Crate

Cross-platform DJ library manager with music discovery, track analysis, and USB export

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🎧 Overview

Crate is a cross-platform desktop application for managing DJ audio libraries. It handles everything from discovery, organization, analysis, and USB export.

🎵 Features

• Library management - Import and organize audio files (MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, M4A/AAC) with automatic metadata extraction, search, and filtering
• Tagging - Categorize tracks with a flexible tag system for fast filtering
• Playlists - Build playlists manually or with smart rules
• Track analysis - Waveform generation, key detection, BPM analysis, and energy profiling
• Music discovery - Browse and preview releases from Bandcamp, SoundCloud, YouTube, and Discogs
• Audio playback - Preview tracks with waveform display and cue point management
• USB export - Export to Pioneer CDJ/XDJ devices with full Rekordbox database generation
• Device sync - Detect connected USB devices and sync library changes incrementally
• Metadata editing - Edit track metadata in bulk or individually
• Customization - Themes, accent colors, and font preferences
• Localization - Available in 11 languages (EN, JA, NL, FR, DE, ES, IT, SV, KO, PT, ZH)
• Auto-updates - Stay on the latest version with minimal effort

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js 22.x or higher
• Yarn (package manager)
• Rust nightly toolchain

For Tauri development dependencies, see the Tauri v2 prerequisites guide.

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/blackboxaudio/crate.git
cd crate

Install dependencies:

yarn install

Development

Start the development server with hot reload:

yarn dev

This launches both the Vite dev server (port 1420) and the Tauri application window.

Building

Build for production:

yarn build

Build for staging (with devtools):

yarn build:staging

Output binaries are placed in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Platform targets:

• macOS - .dmg, .app
• Windows - .msi, .exe

🔗 Links

• Website & Downloads
• Issues
• Releases

📄 License

This project is source-available under the PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0. You can read, learn from, and contribute to the code, but you can't use it to build a competing product.

🗺️ Roadmap

This project is under active development. Planned features and improvements are tracked in the repository issues.