How to recommend a record. Anonymous. To someone who owns the copy, or who will.
This is not a message to a friend by name. You leave one sentence on a record you own. Crate offers it to other listeners who have that album, or holds the note until they add it. They never see who you are. Collectors already do this in shops. Here it stays on the record, not in a thread.
Send one
- You need a membership. Free crates cannot recommend.
- Open Tonight. Put a copy on the platter — tap it in Crate, or let Crate pull.
- Tap Recommend this.
- Write why they should put it on. A short sentence. Twelve characters at least, 280 at most. No links, shops, or pitches.
- Send anonymously.
The first recommend each day is free. After that, one note. You may recommend the same album as often as you like. Each send is a new note. A listener who accepts or declines your note will not see that send again. Other owners still can. A different sentence on the same album can still land.
Who gets it
Crate offers the note to listeners who:
- are not you
- own that album (artist and title — different pressings still match)
- have not already accepted, declined, or removed this send
- do not already have a recommendation waiting on Tonight
- have not asked to stop receiving them
You do not pick the person. One send can reach every owner. If nobody like that is on Crate yet, the note is held until someone adds the copy. Then it shows on their Tonight with your sentence. Notes drop after 90 days.
What they see
On Tonight, a card: Recommended for tonight. Album. Your sentence. No name.
- Yes, spin it — that copy becomes tonight. If liner notes already exist, and you have not used today’s free sleeve, they open on us. One existing jacket a day. Writing a new one still costs a note. Their journal records that they received it.
- Not tonight — declined for them. The card goes away. Other owners can still get the note.
- Remove this note — gone for them. It will not come back on refresh. Other owners can still get the note.
- Never send me a recommendation — they opt out. Pending cards stop.
If they pull that copy later, the sentence can sit on the jacket as Recommended to you. Remove this note deletes it permanently.
Vouched
Each recommend is one point toward Vouched for that album. Writing the liner notes is three. Highest total holds the name on Tonight and on the sleeve: Vouched · Name. Hover it for their last recommend, or that they wrote the liner notes. A tie keeps the holder. Spins do not count.
Used
Pulse counts a used when a listener:
- accepts the note, or
- logs a spin on that copy
Each person who takes it counts once. If liner notes already exist, accepting can open that sleeve on us — once a day. Picking the album from your crate does not. Writing a new one costs a note. Your journal gets a used row on the first one. Theirs gets a received row. Pulse shows Sent and Used, and the last ten notes (waiting, on Tonight, used). You can hide a row from that list. The count stays.
Anonymous
The other listener never sees your name, handle, or email when they get a recommend. If you hold Vouched, your name is on Tonight and the sleeve. Hover shows your last sentence for that album. That is a credit on the jacket, not who sent them the note.