SongManager

Every project, bounce, lyric and piece of artwork, kept together song by song.

Download for Windows

Unify your project library.

SongManager finds your Ableton projects wherever they live, across every drive, and gathers each song's versions, bounces, lyrics, artwork and notes in one place. Your files stay exactly where they are.

The SongManager library, with every song, its artist, status, version and tempo
Every song with its artist, status, version and tempo.

It does the filing, so you can stay in the song.

Finds your projects in place

Point SongManager at your project folders, on any drive, and it keeps watching them. Nothing is moved or copied unless you ask.

D:\Ableton\Projects41 songsWatching
E:\Collabs12 songsWatching
F:\Archive86 songsOffline

Tracks where each song is

Every song moves through six stages, from the first sketch to release day.

TURN AROUND
SketchesIn ProgressMixingMasteringDoneReleased

Groups versions for you

Projects in the same folder become one song with V1, V2 and onwards. Drag one song onto another to merge them.

V3WDYWTD v3.als24 Jul
V2WDYWTD v2.als19 Jul
V1WDYWTD.als11 Jul

Helps you deliver

Commission deadlines, stems and master sent, feedback notes per version, and a tidy delivery package.

To deliver 2

Baby

For ph4rr377

Due in 3 days

Fri, 9 Oct

WRECK

For nythe

Due in 14 days

Tue, 20 Oct

Checks your projects' health

Spots missing samples and plugins that aren't installed, before you open the project and find out the hard way.

3 samples are outside the project folder

Run Collect All and Save in Ableton.

1 plugin isn't installed

Spire-1.5

Keeps the details together

Lyrics, notes, artwork, tags, key and tempo, all on the song's own page.

ECSTASY

F minor168 BPMdarkhyperpop
Matches your bounces
WAV and MP3 exports are found in the project folder and your exports folders, and played right in the app.
Organises by artist and collection
See every song for an artist, or build albums, EPs and playlists.
Builds a song folder
Copies every file a song needs into one place. Your originals are never moved or deleted.
Shares with collaborators
Invite people to a song so you can work on it together.
Syncs between your computers
Your library follows you, and works offline after the first sign-in.
Never changes a project
SongManager only reads your files. They stay exactly where they are.

Get SongManager for Windows

  1. Download and open the installer.
  2. Open SongManager and continue with your Google account.
Download for Windows

Needs Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), Ableton Live 12 projects, and a Google account with an internet connection for the first sign-in. It updates itself after that.