The short answer
DISCO is an all-in-one music management platform and the established standard for pitching and licensing finished music: tracks carry writers, splits and custom fields, versions nest under a main track, and playlists go out to supervisors and A and Rs who already use it. 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 from the files themselves, reads key and tempo from the audio, links credits to real contacts, keeps a history of every change, and then shares as well. If your work is mostly pitching a catalogue of finished masters to people who already use DISCO, it is a strong choice. 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, pitchable tracks |
| Versions and stems | Grouped into songs and versions from the files themselves | Nested under a main track, set up track by track |
| Songwriting tools | Lyric editor, rhyme and thesaurus, co-writing | Not a songwriting tool |
| Credits and splits | Linked to real contacts, so you can see everything a person worked on | Writers, splits and publishers entered per track |
| Finding things | Ask in plain English, including by how it sounds | Tag and text search, with AI search in its Discovery Suite |
Covers unfinished work
Versions and stems
Songwriting tools
Credits and splits
Finding things
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 platform 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 little room for 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
Tags and version groupings only help if they are applied consistently, and even with auto-tagging doing a first pass, keeping them straight is a habit someone has to maintain. 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.
Every feature on every plan
Locker plans differ by how much room you get, never by which features you are allowed to use. Auto tagging, similarity search, transcription, instrumentals, the lyric editor, voice notes, projects, credits and splits, and an assistant that knows your whole catalogue are part of every plan, and collaborators are free. If you are comparing costs, check each product's current pricing page against the size of your catalogue and your team.
Moving from DISCO
If you decide to move, your audio and your metadata can both come with you. DISCO provides a spreadsheet of your track metadata on request, and playlists download as ZIP files that can include your original audio. Locker reads the spreadsheet and fills in writers, splits and status as your files come in. The step by step guide in the help centre walks through it.
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 built 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, and that familiarity is worth something when you are asking a busy person to listen. Where Locker comes in is everything before and around the pitch: the demos, versions, lyrics and credits behind each track, organised for you, with the share coming straight from the track itself.
Common questions
Is Locker a good DISCO alternative?
It depends what you use DISCO for. If it is mainly a way to send finished playlists to industry contacts who already use it, DISCO is the established choice and Locker does that job too. If you also want your own catalogue organised, including the unfinished work, versions, lyrics and credits, that is where the two genuinely differ and where Locker is built to help.
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.
Can I move my catalogue from DISCO to Locker?
Yes. Ask DISCO support for a metadata export of all your tracks, download your playlists with original audio included, then drop the folders and the spreadsheet into Locker together. Writers, splits and status fill in from the spreadsheet as the audio is matched. Share links, send history and listening analytics stay with DISCO, so active pitches are rebuilt as Locker shares.
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.