Make and Find Albums
Press your own tracks into a vinyl album — or point SnagTrax at an album cover and hear the record.
You bring
A few songs on your phone — or an album cover, its barcode, or a photo of it.
You get
Your own album in the Album Crate — or a preview of the album, playing on a record.
- Your songs
- Vinylize a Playlist
- Album Crate
- An album cover
- Snap-to-Sound
- Preview record
Watch it
Step by step
- Press your tracks into an albumTap Open menu, then Vinylize a Playlist, and pick your songs — up to 30.
- Choose the cover and the orderSwipe through the covers found in your songs or add your own, and drag the tracks into order.
- Press itTap Press vinyl and name the album. It plays as a record, and waits in the Album Crate.
- Find an album from its coverOpen the menu, then Snap-to-Sound, and choose Camera, Barcode, or Image for a photo you already have.
- Hear the previewSnagTrax finds the album and plays it as a preview record. It's kept in Previewed Albums.
Good to know
- SnagTrax lays your tracks out on sides by length, like a real record.
- If Snap-to-Sound isn't sure, it offers a few albums to choose from, or a search on YouTube.
More to do
Still stuck? Tell us what you were trying to do
- Hold — Keep your finger on it for about half a second. Many buttons do one thing on a tap and another on a hold.
- Stems — The separate parts of a song — vocals, drums, bass and the rest — that splitting makes.
- Split — Separating a song into its stems. It happens on our servers and takes a few minutes.
- Bookmark — A saved moment in a track. It can have an end too, and then it's a section you can loop or export.
- Loop — A section that plays over and over, starting again the moment it ends.
- Bank — A set of eight bookmarks. Each track has four banks, A to D.
- Cue — The spot where the needle last came down on the record. CUE takes you back to it.
- BPM — Beats per minute: how fast the song's beat is.
- Key — The set of notes a song is built around, such as C major. Changing the key moves every note up or down together.
- Semitone — The smallest step between two notes. Twelve semitones make an octave.
- Transient — The start of a sound, like a drum hit — the spot a new bookmark can snap to.
- Pad — A square you tap to play a sound, as on a drum machine or sampler.
- Sampler — An instrument that plays recorded sounds from pads or keys, like an Akai MPC or a Synthstrom Deluge.
- Kit — A set of sounds laid out on a sampler's pads, one to a pad, ready to play.