Know which tracks get claimed before you publish the mix.
TrackClear Studio tests your own music library against YouTube’s Content ID system, so you find out what will be claimed while you can still swap the track out — not after the set is live. Then it cleans up the library the test just told you the truth about.
Windows 10/11 and macOS. Your music never leaves your computer.
You find out a track was claimed after the mix is already up.
By then the video is monetized by somebody else, blocked in half the world, or quietly earning nothing. The only way to know in advance is to test the track against Content ID itself — which means uploading it, waiting, and reading the result. Doing that by hand, one track at a time, for a library of two thousand, is not a plan.
TrackClear does it for a whole crate at once and tells you what came back.
Four jobs, in the order you actually need them.
Reads the library you already have
Point it at your folders, or let it find the Serato and Rekordbox crates already on the machine and work the folders out from those. It reads your files. It does not move them, delete them, or re-encode the audio.
Tests tracks against Content ID
Builds short snippets of the tracks you pick, uploads them as one unlisted video to your own YouTube channel, and reads back what was claimed against each one. Most results arrive within ten minutes to an hour.
Finds what is wrong with the files
Duplicates, missing artwork, empty artist and title fields, a “320” that was a 128 once, clipping, mono files, and the grouping tag that Serato reads but iTunes does not write.
Files it all back into your crates
Writes the results out as Serato crates, Rekordbox playlists or M3U8 — sorted by clearance, by genre, or by both. Your existing crates are read, never overwritten.
Four outcomes, and they do not all mean “no”.
A claim is not automatically a problem. Knowing which kind of claim you are looking at is most of the value.
No claim was found. Safe to use, and verified rather than assumed.
A rights holder is watching the analytics only. The video stays up and the revenue stays yours.
Ads run and the money is split with the label. The video stays up — you just do not earn from it.
The track will be blocked, sometimes only in certain countries. Swap it out.
A silent result is not a promise.
Content ID can post a claim hours after an upload. So when a test comes back with nothing, TrackClear reports it as provisional — not as cleared. Green is reserved for a result that has actually been verified, and nothing in the app is ever coloured as safe on the strength of silence.
That is a worse headline and a better tool. Results are indicators, and they vary by country, by channel and over time. TrackClear tells you what came back and when it came back, and leaves the decision where it belongs.
The music stays on your machine.
TrackClear is a desktop application, not a service you upload a library to. Everything it learns about your music is stored in a database on your own computer.
- Your audio files are never uploaded. Identifying a track sends a roughly ten-second sample and nothing more; it is not kept.
- Clearance testing uses your own YouTube account, and the sign-in stays on your machine. We operate no server that receives your YouTube data.
- No tracking, no analytics, no telemetry inside the app. There is nothing in it that reports back what you listen to or what you do.
- The shared clearance database is opt-in and turned off until you turn it on. It exchanges fingerprints and outcomes — never audio.
One licence, three machines.
- Windows and macOS
- Use it on up to three of your own machines
- Works offline — it checks your licence once, then never needs the internet again
- Unlimited library size
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What you need
| Windows | macOS | |
|---|---|---|
| Version | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit | {{MAC_MIN}} |
| Disk | About 500 MB for the app, plus room for its database | |
| Internet | Needed to identify tracks and to test clearance. Everything else works offline. | |
| Account | A YouTube channel of your own, for clearance testing only | |