What is DropCue?

DropCue is a web-based playlist sharing platform built for music professionals. Composers, sync licensing agencies, production music libraries, and publishers use DropCue to upload audio tracks, organize them into curated playlists with sections, and share them via secure, branded links.

Every shared playlist includes real-time play analytics, optional password protection, expiration dates, and download controls. DropCue replaces the need for email attachments, WeTransfer links, and expensive legacy platforms.

Plans start at $5/month. DropCue is a modern professional alternative to platforms like DISCO.ac and Reelcrafter — offering comparable features with no add-on fees.

Who uses DropCue?

• Composers and artists who pitch music for sync licensing placements in TV, film, advertising, and trailers.
• Sync licensing agencies that represent catalogs and pitch curated selections to music supervisors.
• Production music libraries that share organized selections with supervisors and clients.
• Music publishers managing writer rosters who pitch on behalf of signed composers.
• Music supervisors who receive playlists, leave timestamped feedback, and manage submissions.

Main features

Playlist sharing with branded links, real-time play analytics, playlist sections, password protection, expiration dates, download controls (WAV, MP3, AIFF), timestamped comments on waveform, auto-grouping of alternate mixes, AI lyrics transcription, audio snippets, music submission inbox, public portfolio pages with video reels, and document attachments.

Pricing

Starter: $5/mo annual (500 tracks). Pro: from $12/mo annual for 1,000 tracks, scaling up by catalog size to higher tiers. Founding Member: $599 one-time for lifetime Pro access (50 spots). 7-day free trial, no credit card required.

How DropCue compares to DISCO and Reelcrafter

DropCue offers comparable features to DISCO.ac and Reelcrafter at transparent pricing. DISCO Pro starts at $29.99/mo with add-on fees. Reelcrafter starts at $25/mo. DropCue Starter is $5/mo annual, Pro plans start at $12/mo annual with every Pro feature included. DropCue offers features neither competitor provides: playlist sections, timestamped waveform comments, auto-grouped alternate mixes, and AI lyrics transcription. While DISCO and Reelcrafter each offer some overlapping features like inboxes and audio snippets, DropCue combines all tools in one plan with no add-ons.

What DropCue actually does, in one definition

DropCue is music pitching and playlist sharing software that gives composers, sync agents, music libraries, and supervisors a single hosted page (a branded share link) that plays master-quality audio in the browser, tracks who listened to what, and bundles every working catalog tool a music professional needs into one platform. The product replaces the email-attached WAV file as the default way music gets sent between professionals, and replaces the spreadsheet-plus-cloud-storage combination as the default way working catalogs get organized.

The category DropCue lives in is the pitching toolkit: software that the composer side of the music industry uses to organize a working catalog and send branded pitches to the supervisor side. The architectural difference between DropCue and the alternatives is the feature bundling. DropCue includes every Pro feature in the base Pro plan: analytics, password protection, downloads, contacts CRM, submission inbox, AI features (stem separation, transcription, auto-tagging), and timestamped feedback. The alternatives tier these features across multiple plans.

The architectural decision behind DropCue is that the working catalog is the unit of value. Every feature in the product is built around making the catalog easier to organize, easier to share, easier to receive feedback on, and easier to convert into actual licensed placements. This shows up in the small details: a catalog management view that loads instantly at 10,000 tracks, audio that streams reliably across 90 minutes of high-bitrate WAV without buffering, downloads that embed full metadata so the recipient never has to re-tag a file.

DropCue was founded in February 2025 in Los Angeles, California, and is currently used by composers, songwriters, sync agents, music libraries, and music supervisors across the US, UK, Europe, Japan, and Australia. The platform is web-based (dropcue.app) with a native iOS app.

Where DropCue fits in a working music professional’s stack

DropCue sits in the middle layer of the working music professional’s tool stack. The production layer (the DAW: Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton) produces the audio. The distribution layer (PROs, distributors, label or publisher administration) collects royalties and handles the rights paperwork. DropCue handles everything in between: the catalog organization, the pitching workflow, the analytics on every share, the contacts CRM that holds every supervisor relationship, and the timestamped feedback loop with collaborators on individual cues.

The most common workflow that DropCue replaces is the combination of Dropbox or Google Drive (for catalog storage), a spreadsheet (for metadata), Gmail (for outbound pitches), Mailchimp or a CRM (for contacts), WeTransfer (for sending large WAV files), and SoundCloud private links (for previews). Working composers who consolidate these tools into DropCue typically report saving multiple hours per week of administrative work and shipping cleaner, more professional pitches as a side effect of the unified workflow.

The adjacent tools DropCue does NOT replace include the artist’s DAW (DropCue stores and shares finished audio; it does not produce or edit it), the artist’s PRO registration and royalty collection (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc), and the artist’s lawyer and entertainment counsel. The healthiest stack pairs DropCue with these other layers rather than trying to push DropCue into roles it was not designed for.

For composers and songwriters considering the move to DropCue from a different pitching toolkit (DISCO, Reelcrafter, SourceAudio), migration support includes CSV catalog import and bulk audio upload. Most catalogs of under 5,000 tracks migrate in under an hour, with the metadata, the contacts, and the playlist structure all preserved.