Unsharing & Leaving

When a collaboration no longer works for your project, Producer Dashboard makes it easy to manage those changes. Whether you need to remove a collaborator from a track, stop sharing a project with someone, or leave a collaboration yourself, you’ll find the tools you need in the Collaborators widget.

This guide walks you through each scenario and explains what happens to splits and rights when changes are made.

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Understanding the Options

There are three ways to end a working relationship in a collaboration:

1. Remove a collaborator — you are the track owner, and you want to remove someone from your project
2. Unshare a track — you want to stop sharing a specific track while keeping other shared tracks active
3. Leave a collaboration — you joined someone else’s project and now want to exit

Each option is accessible from the Collaborators widget on your track’s activity panel.

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Removing a Collaborator from Your Project

If you’re the track owner, you can remove any collaborator from your project at any time. This is useful when someone’s role changes, they contributed to a different version, or the partnership has ended.

To remove a collaborator:

1. Click the Collaborators button in the activity panel to open the collaborators widget
2. Find the collaborator you want to remove
3. Click the remove icon (a small X) next to their name
4. Confirm the removal when prompted

The collaborator will be immediately removed from the track. Their contact information and past activity remain in your records, but they will no longer have access to the track.

Tip

Before removing a collaborator, consider what happens to their split allocations. When you remove someone, their portion of master, publishing, and writer splits becomes unallocated. You can redistribute those percentages using the Auto-allocate button, or manually assign them to other collaborators.

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Unsharing a Specific Track

Sometimes you share multiple tracks with a collaborator, but want to stop sharing just one. Maybe you shared a rough mix for feedback and now the track is going in a different direction. Or perhaps a collaborator’s contribution didn’t make the final cut.

Unsharing a track is different from removing a collaborator entirely. It only affects that specific track while leaving other shared tracks intact.

To unshare a single track:

1. Open the Collaborators widget for the track you want to unshare
2. Click the three-dot menu next to the collaborator’s name
3. Select “Remove from this track” or “Unshare”
4. Confirm your choice

The collaborator will lose access to that specific track immediately. They will still have access to any other tracks you’ve shared with them.

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Leaving a Collaboration

If you joined someone else’s project and want to leave, you can do so at any time. This is your choice — the track owner doesn’t need to approve your departure.

To leave a collaboration:

1. Open the Collaborators widget on the track
2. Click “Leave collaboration” or the three-dot menu next to your name
3. Confirm that you want to leave

Once you leave, you lose access to that track and any associated files. Your splits for that track are released and become available for redistribution by the owner.

Tip

If you’ve contributed significantly to a track and want to ensure your rights are protected before leaving, make sure your split allocations are correctly set. You can view your current splits in the widget before making any changes.

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What Happens to Splits and Rights

When a collaborator is removed or leaves a project, the split percentages they were assigned become available again. This applies to master, publishing, and writer splits.

For example, if a collaborator had a 25% master split and 25% publishing split, removing them frees up those percentages for redistribution. The track owner can then:

• Auto-allocate — split the available percentages evenly among remaining collaborators
• Manually assign — give the freed percentages to specific collaborators
• Leave it unallocated — the owner can hold the unassigned rights until a decision is made

Any collaborator records and historical data are preserved for reference, but the removed person loses all future access to the track.

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Collaboration Import Status

If you’ve received an invitation to collaborate on a project, you may see pending collaboration imports in your dashboard. These appear when someone has shared a track with you and the system is processing the connection.

If you no longer want to accept a pending collaboration:

1. Find the pending import in your Notifications or Activity panel
2. Click Dismiss to remove it without accepting
3. Alternatively, click Accept to import the collaboration into your dashboard

Dismissing a pending collaboration means you won’t be added as a collaborator on that track. You can always request access again through the normal sharing flow.

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Restoring a Removed Collaborator

Changed your mind? If you remove a collaborator and later want them back, you can re-add them to the track just as you would a new collaborator. Their historical records will help you set appropriate split allocations.

Go to the Collaborators widget and click Add Collaborator to search for the person and re-invite them to the track.

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Related

• Adding Collaborators — how to bring collaborators onto your tracks
• Splits & Rights — understanding master, publishing, and writer splits
• Sharing with Collaborators — how the sharing workflow works
• Permissions — what collaborators can do on your tracks
• Invitations — managing collaboration invitations
• Default Project Collaborators — setting collaborators for new tracks