The short answer
Disco is a pitching and playlist tool: you upload finished tracks and send them to people. Locker covers the whole life of a song, from the first voice note to the final master. It captures ideas and lyrics before there is a finished track, groups every bounce into songs and versions, reads key and tempo from the audio, tracks credits and splits, and then shares as well. If all you need is to send finished playlists to a list of contacts, Disco does that. If the messy part before the song is finished is where your time actually goes, that is the part Locker is built for.
Locker compared to Disco
| Locker | Disco | |
|---|---|---|
| Covers unfinished work | Voice notes, lyrics and ideas from the first sketch | Built around finished tracks |
| Versions and stems | Full version history and stems per song | Limited version handling |
| Organising the catalogue | Sorts, names, tags and credits for you | You tag and organise it yourself |
| Songwriting tools | Lyric editor, rhyme and thesaurus, co-writing | Not available |
| Credits and splits | Tracked per person, per song, with history | Basic rights fields |
| Finding things | Ask in plain English, including by how it sounds | Tag and text search |
| Growing catalogue | No track limit on paid plans | Track limits apply |
Covers unfinished work
Versions and stems
Organising the catalogue
Songwriting tools
Credits and splits
Finding things
Growing catalogue
Pitching is the last ten percent
Sending a playlist is the easy, visible end of the job. The part that eats the week is everything before it: working out which of six bounces is the one, remembering who played the bass, finding the lyric you wrote on your phone, keeping the stems with the song. A pitching tool starts after all of that is already done. Locker is built for the part where it is not.
The work before the song exists
Most catalogues are mostly unfinished. Voice notes, half-written lyrics, instrumentals waiting for a topline. Tools designed around finished tracks have nowhere to put any of it, so it stays scattered across your phone, your desktop and a notes app. Locker treats an idea as a first-class thing that grows into a song.
Organising that does not fall to you
Any system with tags depends on you applying them consistently. That works for a while and then quietly stops. Locker reads the audio for key, tempo, genre and mood, works out version relationships from the files themselves, and suggests credits from what it already knows about your collaborators, so the catalogue stays organised without a maintenance habit.
When Disco is the right answer
If your job is mostly sending finished music to a wide list of industry contacts, and the catalogue behind it is already in order, Disco is a focused tool for exactly that and it is well established in the sync and A and R world. Plenty of people on the receiving end know it and expect it. If your work is almost entirely pitching finished masters, and organising demos, versions and credits is not a problem you have, a dedicated pitching tool is a reasonable choice and Locker will be more product than you need.
Common questions
Is Locker a good Disco alternative?
It depends what you use Disco for. If it is purely a way to send finished playlists to industry contacts, Locker does that too, with a richer player that carries versions, lyrics and credits. If you also want the catalogue itself organised, and the unfinished work covered, that is where the two genuinely differ.
Can Locker handle a large catalogue?
Yes. Paid plans have no track limit, and the search is built for scale: you can ask for songs by feel, by key and tempo, by who worked on them, or by what the lyric is about, rather than scrolling a list.
What about sending music to labels and A and R?
Share links carry the versions you choose, plus lyrics, credits and artwork, and you can require a password, allow or block downloads, and see who actually listened. Client rooms give a named contact a private, branded space rather than a one-off link.