artist and titles of the tracks in your library. Consider using Smart Fixes to clean your tracks so the results are as good as possible. One important Smart Fix is Extract Artist From Title, because if your tracks don't have an artist field, then nothing can be matched there.

Sources

The Track Matcher can read from the following sources:

• Text files
• CSV (comma separated) files
• Spotify playlists
• Beatport playlists
• Tidal playlists
• Apple Music playlists
• SoundCloud playlists
• YouTube playlists

For Beatport playlists you need to log in to your Beatport account first. Paste the playlist link, for example https://www.beatport.com/library/playlists/12345 or a shared beatport.com/playlists/share/12345 link.

Input

The text you upload does not need to be exact. Lexicon uses fuzzy searching which means it will even find results if your text has typos or edits and remixes. You can enable Strict search so it only finds exact matches. Disable strict search to get more results. You'll find the Strict search option in the step after loading your list, where you see how your list was read.

Local or streaming tracks

Next to Strict search you can choose which tracks in your library are searched:

• All Tracks: your music files and your streaming tracks
• Local Tracks: only your own music files
• Streaming Tracks: only streaming tracks, for example from Beatport or TIDAL

Choose Local Tracks if you want a playlist you can play without an internet connection.

This does mean your results may contain tracks that are very similar to the tracks you wanted. That's why it's a good idea to quickly go through the results and see if there are any tracks you really don't want to add.

Cleaning

The input text gets cleaned automatically, so don't worry about any extra spaces, dots, or other non-text characters.

File type

You can load .txt or .m3u8 files into the Track Matcher. You can select the separator you want to use, usually this is something like -. You should have one artist/title combination per line.

Apple Music (iTunes) can export playlists as M3U8 file that you can use here. To do this in Apple Music, select a playlist and go to File ➡ Library ➡ Export Playlist and choose M3U8 as file type.

Swap artist & title

This option is useful if you entered the artist and title in the reverse order. Sometimes you copy paste a list of tracks and the list had the artists and titles reversed, enable this to correct that. You will see how it looks in the next screen.

Separator

There are two special ways to use the separator character.

If a line does not have a title but does have a separator and an artist name (eg - Daft Punk) then the Track Matcher will show you all tracks from this artist.

Or if a line does not contain the separator character, then the Track Matcher will show you all tracks with titles that match this line. So without separator character, it is assumed there is no artist on this line.

Not found

The Not found tab lists the tracks from your list that are not in your library. Tracks that are not found can't be saved to a playlist in Lexicon, because they are not in your library. Instead, you can:

• Load into Store Links: find where to buy them (see below)
• Send to: create a playlist with them on Spotify, Tidal or Beatport, see Share
• Export: Copy to clipboard or Save as text to keep the list

Finding the missing tracks

1. In the Not found tab, click Load into Store Links. Lexicon searches the online stores (Beatport, Apple Music, Bandcamp and Traxsource, whichever you enabled) for each track. This takes about 5 seconds per track, results appear as they come in.
2. Click a row to open that store page, or use Open all... to open every found link in your browser. Save as file... keeps the list of links.
3. Buy and download the tracks, then add them to Lexicon by dragging them in or through the Watch Folder.
4. Run the Track Matcher again with the same list. The tracks you just added are now found, so you can save a complete playlist.

See Store Links for more about the stores and prices.

Playlist

The new playlist is saved in the special Lexicon playlist folder. You can find it at the bottom of your playlists.

Example

Here is an example of what the text input could look like:

Flight Facilities – All your love Steelers Wheel – Stuck in the middle with you Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Ziggy Albert – Days in the sun Mallrat – UFO Set Mo – White Dress Rex Orange Country – Loving is Easy Flight Facilities – Crave You Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl; Ray LaMontagne – You are the best thing Big Yellow Taxi Elton John –