Why Crates?

Remember how thrilling, fun and personal it felt to be collecting your music?

We believe some of this magic is lost.

But why?


We think much of it has to do with the music streaming services, and the way they formulate and dominate most people’s music experience.

They may be convenient for the average user, but there are many issues that spoil it for passionate music enthusiasts like us.

Let’s break it down:

  • Listening with ads ..sucks!
  • Paying for subscription, and not having access to all the cool music that comes out, also sucks..
  • Paying for subscription and our favorite independent artists not getting a fair piece of it, sucks even more!
  • Being offered a vanilla experience made for mass consumption, promoting big-label hits, supermarket playlists and irrelevant recommendations is annoying and unrewarding.
  • Not being able to just listen to all the music files we have been purchasing and collecting all these years for free, feels wrong – why pay subscription to listen to music we have already purchased?
  • Having to share or upload our files to a big music service, is unnecessary, privacy-invading and .. a bit suspicious.
  • Filtering through the noise, to discover new music that matches our taste and makes us tick, has become exhausting!


We imagined an app that can:

  • help you organize our music – either that’s files, or our existing collections in iΤunes, Discogs, Bandcamp, YouTube etc – and make it easy for us to customize and offer a great experience that feels ours
  • Be able to access the same collection from our phone and other devices, but without sending all our data to a service that could exploit it.
  • Not having to pay subscriptions.
  • Save on subscriptions fees, to buy music to keep forever and compensate artists.
  • Discover music from the community in a playful and exciting way.
  • Explore ways to connect fans, tastemakers and artists in more fair and transparent ways, rewarding those who produce value and reducing the control of corporate intermediaries.
  • Listen to what the users really want in order to have a delightful music experience.


We want to bring that magic back with Crates! 

Wanna help us out?