Release notes

1.8.4 - June 6, 2025

Fixes & ImprovementsFixed blocking errors related to crate menus and the “Quick Tour”
Get Info & Find Audiosource: improved overall matching
Gems: fixed various errors, improved UI/UX, and now importing revealed gems by default
Fixed issues related to playlist creation and duplication
Added new sorting for Artists and Labels by number of releases descending
Improvements when searching genres, tags, and crates
Fixed calculation of large mix waveforms
Plus various UI/UX tweaks and minor bug fixes.

1.8.2 - May 20, 2025

Fixes & ImprovementsStartup: Fixed an issue that would not allow the app to restart after syncing with the mobile
Improved: Sometimes Reveal Gems would fail with error 500
Addressed: Be able to see the user that posted a revealed gem [@psontis]
Fixed FaceTime play/pause bug when receiving a call
Gems: prioritize gems matching user’s interests.
Plus a few stability fixes and UI improvements

1.8.1 - May 16, 2025

New FeaturesCollection Views Revamp: Save how your tune collections are displayed and reuse on other crates.
Hide Crates: You can now hide crates you don’t use.
Fixes & ImprovementsStartup: Fixed an issue where Crates would sometimes fail to launch.
Tree View: Improved visibility of sub-crates
Added a new setting to optimize battery usage.
Discogs: Fixed errors when updating your Discogs collection.
Plus many minor fixes and UI/UX improvements

1.8.0 - April 29, 2025

New FeaturesSpotify Integration Enhancements – Fixed cases where tracks or playlists were missing during import due to Spotify rate limiting.
Added macOS Share menu for tunes with online audio sources. [Supporter request]
Support for BuyMusicClub playlist import. [Supporter request 🙏🏻 bagaski]
Fixes & ImprovementsPlayback: Better handling when audio files are missing (e.g., when an external drive is not connected), and a new setting to auto-detect when becoming available. [🙏🏻 yefthymiou]
Sync: Fixed a critical bug that caused mobile sync to misbehave.
Sync: Added PlayQueue under Playlists to be available on mobile. [🙏🏻 ericka]
Fixed an issue with mixed tune order on parent crates when importing multiple folders at once.
Gems: Enable/disable Gems, sync revealed Gems, and UI/UX fixes.
Fixed macOS Media Center integration for audio files and controls.
Improved playback handling when online content is unavailable due to no internet connection.
Plus: various UI/UX tweaks and performance improvements.

1.7.6 - March 24, 2025

New Features– Last.fm integration – Connect your account and scrobble what you listen on Crates (as requested by several users! 🙏🏻@autumnsounds)

– Lookup Artist/Label Info – You can now preview metadata and select before updating. Also tip: update by dropping a Discogs URL.

– “Go to Crate” Option – Added to the tune menu for easier navigation to crates or playlists containing the tune.

– New Action: “Add to Collection” – Quickly add tunes to your Collection for better organization.
Fixed & Improved– Revealed Gems Sync – Gems are now synchronized on init, even if revealed on mobile device. (Supporters only)

– Search Enhancements – Search now supports accented characters for better results across all languages.

– Fixed BPM calculation in Bandcamp streams (🙏 @stathis)

– Fixed Hi-res ALAC glitch when seeking

– Improved playback with Hi-res ALAC files on Windows 

– Allowing tags that are one character short

1.7.4 - January 18, 2025

Fixed or Improved:

– Search: Resolved an issue where searching for tunes or artists with special characters or numbers in their name would not return results.
– Discogs: Better importing and many bug fixes
– Rekordbox: Addressed an issue where the exported XML file could not be imported in some cases.
– Streaming: Tunes can now be streamed successfully from iOS/iPadOS devices.
– Genres: Custom User Genres and various improvements
– Settings: The IP address of the Crates Server now appears correctly.
– Playback: Fixed an issue where seeking while playing a tune would cause flashing.
– Safari Extension: updated to match the latest version.

1.7.3 - January 10, 2025

New:
– Now available for Apple Silicon
– Export to Rekordbox: You can now export tunes and playlists, complete with full Crates metadata.
– Onboarding Wizard: Easily get started with basic features of Crates using simple, step-by-step instructions.
– Calculate bpm/key and waveform for bandcamp: very handy when digging for tunes, before purchasing them.

Fixed:

– Tags Browser: Resolved an issue where some tags did not return results.
– YouTube: Fixed several issues related to importing from YouTube Music.
– Discogs: Improved the importing of collections and the display of releases in the release view.
– Fixed an issue where the real name of an artist displayed as an alias instead of their legal name.
– Windows: Disabled fullscreen mode and fixed zooming issues when Bandcamp was loaded.
– Watched folders: Fixed cases where a folder wasn’t marked as a release.

User Reported Issues🙏🏻:

– User Feedback: improved security (thanks to @tsukasa)

1.7.2 - December 6, 2024

– New: Navigate to Artist, Label, genre or tag directly from the player or tune menu, for a smoother collection-browsing experience!
– New: Added sorting for Artists and Labels; by name, date created or number of tunes.
– Improved results of “Get Info” action and added in the edit tune modal, to improve the workflow of grooming tunes.
– Improved Smart Crates: Added more fields, improved syntax and added how-to documentation

User Reported Issues 🙏🏻 :

– Fixed: Apple Music connection would not work for some users
– Fixed: When playing hi-res files, playback would not continue to the next tune (Windows)
– Fixed: Sometimes search field would not be clickable.
– Fixed: Release View was not available to some users.
– Fixed: Action “Move to Collection” using `DateDiscovered` parameter would create incorrectly named folders or crates.
– Fixed: Some artist names would be erroneously split into two artists.
– Fixed: A Label could be inserted multiple times in some cases.
– Fixed: Duplicate or invalid links could be added for Artists/Labels.
– Fixed: When setting the Collection destination folder, it would import all included files without asking.
– Added tooltips in action fields to explain what subfolders or sub-crates are.

Plus:
– Improved Server discovery, even when changing networks
– Improved Server shutdown time
– Geeky: View streaming server logs in the terminal to help debug issues.
– Geeky: Added function to deactivate installation
– Several other minor bug fixes and user experience improvements.

1.7.0 - November 13, 2024

New Feature: Browse by Artist, Label, and TagEffortlessly explore and organize your music collection like never before. Start curating your library today!
New Feature: Release ViewA fresh way to showcase each release, highlighting all the key details.
Also in this update:
Enhanced mobile device connectivity for a smoother experience
Improved handling of metadata when reading and writing audio files
Compatibility fixes for AIF files
New: now supporting Apple and MusicBrainz as new sources for metadata
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

1.6.7 - September 26, 2024

This version includes a few fixes:

Fixed an issue where tracks were not added correctly to side lists in certain cases.
Resolved a bug preventing Crates from being renamed through the edit modal.
Addressed a problem where the DJ Library root folder could not be set.
Improved the progress bar behavior to update correctly when seeking while paused.
Fixed a bug in renaming files and crates when moving to Collection.
Move to Collection: new parameter to allow choosing the rename pattern for Tunes when belonging to Releases that are moved to Collection.

1.6.6 - September 9, 2024

This version includes:

New: Option to remove a crate and delete folder & files
User Reported Bugs 👾:
- Fixed: Sometimes import tunes from Bandcamp would fail
- Fixed: Some files with special characters in their path would not play
Improvements in watched folders
Minor other fixes and technical improvements

1.6.5 - September 6, 2024

Update 1.6.5 includes:

New: Music Genres browser! View genres in a new tab.
Genres editing: added autocomplete
Enable or disable the DJ profile to hide DJ-related features.
Automatically sort sub-crates by name, date modified or date created.
Fixed: import iTunes library issue
👾 User Reported Bug: Fixed sorting issues when importing albums
👾 User Reported Bug: Fixed issue and improved importing tags and artwork embedded in WAV files
👾 User Reported Bug: Fixed issue at “Move to Collection” action where ReleaseDate was not respected
Many performance & user experience improvements!

1.6.1 - July 5, 2024

Update 1.6.1 includes a few bug fixes.

New feature: Gems

Recommend and discover tunes from the community. Beta available to Crates Supporters for feedback.

Moreover, update 1.6 includes:

New macOS icon
Improved installer on Windows
New menu items to easily restart/quit Crates and Crates Server
More than a dozen fixes & user experience improvements

1.6.0 - July 4, 2024

New feature: Gems

Recommend and discover tunes from the community. Beta available to Crates Supporters for feedback.

Moreover, update 1.6.0 includes:

New macOS icon
Improved installer on Windows
New menu items to easily restart/quit Crates and Crates Server
More than a dozen fixes & user experience improvements

1.5.9 - June 21, 2024

Update 1.5.9 includes:

Importing large folders (e.g. Downloads) is now significantly faster
Fix: dragging and dropping tunes could cause unexpected results
Fix: Watched crates various fixes
Fix: exporting audio files to folders in Windows could fail
Fix: could not import folders via crate menu in Windows

1.5.8 - June 19, 2024

Update 1.5.8 includes:

Export audio files: improved, faster and files playable in all CDJs
Support the Artist Modal
Bandcamp import: tags are automatically added in genres
More than 30 bugs crushed, and tons of improvements for a better user experience.

1.5.5 - April 19, 2024

Update 1.5.5 includes a few bug fixes.

Along with it, some major updates for version 1.5:

Crates have been reorganized:
- Inbox includes all files from watched folders and tunes added from online sources, for you to review before adding to your library.
- Collection is now used to hold all your tunes in an organized manner, all groomed and neat.
Actions have been revamped:
- New, user configurable combo actions allow you to add tunes to your Collection, DJ Library or the Archive sort them in crates and folders, rename files, get missing info & tags and even calculate key & bpm; all with one click!
- You can now run actions on crates.
Improvement: edit Album Artist for tunes
Improvement: get info for tunes from Bandcamp and Discogs and choose which source to prefer
Improvement: export/import m3u playlists which include online tunes
Many bug fixes & performance improvements

1.5.4 - April 12, 2024

Update 1.5 includes a few major changes!

Crates have been reorganized:
- Inbox includes all files from watched folders and tunes added from online sources, for you to review before adding to your library.
- Collection is now used to hold all your tunes in an organized manner, all groomed and neat.
Actions have been revamped:
- New, user configurable combo actions allow you to add tunes to your Collection, DJ Library or the Archive sort them in crates and folders, rename files, get missing info & tags and even calculate key & bpm; all with one click!
- You can now run actions on crates.
Improvement: edit Album Artist for tunes
Improvement: get info for tunes from Bandcamp and Discogs and choose which source to prefer
Improvement: export/import m3u playlists which include online tunes
Many bug fixes & performance improvements

1.4.2 - February 23, 2024

Bug fixes

1.4.1 - February 21, 2024

Update 1.4.1 includes:

– Brand new Browser Extension: now, you can save tracks from your browser into specific crates & playlists!
– New: Google Drive support
– Upload tunes & crates to your Drive with one click
– Import files from Drive & play in Crates
– New: Usage Analytics
– Fixed: Error in YouTube playback
– Improved Bandcamp importing speed
– Fixed: Apple Music token error
– Many other visual improvements and fixes

1.3.4 - January 11, 2024

Update 1.3.4 includes:

– Fixed error when trying to open the main menu in Windows
– Spotify: fixed occasional error in importing library
– Spotify: now you can update a specific playlist or album
– Many bug fixes, visual & performance improvements

1.3.3 - December 21, 2023

🎄 Update 1.3.3 includes:

– Improve playback for high-res audio files
– Improve the experience of becoming a Supporter
– Improve Server start-up time
– Minor Bug fixes

1.3.2 - November 30, 2023

Update 1.3.2 includes:

– Fix Discogs integration
– Minor Bug fixes

1.3.1 - November 27, 2023

Update 1.3.1 includes:

– YouTube: allow adding tunes to YouTube playlists from Crates (Supporters only)
– Youtube integration Improvements
– Spotify integration Improvements
– Online Search: Support Bandcamp releases
– Various bug fixes and improvements

1.3.0 - November 8, 2023

– New: Bandcamp added in Online Search & Autofind source
– Improved performance on import tune, removal of tunes, adding playlists etc
– Fixed Bug with tunes appearing as duplicates and tunes not updating
– Optimisation and clean up of all Artwork/Covers
– Fixed Smart Crates bug where a different tune was loaded
– New: Groom Crate
– User Request: Add a tune to any open playlist tab [psontis]
– Massive update to support upcoming mobile app flows
– 30+ other improvements and bug fixes

1.2.6 - August 8, 2023

Various Bug Fixes & Improvements 👀

– export audio: if a tune exists in requested format, just copy, don’t convert (CRT-537)
– convert audio: confirm what’s going on when converting a playlist (CRT-540)
– when playback errors occurs in backend, switch playback to FE player (CRT-549)
– when tune title contains a dash, tags end up wrong (CRT-504)
– bandcamp import, sometimes imports user instead of artist (CRT-532)
– convert mp3 action: change default settings to 320k 44.1 (CRT-536)
– double click to play tunes not working if apple music initialization fails (CRT-544)
– on update: if the default audiosource is missing, make default one not missing (CRT-546)
– convert audio: metadata do not appear after conversion (CRT-548)
– error connecting to youtube due to “.credentials” (CRT-551)
– tune update: removing year fails (CRT-556)
– set tune rating fails (CRT-563)

1.2.3 - April 27, 2023

Update 1.2.3 includes:
– New: Listening History now groups tunes you listen into ‘Listening Sessions’
– Fixed: Bug in export audio files
– New Actions: ‘Copy & Convert Audio Files’ `Ctrl+Alt+C`, Find AudioSource `Ctrl+Alt+A`
– Many cosmetic improvements & small bug fixes

1.2.1 - March 30, 2023

Update 1.2.1 includes:
– New: Replace/relocate audio files for a tune when they are missing or moved
– Improved: You can now stop the collection importing process from Spotify, Discogs or YouTube
– Improved: Dropping audio files or links on the cover of the player now adds them and starts playback
– Fixed: When playing tunes from online sources playback would not continue to the next one
– Fixed: In some cases the new views on the main would not display correctly
– Fixed: Bit depth for some tunes would appear null
– Fixed: Sometimes, after a long pause, the time progress would not update
– Performance and bug fixes

1.2.0 - March 15, 2023

Update 1.2.0 includes:
– New: Introducing Comfort View – now you can see the artwork of your tunes in the grid – try changing Comfort / Grid View
– New: Apple Music support! Connect to your account & use 🌎 icon to search and add tunes
– New: AutoFindSource! Automatically find audio sources for tunes which have none available, using the connected services (YouTube, Apple Music)
– New: Spotify support – connect & import your saved tracks, albums & playlists or drag’n’drop (streaming coming soon)
– Fixed: playback queue bugs
– Improved: YouTube video loading
– Improved: Tune info panel
– Many performance and bug fixes!

1.1.8 - February 8, 2023

Update 1.1.8 includes:
– Fix: Server would crash on Windows startup
– Fix: Files in a folder are now imported in the correct order
– Fix: Releases are now renamed correctly
– Fix: On Windows you could not select files to import to a crate/playlist
– Improved: Edit tune modals
– Performance improvements and many other bug fixes!

1.1.7 - January 5, 2023

Update 1.1.7 includes:
– New: Import tunes from Soundcloud
– New: In-app search for tunes online
– New: Import iTunes/Music libraries on macOS versions where xml file is not supported anymore
– Improved: Faster and better import iTunes/Music libraries
– Performance improvements and many small bug fixes