Product updates, release notes, and changelog from the Trackstack team.
We've improved the onboarding flow management system to prevent duplicate flow names. This makes it easier for you to create and manage your onboarding flows without worrying about naming conflicts.
Impact: Easier onboarding flow creation and management
This update introduces a major refactor of the Freemium plan, including new customizable bio page layouts for artists and creators to showcase their work and content. The bio page layouts have been designed with a clean, mobile-first aesthetic to provide an engaging, visually-focused experience.
Impact: More customizable, visually-appealing bio pages for artists and creators
This update fixes an issue where users were sometimes being redirected to the wrong page when viewing submission details. The URLs for submission and track details have been updated to provide a more consistent and reliable experience.
Impact: Improved navigation and page consistency when viewing submission details
This release introduces a workspace switcher rail for easily switching between your studios, a new channels system for improved team collaboration and communication, and a new layout system that allows you to customize the look and feel of your studio.
Impact: Easily switch between your studios with the workspace switcher
This update focuses on improving the dark mode experience and fixing various bugs across the inbox web application.
Impact: Improved visual consistency in dark mode
The dark mode toggle has been fixed, and the app now always loads in light mode by default, regardless of system settings. This ensures a consistent user experience across all devices and environments.
Impact: Reliable dark mode toggling
We've fixed an issue where the last payment amount would incorrectly display as $0.00 during a free trial period. This should now show the correct information.
Impact: Accurate display of billing information
We've updated the video upload process to automatically request English and Spanish subtitles for all new videos. We've also added a tool to backfill missing subtitles for existing videos.
Impact: Videos will have English and Spanish subtitles available by default
The studio logo has been restored to the top left of the desktop header, and the initial render of the navigation menu no longer causes a visible flash or empty state.
Impact: Studio logo is now visible in the desktop header
We've fixed an issue where the settings for creating a new Inbox would not load properly. This should provide a smoother experience when setting up a new Inbox.
Impact: Faster and more reliable Inbox creation
You can now switch between a dark and light mode theme in the Studio web app, providing a more customizable and comfortable viewing experience.
Impact: Choose a theme that suits your preferences and lighting conditions
We've fixed an issue where the profile image for users providing feedback was not displaying correctly. Now, the image will always be shown, providing a better visual experience.
Impact: Improved visual experience when viewing feedback
We've added a new shared keyboard shortcut system that makes it easier to discover and use keyboard commands across our apps. A new '?' shortcut now shows a help overlay listing all active shortcuts.
Impact: Quickly find and use keyboard shortcuts to speed up common actions
We've fixed an issue where the genre field was required when submitting track feedback, but the error message wasn't clear. Now the genre field is clearly marked as required, providing a better user experience.
Impact: Clearer error messages when submitting track feedback
Admins can now see the reason provided by coaches when they request to reassign a track feedback request. This provides more context to help admins better understand and process these requests.
Impact: Admins have more information to make informed decisions when processing reassignment requests
Admins can now see the reason for any feedback reassignment requests, making it easier to understand and manage these requests.
Impact: Admins can better understand and address feedback reassignment requests
Trackstack has implemented an automated dunning system to recover failed payments. When a payment doesn't go through, users will now receive a series of friendly email reminders to update their payment method, helping to prevent service disruptions.
Impact: Avoid service interruptions due to payment issues
Private notes from the inbox owner will no longer be visible to the sender of a message. This ensures your private communications remain confidential.
Impact: Increased privacy for sent messages
We've restructured the underlying API to improve performance and reliability. This includes optimized database queries, better error handling, and automatic context management.
Impact: Faster page loads
This update fixes an issue where images in the Studio Settings page were not displaying correctly. Users can now successfully upload and view their studio's logo and hero image.
Impact: Studio settings page will display images correctly
We've updated the way your workspace avatar image is displayed. Now, if your workspace doesn't have an image set, a default avatar will be shown based on the workspace name.
Impact: More consistent and visually appealing workspace avatars
Users will now see additional context about the status of their sent submissions, including why a submission may have been cancelled.
Impact: More information about the status of sent submissions
We've added informative tooltips to the review state icons on the sent page, providing users with more context about the status of their submissions.
Impact: Better understanding of submission status
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