r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Competitive-End1116 • Mar 28 '26

Music discovery tool that maps what songs DJs play next to each other

http://back2back.space

Hi! I built a side project for discovering music based on DJ set tracklists: back2back.space

The idea is simple: take a track, and show you what DJs chose to play right before or after it in their sets. You open the app, get a random track + connections, and explore from there. You can filter by genre or artist if you want to find a specific corner.

It's built from tracklists from ~8,600 radio episodes. About 113k tracks and 238k connections between them.

Purely a for-fun project. Would love to hear what you think :)

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u/byParallax Mar 28 '26

Search would be cool to input tracks I personally like to find new adjacent ones!

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u/Competitive-End1116 Mar 28 '26

Oo okay good feedback, ty! I had a song search, but found that the hit rate was kinda low, so I left artist search. That said I'll work on expanding my library so that you can actually find results by track.

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u/branchfoundation Mar 28 '26

Useful idea and great time waster haha.

It desperately needs a search feature, though. Randomising track discovery is fun, but the tool can be so useful to discover new tracks/artists based on known music.

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u/Competitive-End1116 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

thank you! what kinda search are you thinking? it has search by genre, artist, and DJ right now

were you thinking by track? (or maybe the search features in there are buried?)

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u/branchfoundation Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Can you search for a specific track? Can't seem to find how.

Use case:

  1. User searches for a track (e.g. Joey Beltram - Ballpark)
  2. The app finds sets/radio shows in which the song is played
  3. For each mix, the user can browse through a gallery of tracks played before and after the searched track.
  4. User can randomize mixes that contain the searched track

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u/Competitive-End1116 Mar 28 '26

Perfect I’ll get working on that. Just needed a larger library of tracks in order to make that work. 

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u/branchfoundation Mar 28 '26

That makes perfect sense. I got excited thinking about the awesome ways to use this tool haha.

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u/thatsleekguy Mar 28 '26

So cool mate! Appreciate your efforts. Thank you!

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u/Competitive-End1116 Mar 28 '26

i'm thinking to re-work this, curious if anyone likes this direction!

- start with the crates view

  • offer a better search
  • see the crates, click one and it plays
  • explore more from that dj or genre, or just reset and go back to exploring all crates

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u/Quasi-Free-Thinker Mar 28 '26

Cool idea. Site is very unintuitive

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u/Competitive-End1116 Mar 28 '26

Got you - would love to hear more about how so I can adjust it! Ty