Project Due Dates

Due dates help you stay on top of your release pipeline by giving you clear targets for when tracks and projects need to be completed. Whether you’re managing a single EP or juggling multiple campaigns, deadlines keep your workflow organized and your goals visible.

Setting a Project Deadline

When you set a deadline on a project, you’re establishing a target date for everything in that folder. This is useful for aligning with release dates, sync deadlines, or client deliverables.

How to Set a Project Deadline

To set a deadline for a project:

Open the Projects panel in the sidebar
Find the project you want to set a deadline for
Click the three-dot menu next to the project name
Select “Set Deadline” from the dropdown

A modal will appear showing:

The project name at the top
An empty date picker if no deadline is set, or the current deadline with a countdown if one exists
Quick-select buttons for common timeframes

Using Quick-Select Buttons

The quick-select buttons let you set deadlines without manually picking a date:

1 Week — sets the deadline seven days from today
1 Month — sets the deadline thirty days from today
3 Months — sets the deadline ninety days from today

These are handy when you need to establish a rough target and refine it later. Click any quick-select button to populate the date picker, then adjust if needed before saving.

Saving or Clearing the Deadline

Once you’ve selected a date:

Click Save Deadline to apply it
If a deadline already exists, click Clear Deadline to remove it
Click outside the modal or the X button to close without saving

Setting Individual Track Due Dates

Sometimes a single track needs a different deadline than the rest of its project. Maybe one song requires extra mastering time, or a specific client needs an earlier version. Individual due dates let you override the project deadline for that track.

How to Set a Track Due Date

Find the track in your tracks list or grid
Locate the due date column (or hover over the track row)
Click the calendar icon or the current date value
Select your desired date from the picker
Click Save to confirm

Like the project deadline modal, the track due date picker includes:

A display of the current due date with a countdown (if set)
Quick-select buttons for Tomorrow, 1 Week, and 1 Month
A Clear Due Date option to remove an override

When you set an individual due date, it takes precedence over any project-level deadline for that track only.

Cascading in Practice

Project deadlines automatically cascade to all tracks that don’t have their own individual due date. For a full explanation of how cascading and priority work, see Due Dates & Deadlines — How Cascading Works.

Here’s how this looks in a real project. Imagine your “Summer Release” project has a deadline of July 15:

Ten tracks with no individual dates show July 15 as their due date
Two tracks you manually set to June 30 keep that earlier date
One track you set to August 1 keeps its later date

This makes it easy to manage both uniformity and exceptions within the same project. If you later push the project deadline to July 31, those ten tracks update automatically while the two June 30 and one August 1 tracks stay untouched.

Tips

Use project deadlines as your primary timeline tool, then override only the tracks that genuinely need different dates
Set deadlines slightly ahead of your actual target to give yourself buffer room for revisions
Quick-select buttons are great for initial planning — don’t worry about precision when first setting targets
If a track’s due date seems wrong, check whether it has an individual override before adjusting the project deadline
Sort your projects by deadline to surface urgent work during busy periods