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By the end of this page Patchline knows who you are, what you’re trying to do, your catalog is loaded, and Aria is ready to act.

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Step 1 — Onboarding

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Create your account

Go to patchline.ai. Sign up with Google or email.
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Search for your artist name

Patchline asks for your artist name. Type it — we search across the real music landscape.
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Claim your profile

Find yourself in the results and claim the profile. This wires your streaming presence, your audience, and your release history into your Patchline workspace.
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Tell Patchline what you want

Patchline asks what you’re trying to get out of Patchline — plan a release, run a roster, sell direct to fans, hand Aria to your team, whatever. Your answer steers Aria’s defaults and the cards we show on your dashboard. Skip if you’re just exploring.
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Auto-import (if we have you)

If your artist is on streaming platforms and we already have data on you, Patchline auto-imports 10 of your tracks into your catalog as metadata rows. Upload audio for the tracks you want captioned, sold, or deeply analyzed.You can import more later from the Catalog tab.
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Land on the dashboard

Onboarding done. You land on the Aria home screen.

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Step 2 — Get a track in (if you didn’t auto-import)

Sidebar → Catalog → drag your file (MP3, WAV, FLAC) into the upload zone. Aria starts captioning the moment the upload finishes.
No tracks yet? Skip this step. Aria still answers general music-business questions and helps you scope your first release.

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Step 3 — While it processes, explore

Catalog processing runs in the background. Use the time:
  • Open the Profiles tab — your claimed profile is there with the streaming, audience, and momentum context Patchline pulled.
  • Hit the Audience tab — fan graph, growth signals, top markets.
  • Glance at Projects — empty for now, but this is where your release plan will live.
The whole product is interconnected. The data Patchline pulled in Step 1 already flows into every tab.

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Step 4 — Talk to Aria

Back to the dashboard. Aria is the home screen. Try: Aria reads your real data plus the music-business knowledge graph and returns grounded answers with reasoning. If something’s missing, Aria says so and offers to fetch.

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That’s the loop

The Patchline workflow, end-to-end:
  1. Bring your tracks — import metadata, then upload audio for the tracks you want Patchline to analyze deeply.
  2. Start a project.
  3. Get an optimized blueprint from Aria — Aria pulls your data and the music-business knowledge graph and lays out the move.
  4. Generate assets — cover art, promo flyers, videos.
  5. Set up your storefront and outbound links — Music Store, smart links, drop links, pitch links.
  6. Use Aria and your AI stack to bring attention to those surfaces — Aria, Claude, Cursor, Slack — anywhere your AI tools live.
  7. Capture fans straight into your Audience tab — QR attribution, fan graph, growth signal.
  8. Sell your music with 0% fees on paid plans — direct storefront, Stripe-powered payouts.
  9. Read fan behavior and feed it back into the next plan — Audience feeds the next round of pitches and releases.
  10. Repeat.
Everything is interconnected. Each step’s output is the next step’s input — and Aria can move between them in one conversation.

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What to do next

Plan a release

Aria builds the rollout from your catalog, audience, and release history.

Set up your storefront

Sell direct to fans with 0% platform fees on paid tiers.

Generate visuals

Cover art, promo flyers, Canvas videos from your release context.

Install Aria in Claude / Cursor

Connect Patchline’s MCP server to your favorite AI tool.

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Troubleshooting

Patchline queues every upload. Depending on volume across the platform, captioning can take a few minutes — it runs in the background, you don’t need to sit on the catalog page. If it stays stuck for a long time, open the in-app Support button.
Aria handles Spotify and YouTube URL types. Paste the canonical track URL into Aria and ask Aria to import.
Aria is intentionally grounded. If you ask about a track that isn’t in your catalog or an artist you haven’t claimed, Aria says so and offers to fetch. That’s the right behavior — better than inventing data.
If your artist isn’t in our index yet, you can still create a profile manually from the Profiles tab and upload your catalog directly.