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Your Downloads folder, filed automatically
Inbox Sorting watches the folders your sounds land in, from Splice syncs to YouTube rips and SoundCloud downloads, and files each one by instrument, key, and BPM.
Jordan ReyesHead of Product
Libraries don’t get messy on purpose. A Splice sync lands in one folder, a YouTube rip in Downloads, a SoundCloud free download on the desktop, and a friend’s drum kit in a zip nobody opens again. Inbox Sorting is built for exactly that.
How it works
- Point Prod Crate at the folders your files arrive in. Downloads and your Splice folder are suggested for you.
- New audio is picked up as soon as it finishes downloading, including files inside zips.
- Each file is identified by instrument and type, with key and BPM detected from the audio.
- It’s filed into your library, stored as FLAC if it was WAV or AIFF, and cleared from the inbox folder.
Files keep their original names. Only the location changes: a kick from a Splice pack ends up in Drums / Kicks / One Shots, and the pack name is kept as a tag, so everything from that pack is still one search away.
What it leaves alone
Inbox Sorting never breaks a project. If an Ableton set references a file in Downloads, the file is copied rather than moved, and the set keeps working. Anything it can’t identify with confidence goes to a Review folder instead of a guess.
Inbox Sorting is on the Solo, Producer, and Studio plans. Turn it on in Settings › Inbox in the Mac app, or run crate inbox --watch from the CLI.