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!
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!”
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!
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!
Congrats @gilias on building something for true music enthusiasts! Looking forward to seeing how Crates evolves and the kind of community it fosters.
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?
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.
the app looks good!
how can we discover new music if we don’t have the files?
Proud to be a part of the team that has built a truly next-gen music library app!
Finally a truly intuitive app to merge all my scattered music collections, whether they are files, playlists, wishlists or mixes into one home!
Congrats on the launch. What made you decide to build a dedicated home for music collections now when most people rely on streaming services
Finally a tool that lets me organize and enjoy my music the way I want. Being able to sync across devices and keep my collection forever sounds awesome🎶
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