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the manual · everything in one page

How to use this thing.

A record-collection app built for the shelf, the record store, and the AI sitting next to you. If you've used Discogs, you'll find your way around. This is the same idea, friendlier on a phone, and the AI actually knows your taste.

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The quick tour.

Signing in

No passwords here. Signing in works like this:

  1. Type your email address and press Send link.
  2. Open your email on this same phone or computer.
  3. Find the message from Runout. Check the Spam folder if it's not there.
  4. Click the link in it. You're in.

You land on the library, every record you've added, with covers, artist, album, and a few quick filters across the top. Tap any cover to open the full album page.

The top nav takes you everywhere else: your shelf (records you actually own), Crate Mode for the store, the trip planner, the platform charts, the AI recommender, and your settings. There's also a Surprise button that opens a random record you own.

Records can be in one of four buckets: Want (wishlist), Have (on the shelf), Pass (you decided no), or AI suggested (the Oracle proposed it; not yet decided). The Want filter is the default because that's the record-store use case, “what am I hunting for.”

Home, the library with the filter row up top
Home, the library with the filter row up top

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The library.

The library shows everything: owned, wished-for, passed. Filter chips up top: All, Want, Have, Pass, plus tier and gateway chips when you're filtering by them.

Search

The big serif search bar matches across artist, title, lanes, your album notes, AND your pressing notes, so if you wrote “Virgil rec” in a pressing note three months ago, typing Virgil finds the record. Adding a second word narrows the results, type virgil grunge to find just that one.

Sort

Priority uses the tier system (1 must, 2 strong, 3 solid, 4 deep, 5 deeper) to put your highest-priority records first. A–Zalphabetizes by artist, ignoring articles like “The”, Beatles vs. Eagles end up where you'd expect them.

Lanes filter

Click Lanes ▾ to fold open every lane in your library with a count. Tap one to filter. Tap a second lane to widen the filter, picking Rock and Hip Hop shows records in either one. Tap a chip again to remove it.

Filter row with the Lanes dropdown folded open, counts per lane
Filter row with the Lanes dropdown folded open, counts per lane

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Adding records.

Three ways to add: manual, photo-of-the-cover, and Discogs CSV import. Pick whichever fits.

Manual

Hit + Add in the top nav. Type artist + title. We'll search Spotify and offer you the closest match, accept it and the cover, Spotify ID, and basic metadata land automatically. If the match is wrong, hit Pick manually on the album page later to choose a different release.

Photo of the cover

Same + Add page has a photo option. Useful when you've got the sleeve in your hands at the store:

  1. Tap + Add.
  2. Tap the photo button and take a picture of the album cover.
  3. Wait a few seconds. The app reads the cover and shows you its best guess.
  4. If the guess is right, confirm it. If not, type the correct artist and title.

Discogs CSV import

Already keep a collection on Discogs? Export it (Discogs → Collection → Export, or Wantlist → Export, they email you the CSV). Drop the file at /settings/import. We auto-detect whether it's a collection or wantlist export and run a preview first, nothing writes until you confirm. Re-imports are safe; duplicates are caught by the Discogs release ID. See Discogs sync for the full flow.

The add page, type it or snap the cover
The add page, type it or snap the cover

The verdict

However you add, photo or typed, the Oracle stamps the record first: ● STRONG, ◯ MAYBE, or × SKIP, with a one-line why grounded in your shelf. You see the verdict before you commit, so “add it” is an informed yes. Same brain as Crate Mode.

Starter packs (for an empty shelf)

Brand new and staring at nothing? The home page (and the welcome walkthrough) offers starter packs, twenty records to your want list in one tap. Four curated packs (The Canon, Jazz Essentials, Hip-Hop Foundations, Alternative & Post-Punk). A fifth pack, Most Collected on Runout, appears once enough collectors are on the platform; it is built live from what everyone here actually shelves. Re-adding a pack never duplicates records you already have; prune the ones that aren’t you afterwards.

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Discogs (import + export).

In Settings, under Your shelf, hit Bring your collection in. It auto-detects whether you dropped a collection or wantlist CSV. Same page also has export buttons.

Import

Two-step flow:

  • Upload, drop the .csv (up to 2MB; a 5,000-row Discogs export is well under that).
  • Preview, we show you exactly what will happen per row: new album + pressing, + pressing on existing album, duplicate, skipping, new wishlist album, or already in library, skipping. Counts at the top: X rows → Y new albums, Z new pressings, W skipped. Confirm to commit, cancel to start over.

Re-imports are safe. Each pressing carries the Discogs release ID; a row whose release ID is already on file gets skipped automatically. So you can run the same export again next month and only the new records land.

Wantlist behavior: wantlist rows only become new wishlist albums if the album doesn't already exist in your library at any status. Already-owned or passed records stay put, no downgrades.

Export

Same page has two download buttons:

  • Collection CSV, one row per pressing for every owned album, in Discogs's exact format. Re-importable back into your Discogs account.
  • Wantlist CSV, one row per wishlist album.

Pressing types map back to Discogs format codes (Reissue → RE, Remastered → RE, RM, Audiophile → 180g, Colored → color name, etc.). Round-trips cleanly.

Discogs import preview, every row labeled before anything is written
Discogs import preview, every row labeled before anything is written

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The album page.

Tap any cover and you land on the album page, the workshop for that one record. Big cover on the left, all the editorial copy and your controls on the right.

Status, priority, lanes

Your call sets Want / Have / Pass. Priority sets the tier (1 must → 5 deeper). Lanes are clickable filter chips with × buttons to remove and a + add lane button at the end. See Lanes for the genre/custom system.

Editorial copy

Below the title you'll see Why you'll like it, the album snapshot, why-it's-shelf-worthy, edition notes, findability, and a record-store tip. These are AI-written but only when you ask for them, hit Rewrite with AI at the bottom of any block to fill or refresh.

Album notes

Your notes is a freeform text box you own. The search bar searches it. Friends who recommended a record, the mood you put it on, the bar where you heard it, drop it here and it'll come back when you need it.

Cover

Click the cover any time to see it full screen. Press ESC or click anywhere outside the photo to close it. Re-fetch Spotify grabs a fresh cover. Pick manually opens a list of close Spotify matches when the auto-pick was wrong. Upload photo uses your own photo of the album as the cover, useful for variants Spotify doesn't have.

Listen / Tracks

The Listen button opens the album on Spotify or Tidal, whichever you picked in Settings under Listening. Tracks opens the tracklist (loaded from Discogs by side, A1 / A2 / B1 etc.). If a tracklist hasn't been fetched yet, the button offers to fetch it. If the tracklist looks wrong (wrong edition, missing songs), scroll to the bottom of it and tap Refetch from Discogs.

Similar picks

At the bottom: two AI-suggested companion records specific to this album. Add them to your wantlist or skip. Each click generates two fresh ones, old companions get cleared so the list never piles up stale.

Chat with the Oracle

Pinned to the bottom of every album page is a conversational AI chat scoped to that record. Ask it anything: “is this a good entry point to their catalog?”, “what should I play next if I love this?”, “is the original press worth chasing?” The Oracle reads your taste, your library, and the album's notes when answering. Voice changes via personas.

Album page, Sade, Diamond Life: status, priority, lanes, listen link, editorial copy
Album page, Sade, Diamond Life: status, priority, lanes, listen link, editorial copy

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Pressings.

One album, multiple physical copies. The pressings section on each album page is where you log them, original press, reissue, audiophile half-speed, picture disc, whatever you've got.

Adding a pressing

Hit + Add pressing. Pick a type (Original, Reissue, Remastered, Collector's, Audiophile, Colored, Limited, Bootleg, Unknown). Optional fields: year, label, catalog number, country, color, purchase date, price, store, photo, notes. Everything except type is optional, log as much as you care to.

Photos

Each pressing can have its own photo. Useful for variants, the colored vinyl pulled from the sleeve, the matrix runout etched in the dead wax, the OBI strip on a Japanese press. Photos resize to 1920px on the long edge before upload, so a phone shot doesn't take forever.

Pressing notes

Same as album notes but per-pressing. The library search reads these too. So “Pallas pressing” or “the one from the bin sale” will find the right copy when you search.

Tracks + Pressings side by side, a logged reissue with photo, price paid, and buy notes
Tracks + Pressings side by side, a logged reissue with photo, price paid, and buy notes

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The shelf.

Click My Shelf →in the nav. Owned records only. This is the “showroom”, bigger covers, more breathing room, written-up like a gallery rather than a spreadsheet. On a wide monitor the grid spreads out to use the whole screen.

Three view modes

Top-right of the shelf, three icon buttons toggle the layout (your pick is remembered for next time):

  • ▦ Big, full-detail tiles with synopsis, album notes, and a per-pressing strip (photos + types + pressing notes). Tiles stay big on any screen.
  • ≡ Compact, more records per screen. Small thumbnail on the left, artist and title big, a short synopsis alongside.
  • ☰ Table, dense catalog. Cover thumb, artist, title, lanes, year (earliest pressing), pressings summary, and a notes column that pulls album notes first and pressing notes second. The whole row is clickable. Scrolls sideways on phones, feels like a real spreadsheet.

Sort: Alpha · Date added · Random

Three buttons on the left of the view toggle. Pick stays put across visits.

  • Alpha, by artist, ignoring leading articles (“The Beatles” sorts under B).
  • Date added, newest record at the top.
  • Random ↻, every visit to the shelf gives you a fresh shuffle, so you stop seeing the same first three records. Click it again while it's already active to reshuffle in place.

Search the shelf

Once your shelf has more than 20 records, a small search bar appears above the view toggle. Search artist / title / lane / notes, same matching rules as the main library search. A lanes dropdown lives next to it for filtering by genre/scene.

Click any photo to see it big

Click the album cover, on the album page or in the shelf's Big view, and it opens full screen. Pressing photos work the same way. Press ESC or click anywhere outside the photo to close it. Useful for showing off the colored vinyl, the OBI strip, the matrix runout, etc.

Shelf synopsis (museum cards)

Each owned record can have a 2–3 sentence AI-written “museum card”, neutral curator voice, third person, surfaces specific details (original pressings, rare reissues, your album notes, your pressing memories). Hit the Write the missing… button at the top of the shelf. It writes up to 25 at a time; when more are waiting, it becomes Write the next 25 (so a giant shelf doesn't kick off a runaway AI loop). ↻ Rewrite card on any tile rewrites just that one. Written once and saved on the record, so it's a one-time cost per record.

What should I play?

Chip on the shelf header. Type a mood (or hit a preset like “rainy Sunday morning” or “dinner party”) and the Oracle picks 1–3 records from your shelf with one-line reasons. Pure utility, no persona, just “here's what to put on right now.”

Share shelf

Top right of /shelf. Copies your public-profile URL to the clipboard if you've turned the public profile on (see Public profile); otherwise it points you at Settings to flip the toggle.

The shelf in Big view, sort + view toggles up top, big tiles below
The shelf in Big view, sort + view toggles up top, big tiles below

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Lanes (genres + custom).

Lanes are how you slice your collection. Two kinds: standard genres(Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz, R&B / Soul, etc.) for the obvious stuff, and custom for the personal stuff (NorCal/Sacramento, Cooking, Late Night, Sunday Morning, whatever you want).

Manage lanes (settings)

Settings → Manage lanes shows your full vocabulary. Genres on top with usage counts, customs below. You can rename any lane (the new name shows up on every album that uses it), delete a lane (strips the tag from albums; the records themselves stay), toggle between genre and custom, and add new lanes from a small form.

Auto-cleanup

Top of the Manage Lanes page is a Run auto-cleanup button. It splits compound lanes (“Jazz / Cooking” becomes Jazz + Cooking), maps synonyms (Hip-Hop → Hip Hop, Rap → Hip Hop, Soul → R&B / Soul), and adds canonical genre tags from keywords (a “Classic Rock” lane keeps its name AND tags Rock alongside it). Run once. You can keep tweaking by hand afterwards.

Adding a lane to one specific album

On the album page, hit the small + add lane button at the end of the chip row. Type to filter your catalog or type a brand-new name and hit + Create “your name” at the top, that creates a new custom lane and tags this album in one tap.

Manage lanes, auto-cleanup up top, genres and customs below
Manage lanes, auto-cleanup up top, genres and customs below

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Spotify + Tidal.

Optional but worth it. In Settings, under Listening, find Spotify account and hit Connect Spotify →. You'll be bounced to Spotify, you click Authorize, you come back. The connection unlocks:

  • Your top tracks (last ~6 months) and recent listens get quietly fed into Oracle prompts so recs land closer to what you've actually been playing.
  • The Make a list feature can pull tracks from any of your albums to build a copy-pasteable tracklist (see Make a list).
  • Listen buttons open the album directly on Spotify for every record that has a match.

Pick where you listen

Settings → Where you listenSpotify or Tidal. This drives every Listen link in the app, album pages, shared lists, your runout page. Tidal needs no account connection (links open a Tidal search for the record). The Spotify extras above, listening signals and the playlist builder, stay Spotify-only because they need Spotify's account API.

Re-fetching covers

On any album page, Re-fetch Spotify grabs a fresh cover and metadata. Works without you connecting your personal Spotify, Spotify's public API handles album lookups via app-level credentials.

If something gets weird

Spotify caches authorizations on their end. If the linked scope ever needs an upgrade and a normal reconnect doesn't seem to take, the fix is:

That clears Spotify's cached approval and gets you a fresh grant.

Settings → Spotify account, linked status and granted scopes
Settings → Spotify account, linked status and granted scopes

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Crate Mode (in-store).

The fastest way to use the app in a store. Open Crate from the home nav, then either snap the cover or flip to Type and enter artist + title. If the record is already in your library, owned, wanted, or passed, it says so instantly, no AI involved, no waiting.

If it's new to you, the Oracle reads it against your taste and stamps it: ● STRONG (buy it), ◯ MAYBE (listen first), or × SKIP (walk away), with a one-line why and suggested lanes. Verdicts stack up in a running session list as you dig. Nothing is saved to your library unless you tap + Add to wishlist on an entry, and the session clears when you're done.

Crate Mode, type mode, a ● STRONG verdict with the why, ready to add
Crate Mode, type mode, a ● STRONG verdict with the why, ready to add

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Store trip planner.

For before you leave the house. Open Store trip, optionally tell it a budget (“$80 · three records max”), a mood or focus (“deepen the jazz shelf”), and how many records you're hunting. One AI call turns your want list into a prioritized hunt list, each record with a short pitch and a practical HUNT tip (what pressing to look for, what it should cost).

Tick records off as you find them in the bins. The plan lives on your phone (not the server) and sticks around until you build a new one.

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At the record store.

The whole reason this app exists. Phone-first, fast, doesn't stutter. Pull it up while flipping through bins:

  • Default filter is Want, you land on what you're hunting for, not your full catalog.
  • Search the artistif you find something interesting and want to know if you already have it. The search reads notes too, “already pressed” or “Virgil rec” turns up.
  • Tap a record for the full editorial, the tier (must vs. deeper), the gateway pick badge if it's an entry point to that artist, the original-vs-reissue note, the record-store tip the AI wrote.
  • Crate Mode for anything you're not sure about, snap the cover, get a verdict, keep flipping (see Crate Mode).
  • Plan the trip first, the trip planner turns your wants into a prioritized hunt list before you leave home.
  • Surprise button if you can't decide.
  • + Add with the photo input if you find something brand new, snap, accept the Spotify match, and it's tracked.

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The AI (the Oracle).

The Oracle reads your taste profile, your library notes, your lanes, your Spotify listens (if you connect Spotify), and the running notes the AI keeps about you. It speaks in whichever voice you pick.

Personas (seven voices)

Settings → Pick a voice. Same brain, different personality:

  • The Clerk (default), record-store clerk who knows you by name. Direct, conversational.
  • The Snob, matrix runouts, original pressings, mild condescension about reissues.
  • The Old Head, saw them live in '74. The show was better than the record.
  • The Gatekeeper, High Fidelity, but it's Tuesday and they're tired.
  • The Hype Man, everything goes hard, you HAVE to hear this.
  • The Burnout, cosmic vibes, the bassline opens portals.
  • The Detective, your collection is a case, the suspect is your taste.

The voice only changes the conversational stuff, Ask the Oracle recommendations, the album chat, the public profile synopsis, the “Why it's on repeat” blurbs. Behind-the-scenes stuff (similar picks, editorial fill, reprioritize) stays neutral so catalog copy reads consistently.

Ask the Oracle

Top nav → Ask AI →. Optional mood prompt (“something for cooking”, “hip-hop I'm probably missing”), pick 1 pick or 3 picks, hit roll. Check New to me only if you want the Oracle to skip anything already on your shelf or want list. Each rec has artist + title + why-this-fits-you. Hit + Add to Want to save it, Skip to dismiss it, or the listen link to hear it. If a rec is already in your library, an Open → button takes you straight to that record.

Album chat

Bottom of every album page. Type a question, get an answer grounded in your taste and your shelf. If you don't know what to ask, tap one of the suggested questions. Tap ↻ re-roll to get new suggestions.

AI taste notes

Settings → The oracle's notes. Your hand-written taste profile is sacred, the Oracle doesn't touch it. But the AI keeps its own running notes about what it's noticing: patterns across your owned records, what you've passed on, the moods your album notes reveal. Hit Generate the first time, Refresh later when you want it to catch up. Clear wipes the notes; the next refresh re-reads from scratch.

Reprioritize the wantlist

Settings → Re-rank the Wants. The Oracle reads your full wantlist and re-tiers each record (1 must → 5 deeper) based on how close it sits to your taste, what you've passed on, and your lane preferences. Useful when the wantlist starts feeling random.

The persona picker, seven voices for the Oracle
The persona picker, seven voices for the Oracle

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Blind spots.

An editorial audit of what your collection is missing. The Oracle reads your whole library, lanes, eras, what you've passed on, and writes a critical report: thin lanes, skipped scenes, adjacent territory you'd probably love. With it come five fix-it records, which ride the same Add / Skip flow as recommendations.

Reports are saved, revisiting the page is free. Re-run it after your shelf has changed enough to deserve a fresh opinion.

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Monthly recap.

Your month in vinyl, wrapped. Records added, what landed on the shelf, pressings bought, money spent, which lanes got deeper, and what you actually played (when Spotify is connected). The stats are computed straight from your library and always free.

✦ Write my recap adds a short AI-written blurb on top, one per month, saved forever, so the button can't be mashed into a bill. Flip back through past months with the arrows.

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Surprise + What should I play.

Surprise

Top nav → ✦ Surprise. Picks a random owned album and opens its page. Useful when you've got 200 records on the shelf and can't decide. Also lives at the top of /shelf.

What should I play?

On /shelf, expand the chip in the header. Type a mood (“rainy Sunday,” “dinner with friends,” “getting hyped,” or hit one of the presets). The Oracle picks 1–3 records FROM YOUR SHELF with a one-line reason each. Click an album to open its page; click Listen to hear it.

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Make a list (playlist generator).

The ♫ Make a list button lives on the home page. On a computer it sits in the header row next to Select / Share. On a phone, look in the small row of buttons just below the filters. It opens a window that pulls tracks from whatever's currently filtered, plus a copy-pasteable text output.

How it works

Filter your library to whatever set you want as the source. For example, hit Want + a Lane chip to get “all my wishlist Hip Hop.” Click Make a list. Pick a strategy:

  • ↦ First, first N tracks of each album in track order. Side A start.
  • ↻ Shuffle, random N tracks per album. Re-roll changes the mix.
  • ★ Top, top N tracks by Spotify popularity per album.

Slide for tracks-per-album (1–5). Hit Generate. You get two text boxes: Artist, Title lines (paste into Soundiiz, TuneMyMusic, Apple Music importers) and bare Spotify URLs (paste straight into a Spotify playlist on desktop and they all add at once). Each has a Copy button.

Make a list from a hand-picked set

Click Select / Share to enter select mode, tap covers to pick the records you want, then ♫ Make a list · N button uses just those.

Make a list, picking strategy + tracks-per-album slider
Make a list, picking strategy + tracks-per-album slider

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The Charts.

Platform-wide leaderboards, Discogs-style: Most Collected (on the most shelves right now) and Most Wanted (top of the most want lists). Each person counts once per record, and only the aggregate is public, nobody can see your shelf through the charts.

With a young platform the counts start small. That's honest. Watch them grow.

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Sharing.

Three ways to share what's on your shelf or list:

Public profile

Long-lived URL at /u/yourslug. Updates live as you add records. Friends bookmark it; you don't have to re-share when things change. See Public profile.

Shared lists (snapshots)

From the home page, click Select / Share, check the records you want to share, hit Share. You get a private web link like /list/abc123…that's a frozen snapshot. Useful for “here's my hunt list for Saturday,” or “these are the records I'm thinking about, opinions?” The list shows your name and photo at the top, so your friend knows who it's from. If your runout page is public, it links there too.

Private shares (to another Runout user)

When making a shared list, you can address it to a specific user by email. They'll see it under Shared in the top nav (with a count badge). Useful if you and a friend both use the app, pass lists back and forth without making them public.

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Public profile.

Off by default. When you turn it on, you get a public URL like yourdomain.com/u/yourslug, anyone with the link can see your display name, stats, owned shelf, wantlist, optional photo, optional AI synopsis, and your three On Repeat picks. No email, no private notes, no taste profile leaks. Visitors don't need to sign in.

Setting it up

In Settings, scroll to Your runout page:

  • Profile photo, drop a picture (your shelf, your wall, your face, whatever). Landscape photos go full width above the bio; portrait photos float left of the bio with text wrapping. Click it on the public page to see it full screen.
  • Display name, how the page introduces you.
  • URL slug, 3–30 lowercase letters/digits/hyphens. Has to be unique. Examples: brian, mr-hooper, norcal-vinyl.
  • Public profile is ON, the master toggle. Turn it off and the page shows nothing.
  • Show the AI synopsis, separate toggle so you can have a generated synopsis but not display it. Off by default.

The synopsis

Below the toggles, hit Generate (or ↻ Rewrite) to have the Oracle write a third-person introduction in your selected persona's voice. The prompt always includes a “if you wanted to buy them a record, here's the move” beat, a concrete gift suggestion grounded in your wantlist or shelf. Saved; it only changes when you ask for a rewrite.

On Repeat

In Settings, under Your shelf, find Up to three on repeat. Pick up to three records from your shelf to feature with optional one-line blurbs. Surfaces above the shelf grid on your public page and small chips on your home page. AI can write the blurb for you if you click + write with AI next to the text box.

Search on a busy profile

When your public shelf + wantlist top 20 records, a quiet search bar appears at the top of your visitor's view (artist / title / lane). Stays out of the way for small collections but makes a 600-record library actually navigable for someone you sent the link to.

A runout page, the public face of a shelf
A runout page, the public face of a shelf

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Settings reference.

Settings is one long page in seven sections, with a row of jump buttons at the top. Here's what lives where:

01 · Look & feel

  • Pick your color, the single accent color used everywhere. Defaults to the radioactive orange. Nine presets, plus a custom hex picker.
  • Bigger type, accessibility toggle. Bumps every text size across the app, raises the smallest labels to 12px+, and boosts text contrast.

02 · Listening

  • Where you listen, Spotify or Tidal. Sets the service every Listen link opens (playlist builder and On Repeat signals stay Spotify-only).
  • Spotify account, connect / disconnect + granted-scope readout.

03 · The oracle

  • Taste profile + lane sliders, your hand-written taste profile plus one slider per lane (1–5, neutral 3). Edit the prose; the sliders nudge the Oracle toward or away from a lane.
  • Pick a voice, Oracle persona picker (seven voices).
  • The oracle's notes, generate / refresh / clear the AI's running notes about your taste.
  • Re-rank the Wants, Oracle re-tiers your wantlist.

04 · Your shelf

  • Up to three on repeat, three slot editors for current rotation, with optional AI-written blurbs.
  • Manage lanes, auto-cleanup + rename / merge / delete / add lanes.
  • Bring your collection in, opens the Discogs importer/exporter.

05 · Your runout page

  • Profile photo, the picture on your public page.
  • Page + synopsis, slug, display name, public toggle, synopsis toggle, generate / rewrite synopsis.
Settings, every dial in one long page
Settings, every dial in one long page

06 · Talk back

  • The suggestion box, a plain text box for feature ideas or bug reports. It goes straight to the person who builds Runout, with your email attached so you get a reply.

07 · Membership

  • Your membership, all in one place: your plan status, a “Manage billing” button that opens a secure Stripe page where you can cancel anytime or update your card, CSV downloads of your collection and want list, and account deletion. Deleting cancels billing and erases everything; it cannot be undone.

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Membership + the AI budget.

Runout is $24 a year, flat, billed by card through Stripe. Everything in this manual is included, no tiers, no per-feature charges, no ads. Cancel anytime from Settings, under Membership; you keep access to the end of the year you paid for. Within the first 30 days, a full refund is one email away (hello@myrunout.com).

The AI budget

Every account gets a generous daily allowance of Oracle calls. It covers a long store session plus recs and chats. Heavier work (verdicts, recommendations, essays) draws more of it than quick mechanical jobs. The allowance resets at midnight UTC.

If you somehow hit it, you'll see a “daily AI budget” message, nothing is lost, everything else keeps working, and the meter resets overnight. Library lookups in Crate Mode, search, the shelf, stats, and the charts never touch the budget, only the Oracle does.

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Other things to know.

The accent color

One color across the whole app, selections, links, CTAs, focus rings. Default radioactive orange (#FF4D00) because it's the only color anyway. Settings → Pick your color for nine presets including bone, sage, sand, rust if you want quieter, or hot pink / acid green if you want louder. Custom hex picker too.

Bigger type

Settings → Bigger type. Scales every text size up, raises the tiny mono labels to at least 12px, and brightens muted text for contrast. Built for arm's length and older eyes. This is your setting alone, not visible to anyone else.

Magic-link sign-in

No passwords. You enter your email, we send a one-time link, you click it, you're in (step-by-step in the quick tour). Sessions persist on the same browser for a long time so you don't have to do this often.

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When something's off.

The AI says weird stuff about my taste

Settings → The oracle's notesClear Refresh. That re-reads your library from scratch. If the synopsis on your public profile is off, Settings → Your runout page↻ Rewrite.

It says I'm out of AI budget

You hit the daily allowance (see Membership). It resets at midnight UTC. Everything that doesn't call the Oracle, search, shelf, library checks in Crate Mode, charts, stats, keeps working in the meantime.

A pressing's photo isn't loading

Re-upload it. Photos live in the same Storage bucket as cover uploads; a stale URL would point at a missing object. The replace button on the pressing form swaps it cleanly.

An album has the wrong cover

On the album page: Pick manually (cycles through close Spotify matches), or Upload photo (use your own photo of the actual sleeve). Custom uploads override the Spotify cover everywhere.

The tracklist looks wrong

Wrong edition, missing songs, bonus tracks that shouldn't be there. Open Tracks on the album page, scroll to the bottom of the list, and tap Refetch from Discogs to pull it again.

I imported a Discogs CSV but covers are blank

By design, the import doesn't auto-fetch covers because it would hammer the Spotify API for hundreds of records at once. On any newly-imported album, hit Re-fetch Spotify to pull the cover. We may add a batch enrich button later.

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