Music and code. How TrackTidy began.
I’ve been collecting music since I was a child. TrackTidy began when I brought that passion together with programming to make looking after my collection easier.
The story on video
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Music from an early age
Franky, wearing headphones, listens to a cassette.
Music has been with me since I was a kid.
The formats change
The cassette turns into a vinyl record, then a CD, digital files, and a USB stick. A sound line keeps connecting the music to the headphones.
The formats changed. The music stayed.
The collection grows
Dozens of album covers spring from the USB stick.
And the collection kept growing.
Searching takes time
One song appears on several reference cards. A dot hops between them as a clock speeds up; two waveforms overlap until they match.
Search, listen, compare… Is it the same track? Time away from the music.
Music and programming meet
The waveform sits between two programming braces.
Music and programming, my two passions, came together in TrackTidy.
It starts with duplicates
Repeated covers pair up and the collection settles into a grid grouped by colour.
It started with duplicates. Then it grew to help you organize your collection.
The music returns
The organized collection plays in Franky's headphones again. The official TrackTidy logo and Fran's signature appear.
More time to enjoy your collection. — Fran
A note from Fran
Keeping my collection up to date meant jumping between websites and tools: looking up track information, listening to recognize different versions, then going back to another app to organize the files. I wanted all that work to feel connected.
I started with duplicates, but TrackTidy grew as I used it with my own collection. Each improvement aimed to solve something that was taking up my time. In the end, the point was never to organize for its own sake, but to spend less time managing my collection and more time enjoying the music.
FranCreator of TrackTidy