Connect one source and every page on Crate starts arguing from what you own.
Your library goes straight from the service to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no Crate server, nothing to sign up for.
Once a week, when Settings opens, Crate re-reads a connected source so new records count. It runs here in your browser, only when you visit, and never on a server. Off unless you say so.
Scenes get written where crates point. Send an anonymous copy of your crate's demand signal — what matched, what sits in orbit, what went unfiled — and it feeds the writing queue and nothing else. No username, no titles you did not import, and a random id you can replace.
Default wears each scene as it was designed — dark house chrome, and every scene in its own skin. Light and dark override that into a single reading mode you prefer. Your choice is remembered on this device.
Crate reads what you own to argue from your shelves. Connect a source and the import runs here, in your browser — your library goes straight from the service to this device and nowhere else. Disconnect a source and its records stop counting, everywhere, live.
Your crate and want list are yours. Take them with you at any time — nothing here is locked in.
Download your crate (JSON)Scenes get written where crates point: the writing queue reads demand, and demand comes from libraries like yours. If you choose to, send a copy of your crate's demand signal — what matched, what sits in orbit, what went unfiled. It travels without your name: no username, no filename, just a random id so a re-send replaces your last one. You see the exact bytes before anything moves. Nothing is ever sent on its own.
The site counts reads — which pages get read, for how long, whether a listen link was followed — so the writing queue knows what is read. The counts are anonymous by construction: no cookies, no identifiers, nothing from your crate but a single yes/no that one exists. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, nothing is counted without you touching anything. You can also switch it off here.
Crate is a reading of music history, not a database of facts. Every claim is an editorial argument with sources, and the corpus corrects itself in public — see the errata on the Review. Spot something wrong? The correction flow is coming; for now the errata list is the public record.