How to send your EP to a label - one public link, not five files

The EP is finished. Now you need a label, a playlist curator, or an A&R contact to actually hear it.

So you zip five MP3s, upload them to a Drive folder nobody can find the password for, or send five private SoundCloud links and hope they click them in order. Half the time they open track three first. Half the time the zip never downloads. Every time, your release arrives as a pile of files instead of a record.

The short answer: send one public link to the whole EP. BandVolt Premium collection shares put your album or EP on a branded streaming page - artwork, track order, continuous playback - that anyone can open without creating an account. Revoke it whenever you like.

A release is not a folder of files

Labels and curators listen the way listeners listen. They expect a start, a sequence, and a finish. When you send five separate links, you outsource the sequencing to someone who has forty other demos open and will not reconstruct your tracklist from filenames.

A proper release page keeps:

• Artwork - so the project looks finished before the first chorus
• Track order - the sequence you meant, not the order the emails arrived
• Continuous playback - so track two starts when track one ends
• Metadata - titles, and whatever BPM, key, or lyrics you have attached to each song

That is the difference between “here are some songs” and “here is the EP”.

How a collection share link works

Group the songs into an Album, EP, or Collection in your band workspace - the same library you already use for versions, setlists, and feedback. On Premium, generate a public link for that collection.

The recipient gets a clean page. No BandVolt account. No app install. They press play and stream. You choose whether each song’s link follows the latest active mix or stays locked to a specific version, so a label does not accidentally hear last week’s rough while you are still bouncing.

Basic bands can keep up to three active song links. Premium adds unlimited song links plus public collection links for full albums and EPs. Internal collaboration stays inside the band; the public page stays listen-only for outsiders.

You stay in control. Revoke the link and it is dead - no stale bounce still circulating from a campaign six months ago. Because the share points at your library, you are not maintaining a second “promo folder” that drifts out of date the moment you upload a louder master.

For a single track - a lead single, a rough for a friend, one song for a session player - a song share link is still the right tool. Collection links are for when the record is the thing you are sending.

Collection link vs EPK vs song link vs content transfer

These four get conflated. They overlap on listening, but they are not the same job.

What you need	What to send
”Listen to this one song”	Public song link (Basic or Premium)
“Listen to the whole EP / album in order”	Public collection link (Premium)
“Meet the band - story, photos, booking, and some music”	Electronic Press Kit (free on every tier; streams featured tracks too)
“Here are the finished masters - they are yours now”	Content transfer (Premium to send)

A BandVolt EPK is not music-free: it pulls featured tracks from your library into a waveform player, so a label or booker can hear you without a second link. What it is not is a sequenced release page. Feature tracks on an EPK are highlights inside a press kit. A collection share is the EP or album as a continuous listen - track order, artwork, and playback that behaves like a record.

So for a label pitch: the collection link when the release is the point; the EPK when you want bio, photos, videos, booking contact, and upcoming shows in the same place as a few streams. Sending both is fine - collection for the record, EPK for the package around it. A promoter booking a support slot will often start with the EPK alone. Your mix engineer finishing a job wants content transfer, not a streaming page - delivery is ownership, not a listen. More on that split in WeTransfer and FilePass vs content transfer.

Before you hit send

A short checklist that catches most self-owns:

• Tracks are in the order you want a stranger to hear them
• The first track plays within a couple of seconds
• Artwork is on the collection, not only in your head
• You locked or followed the mix versions on purpose
• You opened the link yourself, logged out, on a phone

That last one is the same rule as for an EPK, and it catches the same class of problems - broken players, wrong cuts, a track still titled final_v7_louder.

One link for the whole record

Labels do not owe you the patience to reconstruct your EP from attachments. Give them one URL that plays the release the way you sequenced it, revoke it when the conversation is over, and keep the workspace behind it for the band.

Share your next EP with one link on Premium, or start on Basic with individual song links and upgrade when the full collection is ready. More on public sharing.