Browse SoundCloud, Apple Music and Spotify the way you already do — then take the track with you, tagged, covered and named right. Every file lands ready to drop straight into the set.
You're on a phone. CrateDigger runs on macOS — open this on your Mac to install. The five steps below still work; swipe the strip at the bottom.
02 · Wherever you dig
Each service opens in its own tab and behaves the way it always has. CrateDigger adds one thing: a download button, wherever a track appears — tiles, feed posts, search results and track pages.
Feed, reposts, search, artist and track pages — where the unreleased stuff lives.
Tiles · feed · track pages
Search and browse in the app instead of a second window, into the same folder.
Tiles · search · track pages
Playlists and search, same tab strip, same click. Nothing to copy or re-find later.
Tiles · search · track pages
A built representation of the interface, not a photograph. The four tabs above are live — try them.
03 · What lands on disk
Label prefixes, catalogue numbers and (Preview) (Out Now) come off. Remix, edit, VIP, bootleg and feat. credits stay — moved to where DJ software expects to read them.
Four choices · set once, or per download
Written into the file itself · read by Rekordbox and Serato
04 · Tempo and key
Every download is analysed for tempo and musical key, and both are written into the file's tags. Keys show in Camelot notation, in the app's own colours — so sort by key and the tracks that mix read as one run of colour.
Neighbours on the wheel mix: one step either way, or A to B on the same number. Sorted by key, 7A → 10A is a single walk around the rim.
| Artist | Title | Tempo | Key ↓ | Type | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashen | Salt Marsh | 145.0 | 6A | AIFF | 1 Sep |
| Lowline | Undertow (Hazard Dept VIP) | 174.0 | 7A | AIFF | Today |
| Kelp | Silt | 172.0 | 7A | FLAC | Today |
| Null Hour | Bruised Concrete | 138.0 | 8A | WAV | Today |
| Ultravalve | Dropout Bay (Kaiso Edit) | 140.0 | 8A | FLAC | 3 hr |
| Hazard Dept | Signal Bleed | 150.0 | 8B | WAV | Yesterday |
| Sector One | Deadstop | 132.0 | 9A | MP3 320 | Yesterday |
| Grid Sixteen | Tunnel Vision | 128.0 | 9A | MP3 320 | 2 Sep |
| Voltmeter | Repeater (Kelp Edit) | 150.0 | 10A | WAV | 31 Aug |
05 · Get it into the set
Select one track or twenty and drag them straight into Rekordbox or Serato. No export step, no watch folder — the tags travelled with the file.
| Artist | Title | Tempo | Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowline | Undertow (Hazard Dept VIP) | 174.0 | 7A |
| Ultravalve | Dropout Bay (Kaiso Edit) | 140.0 | 8A |
| Hazard Dept | Signal Bleed | 150.0 | 8B |
| Kaiso | Housing Block | 132.0 | 9A |
| Marla Vex | Halfmast | 138.0 | 10A |
No free tier, no trial.
macOS 13+ · Apple silicon
Follow an artist, a label or a playlist; the app checks and tells you.
Point every download at one folder for the night, then put it back.
Tracks already in your library are marked, not downloaded twice.
Scrub it, set the volume, see the tempo and key of what's playing.
The download engine installs and updates itself. No Homebrew, no Terminal.
Notarized by Apple, so it opens on a plain double-click.