How to Get Help Identifying a Salsa Song on Salsa Forums

Post your request in the Name That Tune section of Salsa Forums. That is the dedicated board for song identification threads, and it is where the community expects to find and answer "what is this track?" questions. If you can hum it, describe the lyrics, or link a clip, other members will try to name it for you.

Where the identification threads live

Salsa Forums organizes music discussion into separate boards, and the split matters when you post:

Name That Tune is by far the busiest of the two by thread count, which tells you it is the normal place for identification requests rather than an afterthought. The forum's own description of Salsa Music explicitly says to use the "Name that Tune" section for song identification threads — so a "what's this song?" post dropped into Salsa Music is likely to be moved or ignored.

What to include in your post

The more identifying detail you give, the more likely someone recognizes it. Useful things to include:

• A clip or link if you have one — a recording, a video, a DJ set timestamp.
• Lyrics you can make out, even fragments, and the language they are in.
• The artist or band if you have a guess, plus why you think so.
• Where and when you heard it — a club, a congress, a radio show, a specific year.
• Musical details: tempo feel, whether it is classic or modern, prominent instruments (clave, cowbell, congas, timbales, piano, brass), male or female vocals, solo sections.
• A description of the melody if you cannot record it — writing out the rhythm or phrasing in text is common in these threads.

How the process works

1. Register or log in — posting requires an account.
2. Open the Name That Tune board from the forum index.
3. Start a new thread with a clear title (for example, the lyric fragment or "identify this 90s track").
4. Add your clip, description, or both in the body.
5. Watch the thread — members reply with candidates, and you confirm or rule them out. Threads often resolve through back-and-forth rather than a single answer.

Common snags

• Posting in the wrong board. Identification requests belong in Name That Tune, not Salsa Music.
• No audio and no lyrics. A vague "it went like da-da-da" rarely gets solved; add as many concrete anchors as you can.
• Commercial links. The forum restricts commercial links to the Ads and Websites area, and those must be salsa-related. A link to a streaming clip for identification is a different case from promoting a site, but keep promotional content out of Name That Tune.
• JavaScript and browser issues. The forum notes that JavaScript must be enabled and that an outdated browser can break the experience, so if search or posting misbehaves, check that first.

If you also want to browse before posting

The forum's search supports titles-only searching, which is handy for checking whether your song has already been identified. You can also scan existing Name That Tune threads — with thousands of them, there is a reasonable chance your track has come up before.