LANDR offers a robust music distribution service to get your tracks on Spotify, Apple Music, and over 150 other platforms. A successful release, however, depends on a perfect upload.

This guide covers the essential steps for LANDR’s distribution process, the technical specs you must follow, and how to prepare your track for a professional release.

The LANDR Upload Process: Step-by-Step

1. Get Your Assets Ready Before you start, have these three things:

• Your Final Mastered Audio File: LANDR prefers high-quality WAV, FLAC, or AIFF files.
• Your Square Album Artwork: Must be high-resolution (3000×3000 pixels is recommended).
• All Your Metadata: This includes your artist name, song title(s), release date, genres, and all collaborator/songwriter credits.

2. Create Your Release

• Basic Info: Enter your Release Title, Artist Name(s), and Label Name.
• Artwork: Upload your prepared artwork file. LANDR’s uploader will check if it meets the specifications.
• Add Tracks: Upload your mastered audio files.
• Edit Track Info: For each track, you must enter the title, genre, language, and detailed songwriter/contributor credits. This is crucial for royalty payments. LANDR will automatically assign an ISRC code if you don’t provide one.
• Choose Stores: Select the platforms and territories where you want your music to be available.
• Set Release Date: It is highly recommended to set your release date at least 2-4 weeks in the future. This provides a buffer for store approval and, most importantly, allows you to pitch your song to editorial playlists (like on Spotify for Artists).
• Review & Submit: Double-check every single detail—artist names, track titles, and artwork before submitting.

Technical Criteria for LANDR

Audio Requirements

• Format: WAV, FLAC, or AIFF (Lossless formats are strongly preferred over MP3).
• Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
• Bit Depth: 16-bit or 24-bit.

Artwork Requirements

• Proportion: Exactly Square (1:1).
• Size: 3000 x 3000 pixels (recommended).
• Format: JPG or PNG.

How Masterchannel Perfects Your Track for LANDR

Mastering is the final, critical step before distribution. Using Masterchannel ensures your music sounds professional and competitive.

Here’s how Masterchannel optimizes your music for a global release via LANDR:

• Tailored for Streaming: Masterchannel’s AI-powered mastering is specifically designed with streaming platforms in mind. It optimizes your track’s loudness to the standards of services like Spotify and Apple Music, ensuring your song sounds consistently great everywhere without triggering their loudness normalization penalties.

• Preserving Quality, Enhancing Power: You can upload your high-resolution audio file (e.g., 24-bit, 44.1kHz WAV) to Masterchannel and receive a professionally mastered file back with the same specifications.

• Unleash Your Sonic Potential: The mastering process isn’t just about volume. Masterchannel analyzes and enhances the entire frequency spectrum, improves stereo width, and manages the dynamic range to make your music feel more alive and engaging for the listener.

• Confidence in Your Release: By mastering with Masterchannel, you can be confident that the file you’re delivering to LANDR is the best it can possibly be. This professional touch ensures your music stands shoulder-to-shoulder with major label releases, giving your artistic vision the high-quality sound it deserves.

Before you hit “Submit” on your next LANDR release, give your music the professional polish it needs.