Crucial Tracks: Changelog & Roadmap
Changelog
April 2025
- Initial 1.0 release
- User profiles and authentication
- Entry creation and management
- Apple Music search
- A view of all public posts - Public Tracks - find new music and people to follow!
- Added a profile setting to default new entries to Public
- Added an onboarding message for new users
- Added a rotating daily prompt feature to help you write each day
- Added a 'Use Daily Prompt' button to the new entry page
- Bug fixes and mobile layout improvements
- Better content support in RSS feed (markdown converted to HTML)
- Individual URLs for public entries (a popular request!)
- Added 40+ prompts
- Support content
- Add your songs to an Apple Music playlist (instructions here)
- Added user preference for date format (MDY or DMY)
- Added user preference for RSS title prefix - you can change the 'Crucial Track for' text to whatever you want. (Rest of title will be the date, in the format you selected for the site.)
- Add user preference to share Apple Music playlist URL - adds the playlist link to your public profile page, to the bottom of each RSS feed item, and on the Public Tracks page.
- Added better prompt management - site now tracks when prompts were shown so all prompts are used before one is re-used.
May 2025
- Sharing to Bluesky and Mastodon - configure to automatically share new entries to these sites.
- Add (optional) additional, custom text when you share to Mastodon and Bluesky.
- Added support for passing an Apple Music song via URL to start an entry with that song on Crucial Tracks. More info here.
- Improved the selected song UI.
- Added RSS feed to Public Tracks page
- Community Tracks - a weekly curated playlist from the Crucial Tracks community
- Added profile badges for the first 100 users and posts created (10/30/60)
- Add to Homescreen + Add to Dock - on Apple devices you can now add Crucial Tracks to your dock and/or homescreen.
- Added user time zone support
- Added markdown toolbar for entry content
- Added community links to the dashboard: Public Tracks and Community Playlists
- Improved prompt scheduling and added a Last 10 Prompts view
- Utilize past prompts when creating entries for days in the past - the prompts from the last two weeks are available. (Select older days on the calendar widget or select a past day on the Create Entry page, then click Use Daily Prompt button)
- Improved styling for some HTML elements
- Added webring functionality to public profile pages
- Added JSON feeds for profiles and Public Tracks. Complete with a song details extension that breaks out the details into fields – great for automation.
- Added support for Song.link links for every shared song. Get to other streaming services easily!
June 2025
- Crucial Connections - with every public post, see other users who listen to the same artist or have written about the same song.
Roadmap
Planned for the future
- More daily Crucial Tracks prompts
- Export your data
- Potential Ideas:
- Reply by Email?
- Profile embed for your blog?
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