For musicians
Everything a musician needs, on one page: what Musical Links is, what it costs, what we will and will not do with your recordings, and the questions people actually ask.
Getting started means making an account of your own. It is free, it takes about a minute, and it gets you an artist page plus a link for every track you upload. Nobody needs one to listen.
Musical Links hosts your own recordings and gives each one a link.
The link opens a page with a player on it; your listener presses play and does not sign up, install anything or sit through an advert.
Your artist page collects everything you have made public, in the order you choose.
That is the core of it. Everything else is optional.
See it on a real pageHow to share a song, step by stepFor when a song needs a little more: a cover, a poster, a cleaner sound. Each one is optional, and each is free today up to a limit on how often it runs.
Pick a style — Painted, Film photo, Screen print or Paper collage — and the studio paints a cover from your song's words. Put your name on it, download it, use it or throw it away.
Three pictures a day. Your song's words go to outside AI services to make it, never your audio. What goes where
Four designs, A4 or US Letter, dark or light. Anyone who scans it lands on your page and presses play — at a gig, in a shop window, on a notice board.
Ready as soon as one of your songs is public.
Takes out rumble and hiss and brings the track up to release loudness, so it sits next to everything else. It will not fix a muddy mix or a flat take.
Three a day. Your own recording is kept, and you can go back to it.
Ask one person at a time what they think of a recording. They listen, pin their notes to the seconds they mean, and send it to you alone. They do not need an account.
In your studio, open Ask for feedback on a song, say who it is for and press Make the link. Send it any way you like: a text, an email, a chat.
No account needed. While the song plays they press Comment here, or Mark a section, and every note sits on the second it is about.
Their overall impression, what stood out and what could be improved. Nothing appears on your song page.
You get an email, and a count shows beside Feedback in your studio. Press any note to hear the moment it is about.
Listening is free for everyone.
Musical Links will eventually charge musicians for tools they choose to pay for - mastering, stems, that kind of thing - and a very large catalogue may one day need a paid plan. What you have already uploaded keeps working either way, and anything that does change will be said here before it happens rather than after.
What we will and will not doThe honest version, for sharing one track with one person. Where a service's answer depends on the plan, the country or the device, the cell says so.
| Service | Listener needs an account? | Ads? | Plays in the link? | Secret links? | Take your catalogue out? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SoundCloud | Yes | Yes in some countries, unless the listener pays | Yes | Yes | Track by track |
| Dropbox or Google Drive | No | No | Varies by device; often a preview page or a download | Yes | Yes |
| Email attachment | No | No | No – it downloads | Only as the file itself | Yes |
| Musical Links | No | No | Yes | Yes, unlisted links | Yes, in one zip |
Four things, in plain words, each naming the part of Musical Links that keeps it. The first two are commitments: they are repeated in the terms of service, because a promise you cannot hold us to is not a promise. The last two describe how the service is run today - and if either ever has to change, it will be said here and in the terms before it takes effect, not after.
Nothing you upload is used to train a machine-learning model — not by us, and we do not sell, licence or hand your audio to anyone as training data. There is no setting buried in your account that quietly opts you into it.
Two pieces of software do work on your files, both on our own server, and neither sends your audio anywhere. A genre classifier suggests genres when you leave them blank and keeps a small acoustic fingerprint of the sound so “Sounds like this” can find close matches. Polish cleans up and levels a track when you ask it to. One optional tool does reach outside: making a cover with AI sends your song’s words — never the audio — to Anthropic, and a short picture description to Kie.ai. The privacy page says exactly what goes where.
No banners, no pre-roll, no sponsored tracks in the chart, no promoted anything. Listening is free, and there is nothing sold in front of the music.
Musical Links intends to make its money from musicians who choose to pay for tools, not from a listener's attention. That is what we are building; it is a plan rather than a contract with the future, and if it ever has to change you will read it here first.
Your page shows your catalogue in the order you put it in. There is no recommendation engine choosing which of your tracks is worth showing, no personalised feed, and no ranking that rearranges itself for each visitor.
There is exactly one chart on the site — Rising this week — and it counts one thing: plays gained since last week. It is the same list for everybody, it is not weighted by who is paying, and nothing you can do to your account moves you up it.
Everything you upload stays yours, and you can take all of it back out in one click: each song’s audio file as it is on the site — the file you uploaded, or the polished version if you chose to use it —, your artwork, chord sheets, lyrics, descriptions, genres, play counts and running orders, as a single zip file. No support ticket, no waiting for an email, and it is free today.
If Musical Links stops being the right home for your music, we would rather you left with all of it than stayed because leaving was made difficult. Whatever else changes, that will not.
The same is true in the other direction. Put your player on any site that will take an iframe — your own, a label's, a blog that wrote about you — and it links back here rather than keeping the listener somewhere they did not choose.
Export your catalogueUploading a song here changes nothing about who owns it. Here is what does change, what does not, and what happens when you take it down — written for the musician deciding whether to press upload, not for a lawyer.
Copyright in a song belongs to whoever wrote and recorded it, and uploading it here does not move it. Whatever rights you and the people you made it with held before, you hold after — Musical Links claims no ownership and no share of anything you earn. What you do need is the right to publish it: if a track is not yours to put up, do not put it up here.
The terms grant Musical Links only what the service technically needs: to store your files, to make the copies and formats required to stream them, and to show them to the people you have chosen. There is no right to sell, licence or hand your music to anyone else, and the permission ends when you delete the song or your account.
Every song is public, unlisted or private, and you can change that any time from your studio. Public is on your page and in Browse. Unlisted is off both and out of search, but anyone who holds the link can play it — send it to the people you mean, and reset the link when you are done. Private plays for you alone. Only public songs can be embedded.
There is no download button on a song page, and the audio is served by the site rather than as a plain file. But anyone who can play a song can also save or record it — that is true of every site that plays music, and no setting here prevents it. The protection that works is choosing who can reach the song in the first place.
Its page, link, player and embed stop at once, and nobody but you can reach it. The files themselves are removed when the site’s trash is emptied — thirty days, by WordPress’s default — and there is no undo from the studio, so export first if you might want it back. Anonymous play counts stay in the site’s totals. Deleting a whole account is done by asking us, for now. And keep your own masters: we are a place to share your music, not your only copy.
One click on your account page exports everything: each song’s audio file as it is on the site — the file you uploaded, or the polished version if you chose to use it — plus artwork, words, chords, credits, genres, play counts and running orders, in one zip. Free, and no ticket to raise.
Written in full, and briefly, in the terms and the privacy page.
MP3, M4A, OGG, WAV and FLAC, up to 100 MB per file. Cover art is a JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF up to 8 MB. Long tracks are fine.
An unlisted track is off your artist page, off Browse and out of search engines, but anyone holding its link can play it. The link carries a secret, so the address cannot be guessed. A private track is not shared at all: no link opens it, and the page and the audio answer not found for every other visitor. A site administrator can still reach files on the server, as on any host.
Both can be changed at any time from your studio, and an unlisted link can be reset, which closes the old one.
Yes, as an unlisted song. It stays off your page, off Browse and out of search, and its link carries a secret so the address cannot be guessed. Anyone who holds that link can listen, so send it to the people you mean and reset it when you are done. A private song is stricter still: it plays for nobody but you.
No. Nobody needs an account to listen. They open the link and press play.
Yes. Every public track and playlist has an embed button that gives you one iframe. Paste it into any site builder that accepts HTML - WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or a page you wrote yourself. Unlisted and private tracks cannot be embedded, on purpose: an embed is public by nature.
Yes, all of it, in one click from your account page: each song’s audio file as it is on the site — the file you uploaded, or the polished version if you chose to use it —, your artwork, chord sheets, lyrics, descriptions, genres, play counts and running orders, as a single zip. It is free today, and we would rather you left with everything than stayed because leaving was made difficult.
No. Nothing you upload is used to train a machine-learning model — not by us, and we do not sell, licence or hand it to anyone for that. It is one of our promises, and written into the terms. Two tools work on your files on our own server and send nothing out: the genre classifier, which suggests genres and keeps a small acoustic fingerprint so Sounds like this can find close matches, and Polish. One optional tool reaches outside: making a cover with AI sends your song’s words — never the audio — to Anthropic, and a short picture description to Kie.ai. Anthropic says it does not train on them by default; Kie.ai’s terms do not say, which is why it is never given your lyrics. What goes where, in the privacy page.
Nothing today. Uploading, sharing, embedding, playlists and export are all free, and so are the three studio tools, up to a limit on how often each one runs. Listening is free for everyone. Later there will be paid tools for musicians who want them, such as mastering, and very large catalogues may cost something. If any of what is free today has to change, you will read it here before it happens, not after.
In your studio, open the song and choose Delete. Its page, link, player and embed stop at once, and nobody but you can reach it. The files themselves are removed when the site’s trash is emptied — thirty days, by WordPress’s default — and there is no undo from the studio, so export first if you might want it back. Anonymous play counts stay in the site’s totals. To delete a whole account, ask us through the contact page; there is no button for it yet.
A play is counted when a track starts, once per listener per hour, so someone pressing play five times in a row counts once. Listeners is the same idea over a month: how many places the track reached. Nothing is stored about who they were, only a salted, expiring marker that says already counted.
Yes. Open the playlist in your studio and drag the tracks, or move them with the keyboard, into the running order you want. A track can sit in several playlists, each with its own order, and a playlist never reveals a track its listener could not already reach.
No. Copyright belongs to whoever wrote and recorded the song, and uploading it here does not move it. Whatever rights you and your collaborators held before, you hold after. What the upload does need is that you have the right to publish the track. Your music, your rights.
Neither. The terms say it in one line: we claim no ownership of your music and no share of anything you earn from it. What you grant is the permission the service needs to run — storing your files, making the copies needed to stream them, and showing them to the people you chose. Nothing in it lets us sell, licence or pass your music to anyone, and it ends when you delete the song or your account. It is spelled out in the terms of service.
Anyone who can play a song can also save or record it. There is no download button on a song page and the audio is served by the site rather than as a plain file, but no site that plays music can stop a listener keeping what they hear, and we will not pretend this one does. The protection that works is choosing who can reach the song: private, or unlisted and sent only to the people you trust.
Free, and free of everything above. Upload a track, get a link, put it wherever your listeners already are.
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