Share Links: sending music privately
Send unreleased music by link, decide exactly what the listener can do, and switch it off later.
Sending music without sending a file
A share link lets you send unreleased music to anyone, including people with no Locker account. They open it in a browser and listen. Nothing is downloaded unless you allow it, so a link is not the same as handing over a copy of your song.
This is the difference between a share link and a file transfer service. A file transfer hands over the music and tells you nothing afterwards. A link keeps the music yours, tells you who listened, and can be switched off.
To make one, press Share on a track, playlist, lyric, voice note or file, or press the plus and choose Share link. You decide what goes on it: a whole track (every version, Main first), one version, stems, a playlist, lyrics, voice notes or files.
A link or a room
- Listen: a quiet page. They play, you see who listened, and any replies come only to you.
- Room: a standing page for named people, with its own name, where you can keep adding music for the same client over time.
Decide who can open it
- Ask who's listening: the listener types their name before the music plays. It takes them two seconds and it turns an anonymous link into a record of who actually heard the song.
- Password: for material you do not want opened by whoever the link gets forwarded to.
- A room lets in the people you invite, with a code sent to their email.
For a pitch, asking who's listening is usually the right level. A password is worth it for genuinely sensitive material and is real friction otherwise, so use it deliberately rather than by default.
Decide how long it lasts
- Set the link to expire, so it stops working when you choose rather than on someone else's schedule.
- Revoke the link at any time from Shares. This is the one that matters most once music has been forwarded: a link you can switch off is the difference between a leak and an inconvenience.
Decide what they can do
- Downloads on or off. Off is the safer choice for a pitch.
- Add a short description, so they know what they are listening to.
- Apply your brand kit: your cover image, colours and links, so what lands in front of a label looks like you rather than like a file listing.
- In a room, choose whether people can leave comments.
You can change downloads, asking who's listening, the password and the expiry after sending, from the link in Shares.