Product updates, release notes, and changelog from the Trackstack team.
The profile image requirement has been removed, allowing users to submit content without needing to upload a profile image first.
Impact: You can now submit content without needing a profile image
This update fixes several bugs in the inbox and artwork generation features, improving the overall user experience. Key changes include preventing ESC from closing the decline drawer while editing templates, fixing duplicate history entries, and updating the artwork generation UI.
Impact: More reliable decline template editing
We've updated the coach reference track embed feature to recognize and display SoundCloud tracks shared using short `on.soundcloud.com` links, in addition to the standard `soundcloud.com` links.
Impact: Coaches can now share SoundCloud reference tracks using short, easy-to-copy links
Producers can now see the reference track directly in the coach review interface, with support for embedded playback of common providers like YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud.
Impact: Quickly access the reference track alongside producer notes
We have made changes to prevent users on the Free plan from reactivating paused inboxes. This ensures Free plan users cannot inadvertently resume inboxes they are not allowed to use.
Impact: Avoid accidental reactivation of paused inboxes on the Free plan
The 'Personal' inbox type has been renamed to 'Artist' to better reflect its purpose of receiving demos and promos. This change impacts the entire inbox management experience, including the inbox creation flow, contacts list, and settings.
Impact: Clearer terminology for artist users
We've fixed an issue that prevented users from successfully downloading multiple tracks at once. Users can now download a batch of tracks as a zip file.
Impact: Ability to download multiple tracks at once
Artists can now mark where reviewers should start listening to their tracks. This allows them to highlight the most important part of their submission and ensure reviewers focus on the key sections.
Impact: Artists can control where playback starts for their tracks
We've added a new command palette that makes it easier to find and use various platform features and actions. You can now access the command palette with a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+K) and browse a list of available commands. We've also added new keyboard shortcuts for common actions like playing/pausing tracks, skipping, and more.
Impact: Faster access to key platform features and actions
You can now perform bulk actions on multiple submission tracks, such as liking, moving, or downloading them. This makes it easier to manage your submissions in the Inbox.
Impact: Quickly perform common actions on multiple tracks at once
The admin onboarding page now has stricter access controls, ensuring only authorized users with the 'Owner' or 'Admin' role can access this sensitive area of the application.
Impact: Improved security and privacy for the admin onboarding process
The onboarding tab in the admin dashboard is now hidden for users who are not owners or admins. This ensures that only authorized users can access the onboarding experience.
Impact: Improved security and access control
This update fixes a bug in the Member Management section where onboarding responses were not being displayed correctly.
Impact: Onboarding responses are now properly displayed for all members
We've fixed an issue where the post content would not auto-save properly, ensuring your work is always saved as you make changes to your posts.
Impact: Reliable auto-save of post content
Uploading large ZIP files is now faster and more reliable. The server will now process the ZIP file asynchronously after the initial upload, avoiding delays and memory issues during the upload process.
Impact: Faster completion of large ZIP file uploads
We have removed the limited-time 40% off yearly or 10% off first month offer for new workspaces.
You can now pause and resume your inboxes as needed. This allows you to temporarily stop receiving new messages in an inbox without having to delete it.
Impact: Pause inboxes to take a break from message flow
We've added new Songstats data like Spotify monthly listeners and Instagram followers to Inbox profiles. You can now filter and sort your Inbox by these audience metrics to better understand your senders.
Impact: See detailed audience analytics for Inbox senders
We've made several improvements to the Onboarding Builder to fix bugs and enhance the user experience. Users can now upload and embed their own videos, configure checkbox options more easily, and enjoy better layout and alignment options.
Impact: Ability to upload and embed custom videos
We've fixed several bugs in the Onboarding Builder that were causing issues for users. These changes should improve the overall experience when creating and managing onboarding flows.
Impact: More reliable onboarding flow creation
We've fixed an issue where clicking on the image upload button in the Onboarding Welcome Editor would cause the page to scroll unexpectedly. This should provide a smoother and more intuitive experience when adding an image to the welcome step.
Impact: Improved usability when uploading images in the Onboarding Welcome Editor
We've updated the fallback image used for the Studio logo when a logo is not provided. The new fallback will display the Studio name's initial letters instead of a generic placeholder image.
Impact: More branded and visually appealing Studio pages
We've made improvements to the onboarding process for new users, ensuring required fields are properly validated to provide a smoother and more reliable signup experience.
Impact: Fewer errors during onboarding
Users now need to upload a profile image before they can send a submission. This change ensures a consistent experience for all users, making the platform more reliable and trustworthy.
Impact: Improved platform trust and credibility
Admins can now view a member's onboarding responses, including the question context and the member's answers, directly in the member's details page.
Impact: Admins can better understand a member's background and experience when managing their account
We've added a check to the Inbox submission form to ensure that users can't submit new content if the inbox has been temporarily paused. This helps prevent frustration when an inbox is not accepting new submissions.
Impact: Prevents users from attempting to submit to a paused inbox
You can now use the Enter key to upload an image and the Escape key to close the image crop modal, making it faster and more convenient to upload track artwork.
Impact: Faster image uploads with keyboard shortcuts
The Uploads page now correctly displays the total storage used in gigabytes (GB) instead of an incorrect byte-based format.
Impact: Clearer and more intuitive display of storage usage
The Command Centre now checks the number of inboxes you can create based on your plan. If you've reached the limit, you'll see an error message and the command description will be updated to indicate the limit has been reached.
Impact: Prevents creating more inboxes than your plan allows
This update fixes an issue with the project sharing modal, ensuring a smoother and more reliable sharing experience for users.
Impact: Improved reliability when sharing projects
This update improves the subscription management experience by providing clearer status information and actions for users with cancelled, past due, or incomplete subscriptions.
Impact: Easily see the current status of your subscription
Users can now successfully upload multiple tracks to a project, resolving an issue where only one track would be uploaded.
Impact: Ability to upload multiple tracks to a project
This update introduces a new keyboard shortcut system, a Command Center accessible with Cmd+K, and a rename of the Library section to Uploads.
Impact: Faster navigation with keyboard shortcuts
The maximum length of the studio description has been increased from 250 to 240 characters, allowing users to provide more detailed information about their studios.
Impact: Ability to provide more comprehensive studio descriptions
When declining a submission, users will now see the minimum required character count for the feedback field, and how many more characters they need to enter.
Impact: Easier to know when you've provided enough feedback
We've made several improvements to how users can manage their Freemium plan, including better handling of perpetual plans, improved plan selection during onboarding, and more reliable subscription management.
Impact: Easier plan selection and management for Freemium users
We've integrated the Meta Pixel tracking tool to provide more detailed analytics on user actions and conversions across the Inbox platform. This will help us better understand how users interact with the product and make improvements to deliver a better experience.
Impact: More detailed analytics on user behavior
Users will now see a clear message if an inbox is currently paused and not accepting submissions, instead of an error. This provides more transparency around the submission process.
Impact: Clearer communication when an inbox is not accepting submissions
We've added a 240-character limit for studio descriptions to ensure consistent validation across our admin, inbox, and mobile experiences. This helps prevent overly long descriptions that could negatively impact the user experience.
Impact: Consistent studio description length validation
We've fixed several bugs that were affecting users on our Freemium plan, including issues with submitting tracks, managing inbox settings, and accessing billing information.
Impact: Improved reliability and performance for Freemium users
The recent addition of Elasticsearch indexing for submission tracks has been reverted, restoring the previous behavior of using the paginated list endpoint for all queries.
Impact: Faster and more reliable submission track searches
We've fixed an issue where the inbox page could sometimes show an error when loading, even if the user was online. This should now load properly without any errors.
Impact: Inbox page will load without errors
This update improves the experience for users who share tracks or projects with others. Changes include immediately reflecting changes to sharing settings, automatically copying the share link after saving, and providing faster search results for uploaded tracks.
Impact: Sharing settings are updated in real-time without needing to wait
We have fixed an issue that was causing studio owners' subdomains to be overwritten with the string 'NULL', which could take down their entire studio. This has been addressed through a multi-layer fix in the admin and studio web apps, as well as the backend API.
Impact: More reliable and stable studio subdomains
The Uploads page has been optimized to reduce the number of API calls and improve page load times, providing a smoother experience for users.
Impact: Faster page loads (5.38s vs 10.19s, 47% faster)
This release includes a number of bug fixes and improvements across the Inbox and Admin Web applications, addressing issues with date range selection, track downloads, navigation, and more.
Impact: Improved date range selection experience in Inbox Web
We've addressed several issues that were impacting the reliability and usability of our track and project sharing features. Inbox owners will now receive email notifications when new submissions arrive, and shared links will work consistently across all environments.
Impact: Reliable email notifications when new submissions are received
This update adds detailed analysis of track features like tempo, key, energy, loudness, and more. Users can now see a comprehensive breakdown of the technical characteristics of their tracks.
Impact: Gain deeper insights into the technical qualities of your tracks
You can now customize the labels for 'Shortlisted' and 'Supporting' submission review statuses across the Inbox, Sent, and detail views. This provides more context to users on the status of their submissions.
Impact: Clearer status information for your submission reviews
You can now join your studio's Discord server directly from your plan. This makes it easier to connect with other members and access exclusive content.
Impact: Convenient access to your studio's Discord community