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No. Browsing, filtering and previewing loops all work signed out. You need an account to send a collaboration request, publish a loop, or open a collaboration room.

Nothing. Browsing, previewing, messaging a producer, sending a collaboration request, the private room, the chat and the full-quality download are all free. The only thing that uses your quota is publishing a loop of your own.

Sign up, then submit the profile you sell from — BeatStars, Airbit, Soundee, Traktrain, Bandcamp or another marketplace. We give you a short code to put in that profile's bio, and someone on our team opens it and checks. It is a manual review, so it is not instant, and there is no way to skip the queue.

Because that is the whole point of it. Every producer here was checked by hand against a real catalogue of their work before they could publish or request anything, which is why a message on ColabLoop tends to get read instead of ignored. An automated check would be faster and would prove nothing.

A private room opens for the two of you: live chat, and the loop in full quality to download. That is the whole room — you take the loop away and work on it in your own DAW, and nothing gets uploaded back here. When the beat is finished you come back to say how it was released and to settle the split.

No, and there is nowhere to. ColabLoop does not want your stems, your project files or your bounces — they would cost storage for something the product has no use for. All it needs to know at the end is that the loop's owner ended up on the paperwork.

You say how it went out: listed on a marketplace like BeatStars, in which case you paste the link so the owner can open it and check; or sold directly to an artist, in which case there is nothing public to link and you register the owner's share against the IPI number on their profile. Then you attest that you did it, and they confirm.

You and your collaborator do, in whatever split you agree. ColabLoop is not a party to it and does not take a cut. What the product does is make sure the conversation happens before the track is finished rather than after.

The first time the full file is downloaded, both producers' credits and contact details are exchanged automatically. At the end, each of you attests separately that the loop's owner is on the split — and the second attestation closes the collaboration by itself. Nobody can quietly call it done without you, and if the owner looks and finds the split isn't right, they can send it back with a reason instead of accepting.

Yes. Every producer's response rate and average reply time are shown on their profile and beside their loops, calculated from their real activity over the last 90 days. Producers can also mark themselves as not currently taking collaborations, which is shown on their profile.

A single WAV between 10 and 60 seconds, exported at 44.1 or 48 kHz, made by you. You also say whether it arrives mixed or unprocessed, so a collaborator knows what they are opening. And you confirm three things when you publish: it is your own work, it is not AI-generated, and it is not copyrighted material.

44.1 kHz or 48 kHz — what nearly every producer already runs at. Anything else still uploads, but your collaborator's DAW will resample it on open, and you never hear the version they judged you on. The rate is shown on your loop page either way, so nobody opens it blind.

Mixed means levels, EQ and glue are done and the loop can drop straight into a session. Unprocessed means it is raw and unbalanced with the headroom left in, for a collaborator who wants to mix it themselves. Neither is better — saying which is what stops a week disappearing into a file that was never what the other person expected.

Every upload is fingerprinted against commercial releases before it goes live. A clean result publishes straight away; a match is rejected and never appears publicly; anything the check can't decide is held for a person to review. The first flagged upload is a free warning and returns to your quota automatically. The second deducts 1 upload from your quota. The third pauses your account for manual review — and can end in a permanent blacklist. No one is ever banned automatically; a person always decides.

Yes, but ask us — there is no delete button on a loop yet. Message us from your support thread or the contact page with the loop's link and we will take it down. The upload it used is not returned: it published a file, which is the service being delivered.

No. There is no subscription and no monthly reset. Quota you buy today still publishes a loop two years from now.

A usage allowance on your own account that lets you publish audio files. It is not currency: it has no cash value, it cannot be transferred to another producer, and it is never paid out. There is no way to pay, tip or commission anyone on ColabLoop.

Your invite link is on your account page. When a producer joins through it and buys their first upload pack, you both get bonus uploads: +10 for the 10-upload pack, +30 for 50, +50 for 100 and +100 for 300. The bonus arrives once their selling profile is verified. It's quota we add to each account, not something passed between you, and a refunded pack takes it back.

Nobody, until it matters. Your IPI number, PRO affiliation, email and the private handles on your account are never shown on any page. They are sent to exactly one producer, exactly once — automatically, the first time a collaborator downloads your full file inside an active collaboration. Any links you add to the public-links section of your profile are separate, and those are public by design.

Yes, but it is handled by hand rather than by a button — email us and we will do it. Some records have to survive for the other side of a collaboration you were part of, so the account is anonymised rather than erased outright.

If you are signed in, your support thread is the fastest route — it is in the header, and the reply comes back in the app. Otherwise use the contact page. Copyright complaints go through the formal notice process on our copyright page either way, because a valid DMCA notice needs details a message doesn't ask for.