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Share Settings

Share Settings give you fine-grained control over how your track files reach collaborators and listeners. When you want to share specific bounces, stems, or project files with specific people, this is where you dial everything in.

Whether you’re sending a work-in-progress to a vocalist, sharing final masters with a label, or creating a public preview link, the Share Settings panel lets you customize the experience exactly as you need it.

What Share Settings Do

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When you open the Share tab for any track, you see a settings panel that covers three main areas:

  • Which files get included in the share
  • Who can download what, and in which formats
  • When the share expires (or if it lasts indefinitely)

These settings apply whether you’re creating a direct share with collaborators or generating a public playlist link. Each share you create can have its own unique configuration.

Before You Start: Dropbox Requirement

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All share links in Producer Dashboard rely on Dropbox to serve files securely. Before you can create any share, you need to connect your Dropbox account in Settings.

If you haven’t connected Dropbox yet, the Share tab will show a prompt directing you to Settings. Once connected, all file serving happens through Dropbox temporary links — this ensures your audio files reach recipients reliably without any file size restrictions.

Why Dropbox? It handles the heavy lifting of file delivery, so you can share high-quality audio files without worrying about email attachment limits or file hosting costs.

Choosing Files to Share

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The file selection section lets you decide exactly what gets included in your share. Files are organized into three categories:

Bounces — Your finished or in-progress audio exports, typically WAV or MP3 files. These are the primary deliverables most collaborators need.

Projects — Your DAW session files (Logic projects, Ableton Live sets, FL Studio projects, and so on). Sharing these lets collaborators open your exact session.

Stems — Individual track stems for mixing or remixing. These are separate audio files for each instrument or vocal, allowing recipients to work with isolated elements.

You can include files from any or all of these categories. For example, you might share only bounces with a vocalist for review, but share stems with an engineer who needs to remix.

Files that live in your Dropbox but haven’t been imported into the system yet will appear alongside your existing files, so nothing gets left out.

Controlling Download Permissions

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Download permissions let you specify which file types recipients can access. This is useful when you want to share audio for feedback but aren’t ready to release project files or stems.

For each file type (bounces, projects, stems), you can toggle:

  • Enabled — Recipients can download files of this type
  • Disabled — Recipients can view but not download files of this type

By default, permissions are set based on your track’s sharing status. You can adjust these before creating a share to match your needs for that particular delivery.

For instance, when sending a preview to a playlist curator, you might enable bounces only. When sharing with a mixing engineer, you’d enable stems as well.

Setting Expiration

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Share links can be set to expire after a certain number of days, or they can last indefinitely. This gives you control over the shelf life of your shared content.

Choose an expiration period based on your workflow:

  • 7 days — Good for quick feedback cycles where you need responses within a week
  • 30 days — A reasonable window for label reviews or collaborative sessions
  • 90 days — Useful for longer review periods with multiple stakeholders
  • Never — Share links that don’t expire, ideal for ongoing collaborations where you’ll update files over time

If you’re sharing something time-sensitive — like a demo with an expiration date for consideration — a shorter expiration helps create urgency and ensures old links don’t float around indefinitely.

You can always create a new share link later if an expired one needs to be renewed.

Sharing with Track Collaborators

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If a track already has collaborators assigned, you’ll see an option to share directly with them. This integrates with Dropbox to organize your files into a shared folder structure and sends email invitations automatically.

When you click “Share Files with Collaborators,” Producer Dashboard:

  1. Creates a dedicated folder in your Dropbox for the track
  2. Uploads the selected files to that folder
  3. Sends Dropbox collaboration invitations to all collaborators with email addresses on file

The collaboration status panel shows you which collaborators have access and whether their invites are pending. You can copy the folder path or open it directly in Dropbox if needed.

If sharing fails or gets stuck, you can retry the operation or reset and start fresh from the Share Settings.

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Once you’ve configured your files, permissions, and expiration, click the share button to generate your link.

The system creates a unique URL that you can copy and send anywhere — via email, text, social media DMs, or carrier pigeon if that’s your thing. Recipients who open the link see your selected tracks and files organized in a clean playlist view, ready to preview or download based on the permissions you set.

Share links are completely independent of Dropbox sharing — you can have a Dropbox-collaborated folder for ongoing work and separate share links for specific deliveries.

Tips

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