# Media Hub Centralized library for album art, photos, videos, and other media assets, plus your Spark Plug ideas. Media Hub is a single view of the files attached to what you've saved in MusicLaunch — album artwork, press photos, post media, Studio recordings, gear receipts, sync masters. There's nothing to upload on the All Media tab: files you attach to a post, an Artist Retreat document, a Sync track or a Gear item's receipt, and the clips you save in Studio, appear automatically, filterable by type (image, video, audio, document) and by the section they came from, and searchable by name. Studio clips are listed whichever campaign is selected; one made in another campaign shows that campaign's name. Pictures chosen or taken inside Merch & Promo stay in that tool and don't appear here. ## Files don't have to be in Media Hub first Every place that offers Media Hub also lets you pick a file straight from your Mac ("Choose a photo or video", "From computer", "Choose file" and so on). Those buttons open your Mac's Open window, which reaches every drive and folder your Mac can see: the Mac itself, an external or network drive, and cloud folders in Finder's sidebar such as iCloud Drive, or Google Drive and Dropbox when their Mac apps are installed. Once the file is attached to one of the saved items listed above, it shows up here too. The original stays where it is. ## Music Library The Music Library tab is the one part of Media Hub you add files to directly. It holds the songs for the campaign selected in the sidebar: click "Upload Songs" (or "Upload Your Catalog" while it's empty) and choose audio files in your Mac's Open window — MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, M4A, AAC or OGG, several at once. The "Import Your Music" step when you first set up MusicLaunch adds songs the same way. Dragging files onto the tab does nothing. Sync Licensing's audio boxes (Master Track, Instrumental, Stems) list these songs. Music Library songs aren't listed on the All Media tab. ## Ideas The Ideas tab holds every Spark Plug recording, and every recording you add from your phone or your Mac, newest first by when it was recorded, with its length, sample rate, bit depth, stereo or mono, size and date. Ideas belong to the profile, not to a campaign, and they aren't listed on the All Media tab. "Record an idea" on the tab starts Spark Plug too (see the Spark Plug article). - From your iPhone — a card at the top of Ideas shows how recordings get here from an iPhone, with the code for the free Shortcuts and a button to turn on Phone inbox. When recordings are already waiting in iCloud Drive and Phone inbox is off, it says how many and brings them in with one click. Hide puts it away; "From your iPhone" brings it back. - Import — next to Record an idea: adds recordings from your Mac (Voice Memos, AirDrop, email attachments). You can also drag recordings onto the list, even straight from the Voice Memos app. Each becomes a WAV idea, and a small phone icon marks the ones from your phone (see "Ideas from your phone" in the Spark Plug article). - Play — each idea plays right here. An idea over 300 MB (about 18 minutes in stereo) opens in your Mac's own player instead. - Rename — click the name. The new name shows in MusicLaunch; the WAV file keeps its automatic name, like "Idea - Oct 3, 2.14 PM.wav". - Add a note — a few words about the idea; click the note to change it. - Link to a song — pick a Producer's Pad song from the campaign selected in the sidebar. "Open in Producer's Pad" jumps to it, and the song shows the idea too. - Show in Finder — shows the WAV file. Or drag the handle on the left of an idea straight into Logic, any DAW or a Finder window. - Delete — the trash button asks first, then moves the file to the Trash (put it back from the Trash in Finder). ## How files are stored Files are copied into a managed folder inside your MusicLaunch data directory (~/Library/Application Support/MusicLaunch/profiles/\/media/). Spark Plug ideas are saved in its ideas folder. That media folder is only on this Mac. Back it up with Time Machine and with Settings → Data Backup → Back Up Now, which copies every file, Spark Plug ideas included. The hourly auto-backups cover the database only. ## Linking media to posts When composing a post in Social Hub, click "Pick from Media Hub" instead of browsing for a file — pick from assets already in the app. Saves time on multi-platform campaigns. The picture spots in Merch & Promo have "From Media Hub" too, and Studio (Import video and the music bed: "From Media Hub"; the background: "Media Hub"), Batch Create ("Media Hub") and Gear's Equipment Images ("Pick from Media Hub") have a Media Hub button as well. The picker shows files from the campaign selected in the sidebar, plus your Gear receipts and your Studio clips from every campaign. ## Media Manager Open Your Team while Media Hub is on screen to talk to the Media Manager. It checks what media a release still needs against the Release Checklist, suggests which file suits which post or platform, and writes alt text and captions from a description you type. It works only from file details: names, types, where each file is attached, and the length, shape and recorded size of Studio clips. It never sees or hears inside a file, so it will ask you to describe an image. Image dimensions are not stored, so it cannot confirm an image's pixel size, and files kept only in Artist Retreat (press photos often live there) and gear receipts are not shown to it; a file you have also attached to a post is listed as that post's media. The Release Checklist is ticked off by hand, so the assistant matches checklist items to files by name and cannot confirm an item is really done. Files on the All Media tab have no rename or tags, so it suggests names for you to apply yourself. It doesn't see your Spark Plug ideas. MusicLaunch has no alt-text field: add the alt text it writes on the platform itself when you post. ## Related articles - [Composing & Publishing Posts](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/compose-post.md): Write posts once, publish to multiple platforms, schedule for later, or send immediately. - [Studio (In-App Recording)](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/studio.md): Record short videos with your camera and mic, or import a clip from your Mac or Media Hub, then trim, filter, caption, and post them. - [Campaign Dashboard](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/campaign-dashboard.md): Create and manage your music release campaigns from idea to launch. - [Your Team](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/ai-assistants.md): Who is on your team, what each member does, and how the monthly allowance works. - [Spark Plug (Record an Idea)](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/spark-plug.md): Record a quick audio idea from any screen with one click, or send ideas from your phone. They are saved as WAV files in Media Hub → Ideas. --- - From the MusicLaunch Help Center (Campaigns & Planning). The same guide is built into the app under Help. - Web page: https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/media-hub/ - All guides: https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/llms.txt - Support: hello@musiclaunchapp.com