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Producer Dashboard

Your First Import

Welcome to Producer Dashboard! Before you can start managing your tracks, you’ll need to import your music files. This guide walks you through the import process so you can get your bounces, stems, and projects organized and ready to work with.

What Is Import?

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Import is how you bring your music files into Producer Dashboard. When you import files, the app scans them, figures out which songs they belong to, and organizes everything into a tidy folder structure. It also syncs your tracks to the database so they appear in your dashboard grid.

Think of import as the bridge between your raw files scattered across your computer and your organized music library inside the app.

Supported File Types

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Producer Dashboard handles three main categories of files:

Bounces are your exported audio files — the final mixes, radio edits, or alternate versions of your songs. Supported formats include WAV, MP3, AIFF, FLAC, and M4A.

Stems are the individual track elements you bounced out separately — bass stems, vocal stems, drums, and so on. They use the same audio formats as bounces.

Projects are your actual DAW session files from Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason, or Reaper. These let you jump straight into editing a project from your dashboard.

How to Import Your Files

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There are two ways to get files into Producer Dashboard:

Option 1: Drop files into your inbox folders

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The simplest approach is to copy or move files directly into the relevant folder inside your PRODUCER-DASHBOARD directory:

  • PRODUCER-DASHBOARD/bounces/ — for your exported audio mixes
  • PRODUCER-DASHBOARD/stems/ — for individual instrument or vocal tracks
  • PRODUCER-DASHBOARD/projects/ — for your DAW project files

Once files are in those folders, open the Files page in the app and click Import Files. The app scans the inbox folders, groups everything by song name, and adds the tracks to your library.

Option 2: Use the import dialog on the Files page

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On the Files page, click Import Files to open the dialog. It has two buttons:

  • Add Bounces — opens a file picker for audio files (WAV, MP3, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, OGG)
  • Add Projects — opens a folder picker for DAW project folders

Select your files, review the queue, then click Import Files in the bottom right to start. You’ll see a notification when import completes.

How Your Files Get Organized

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Behind the scenes, Producer Dashboard does a lot of work to keep your library neat:

Song Grouping — The app reads each filename and extracts the core song name by stripping out version numbers (like “v1” or “v11”), date stamps, suffixes like “clean,” “radio edit,” or “final mix,” and technical specs like bitrate or BPM. Files that belong to the same song get grouped together automatically.

Folder Structure — Your imported files are organized into a tracks/ folder hierarchy. Bounces go into song-specific folders alongside their stems and projects, keeping everything connected.

Smart Matching — If you’ve imported songs before, new files that look like variations of existing tracks get matched to those groups. So if you import “Ancient Dusk - Clean.wav” after already having “Ancient Dusk.wav,” both files end up in the same track group.

Project Symlinks — For Ableton Live projects, the app moves the entire project folder (including Samples/) rather than just the .als file. For other project types, the original file is replaced with a shortcut (symlink) to save disk space.

Understanding the Import Dialog

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When you open the import dialog from the Files page:

  • File count — The bottom shows how many files are queued across bounces and projects
  • Category headers — Each type shows its own count in parentheses
  • Welcome banner — First-time users see a brief explanation of what import does

You can close the dialog at any time by clicking Cancel or the X button. If you close without importing, your selection is discarded.

Tips

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