Early access

Your old mixtapes, finally with a tracklist.

Play in a mixtape, a radio recording or a burned mix CD. SetSlice finds every song, even when they run straight into each other, and gives you each one as its own MP3, named and tagged. Even the songs you forgot.

Side A▶ listening…

    Real result from a 48-minute recording: every song named in about 3 minutes.

    Sound familiar?

    You know the songs are good. You just don't know what they are.

    "taped off the radio '96"

    Radio recordings

    Finger hovering over the record button, waiting for the DJ to stop talking. You caught the songs. Nobody wrote down the names.

    "for you ♡ side A"

    The mix someone made you

    Hand-picked, in a very particular order. The J-card faded years ago, or there never was one.

    "ROAD TRIP 2004"

    Burned mix CDs

    Labelled in Sharpie, ripped as Track 01 to Track 18. SetSlice puts the real names back.

    How it works

    Press play. Get every song back, by name.

    01

    Play it in

    Connect a tape deck, Walkman or CD drive to your computer and play the whole side straight through.

    02

    SetSlice listens

    It recognises each song and finds exactly where it starts, even with no gap between songs.

    03

    Every song, named

    Separate MP3s with artist, title, album, year and cover art, in the order they were on the tape.

    Why SetSlice

    Other tools need an album to look up. Mixtapes don't have one.

    Vinyl and CD software names tracks by looking up the album. A mixtape is your own album, so SetSlice listens to each song instead.

    Finds songs, not silencesMixtapes rarely have clean gaps. SetSlice recognises each song and works out its exact start from that.
    Names the ones you forgotArtist, title, album, year and cover art for every song it recognises.
    Flags what it isn't sure aboutAnything uncertain is marked so you can check it before saving. Nothing gets silently mislabelled.
    Your tapes stay on your computerSplitting happens locally. Only short audio fingerprints are sent out to identify songs.

    Early access

    Lock in the launch price.

    Early-access price

    $29one-time
    • SetSlice for Windows
    • Song identification for 25 hours of audio, about 16 full C90 tapes
    • Named, tagged MP3s with cover art
    • All updates during early access

    Nothing is charged today.

    Questions

    FAQ

    What do I need?

    A Windows computer and something to play your tapes on: a tape deck or Walkman connected to your computer's line-in, or a USB cassette player (they cost about $20–30). For burned CDs, any CD drive.

    What works today?

    The song-finding engine works today: it has split and named real hour-long recordings where songs run straight into each other. Right now it runs on recordings made in Audacity (free). Early access is for the all-in-one app that records your tape for you as well.

    Will it know every song?

    It recognises songs found in large music catalogues, which covers most of what was on the radio and in mixtapes. Very obscure or unreleased tracks may come back as "unknown" for you to name yourself.

    What about Mac?

    Windows comes first. Tell us which computer you use when you join: it decides what we build next.

    Is this legal?

    SetSlice is for digitizing tapes and CDs you own, for your own listening. It doesn't download or record anything from the internet.

    What happens to my email?

    We use it only to tell you when early access opens. No spam, no sharing. See our privacy note.

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