For Music Supervisors
Receive organized playlists with sections, leave timestamped feedback, and manage submissions through a dedicated inbox. No more digging through email attachments.
Start Free Trial →Create drop requests for specific briefs. Composers submit directly. Review, accept, or decline from one place. No more scattered emails.
Receive playlists organized into sections by mood, scene, or genre. Waveform player with gapless audio. Listen on any device.
Click anywhere on the waveform to leave a timestamped comment. Tell composers exactly what you need changed — no more vague notes.
Built for the receiving end
A working music supervisor receives 100 to 400 unsolicited submissions a week on top of the briefs already running. The job is built for speed and ruthless filtering. You listen for 15 to 30 seconds, decide whether to tag or archive, and move to the next one. Most pitches die in the first pass. The composer who survives the audition is the one who built the right pitch for your inbox before you ever opened the email.
DropCue is built so the receiving side of that workflow does not slow you down. Listening to any DropCue link is free with no account needed — open it in a browser, hit play, leave timestamped comments. Receive branded playlist URLs from composers, agencies, and trailer houses with full waveform playback, instant in-browser streaming (no zip files, no downloads required), and timestamped comments that let you leave a note at exactly the bar that matters. The composer sees the comment exactly where you left it. You never have to type "the bridge feels off" again.
DropCue's submission inbox lets you organize incoming pitches into review states: new, shortlisted, on-hold, archived, placed. Tag tracks by mood, tempo, instrumentation, and use case as you triage so the next time a brief lands, you can search your tagged library instead of starting from scratch. The full version of this workflow is documented in our how music supervisors review pitches guide.
For supervisors at trailer houses, ad agencies, and post-production companies who deal with high-volume incoming pitches, DropCue handles bulk catalog management at the scale that matters: thousands of cues, dozens of composers, multiple active briefs simultaneously. Each composer's tracks come in with their full ALT mix and stems bundle pre-attached. No callback emails asking for the instrumental at midnight before a deadline.
Once you shortlist a track, forwarding it to your music coordinator, your editor, or your director is one click. The branded URL plays in any browser without sign-in. Your editor opens it on their iPad in the bay, drops the track under picture, and tests it against the cut. Friction kills shortlists. DropCue removes the friction.
For supervisors managing freelance relationships with specific composers, the platform also functions as a CRM. Tag composers by genre specialty, track engagement on every share, and refresh your roster of go-to writers based on actual placement history. Supervisors who run this discipline systematically place faster than supervisors who rely on memory and inbox search.
DropCue plans start at $5 a month with annual billing. The same plans work whether you are a working music supervisor receiving submissions, a composer pitching tracks, or a sync agency managing a roster. We do not believe in different "supervisor tiers" or "agency tiers" that change the price for the same product. The submission inbox, timestamped feedback, branded URL forwarding, and triage workflow all live inside one straightforward subscription. The full pricing detail lives at dropcue.app/pricing.
Most of the working composers and sync agencies pitching you are already on DropCue or evaluating switching from DISCO. Our composer-side audience runs across composers and agencies. The pitches you receive in your DropCue inbox come from people serious enough about their craft to invest in a real platform. That self-selection is part of the value of being on the receiving end here.
Music supervisors ready to receive cleaner, faster, better-organized pitches can start a free 7-day trial. No credit card required. Your branded inbox is ready to share with anyone pitching you.
FAQ
No. Shared playlist links open directly in the browser. Stream audio, watch videos, browse sections, and download files without creating an account or installing anything.
Click anywhere on the waveform while listening to leave a comment pinned to that exact moment. Composers see your feedback with the precise timestamp — no more vague notes.
Yes. Create drop requests for specific briefs. Composers and agencies submit directly through your branded drop page. Review each track with timestamped waveform comments, set a status (accepted, declined, pending), and send consolidated feedback emails — all from one inbox. Composers see your notes and decisions on their status page.
Listening to shared playlists and leaving comments is always free — no account needed. If you want to create your own submission inbox, organize incoming pitches, or send branded share links yourself, plans start at $5/mo with annual billing and a 7-day free trial. Same plans, same price for supervisors, composers, and agencies.
Yes — Pro plans include built-in email campaigns. Send branded newsletters to your contacts, schedule sends, and track deliveries, opens, clicks, and bounces in real time. Up to 2,000 recipients per campaign.
What makes a pitch worth opening versus skipping.
How sections let supervisors scan and jump to what they need.
The delivery standards supervisors actually prefer.
Why email and WeTransfer stopped working for pro music delivery.
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