Getting Started
Creating your first smart link
The link editor is a short series of steps. None except Source and Title are required to save.
- 1Source — paste a Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or SoundCloud URL. Soundcave auto-fills the title, artist, and cover art, and looks for the same release on other platforms automatically (see "Automatic platform matching").
- 2Title — Artist name and Track title, or, if this isn't a link for a song, leave those blank and set a Page title instead (e.g. "Tour Dates," "Merch Store"). One of the two is required.
- 3Cover & design — pick a theme, layout, button shape, cover treatment, accent color, and button text. See "Customizing a smart link."
- 4Streaming links — add, remove, or reorder the platforms shown on your page.
- 5Audio preview — pick which platform's preview plays on your page, if any.
- 6Short URL — choose your handle (your public name on Soundcave, like yourname) and a path for this link, so its address is soundcave.io/yourname/your-song. You pick your handle once, the first time you create a link; every link you make after that lives under it. On the Free plan your handle is permanent, so choose your artist name. Pro lets you add more handles and use your own domain.
- 7Routing rules (advanced, optional) — see "Advanced routing."
- 8Tracking pixels (advanced, optional) — see the Meta, TikTok, and Google Ads articles.
Click Create link once you're happy — you can come back and edit any of this later.
Links created before handles existed used a soundcave.io/go/your-slug address. Those keep working exactly as before, so anything you've already shared doesn't break.