Terms & Acceptable Use

1. What Cratefox is

Cratefox is a local app you run on your own Mac or Windows machine. It reads a tracklist you paste and matches tracks already in your own music folder. For the rest, it pulls them over a peer-to-peer connection it sets up on your own machine at install, under an identity you choose (or an auto-generated one) so the connection is yours, not ours. It then reads key and BPM from the audio, sorts the crate, and exports a Rekordbox-importable playlist, with key and BPM written into the file tags.

Cratefox is not a store, catalog, or streaming service. It does not host, store, supply, or sell any audio, and it holds no music of its own. It is a tool that does the finding, pulling, and sorting you could otherwise do by hand.

Because that connection is a peer-to-peer network, the tracks you download land in a folder that is shared back to the network, the same way every peer-to-peer client works, and this is on by default. Only your downloads and shared folders are shared, never your wider music library. You can turn sharing off at any time with the Sharing switch at the bottom of the app (or by removing those folders from the shares list in ~/cratefox/slskd/slskd.yml).

2. Your responsibility

You are solely responsible for every track you pull and, because the peer-to-peer connection shares your downloads back to the network, for what you share, upload, distribute, and make available through it. That means having the rights not only to download, keep, and play a track, but to distribute it. What you pull and share, and whether you're entitled to it, is on you.

You must comply with the terms of any service or network you connect to over your own connection, and with all copyright and other laws that apply where you are. Do not use Cratefox to infringe anyone's rights. If you are not sure you are allowed to have or to share a track, do not pull it, and turn sharing off (the app's Sharing switch, or your slskd.yml config) if you want no downloads shared back.

3. What Cratefox does not touch

Cratefox does not log into, automate, or store your Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube account. A link you paste is read only for the list of track names; nothing is downloaded from the streaming service itself.

Your existing music library is read in place on your machine and is never moved, copied out, or uploaded. Setup checks your access code with a hashed hardware id, never the raw id; after that, analysis runs locally.

4. Invite-only access and your code

Access starts with a code either way: request an invite or say you want to buy, and the DJ who builds Cratefox personally emails it. Each access code locks to the first machine that installs it and cannot be shared or reused on another machine. Do not share codes, resell access, or attempt to bypass the device lock. Got a new computer? Ask for a fresh code.

5. Beta, provided as is

Cratefox is in beta and provided as is, without warranty of any kind. Key and BPM detection are estimates, not guarantees; uncertain keys are flagged in the app, and the measured accuracy is public at cratefox.app/accuracy. Spot-check flagged tracks before you play. Cratefox is not liable for a bad read, a missed track, or anything that happens in your set.

6. Price

Cratefox is a subscription: $5.99 a month, or $49 a year (about $4 a month, which saves 32% on paying monthly). A plan covers one period at a time, a month or a year. Renewing is arranged with you directly by email for now, not an automatic charge to a card on file, and your access code works for as long as your plan is active. There is no account needed to run the app or analyse your library. DJs who bought Cratefox earlier under the one-time price keep that purchase in full; nothing switches to a plan.

7. Refunds

You can cancel at any time. Your access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, and nothing is charged for the next one. If Cratefox turns out not to be for you, write within 7 days of your first payment and it is refunded in full, and that access code stops working. Anything you downloaded before that was pulled over your own connection and stays on your machine.

8. Changes and contact

These terms may change as Cratefox grows; the current version always lives here, and material changes will be noted. Questions? hey@cratefox.app.