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Enhanced Library Browser & more!

by stol in new-release

We’re thrilled to share Crates Desktop 1.7.0 with you – it’s packed with updates designed to elevate your music collection experience! In this release, we focused on improving the ways you can visually browse your collection, by adding two new cornerstone features:

  • Browse by Artist, Label, Genre or Tag – Dive deeper, rediscover your collection from new perspectives and learn more about your favorite artists and labels.
  • Release View – we now present each release with a more minimal layout, highlighting key information and its visual identity

Metadata retrieval and grooming your library

We’ve also paid special attention to improve the ways Crates can retrieve metadata for your music, combining various sources. It can fetch artwork, tags, genres, release/label/artist info and more.

For best results, we recommend connecting to a Discogs account before grooming. This will significantly enrich the pool of metadata sources.

Version 1.7.0 also includes:

  • Improved handling of metadata when reading and writing audio files.
  • Now supporting Apple and MusicBrainz as new sources for metadata
  • Enhanced Server discovery from mobile devices
  • Fixes for AIF files & new quick action ‘convert to AIFF’
  • Enhanced automatic backup functionality to make sure you never lose your Crates library
  • Fixed Discogs connectivity issues
  • Fixed Apple Music playback issues
  • Faster performance and a refined user experience
  • Numerous bug fixes & improvements

We hope these updates make Crates even more useful for you! Your feedback is always of paramount importance, so please let us know what you think or where we should focus next.