Crates

A better home for your music collection

5.0•5 reviews•

215 followers

A better home for your music collection

5.0•5 reviews•

215 followers

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With Crates you can import from Spotify, Discogs, Bandcamp, YouTube and more, organize files with artwork and metadata, sync mobile and discover exciting new music through user shared Gems, not algorithms. Own your data and enjoy your music collection forever!

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Hey all! 🖖🏼

We are super excited to present Crates to the Product Hunt community and get your feedback!

It all started because, besides being coders and product people, we are dedicated, obsessed music people too!

We found that there was no software out there to help us manage our ever-growing music collections - a tool we could trust and tweak to meet our needs.

So we built Crates as the music collection app to become our music home - a home even for the more demanding music enthusiasts - people like us with scattered libraries of files, deep archives we've been passionately building all these years; online collections on Discogs, Bandcamp, YouTube, SoundCloud, and more.

Crates unifies all our music under one hood, enables high-quality playback and in-app streaming, empowers deep customization, and fosters community-driven discovery of music — the kind that excites and matters!

Unlike mainstream services that feel generic or raise ethical concerns, we set out to deliver a personal, transparent experience: you own your data, you control how you engage with music, and there are no ads or exploitative subscriptions. Think of it as a user-first, advanced S***ify — but running on your own devices!

We use Crates every single day, love it, keep improving it — but the work is never over!
And that's why we're here: we want to hear from you - what you'd need from your dream music app, what works and what doesn't in the current version of Crates, and what we should prioritize building next.

And if you are excited by the vision - we'd love your help - whether that's feedback, ideas, or even building together (community add-ons coming up!)

Let’s empower users, make the music ecosystem fairer, more personal - and make music collecting exciting again!”

G

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6mo ago

Been using Crates for a bit more than a month now, and I love it. A straightforward, no-nonsense, value-driven product.

Keep it up!

How does Crates foster community-driven discovery of music? Haven't explored that angle yet.

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6mo ago

Crates

Maker

@john_raptis1 Hey John, thanks for your kind words !

As also with a previous question from @khdj

Right now, the main social / music discovery feature is "Gems" (currently available to Supporters only).

Crates users can share music they think it's worth to be discovered by other users, for specific tags.

When you open your Gems feed, you can listen and discover great music recommended by the community! The more you interact (upvote/downvote gems) the more suitable gems you get in your feed.

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6mo ago

Hi George & team.

Congrats on the app looks awesome.

How do you plan to help users with privacy and data ownership without ads?

And second question:are you using or planning to use AI?

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6mo ago

Crates

Maker

@yannis_gregoriou Hello & thanks a lot 🙏 we really appreciate it!

On privacy & data ownership: Crates is built on the idea that your music data is yours and stays at your installations - not on our servers. That makes it a bit more technically challenging ofc, but we believe this should be the default, not the other way round.

We want Crates to feel more like a personal tool than a service that may exploit user data for profit.

On AI: yes, here's our take (we ve been asked before!)

Crates builds a trusted, privacy-respecting relationship with users
This trust unlocks access to the highest-quality data: real music collections and habits unifying datasets across different platforms
With this high-quality, user-consented data, Crates can deliver hyper-relevant, personal recommendations
Local AI models by default, keeping computation and control on the user’s devices (we have working prototypes)
Add-on architecture supports lightweight, scoped, intelligent tools for curation, discovery, and interaction
We champion an alternative software paradigm: tools & technology thats works for the user — without data or privacy compromises

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6mo ago

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Congrats @gilias on building something for true music enthusiasts! Looking forward to seeing how Crates evolves and the kind of community it fosters.

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6mo ago

Crates

Maker

@princeku945 thank you!

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6mo ago

Crates

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Finally a truly intuitive app to merge all my scattered music collections, whether they are files, playlists, wishlists or mixes into one home!

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6mo ago

Absolute dream for music curators, DJ's and those of us who have an audio collection across multiple platforms which do not easily communicate with one another. The coding which pulls discogs metadata replicates what many try to achieve through more complicated and laborious foobar plugins, and the addition of smart crates to organise your music shows these folks know the music community. Thanks team!

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6mo ago

This looks like a dream come true for all the music heads. A tool that respects collectors, unifies scattered libraries, and puts the user first. Big love for building something the scene really needs!

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Crates earns raves for unifying scattered music into one organized space and making collection management feel fast and intuitive. Reviewers praise reliable imports from services like Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Discogs, with strong metadata, artwork handling, and smooth cross‑app playlist building. DJs highlight easy USB export and gig prep. Users love the clean UI, browser add‑on for saving tracks, and discovery via shared Gems without algorithmic noise. Some ask for Android support. Overall, it’s celebrated for control, simplicity, and daily dependability.

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Hey all! 🖖🏼

We are super excited to present Crates to the Product Hunt community and get your feedback!

It all started because, besides being coders and product people, we are dedicated, obsessed music people too!

We found that there was no software out there to help us manage our ever-growing music collections - a tool we could trust and tweak to meet our needs.

And if you are excited by the vision - we'd love your help - whether that's feedback, ideas, or even building together (community add-ons coming up!)

Let’s empower users, make the music ecosystem fairer, more personal - and make music collecting exciting again!”

G

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