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What's new: Daily Dig, save without an account, smarter rarity badges
The crates have been busier than ever lately, so here's what changed over the past months: ▸ Daily Dig: one record for everyone, every day,…
Best record you found by accident?
Random DIG, wrong filter, half asleep at 2am: what's the best thing CrateDrop threw at you that you'd never have searched for? Drop the arti…
Loop markers, playlist export, tag browsing, and public-crate share previews
Organization week. Four things that make the app easier to live in: ▸ Loop markers ride on top of community notes. Write a range like 1:20-…
New: persistent mini-player, Crate Radio works on any track, Open in YT button
Three shipped this week that change how playback works on CrateDrop: ▸ The player now follows you across the app. Start a track on the dig…
New on the blog: Track Notes & Timestamps
Two updates to the notes system: 1. Track Notes — your personal digging notebook on every record. Type timestamps like 1:20 and they become…
Building the crate digging database — new on the blog
In November 2025, Spotify acquired WhoSampled. Not for the traffic. For the data. We have been thinking about what that means. CrateDrop is…
How the HOT feed ranks posts
The HOT sort is not sorted by likes. Every post gets a score: (upvotes × 2 + comments) ÷ (hours + 1)^1.8. Posts need at least 1 upvote to ap…
You can now embed YouTube videos and playlists in posts
When writing a community post you can now attach a YouTube video or one of your CrateDrop playlists directly. The video plays inline inside…
The Public Crate Directory Is Live — Here's Why It Matters
The public crate directory is now live at cratedrop.app/crates. Any producer on CrateDrop can make their crates public, and they will appear…
Why CrateDrop Reactions Say "That's the One" Instead of Clicking a Heart
Most platforms default to the same vocabulary: a heart, a thumbs up, a five-star scale. It works for content that is universally good or bad…
Community Notes Are Live — And This Is Just the Start
Community notes are live on CrateDrop. Every track now has a shared space where producers can leave observations — about the sample potentia…