Everything you need to know about using DropCue — from uploading your first track to running your full pitching workflow.
Your home base shows total plays, downloads, active shares, and track count at a glance. The plays chart shows listening trends over the last 14 days. Recent Activity surfaces plays and downloads in real time. Quick-access cards jump you to your latest playlists, and the Inbox widget flags pending submissions if you have active drop requests.
Upload audio files (MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC) and video (MP4, MOV, WebM on Pro). BPM and key are auto-detected. Embedded metadata and artwork are pulled from the file. Click a track to edit details: artist, genre, mood, instruments, writer splits, PRO, IPI, ISRC, and notes. Bulk actions let you edit metadata, find & replace titles, apply writers and publishers, nest stems, and copy parent metadata down to children across many tracks at once.
Build a playlist, drop tracks in, group them into sections (Action Cues, Emotional, Drone, etc.), and attach documents like cue sheets or contracts. Upload custom artwork to brand each playlist for a specific client. Pin timestamped notes to tracks for internal review. Set audio snippets to highlight the best section of a track so recipients hear exactly what you want.
Share any playlist via a branded link with optional password, expiration date, and download controls. Recipients open the player in their browser. You see who opened the link, which tracks they played, how long they listened, and where they were located. Comments and timestamped feedback come back to you in real time.
Create a public drop link to receive music submissions. Composers, artists, and clients can upload to your inbox without needing a DropCue account. Submissions land organized in your inbox where you can review, tag, accept, or move tracks into playlists for further work.
Organize playlists into channels and folders in the sidebar. Use folders for project groupings or client folders. Drag and drop playlists between them. Right-click any sidebar item for quick actions like rename, duplicate, view analytics, or delete.
Build a hosted EPK at dropcue.app/p/your-name with your bio, featured tracks, video reel, credits, photos, and contact info. Customize colors and artwork to match your brand. Use it for supervisor pitches, label outreach, festival applications, and journalist contacts. Analytics show exactly who viewed your EPK and what they engaged with.
On the Studio tier you can serve your portfolio at a domain you already own, such as yourname.com, instead of dropcue.app/p/your-name. Your address stays in the browser bar the whole time. It is included at no extra charge, with no add-on fee for connecting a domain. Open Portfolio settings, go to the Setup tab, and enter the domain on its own with no https:// and no slashes.
DropCue then shows you a TXT record named _dropcue-verify to add wherever you bought the domain. Once that is in place you point the domain at DropCue with an A record on @ set to 75.2.60.5 and a CNAME on www set to dropcue-preview.netlify.app. Do not use your domain company's Forwarding, Redirect, or Frame redirect option, because those send visitors to a different address instead of showing your own. You never touch SSL or certificates, DropCue issues the certificate once the domain points at us.
Add the records wherever your DNS is run, which is not always the company you bought the domain from. A registrar shows you a DNS page whether or not it answers for your domain, so records added in the wrong place save without complaint and never take effect. DropCue names the company that runs your DNS on the setup screen. The boxes are labelled differently everywhere too: Name is sometimes called Host, Hostname, Alias, or Refers to, and Value is sometimes called Points to, Content, Data, Target, or TXT Value. Put the name in the first and the value in the second, because swapping them saves cleanly and never verifies. Leave any TTL box as you find it, since anything from 5 minutes to 4 hours works.
Connect your plain domain, such as yourname.com. Subdomains like music.yourname.com are not supported yet. Email on the same domain is not affected, since these records only control where the web address points. Nothing is permanent either: clear the domain in Settings, delete the records, and everything reverts. Your dropcue.app address never stops working.
One domain shows one portfolio, and a domain can only be connected to a single DropCue portfolio at a time. If you run several portfolios, each one can have its own domain. Connecting a domain does not freeze the portfolio. You can keep changing its tracks, playlists, videos and branding, and you can rename its dropcue.app address too. The domain follows the portfolio itself, not its name. To move a domain to a different portfolio, clear it on the first portfolio, enter it on the second, and add the new TXT record. Changing the domain on a portfolio clears the verification, so it has to be proved again.
Plans start at $5/month for Starter. Pro tiers scale by catalog size starting at $15/month. Manage your subscription, change plans, update payment methods, or cancel anytime from the Account page.
Email support@dropcue.app and a human will get back to you within one business day. For workflow guides and industry context, see the DropCue blog and the music industry glossary.
Yes. On the Studio tier you can serve your portfolio at a domain you already own, such as yourname.com, instead of dropcue.app/p/your-name. Your address stays in the browser bar the whole time.
Custom domains are included on the Studio tier at no extra charge. There is no separate add-on fee for connecting a domain.
First a TXT record named _dropcue-verify to prove you own the domain. Then an A record on @ set to 75.2.60.5 and a CNAME on www set to dropcue-preview.netlify.app to point the domain at your portfolio.
Add them wherever your DNS is run, which is not always the company you bought the domain from. A registrar shows you a DNS page whether or not it answers for your domain, so records added in the wrong place save without complaint and never take effect. DropCue names the company that runs your DNS on the setup screen.
Name is sometimes called Host, Hostname, Alias, or Refers to. Value is sometimes called Points to, Content, Data, Target, or TXT Value. Put the name in the first and the value in the second, because swapping them saves cleanly and never verifies. Leave any TTL box as you find it; anything from 5 minutes to 4 hours works.
No. Forwarding, Redirect, and Frame redirect send visitors to a different address instead of showing your own domain in the browser bar. Use the A and CNAME records instead.
No. These records only control where the web address points. Email on the same domain keeps working exactly as it does now.
Not yet. Connect your plain domain, such as yourname.com. Subdomains like music.yourname.com are not supported yet.
No. DropCue issues and renews the certificate automatically once your domain points at us. You never touch SSL or certificates.
Yes. Clear the domain in Settings and delete the DNS records, and everything reverts. Your dropcue.app address never stops working.
No. One domain shows one portfolio, and a domain can only be connected to a single DropCue portfolio at a time. If you run several portfolios, each one can have its own domain.
Yes. Connecting a domain does not freeze the portfolio. You can keep changing its tracks, playlists, videos and branding, and you can rename its dropcue.app address too. The domain follows the portfolio itself, not its name.
Clear it on the first portfolio, enter it on the second, and add the new TXT record. Changing the domain on a portfolio clears the verification, so it has to be proved again.