DropTrack gives labels, DJs, blogs, playlist curators, radio stations, and other music professionals a submission page and a focused inbox for reviewing new music.

Set Up Your Submission Page

  1. Go to Submissions > Submission Settings.
  2. Check Enable Submissions.
  3. Add clear instructions and choose your preferred genres and maximum number of tracks.
  4. Choose whether to receive an email when new music arrives.
  5. Choose whether your profile appears in the public directory.
  6. If the option appears, pause new submissions through a date. Submissions reopen the following day.
  7. Playlist curators can connect a Spotify playlist or add its URL when that option appears.
  8. Click Save Changes.

The page shows your submission link. You can share it directly or use the available HTML or embed code on your website.

Review Your Inbox

Go to Submissions > Music Submissions. The Music submissions page keeps search, filters, and review actions together.

  • Use Find a submission to search by artist, track, or genre.
  • Use Inbox, Reviewed, Favorited, Archived, or All to narrow the list.
  • If Review activity appears, use it to revisit recent actions such as reviews, replies, downloads, favorites, and archive changes.
  • Select one or more tracks when you want to organize several submissions. Your selection stays with you while you move through inbox pages, searches, and filters, and clears when you leave the inbox.
  • Use Select page to choose the submissions currently shown, then Archive selected to move them out of the inbox. You can restore any of them later from Archived.
  • When selected submissions include downloadable audio, use Save tracks to this device or Save selected tracks to Dropbox when that option appears.
  • Select Review & reply to open the full submission.

On a phone or tablet, the same search and filters remain available. Open Review & reply when you need the full player, artist details, comments, and conversation.

Listen and Organize Decisions

The submission page shows the track player, genre, artist details, and any other tracks available from that artist.

  • Select Favorite to save a track to the Favorited view. Select Favorited again to remove it.
  • Select Archive to move a track out of the inbox. Open it from Archived and select Restore to return it.
  • Under Your rating, choose one to five stars to keep a private score for your team. The rating saves immediately and is not sent to the artist. Select Clear rating when you no longer need it.
  • Use Submission activity to review the key moments recorded for that submission, such as when it arrived, was reviewed, favorited, archived, replied to, downloaded, or fully played.
  • A Download, Download MP3, or Download WAV button appears only when a downloadable file is available for that submission.
  • Spotify and SoundCloud submissions include a named link to open the track on that service. If the embedded player does not load, select Try player again or open the track directly on the service.

Save Tracks for Your Library

Select the hosted audio files you want to keep from the inbox, then choose Save tracks to this device. Choose a folder when your browser asks. DropTrack creates a dated folder inside it and saves the selected files there, so you can add them to your DJ or music library.

  • Your browser may ask for permission to save files in the folder you chose. That permission is limited to that folder.
  • You can save more than one selected hosted track in one go. If two files have the same name, DropTrack keeps both by giving one a number.
  • Spotify and SoundCloud links can still be selected for organizing your inbox, but they cannot be saved as audio files. Use the named service link to open those tracks instead.
  • If your browser does not support choosing a folder, use the track's Download button when it is available.

If Save selected tracks to Dropbox appears, it works similarly: choose a Dropbox location and DropTrack saves only the selected downloadable audio files.

Resume Hosted Audio

For audio hosted by DropTrack, your listening position can be saved after you have listened for at least five seconds. If you stop more than ten seconds before the end, DropTrack may show Resume at time when you return.

  • The saved position works in the same browser even if you are not signed in elsewhere.
  • If you're signed in on more than one device, your latest saved position can follow you there too.
  • Spotify and SoundCloud players do not use DropTrack's resume control.
  • A saved position expires after 30 days and clears when the track finishes.

Comment and Reply

For audio hosted by DropTrack, use Comments for the artist to add feedback at the current playback time. Spotify and SoundCloud comments are not linked to the external player's current position. Comments you post are visible to the artist.

Use Reply to artist to move to the conversation. Use positive reply and Use pass reply copy a saved response into the reply box; they do not send it. Review or edit the message, then select Send when it is ready.

Nothing is sent to an artist until you use a send action.

Expand Edit saved replies to change either saved response. DropTrack saves a changed template after you leave its field and shows an error if it cannot be saved.

If Something Does Not Load or Save

  • Select Try again when the inbox, submission, comments, or conversation shows a loading error.
  • If a submission is no longer available, select Back to submissions.
  • If Favorite, Archive, Restore, a rating, a comment, or a reply fails, follow the message beside that action and try again. Do not assume the action completed.
  • DropTrack prevents you from leaving while a review action is still sending. It also warns before discarding an unsent comment or reply.

Submission Preferences and Payments

Return to Submission settings from the inbox whenever you need to change instructions, notifications, preferred genres, track limits, directory visibility, a submission pause, or your shared link.

Enable Get paid to listen if the option is available to your account. You can make payment optional or required, set the submission price, and add the payout information requested on the page.

A Guaranteed Listen payment covers only a listen recorded by DropTrack within 7 days. If DropTrack does not record the listen within 7 days, the sender is refunded. Payment does not require feedback, a reply, placement, or any other outcome.