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OrganizeYourCrate:LoopMarkers,PlaylistExport,andTagDiscovery

3 min read·16 April 2026

A batch of organization features landed this week. Loop markers ride on top of community notes. Playlists can be reordered and exported. Public crate share links now render proper social previews. And every topic tag has its own browsable feed, linked directly from post cards.

Loop markers inside community notes

Community notes already support clickable timestamps. Now they support ranges. Write a note that contains a range like 1:20-1:47 and the app renders a small ▶ LOOP pill next to it. Tap it and the player seeks to the start, then loops that window until you stop it. It is the same syntax, same note, no new UI to learn — just a range instead of a single timecode.

This replaces what loop markers would have been as a separate premium feature. The idea is that the best notes are the ones that already point at something — the break, the chorus that flips, the two bars you want to sample. If a note already says where to listen, the app can just listen there on a loop.

Playlists reorder and export

Every playlist now has up/down arrows next to each track for reordering. Reorders are optimistic — the UI updates instantly and the server syncs in the background with a retry on failure. Drag-free, one-handed, works the same on mobile and desktop.

Three export formats are available per playlist: CSV for spreadsheet inspection, M3U for import into DJ software or media players, JSON for anything programmatic. The export endpoint is public to the playlist owner and streams the current ordering at the time of request.

Public crate shares get social previews

Public crates had share URLs that rendered as bare text in Twitter, Slack, iMessage, and Facebook previews. Now they render the same OG card style the rest of the app uses — crate name as title, track count as subtitle, the first track’s thumbnail as the cover. Shared crates finally look like shared crates.

Topic tags are browsable

The twelve seeded topic tags now each have their own dedicated feed. Visit /community/t/boom-bap or /community/t/sample-hunting and you get a tag-scoped version of the community feed, with its own canonical URL and its own social preview card. Tag chips on post cards are clickable — tap #lo-fi on any post and you land directly on the lo-fi feed. Following a tag feed over time builds a better feed than following the firehose.

Smaller shipped fixes in the same window

  • Follow notifications now fire correctly — the insert was being silently rejected by RLS
  • /api/stats is cached for 30 minutes so the notification bell does not hammer the database
  • Rate limits extended to notes, favorites, stats, recommend, and sample-detection endpoints
  • Community notes visual language now matches personal notes — same amber left border, same layout
  • Countries filter expanded to 70, format filter now includes 7"/10"/12" variants

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