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 it for rekordbox and USB.

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

Cratefox is invite-only. 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 free to use during the invite-only beta. If a paid tier ever arrives, it will be spelled out plainly and in advance, with no surprises.

7. 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.