You might think of DJ crates like shopping carts on other websites, except you can have as many as you wish! Adding items your current crate is as simple as clicking a button, and when you do, you'll be able to see the selected item appear in your crate, as well as contribute to its total playing time. We highly recommend that you keep JavaScript enabled on your browser when performing crate operations; it's a much faster process that way.

Notice that you can add songs, albums, and even entire artists and BlueBeat programs. When you add an album or a compilation thereof, the individual songs appear in your crate. Then, if you wish to exclude certain tracks later, you'll be able to remove them quickly and easily.

When you add artists and BlueBeat programs, on the other hand, you're adding Live Collections – groups of music (such as the albums authored by an artist) that are updated automatically when the BlueBeat music vault is updated. For example, if you include "The Beatles" in your crate, and next week we add their latest anthology to our record collection, the anthology will instantly appear in that crate without any work required from you.

If you do not wish your crate live-updated, add the contents of the Live Collections instead of the Live Collection itself. This can be immensely useful if you're a fan of, say, classic Eric Clapton. In general, you can always visit our artist, TM program, or Killer Playlist pages, then specify only the albums and songs you want.