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Walkthroughs of the workflows DJs and sellers use every day.

🎵 Scan your first record
  1. Open the app and point the camera at the record label; fill the frame, keep it flat.
  2. Press SCAN. Hold still while it reads the label; a match lands in the row below within seconds.
  3. Tap the match to open the full player: BPM, key, waveform, and the complete tracklist.
Dim shop? Tap LIGHT (long-press latches it). Album covers and barcodes scan too; just point and press.
🖨️ Print a DJ label
  1. From the player, tap Label.
  2. Pick the DJ mode. Tap tracks to include or drop them; hold a track to reorder.
  3. Missing a BPM or key? Hold the key/BPM chip on any track to set it with the stepper and Camelot wheel.
  4. Choose your stock (2.4" roll or 1"×2" die-cut), and the A−/A+ buttons beside the preview resize the type.
  5. Tap Print. The label prints with a QR code that plays the record when scanned.
Works with Brother QL-series and Rollo thermal printers — see the gear shop, or the same list inside the app's print hub.
🔖 Print an OBI strip
  1. From the player, tap Label, then pick OBI mode.
  2. Check the spine width. Label Mate reads the disc count off the tracklist (A–D means a double LP, so a thicker spine), but you can correct it.
  3. Load 8.5"×14" Legal cardstock (the thicker, the better, but anything above 60lb should be sufficient. DO NOT USE REGULAR PAPER - you will have a bad time.) and pick Legal in the print dialog. On singular prints, two strips print per sheet, in case you make a mistake.
  4. Cut along the vertical trim marks, then score each fold with a ruler and a bone folder before folding.
  5. Wrap the strip around the sleeve. The spine faces out; the tracklist lands on the back flap. Minimal info on the front to keep the artwork the star.
Score on something soft. A card-game playmat is ideal. On a hard desk the folder skates and the crease comes out shallow. Cardstock, trimmer, ruler, bone folder and mat are all in the gear shop. Turn on Fold guides on back and a duplex printer puts mirrored score lines on the reverse, so you can crease from the fold-away side.
🎨 Print a custom image across a shelf of spines
  1. Set up a crate of the records you want the picture to span, then open the Print Hub and choose Print all labels.
  2. Pick OBI mode and switch on Spine art across the shelf. (Pro, and it needs at least two records, one spine isn't it.)
  3. Choose your image. Drag to move, pinch to zoom; the dashed lines show where each record's spine cuts it.
  4. Set the shelf order: by year, by title, or drag the rows by hand. That's the order you'll file them in.
  5. Print, fold, wrap, and file them left to right. The picture assembles along the spines.
Bold shapes work best. Each spine is only about a fifth of an inch wide and loses a sliver at every fold, so faces and small text turn to noise. A logo, or a strong graphic reads far better across a row.
💰 Price a record for sale
  1. Scan the record, open the player, tap Label, and switch to Seller mode.
  2. Pick the condition grade to print (NM, VG+, VG, G+).
  3. The price starts at Discogs's recommendation for the pressing; nudge it with the up/down stepper, in your currency.
  4. Set format and vinyl color if you like; they print on the tag's footer line.
  5. Print, peel, tag the sleeve. The sales-reference row shows the low/median/high so you know where you sit.
👓 Label a white label or promo
  1. Tap the printer button next to Settings; this opens the print hub, no camera needed.
  2. Know the record? Find it in your Discogs collection (browse by letter or search) or paste its Discogs link: the tracklist, BPMs, and keys fill in automatically.
  3. Not on Discogs at all? Choose Manual entry: type the artist and tracks, and dial in positions, times, BPMs, and keys with the wheels, no typing codes.
  4. Add notes (pressing quirks, where you found it). they print in the label's NOTES area.
  5. Preview and print.
Every record in your collection also gets a Player button in the hub; hear it without scanning.
🏪 Run a booth: inventory, selling & the day's numbers

Before the fair - get your stock tagged

  1. Build a crate of what you're bringing: scan records straight into it, or add them from your Discogs collection in the print hub.
  2. Print a seller tag for every record in the crate (see “Price a record for sale” above). Each tag carries the price and a QR code that identifies that exact copy.
  3. Hold the crate and choose Move to seller inventory. Every record has to be tagged first. if some aren't, the menu tells you how many are still missing labels.

At the fair - selling

  1. Tap Inventory on the main screen. You'll see everything that's For sale, plus a running Sales Overview.
  2. Buyer walks up with a stack? Tap Start Selling, then point the camera at each tag's QR code to ring it up.
  3. Haggled on the lot? Dial the stack price: what the buyer pays for the whole pile, however many records are in it.
  4. Pick how they're paying: Cash, Venmo, Cash App or Zelle. For the apps, your payment QR goes on screen for the buyer to scan.
  5. Tap Mark Sold. Those records leave the for-sale list, and the sale lands in the day's numbers.

After: the day's numbers

  1. Open Sales Overview for gross, records sold, order count, how people paid, and a timeline of when the sales came in.
  2. Give the day a name (“Denton TX · Revolution Convention”) so it's recognizable later, then print the sales report or export the sales CSV for your books.
  3. Packing up, tap Delete inventory to clear the stock. It offers to export the ledger first. Take it, that's the only copy.
Set a booth printer in the print hub and every sale prints the buyer a receipt automatically. No extra tap between you and the next person in line. Adding a record you forgot to bring? Add to inventory by scanning seller tags takes it straight in, one tag at a time.
🎲 Roll the dice
  1. Connect Discogs in Settings so Label Mate knows your collection.
  2. Tap ROLL (the dice next to SCAN); a random record you own starts playing, roulette ticks included.
  3. Long-press the dice to roll your wantlist instead, a reminder of what you're hunting.
Rolls are free; they never touch your daily scan budget.
Build a crate for a gig
  1. Open the Print Hub and tap New Crate: name it after the night you're playing.
  2. Back on the scan screen, hold the Print Hub button and pick that crate. It's now the active crate, and every record you scan drops straight into it.
  3. Pull records, scan them, put them in the box. Swipe a card away to pull it back out of the crate.
  4. Swipe the stack to flip through the crate like a real bin; tap any record to play it.
  5. Cards flag what's still missing: “2 missing BPM”, “1 missing key”, or a star when a record's metadata is complete. Fill the gaps when you print, by holding a track's key/BPM chip in the approval step to set it with the stepper and Camelot wheel, or page Doctor Beat from the player and get the tempo by ear. What you set is what prints.
  6. Hold the crate to print every label in one run (Pro), or print a crate sheet: a single page listing everything you brought, so you can see the whole box at a glance without flipping through it.
Already labelled the records? Scan their QR codes to sweep the whole crate in seconds; the codes identify a record faster than the camera can read the label.
🩺 Doctor Beat: check a BPM by ear
  1. Open a record in the player and long-press the BPM badge to page Doctor Beat.
  2. A bar of the track loops seamlessly at the tempo shown. A correct BPM loops forever without a seam; a wrong one drifts or stutters.
  3. Hold the loop region and drag to slide it somewhere more useful, a bar with a clear kick pattern rather than an intro. Plain-drag the waveform to scroll to another part of the track, and pinch to zoom in for precise work.
  4. Hold a loop edge and drag to fine-tune that boundary. Resizing the loop is setting the tempo: fit the loop exactly to one bar and the BPM follows. It's usually faster than the wheel.
  5. ...Or spin the BPM wheel until the loop locks, and use ×2 / ÷2 when the tempo is right but the loop is the wrong length.
  6. Long-press the badge again to exit and keep the tempo.
A corrected BPM sticks to the record: it shows in the player, on its crate card, and prints on its label.
🎹 Doctor Key: hear whether the key fits
  1. Long-press the key badge in the player to page Doctor Key. It reuses the loop you set in Doctor Beat, so perfect the loop there first if you haven't.
  2. The loop plays with the scale of the selected key over the top, ascending and descending, in time. In the right key the scale sits in the track; in the wrong one it fights it, and you'll hear the clash immediately.
  3. Spin the wheel through the Camelot codes until the scale settles into the record. The piano roll shows where you are in the bar.
  4. Slide up or down on the waveform to set the scale's volume against the track, and tap it to restart the loop.
  5. Long-press the badge again to exit and keep the key.
No key detected at all? Doctor Key still opens, seeded at 8A: dial until it fits and you've got one where you had nothing.

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