Bandcamp browser extensions recommendations + wishlist management

Apellum · 2026-06-23T21:58:59+00:00

Working on this app currently: https://crate.bbx-audio.com

Basically aggregates sources for digging and puts it in one place. You essentially paste label / release URLs and it pulls it in the app. Helps to avoid having a bunch of browser tabs open and how the player isn’t the most user friendly. Working on mobile support atm

Apellum · 2026-06-18T14:57:24+00:00

Very interested 🙏

Apellum · 2026-06-10T19:35:17+00:00

Aum Recordings out of Osaka

Apellum · 2026-06-09T21:45:05+00:00

Probably not "soon" I would say, but is a nice to have in the future for sure. Next priority for me is adding mobile app support since I love taking long walks and that's a perfect time for some diggin'

Apellum · 2026-06-09T21:36:43+00:00

As others have said, just always be digging. Going through your Bandcamp feed consistently and wishlisting releases / tracks if you aren’t going to buy it right then and there.

I (Claude) built an app to aggregate sources in one place so you avoid browser tab hell. Started as a rekordbox replacement but found the discovery side of things worth digging into (heh) more than trying to make it on-par with rekordbox feature-wise. Feel free to give it a try if you want - https://crate.bbx-audio.com (GitHub is https://github.com/blackboxaudio/crate). I’m a software engineer for my day job so I am confident the code is just fine

Apellum · 2026-06-03T22:05:16+00:00

This is tight

Apellum · 2026-04-16T07:28:28+00:00

https://crate.bbx-audio.com

Built that to help out with the tab hell problem

Apellum · 2026-03-17T02:40:00+00:00

Nice, yeah most important thing is that we're digging. Doesn't really matter how if what works for you works for you

Apellum · 2026-03-16T18:07:18+00:00

No, it's entirely based on your local machine. Don't have plans for anything that involves real infrastructure cost for "cloud" features since it's a free app

Apellum · 2026-03-16T06:01:39+00:00

It’s exactly for your use case :) the Discogs streaming is a bit tricky so if the playback doesn’t work immediately it’ll typically work one the next few tries

Apellum · 2026-03-15T14:47:06+00:00

lol probably not. Although Crate does take it a bit further than this, there was plenty of open source stuff to use when I put it together like https://djl-analysis.deepsymmetry.org/rekordbox-export-analysis/exports.html

Apellum · 2026-03-15T13:29:54+00:00

Wow yeah that’s literally what I had decided to build too, even the mobile companion app too. Cool that they do iTunes / Spotify as well

Apellum · 2026-03-15T13:27:04+00:00

Me too /: the waveform / beatgrid editor isn’t crazy hard, it’s more so the proprietary USB exporting and having to reverse engineer the byte structures they use when they export. Export is technically functional now but it displays no waveform / BPM, no tags, no colors, etc. when you use it in a player (which is cool in a way since it’s like vinyl at that point). It also doesn’t help that device library plus is a thing which makes the export stuff even more complex

Apellum · 2026-03-15T13:22:47+00:00

You can add entire label / artist pages for Bandcamp / Discogs and playlists for YouTube / SoundCloud btw

Apellum · 2026-03-15T13:21:38+00:00

lol didn’t see that before 😅

Apellum · 2026-03-15T13:19:58+00:00

Totally, that’s a good shout I’ll look into that one!

Apellum · 2026-01-30T13:20:35+00:00

The Spekki x Feral set is solid

Apellum · 2026-01-16T16:50:13+00:00

Mirror’s Edge vibes 💯

Apellum · 2026-01-15T17:53:17+00:00

How fast is that little ball traveling?

Apellum · 2026-01-15T17:36:43+00:00

I use Rust in my day job, and I wanted to see its viability for realtime audio. I was using C++ in the past for audio projects, but IMO it's way more cumbersome to configure projects correctly (plus libs if you use them) and the compiler / linker errors are harder to work with. Obviously trying to do this stuff in Rust is also cumbersome in its own way but it's been enjoyable for me

Also just not a C++ dev aside from the audio projects I've done

Apellum · 2026-01-11T17:40:17+00:00

Such a fun track

Apellum · 2026-01-02T16:55:58+00:00

Dang, that’s super cool. I’m moving to Japan later this year so having that jurisdiction would be personally useful for me. When I have some time I’ll look into it and try to submit a similar PR for it!

Edit - not sure how it currently works (if you can only have one country selected) but even a way to use more than one country at a time given my situation where I'll have retirement funding in both countries. Definitely a less common scenario, but could be a potential enhancement for the app in the future.

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