Supported Placeholders in Crates

Crates supports a range of placeholders that can be used to dynamically insert values from tunes or releases into a string. These placeholders allow you to customize display information in a consistent and automated manner.

Placeholders for Tunes and Releases

The following placeholders can be used to represent specific metadata fields:

• %Artist – Inserts the artist name.
• %Album – Inserts the album title.
• %AlbumArtist – Inserts the album artist.
• %Genre – Inserts the genre.
• %TrackNo – Inserts the track number.
• %Title – Inserts the title of the tune.
• %Label – Inserts the record label.
• %Year – Inserts the release year.
• %CatalogNo – Inserts the catalog number.
• %Bpm – Inserts the BPM  (Applies to tunes)
• %BitRate – Inserts the bit rate (Applies to tunes)
• %Key – Inserts the musical key  (Applies to tunes)
• %Remixer – Inserts the remixer of the tune (Applies to tunes)
• %OrderInCrate – Inserts the order of the tune in the crate (Applies to tunes)
• %DateAdded – Inserts the date when the tune was added to Crates.
• %DateReleased – Inserts the release date of the tune or album.
• %DateDiscovered – Inserts the date the tune was discovered (Applies to tunes)

Special Date Formats

For dates, Crates also supports custom formats. You can specify the format for dates using the following options:

• %DateAdded[yyyy] – Inserts the year when the tune was added (e.g., 2024).
• %DateAdded[yyyy-MM] – Inserts the year and month when the tune was added (e.g., 2024-09).
• %DateAdded[yyyy-MM-dd] – Inserts the full date when the tune was added (e.g., 2024-09-06).
• %DateReleased[yyyy] – Inserts the year of the release date.
• %DateReleased[yyyy-MM] – Inserts the year and month of the release date.
• %DateReleased[yyyy-MM-dd] – Inserts the full release date (e.g., 2023-07-15).