Your band's albums live in the Albums section of your band page, next to your setlists. Each album starts as a private draft, and nothing goes public until you publish it. This page covers what you see there and how an album comes together. Making albums has the full field-by-field reference.
The Albums section
Each album has a row showing its title, its release date (if it has one) and its status:
- Draft: private. Only band members can see it.
- Published: live on your public band page and in the site-wide Albums catalog.
- Scheduled: published, but the release date is still in the future. Visitors see a countdown until then.
Click a row to open the album. Player opens the album's private player link (see Share it before release).
New Album starts a draft from a title and an optional release date. If the band has no albums yet, you'll see Get Started with Albums instead.
Creating, editing, publishing and deleting albums needs the Principal or Core role (by default). Other members can open albums, listen and see play counts.
Three ways to build an album
An album is a list of songs, and each song needs a specific recording behind it. You can start from a setlist recording, start from one song recording, or build it by hand.
Start from a setlist recording (fastest)
If you've recorded a set and split it into songs, the setlist player can do most of the work. Open the player and click Turn this playlist into an album.
The Album from playlist page shows:
- Tracks that will go on the album, in player order. Each song uses the take that's playing in the player.
- Takes that are left out, with the reason. Takes that aren't assigned to a song are left out. So are repeat takes of the same song, because an album can only have one take per song.
Skipped takes and video are left out without being listed.
Fill in the title and anything else you want now (description, credits, links, artwork). Tick the rights confirmation and click Create album. You land on the new draft with every track's audio already attached.
The album uses the player's order. If you want a different running order or a different take of a song, rearrange or skip takes in the player before you click. You can also change things on the album afterwards.
Start from a song recording
On a recording's page (a song recorded on its own, not a set), click Add to Album under Actions. Pick an existing album or create a new one. The song goes on the album with that recording as its audio.
If the song is already on the album, you'll be asked whether to use this recording as its audio instead.
Build it by hand
Building by hand is two separate steps on two different pages:
- Pick the songs. On the album, click Edit Album. Available songs lists your band's repertoire. Click + or drag a song into Album tracks, then drag the tracks into order. At this point the songs have no audio yet. Removing a track puts the song back in Available songs, and you can add it again later.
- Pick a recording for each song. Go back to the album page. Each track has a Select audio button. Once a track has audio, the button reads Audio set.
Select audio offers:
- Recording Splits: songs you've split out of your band's set recordings, labelled with when the set was recorded. Skipped takes and video aren't listed.
- Song Recordings: recordings made on the song's own page.
- Enter URL: a direct link to an audio file (.mp3, .wav). Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, YouTube and cloud-share pages won't play, so put those under the album's purchase links instead.
- Upload File: up to 100 MB. You'll need to confirm you have the rights.
- Clear Audio: removes the track's audio.
A recording only shows up under Recording Splits or Song Recordings if your band recorded it and it's assigned to that song. Each track also shows where its audio comes from: Recording Split, Song Recording, Uploaded File or Custom URL. Tracks without audio still appear on the album, marked No Audio, and won't play.
Album media
Each album can have:
- Album artwork: the cover. It's also used for link previews when you share the album.
- Header image: the banner across the top of the player.
- Track audio: recordings already in the band (splits and song recordings), uploaded files, or direct links.
For artwork and the header image, you can paste a URL or upload a file on the Edit Album page or the Album from playlist page.
Uploaded artwork, header images and track files count toward your band's storage. Recordings already in the band don't count twice, because the album points at the same file. Replacing or clearing an uploaded file deletes the old one, and deleting an album deletes its uploads.
Share it before release
The album page's View Player button (and Player on the band page) opens a private player link. Anyone with the link can listen, even to a draft, so it's a good way to send a mix to the band before you publish.
A release date in the future blocks this. Until that date, the player link shows a "not yet released" countdown to everyone, band members included. If you want to share a draft early, leave the release date empty until you're ready.
Publishing and your plan's limit
To publish, tick Publish this album (visible on your public band page) on the edit page. Confirm you have the rights (including mechanical licenses for any covers), then click Save album info. To take an album down again, untick the box and save.
Your plan limits how many albums can be published at once. Your band gets the highest plan held by any member. Below the album list you'll see something like "2 of 3 published albums used".
When you reach the limit, New Album changes to Limit Reached. You can't start new albums, even drafts, until you unpublish one or upgrade.
Album plays
Once anyone has played a track, an Album Plays panel appears in the band menu. It shows the total track plays across all your albums. View Song Statistics breaks them down by song: full plays, partial plays and downloads, and which albums each song is on.
Plays are kept for licensing reporting. Removing a track from an album hides it but keeps its play history in these statistics.
Each album page also shows its own play totals.
