Creating Your First Track
Understand how tracks work as containers for your music.
What is a Track?
A Track in Locker is not just an audio file, it's a container for everything related to a song. Think of it like a project folder that holds all the pieces of a composition together.
Creating a Track
What Lives Inside a Track
- Versions: Different audio recordings of the song (demo, rough mix, final master, radio edit, etc.)
- Lyrics: Full lyrics editor with songwriter tools built in
- Voice Memos: Quick audio recordings and ideas attached to the song
- Stems: Individual instrument tracks (drums, bass, vocals, etc.) organized in stem packs
- Files: Any additional documents, images, or attachments related to the song
Each track has a Default Version, this is the version that plays when you click the track. You can change which version is the default at any time.
Creating a Track
There are several ways to create a track:
- Upload audio files: Locker creates tracks automatically based on your filenames
- Click "+ New" in the toolbar: Creates an empty track you can name and populate later
- Drag files onto the library: Quick way to create tracks from audio files
Track Metadata
Each track has its own metadata that helps you organize your catalog:
- Title: The song name
- Artist: The display or performing artist name when relevant
- Artist / Pitch: A track-level classification that marks the song as an artist track or a pitch track
- Status: Draft, In Progress, Complete, Released, or Archived
- Credits: Linked contacts and credit roles such as songwriter, producer, artist, or custom roles you define
Artist / Pitch is track metadata, not a flexible tag. It helps classify whether a track belongs to an artist project or a pitch workflow, and it stays separate from the display artist name.
Track-Level Tags
Tags are flexible labels you can use to organize tracks beyond fixed metadata. In Locker, track-level tags are best used for location and user-defined custom labels, while fields like Artist / Pitch and Status remain structured metadata.
- Location tags: Where the track was created or recorded (e.g., "London", "Home Studio")
- Custom tags: Add any label you want (e.g., "Sync Ready", "Needs Mix", "Album B-Side")
- User-defined values: Add the labels that match your own workflow instead of relying on a fixed preset list
- Color-coded: Tags display with distinct colors for quick visual scanning
- Filterable: Use tags to filter your library and find tracks instantly
Tags work alongside folders and metadata to give you complementary ways to organize. Folders create hierarchy, metadata captures structured fields like Status and Artist / Pitch, and tags provide flexible cross-cutting labels such as location or custom workflow markers.
Tags Overview