Guides for beatmakers

Where should you start?

If you have not published anything yet, start with the uploading guide: it covers what holds true on every platform — master format, cover art, metadata, rights — and saves you redoing that work everywhere you publish. Follow it with the video guide: on YouTube the video is the entry format, and everything else depends on it. If you already publish but the pace keeps slipping, go straight to the upload schedule guide: that is almost always where consistency breaks, and it is the easiest part to win back — the bulk uploading guide then takes over for the mechanics of pushing a batch. If your catalog exists and the problem is sales, the BeatStars guide covers metadata, licences and syncing across platforms. If the platform choice itself is still open — or you suspect you are in the wrong place — the BeatStars, Airbit and TrakTrain comparison covers payouts, licence contracts and what moving actually costs you. If you rewrite your titles and descriptions on every release, the templates guide is the one that pays off as soon as next week. And if all of that already runs but nobody is finding you, the TikTok and Shorts guide covers the one surface where a channel with no audience still gets shown to strangers. Finally, if you publish regularly but the channel is not going anywhere, the YouTube channel guide covers what the others leave out: the lane, playlists, thumbnail consistency, revenue and which numbers to read. And if the question left is pricing — what to charge, what each tier allows, what an exclusive really takes with it — the licensing and pricing guide is the one you read once and then apply to the whole catalog. If you produce with someone else, the guide on splitting a beat between producers picks up where licensing stops: who owns what, who collects and who pays out, and what has to be written down before the session rather than after the first sale. Finally, if the videos are running but the store is not following, the guide on promoting your BeatStars beats through YouTube covers the path between the two: where the buy link goes, what viewers actually see of a description, and how to tell which of your videos sold. And if what stops you is not production but the moment of plugging a tool into your accounts, the guide on connecting your accounts covers what each mechanism actually hands over — password, official authorisation, browser extension — and the exact place where you take the access back.

These pages are deliberately written to be useful without BeatRender: export settings, title and description templates, API quotas, choosing publishing slots. Anything that can be automated is flagged as such, but the manual method always comes first — it is what lets you judge whether an automated result is any good, and take over the day a tool fails you.