Briefs help you organize music requests, share them with the right people, and receive submissions back into DISCO in one place.

Instead of sending a loose email and collecting replies across inboxes, downloads, and file transfer links, you can create a Brief, write out what you need, add a close date, and share it with selected contacts or mailing lists. Submissions then arrive back into DISCO as playlists inside the Brief, ready for review.

Briefs combine the structure of a project, the written direction of a brief, and the receiving workflow of an Inbox. They make it much easier to manage outbound requests and incoming submissions in one organized system.

In this article

You’ll learn how to:

• organize Briefs inside Projects
• create and publish a Brief
• add briefing information and a close date
• share a Brief with contacts and mailing lists
• track recipient activity on Brief emails
• review and organize incoming submissions
• duplicate Briefs to save time on repeat workflows

Start by organizing Briefs inside Projects

In the Briefs area, you can choose to create either a Project or a Brief.

A Project acts like a folder that can hold multiple Briefs. This is useful when you are working on a film, series, campaign, album rollout, trailer search, or any other job that may involve more than one music request over time.

If you also send standalone requests that do not belong to a larger job, it is a good idea to create a Project called something like One-off Briefs so those requests still stay organized in one place.

Use a Brief to request and organize submissions

A Brief is where you create the actual music request.

It combines a few useful things in one place:

• the written brief itself
• a dedicated submission page
• a close date for submissions
• an organized receiving area for incoming playlists

In that sense, a Brief is a bit like a combination of a custom Inbox and a Channel. It gives you a dedicated place to receive submissions while keeping everything tied to the request that generated them.

Write the Brief clearly

When creating a Brief, add the information people need in order to respond well.

This might include:

• a description of the music you need
• creative direction
• mood, genre, tempo, or reference ideas
• usage context
• important rights or delivery requirements
• a submission close date

The clearer the Brief, the better the submissions are likely to be.

Add a close date for submissions

Each Brief can include a close date.

After that date, the Brief submission page will no longer accept submissions. This is useful when you need to keep a project moving and want a clear deadline for rights holders, suppliers, or collaborators.

Publish the Brief before sharing it

Once the Brief is written, click Publish.

Publishing the Brief does not send it to anyone automatically. It simply makes the Brief ready to be shared.

This is helpful because it lets you prepare everything first, then decide when and how to send it out.

Share the Brief with the right people

Once published, the Brief can be shared by email from DISCO.

This is one of the most useful parts of the workflow. The email is tracked, so you can see recipient activity such as whether someone opened the email or clicked through to the submission page. You’ll also receive notifications about that activity.

This makes it easier to understand who has seen the request and who may still need a follow-up.

Use contacts and mailing lists to target the right suppliers

Briefs work even better when your contacts are organized well inside DISCO.

You can add contacts to DISCO and group them into mailing lists for different supplier types, such as:

• major labels and publishers
• indie labels
• indie publishers
• one-stop agencies
• production libraries
• specific territories
• all Australian rights holders

This makes it much easier to send the right Brief to the right group without rebuilding the recipient list each time.

Duplicate existing Briefs to save time

If you often send similar types of requests, you can duplicate an existing Brief instead of rewriting everything from scratch.

This is useful when the structure, language, or supplier groups are similar but the project or creative direction has changed. Duplicate the Brief, update the details, and share it with the relevant group.

Receive submissions back into the Brief

As people submit music, the submissions appear inside the Brief.

The receiving area of the Brief works a lot like an Inbox. Each submission arrives as a playlist, so you can review incoming music in a structured way rather than sorting through loose files or scattered links.

This makes Briefs much easier to manage than a traditional email-based briefing workflow.

Review and pull useful files into your workflow

Once submissions arrive, you can listen through them and pull the useful content into the rest of your DISCO workflow.

From the submitted playlists, you can:

• drag tracks into new playlists
• save submissions into Channels
• bring tracks or playlists into Browse
• build shortlists from the strongest options

The key benefit is that the files are already in DISCO and ready to use. There is no need to download them to your computer and upload them again.

Use Briefs for real industry workflows

Briefs are especially useful for workflows like:

• music supervisors requesting submissions from rights holders
• sync teams gathering options for a project
• managers or creative teams requesting music for a campaign
• anyone who wants a more structured way to send requests and review incoming music

They are best used when you need a clear written request, a submission deadline, targeted outreach, and a dedicated place to review responses.

If you simply need someone to send you files without the structure of a written request and deadline, use an Inbox instead.

Wrap up

Briefs help you send organized music requests, share them with the right people, and receive submissions back into DISCO in one place.

By combining written briefing information, a dedicated submission page, recipient tracking, and a structured way to review incoming playlists, Briefs make it much easier to manage music requests from start to finish.

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