# Sharing & upload links
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/release/sharing

Send a track, album, mix, or playlist to anyone via a token-protected share link; collect files from collaborators via an upload link, no Aden account required on either end.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

**Share links** let you send a track, album, mix, or playlist to anyone. A
label A\&R, a mixing engineer, a manager, without giving them an Aden account.
The recipient opens a branded listen page in their browser. You control whether
they can leave comments and whether they can download the file.

**Upload links** work the other direction: you send someone a link and they can
drop files into it. The files land directly in your team's documents, media
gallery, track covers, or as a received transfer. All from a simple
drag-and-drop page, no account needed.

## Using it [#using-it]

### Sharing a track [#sharing-a-track]

1. Open any track and go to its **Share** tab.
2. Click **New share link**. Choose which version to share (or leave it on the
   current version), whether comments and downloads are allowed, and optionally
   set an expiry date.
3. Copy the generated link and send it. You can also click **Send by email**
   to fire off a branded email directly from Aden.
4. The recipient opens the link. They can listen, leave time-stamped comments,
   and download if you enabled it.

With several versions on the link, the search box above them also takes
"latest", "final", "newest" or "oldest", so nobody has to know a version's name.

You can create multiple share links for the same track (for example, one for
feedback and one for download-only distribution). Manage and revoke them from
the same Share tab.

### Letting people add versions back [#letting-people-add-versions-back]

By default a share link is read-only. Turn on **Let visitors add versions** (in
the share dialog's *More options*, or on the share's card afterwards) and anyone
with the link can upload a new version of the track from the share page.

They have to be signed in to Aden. The upload is credited to their account, so
you always know who sent what. They don't need to be on your team. What they add
arrives as a plain new version: never marked final, no tags, nothing renamed.
Promoting it is still your call.

Visitors who aren't signed in see the box with a sign-in link rather than
nothing at all, so the option never looks broken.

**Let visitors add stems** does the same for layers instead of versions: anyone
signed in can drop a hook or a harmony on top of the track from the share page,
and everyone with the link hears the result stacked over the song. Good for
"send me your ideas". You keep the version, they add to it.

### Watermarking what you send [#watermarking-what-you-send]

Turn on **Watermark the audio** in the Share dialog and your tag plays over the
music on the share page and gets mixed into downloads. Tags are managed in
**Settings → Watermarks** (per team, or per organisation for a house tag): see
the watermarks help page.

### Sending a track or album straight into a chat [#sending-a-track-or-album-straight-into-a-chat]

The Share dialog also has a **Send to chat** mode. Instead of copying a link,
pick who to send it to and it lands as a card in your in-app chat, no need to
leave the app. You can send to:

* **People**: a teammate, or anyone on Aden who has turned on their public
  profile (search them by name).
* **Teams**: one of the teams you're connected with.
* **Organisations**: one of your organisations (it goes into that org's shared
  chat).

Add an optional message and hit **Send**. A share link is still created behind
the scenes, so the recipient can listen even if they're not on your team.

### Sending a track as a demo [#sending-a-track-as-a-demo]

From the track Share dialog, switch to **Send as demo**, pick a team, and send.
The track drops into that team's demo inbox exactly like a demo submission, the
team is notified, and they can listen right away.

### Sharing an album, mix, or playlist [#sharing-an-album-mix-or-playlist]

The same flow applies: open the item, find its Share panel, create a link. For
albums you can optionally restrict which tracks inside the album the link
exposes (per track: all versions, final only, or hidden), and toggle **See
cover art** to show or hide the album and track artwork on the public share
page: the same cover toggle available on track shares.

### Label copy on a share [#label-copy-on-a-share]

Track shares carry a **Label copy** switch, on by default. It decides whether
the person opening the link can read and export the track's label copy:
credits, splits and identifiers. Switch it off to send the music without the
paperwork: the Label copy button disappears and the copy page stops opening for
that link.

### Building a playlist from several tracks, and sharing it [#building-a-playlist-from-several-tracks-and-sharing-it]

From the **Tracks** list, select multiple tracks (Cmd/Ctrl-click a card, or
tick the checkboxes) and click **Add to playlist** in the selection toolbar.
A dialog lets you name the playlist and, for each track, choose exactly what a
share of it would expose:

* **Full track**: every version of that track is visible on the share page.
* **Latest version**: only the newest version.
* **Specific version**: one exact version you pick from that track's list.

Sharing is a switch in that dialog, **Create a share link**, off by default: a
playlist you only wanted to group tracks into never gets a public link. Turn it
on (or start from **Share** in the toolbar, which opens the same dialog with it
already on) to set the usual share options (comments, downloads, description,
expiry, custom link) and hit **Create & copy link**. Aden creates the playlist,
adds the tracks in order, and generates one playlist share link whose per-track
version choices are baked in, so a single link can mix "here's the whole track"
with "here's just this one bounce" track by track.

### Creating an upload link [#creating-an-upload-link]

1. From your team's **Documents** or a track's media section, create an **upload
   link**.
2. Give it an optional title, expiry date, and upload limit.
3. Copy the link and send it, or click **Invite** to email it directly.
4. The recipient visits the link, drags in their files (audio, artwork,
   documents: whatever you asked for), optionally leaves their name and a
   note, and submits.
5. The files appear in your team instantly.

### Seeing who visited your shared links [#seeing-who-visited-your-shared-links]

Every visit to a share link is tracked, even when the visitor has no Aden
account. Open the track's **Analytics** tab and scroll to **Shared link
visits** to see, per link: total visits, unique visitors, plays, and a log of
each individual visit with the exact time, location (city and country), device
and browser. Visitors who have an Aden account (or create one later) show up
by name and email; everyone else appears as an anonymous listener. This is how
you know exactly who showed interest after you dropped a demo to a group of
people.

You also see **how long each visitor actually listened**: a per-link listen
time, a total time-listened counter, and the listened duration next to each
play in the visit log.

Want to know the moment someone opens a link? Turn on **Notify me on every
visit** when creating (or editing) a share link and Aden sends you a
notification when a visitor opens it. At most one per visitor every six
hours, so a busy link doesn't flood you.

Under **More options** there's also **Notify me on every play** (off by
default): instead of alerting on page opens, it alerts the moment a visitor
actually presses play on the shared track, with the same per-visitor
rate limiting.