What is tracked music sending?
You send a beat, nobody replies, and you can't even tell if it got played. Here is what tracked sending shows you, and how to use it to know who to follow up with.
A beat sent as a file tells you nothing
Send a beat as a file, an MP3 dropped in a DM or attached to an email, and hitting send is the last thing you'll know about it. It might have been played twice. It might still be sitting there, unopened.
So you guess. You write again to people who never pressed play, and you never hear about the one who played your beat all the way through.
What tracked sending means
Tracked sending means you send a link instead of a file. The artist opens it and the beat plays right there, in their browser. Each time someone presses play, it's recorded, and you're told.
It's the idea behind knowing whether an email was opened, applied to what a producer actually cares about: whether the beat got played.
The link goes wherever you already send beats. 79% of the plays recorded on vvault come from a link or a page opened outside vvault's own emails, like a link pasted in a DM. The rest come from emails sent from vvault.
What you see on vvault, plan by plan
Every plan tells you when something happens to your beat, and gives you the Stats page with the detail.
| What happened | What you see | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Someone played, downloaded or saved your beat | A notification, on the iPhone app too. Their name if they're signed in to vvault or got the beat by email from you, otherwise a listener who isn't signed in | Every plan |
| How long each person listened | Beat by beat, with their downloads and saves | Pro and Ultra |
| You emailed it from vvault | Who opened your email, and who clicked | Pro and Ultra |
| Where you lose people | How many opened, played, downloaded and bought | Pro and Ultra |
| Where plays come from | A link you pasted, an email, your public page or a player on another site | Pro and Ultra |
| When your emails get opened | The day and the hour, so you know the best time to send | Pro and Ultra |
Pro and Ultra both hold as many tracks as you want.
What it can't tell you
Tracked sending shows you what happened to your beat. It can't tell you why.
Whether they'll use it
A play means they listened. Whether a beat ends up on a song is the artist's decision, and no tool can see that coming.
Every listener's name
Someone who opens your link without being signed in to vvault shows up as a listener who isn't signed in. Email the beat from vvault and you'll see who it was.
What happens after a download
Once a beat is downloaded, it lives on their device. Plays from that file happen outside vvault, and nobody sees them.
Why nobody played it
No play can mean a busy week, or the wrong beat for them. Silence doesn't say which.
From the send to the follow-up
Knowing who played only helps if you do something with it.
Send a link, not a file
Upload the beat, copy its link and paste it in the DM or the email. On vvault, every beat, pack and folder has its own link.
Let it sit
Give it a few days. You don't have to keep checking: you get a notification when someone presses play.
Write to the ones who played
Mention the beat they played, and offer a couple more in the same style. Here's how to follow up without being annoying.
Leave the others for later
If someone didn't play it, don't chase them about the same beat. Try a different one in a few weeks, or send to another artist.
What it looks like
On Pro and Ultra, the Stats page adds it all up: plays, listeners, downloads and saves for the period you pick, then a list of what people did, who played which beat and for how long.
And you still get a notification for every play, download and save, on the iPhone app too.
Questions
Is tracked music sending legal?
Showing you the plays on what you share is what vvault is for, and its privacy policy says it plainly: when someone plays, downloads or saves a beat from a vvault link or email, the person who sent it sees it. What vvault records, and why, is in your data and the GDPR.
Do I need to set anything up?
No. Every vvault link and every email you send from vvault records plays on its own. Upload a beat, share its link, and you'll be notified when someone presses play.
How is it different from a read receipt?
A read receipt says a message was opened. It says nothing about the beat inside. Tracked sending tells you about the play itself, and on Pro, how long each person listened.
Do artists need an account to listen?
No. They open the link and press play in their browser. Only an invite-only link asks them to sign in.
How much does it cost?
It comes with vvault, which has two plans, Pro and Ultra, monthly or yearly. Both hold unlimited tracks, send you a notification for every play, download and save, and give you the Stats page, with how long each person listened and who opened your emails: see pricing.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- vvault's own records: every play since 30 December 2025, by where it came from, counted again every hour
- vvault privacy policy
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