Crates Features

Crates is the ultimate tool to help you enjoy your music collection.

Explore the features below!

Unify all your music collections into one

Crates can import:

  • Files & folders from your hard disks, network, or USB drives
  • Your Discogs collection
  • Your saved tracks, playlists and albums on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music

Unify all your music collections into one

Listen from anywhere

  • Local files: MP3, FLAC, WAV, ALAC, AIFF and more
  • Stream in-app from:
    • YouTube (music +videos!)
    • Bandcamp
    • Soundcloud
    • Apple Music

Listen or shuffle tunes seamlessly from all your collections. 

Listen from anywhere

Save music you find online

  • Save tracks you discover on YouTube, Bandcamp, or SoundCloud.
  • Import directly while browsing using the Crates browser extension
    Or simply drag’n’drop the URL into Crates (or copy-paste!)

→ have a universal play queue to add tracks to listen through the day

Save music you find online

Easily craft a beautiful, organised library

  • No need to manually import: Crates can automatically import files from your Watched folders
  • Get artwork from a combination of sources (Discogs, Apple Catalog, MusicBrainz, Bandcamp and more)
  • Get info for tunes & releases: genres, tags, label, catalog number, release date, ISRC etc
  • Get info for artists and labels : profile image, bio, links, location 
    → Get to know more info about your favorite Labels and Artists. 

  • Persist metadata into your files so that they are interoperable with other software
  • Rename files and folders to be uniformly organized on your drives
  • Tag, rate & auto-organize into smart crates
  • When syncing to your phone or other device Crates will keep the same structure with all your metadata

Easily craft a beautiful, organised library

Own your data, forever!

  • Build your own private database and keep your data forever in a comprehensive format
  • Crates will periodically take local backups, ensuring your database can be recovered if needed🤞🏼
  • Your data stays yours -> no storage to our servers or any other third party!

 

Own your data, forever!

DJs: automate your day-to-day workflow

Whether a bedroom DJ or a pro, Crates can make your life easier:

  • Import tunes into your Inbox, seamlessly add them to your DJ Library, Collection, or Archive—or remove them entirely from app and disk.
  • When importing to DJ Library customize the actions that will take place: calculate BPM/KEY, move file, rename and more 
  • Configurable Actions such as Convert to AIFF or calculate BPM/KEY
  • Fetch metadata from Discogs and Bandcamp so that you don’t have to add them yourself
  • Copy & convert files to USB stick to the format of your preference (e.g. AIFF etc)
  • Save metadata on the files, so that they can be read from other software and hardware (e.g. Rekordbox, CDJ’s)
  • If you need to print tracklists, you can do so with customizable templates

 

DJs: automate your day-to-day workflow

Sync to your mobile

Supporters only

  • Sync your entire database, preserving the same structure. Browse on the go!
  • Download files over Wi-Fi with a click and take your files with you for offline listening.
  • Convert files to the format of your choice to save space (e.g. Wavs-> Mp3s)
  • Stream in-app from YouTube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud 
  • Stream directly from Crates Server over Wi-Fi 
  • Control what’s playing on your Crates Desktop from your phone

Works for all iOS devices. Android coming soon – stay tuned!

Sync to your mobile

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