This is a bit more "out there" but might be useful for quickly creating crates from your current iTunes (or other) metadata.

The idea would be to have an option to import a list of artists or labels and create a new crate from this. I haven't tried dumping a complete list of this data out of iTunes but I suspect it should be straightforward using existing applescripts. The tricky bit would be matching with actual artists/labels on beatport, as it would obviously be sensitive to slight differences in labelling and duplicate entries.

Perhaps there would need to be some sort of follow up process to mop up stragglers? e.g. It displays a page with duplicates/missing entries for the user to decide what they would like to do.

Poss too much work for the benefit but maybe it will inspire other ideas/other users.

Thanks,

James

I'm trying to get hard copies of 2000+ tracks from my spotify playlists, and searching for every track individually is proving extremely time-consuming. I'm currently trying to automate the search-and-add-to-cart workflow with UI automation like selenium, but it is error-prone and very fragile. It would be amazing if Crates.co could turn a CSV file into a populated shopping cart, by (A) searching for the track described in row X, (B) finding the best match for the given title/artist/duration, (C) add the track to my beatport shopping cart, and (D) provide a list of the tracks that couldn't be found or otherwise determined. Maybe with an options prefer Original mixes or Extended mixes, and checkboxes for requiring perfect matches for some fields (like Release/Album, duration, etc).

If this could directly connect to my spotify account, even better, but a file upload sounds like it would be easier to implement. And there are already ways to automatically create such a file corresponding to spotify playlists, using their web API.

Anyways, this would take all of the pain away from finding music to purchase, aside from the cost haha.

Thanks for your consideration!

I really LOVE Beatport DJs, its the only reason why I still go to Beatport at all instead of using Crates exclusively.

If you're not familiar with it, Beatport DJs allows you to follow Beatport users who have created profiles in the Beatport DJ system. If you're following someone and they release a new chart, it appears in your feed. I've been building up the DJs (all of whom are generally producers and want more avenues to get people to listen to their tracks) I follow and now get four to five new charts every week, which provides a great cross section of what's new and being played out.

I have no idea if Beatport DJs has it's own API or not (you do have to sign up for Beatport DJs separately from your general Beatport account), but somehow getting this feed of charts into Crates would be fantastic.

If integration with Beatport DJs proves to be overly complex a quick fix would be allowing users of Crates to paste a direct URL link to a chart into crates, and have that chart be called up on Crates. Doing this I could just copy the URL link from Beatport DJs then could listen to it on Crates.

Thanks!