The Contacts section is your music industry rolodex. Track press contacts, playlist curators, venue bookers, label A&R, and anyone else relevant to your career. Categorize, tag, search, and email them all from one place.
Adding contacts
- "+ Add Contact" — manual entry for one contact at a time
- Import — bulk import from a CSV or Excel spreadsheet: click Import and choose the file in your Mac's Open window (any drive), drag the file onto the Contacts page, or use File → Import Contacts... in the menu bar. The wizard maps columns to MusicLaunch fields. New people are added straight away; rows that match a contact you already have are shown so you can decide. Merge (Fill Gaps) fills that contact's blank fields and adds the file's tags without replacing anything. Use File's Details replaces the saved details with your file's wherever they differ: it lists every change (old value → new value) and asks before saving, and a blank in your file never erases anything. Notes are never replaced: your file's notes are added under the saved notes. A saved Category is only replaced when your file names one of MusicLaunch's own categories (Press, Playlist, Venue, Blogger, Radio, College Radio, Podcast or Influencer), and a saved Tier only when your file has a Tier column with 1, 2 or 3. Skip leaves the saved contact as it is.
- Find Duplicates — after import, scan for and merge duplicate entries
A website or submission link can be typed as www.example.com: MusicLaunch adds https:// when you save it. The same goes for websites in Local Scene and Collaborators. To clear one of a contact's fields, empty it and save.
Export saves your contacts as a CSV, an Excel file or a Google Sheet. With no contacts ticked it saves all of them. With some ticked, it asks "Export only selected entries?": Yes saves just the ticked ones, No saves all of them.
Drag the edge of a column heading to make that column wider or narrower; double-click the edge to reset it, or choose Reset column widths in the Columns menu.
Deleting contacts
Tick the contacts you want to delete (the box at the top of the list selects them all), then click Delete Selected. MusicLaunch asks twice before deleting. Your saved email sequences and email templates are not deleted.
Categories and tags
Each contact has a Category (Press, Playlist, Venue, Blogger, Radio, College Radio, Podcast, Influencer or Other) and optional Tags (free-form keywords like "indie blogs", "booker" or "Pacific NW venues"). Use both to filter your contact list when you need a specific subset for an outreach campaign.
Sending emails
Click the Email button next to View at the start of a contact's row, or click their email address (the blue link in the Email column), to open the in-app composer. The To field is pre-filled. Write your subject and body, click Send, and the email goes through your connected Gmail account. "Attach files" adds files from your Mac's Open window, from any drive, and "From Media Hub" adds files already saved in MusicLaunch, from any campaign (25 MB in total). This quick email is not logged as a pitch. To log a pitch and send it, use the Send icon on the row (New Submission): see Pitch Email & Sequences.
"Templates" in the Contacts toolbar opens your email templates and the starter templates that come with MusicLaunch, to read or copy.
For bulk outreach: use Sequences
For multi-step pitch follow-ups (e.g., "send pitch → 5 days later send follow-up → 14 days later send check-in"), use Sequences (Contacts → Sequences).
