Inboxes are one of the most important parts of the DISCO ecosystem. They make it easy to receive music and media files from other people without the usual friction of downloading, unzipping, re-uploading, and reorganizing everything manually.

Instead of asking someone to email attachments or send files through other transfer tools, you can send them an Inbox URL. They can upload files directly to you, or, if they already use DISCO, send you a playlist straight from their own account.

This is especially useful for workflows like:

• artists sending music to managers
• rights holders sending music to music supervisors
• labels and publishers delivering new releases
• radio programmers receiving weekly music drops
• anyone collecting files from collaborators, clients, or partners

Once files arrive in your Inbox, they are immediately available to review and can be brought into your DISCO without needing to download and upload them again.

In this article

You’ll learn how to:

• use Inboxes to receive files in DISCO
• share an Inbox URL with other people
• receive files from DISCO users and non-users
• import useful content from your Inbox into your DISCO
• understand Team Inboxes and Personal Inboxes
• manage visibility and removal settings

Understand how Inboxes work

Each Inbox has its own upload page URL that you can share with other people.

That URL acts like a receiving point for files. Someone can open it, send files to you, and the content will appear in your DISCO Inbox. If they already use DISCO, they can send you an existing playlist instead of uploading files all over again.

This is what makes Inboxes so useful. They remove many of the old pain points of music industry file exchange and make incoming content instantly easier to work with.

If you need a more structured submission workflow tied to a project, written brief, and due date, use Briefs.

Choose between Team Inboxes and Personal Inboxes

DISCO includes two types of Inboxes.

Team Inboxes

Team Inboxes can be accessed by your DISCO team and are useful for shared workflows where multiple people need visibility.

Personal Inboxes

Personal Inboxes are tied to your login email and can only be viewed by you.

These are useful when you want incoming files to stay connected to your own work rather than a shared team area.

When new content arrives in an Inbox, you’ll receive an email notification and an in-app notification.

Share an Inbox URL to receive files

To receive files, open the Inbox where you want content to arrive and copy its Inbox URL.

You can then email or text that link to whoever needs to send you files.

This works well when you want people to deliver music, media, or other assets straight into your DISCO rather than sending scattered files across email, WeTransfer, Dropbox, or other transfer tools.

Receive files from people who do not use DISCO

Someone without DISCO can still send files through your Inbox URL.

They simply:

• drag files into the upload area or select them from their computer
• fill out the form
• click Send Files

Each submission creates a new playlist in your Inbox.

Receive files from other DISCO users

If the sender already uses DISCO, they do not need to upload the files again.

Instead, they can:

• save a playlist in their own DISCO
• copy the Playlist URL
• open your Inbox URL
• choose Send your own Playlist
• paste the Playlist URL
• click Send Files

This is one of the most powerful parts of the DISCO ecosystem. It lets people move music between accounts without downloading and re-uploading files.

Use Save to DISCO to avoid downloading and uploading

When you receive a DISCO playlist from someone else, you may also see Save to DISCO buttons on their playlist, as long as it is not set to streaming-only.

Using Save to DISCO adds the playlist, tracks, or sections into your Personal Inbox.

This makes it easy to bring useful content into your DISCO without downloading files to your computer first.

For DISCO users, this is one of the biggest workflow improvements in the platform. Instead of downloading and re-uploading files every time you receive music, you can keep the whole process inside DISCO.

Review content before importing it

When playlists first arrive in your Inbox, they are held separately from the rest of your DISCO.

At this stage:

• they do not count toward your track quota
• they do not appear in general search results
• they remain in the Inbox until you decide what to keep

This gives you a chance to review incoming files before bringing them into your main workspace.

The one exception is that Inbox content can still be searched if the Inbox is selected as a filter in the search grid:

Bring content from your Inbox into your DISCO

Once you decide something is worth keeping, there are several ways to import it into your DISCO.

You can:

• star a playlist
• star a track inside a playlist
• drag a track into the Playlist Creator
• drag a playlist into the Playlist Creator and save it
• drag a track or playlist into a Channel
• select Add to Channel from the track or playlist menu

If you want to move several playlists at once, you can select multiple items using Shift or Command and add them to a Channel together.

These actions bring the content into your DISCO so it becomes part of your working library.

Understand what happens after import

Once content has been imported into your DISCO, it becomes part of your normal workspace.

Depending on how you imported it, that might mean:

• the playlist appears in Browse
• the track appears in the Tracks view
• the content can be added to Channels
• the content becomes searchable in the rest of your DISCO

This is what makes Inboxes so effective. They act as a staging area for incoming files, while still giving you a fast path to turn useful submissions into usable library content.

Be careful when removing Inbox content

Removing content from an Inbox can mean two different things, depending on whether the content has already been imported.

Remove from DISCO

If the content has not yet been imported, Remove from DISCO means it will be deleted permanently.

Remove from Inbox

If the content has already been imported, Remove from Inbox simply removes it from the Inbox while leaving the imported version in your DISCO.

This is important when clearing your Inbox. Before removing anything, make sure the content you want to keep has already been imported.

You can also remove multiple playlists at once from the Actions menu. DISCO will warn you if any selected playlists have not yet been imported.

Use Inboxes as part of a larger workflow

Inboxes are especially powerful when you treat them as the front door to your DISCO.

For example:

• a manager can ask artists to send works in progress to a Personal Inbox
• a music supervisor can ask rights holders to send options to a Team Inbox
• a radio programmer can receive weekly releases into an Inbox, review them, then move the best ones into Channels for ongoing organization
• a label or publisher can use Inboxes to centralize new songs received from composers before organizing them internally

In all of these cases, the key benefit is the same: incoming files become immediately usable without having to download, unpack, and re-upload them.

Wrap up

Inboxes make it much easier to receive music and media files in DISCO.

They simplify the handoff between sender and recipient, reduce the friction of traditional file transfer, and give you a clean way to review incoming content before bringing it into your main library. Once you start using Inboxes as a receiving workflow, DISCO becomes much more than a place to store files - it becomes an ecosystem for moving music efficiently between people.