Music

The Music section of your store is where your releases live. You can drop a single, build a full album with multiple tracks in your chosen order, set a release date weeks in advance, and decide whether fans pay a set price or whatever they want.

Everything in this section lives under Store then Music in your dashboard.

Singles vs albums

When you click Add Music, you choose one of two formats:

• Single — one track. Simpler form, no UPC, no track-level credits, no track ordering. Great for one-off drops.
• Album — two or more tracks, with each track having its own title, artist, credits, ISRC code, and explicit flag. You can drag tracks into the order you want fans to hear them, and pick one to feature.

Once a music release exists, the format is locked by the number of tracks — singles have one track, albums have more. If you start as a single and want to make it an album later, edit the release and add another track.

How to upload music

1. Go to Store then Music.
2. Click Add Music in the top right and choose Create Single or Create Album.
3. Fill in the release details and tracks (covered below).
4. Click Create Single or Create Album at the bottom.

Uploads run in the background — you'll see a progress bar showing how many files have been uploaded out of the total.

Release details

Title

The album or single name. Five characters minimum, 100 max.

Artist

Defaults to your profile name, but you can override it (useful if you release under multiple project names or are publishing a collaboration).

Description

A short blurb about the release. This is where to share the story — what inspired it, who you wrote it with, what fans should listen for. Five to 1,000 characters.

Tags

Optional keywords that help fans find your release. Type a tag, click Add, and it appears as a chip below. Click the X on a chip to remove it.

Cover image

Your album or single artwork. JPG or PNG. This shows up everywhere — your store, smart links, the audio player on your website, and on every track in the album.

Price

What fans pay for the release. Set it to 0 to make it free, or tick Pay what you want to make this a minimum and let fans pay more.

Release date

The date the release becomes available. Leave blank to publish now, or pick a future date to schedule the drop.

UPC code (albums only)

If you have a UPC for the album from a distributor or your own catalog, enter it here. Optional.

Credits

A free-text field for the people behind the release — producer, mixing engineer, featured artists, songwriters, label. Shows up on the release page.

Pay what you want

Tick this to let fans pay above your set price. The price you enter becomes the minimum.

Tracks

Adding tracks

For singles, you start with one track ready to fill in. For albums, click Add Track under the Tracks section to keep adding more.

Each track has:

• Audio file — upload as FLAC or WAV. These are uncompressed formats that keep your audio quality intact for streaming.
• Track title (albums only) — what fans see in the tracklist.
• Artist (albums only) — defaults to your profile name; override for features.
• Track credits (albums only) — per-track credits if specific people worked on specific songs.
• ISRC code — your International Standard Recording Code if you have one. Optional.
• Has explicit content — tick to flag the track with an "E" badge so fans know what they're playing.

Track ordering

For albums, each track has a drag handle (the vertical dots on the left). Grab it and drag tracks up or down to set your tracklist order. The track number (#1, #2, ...) updates as you drag.

This is the order fans will hear the album in your audio player.

Featured track (albums only)

For each album, you can mark one track as featured. The featured track is what plays first on your release page and is highlighted in the tracklist.

If you check Featured Track on a track that already has a featured sibling, TribeNest automatically unfeatures the old one — only one track can be featured at a time.

Scheduling releases

To schedule a release for the future, set the Release date to any future day before saving. The release stays hidden from your store until that date, then automatically becomes available.

You can switch your Music list to show Future releases using the filter in the top right — handy when you want to double-check what's queued up for the next few weeks.

Editing a release

1. Go to Store then Music.
2. Find the release, open the menu (the three dots on the right), and click Edit Album or Edit Single.
3. Update what you need — including swapping the cover, changing the price, reordering tracks, adding new tracks, or updating credits.
4. Click Update Album or Update Single at the bottom.

Changes go live immediately. Past purchases aren't affected.

Filtering and finding releases

The Music list comes with a search bar and a filter dialog. You can:

• Search by title to jump to a specific release.
• Filter by status (active or archived).
• Filter by release status (released or future release).
• Filter by release type (all, albums only, or singles only).

Active filters show up as chips below the search bar — click Clear all to reset.

Archiving a release

Archive a release to remove it from your store without losing the upload, the tracks, or the order history.

1. Open the release menu and click Archive Album or Archive Single.
2. Confirm.

To bring it back, switch the status filter to Archived Music, open the menu on the archived release, and click Unarchive.

How fans buy and listen

Fans can preview each track on your release page using the built-in player, then add the album or single to their cart. After paying, they get a confirmation email and can stream or download their purchase from their fan account.

If they bought a pay-what-you-want release, the amount they paid is theirs — and yours.

Where to go next

• Sell merch alongside your release → creating a product
• Bundle your music drop with a one-link landing page → smart links
• See orders for your release → orders
• Where the money lands → income