SongTools.ai for Absolute Beginners: Your First Upload, Explained

You Don't Need to Read a Manual

SongTools.ai is built so you can upload a file and get something useful back in under a minute — but if this is your first time here, a few things aren't obvious until someone explains them once. This is that explanation.

Step One: Pick the Right Tool for What You Actually Want

There are more than two dozen tools on the platform, and it's easy to feel like you need to try all of them. You don't. Start with the question you actually have:

• "Is this song any good?" — Get Song Feedback
• "Is this mix technically ready?" — Check if Master is Release Ready
• "Will I get in trouble for this?" — Check Lyrics for Copyright, or the YouTube Content ID Checker
• "I don't know what to do next, just help me" — the Flows section (more on that below) walks you through several of these at once

If you're not sure, the search bar at the top of the Tools page understands plain language — type "will this get copyright claimed" and it'll point you at the right tool instead of making you guess the exact feature name.

Step Two: Understand What Each Tool Needs From You

Most tools need one audio file. A few need something more specific:

• Tools that analyze a single song (feedback, mastering check, key/BPM, spectrogram) just need that one file.
• The DJ Mix tools (tracklist identification, volume leveling) expect a full recorded mix, not an individual song.
• The DJ Setlist Planner is different — it wants several separate, not-yet-mixed tracks so it can suggest an order, not a mix you've already recorded.
• Text-generation tools (Lyric Writer, Enhance Prompt) don't need audio at all — just a description of what you're going for.

Uploading the wrong kind of file to the wrong tool is the single most common first-session mistake — the DJ Mix Leveler will try to analyze a single unmixed song and give you a confusing result, because that's not what it's built to check.

Step Three: Credits, in Plain Terms

Every tool costs a small number of credits, shown right on the button before you commit to running it — nothing runs, and nothing gets charged, until you click. New accounts start with enough credits to try several tools before deciding whether to buy more. If you want the full breakdown of how credits work, there's a dedicated guide for that.

Step Four: Don't Re-Upload the Same File Five Times

If you're planning to run several checks on the same song — say, feedback and then a mastering check — look for the Flows section instead of using each tool separately. A Flow uploads your file once and then runs several tools against that same upload, so you're not sitting through the same upload progress bar over and over. It also shows you the running total cost before you commit to each step, so there's no surprise at the end.

What to Expect From the Results

Every analysis tool gives you real, specific feedback — not a generic "sounds good!" You'll get a written breakdown you can actually act on: specific timestamps, specific phrases, specific frequency ranges, whatever the tool is built to check. If a result feels vague, that's worth flagging to support — it shouldn't happen.

The One-Sentence Version

Figure out what question you're actually trying to answer, upload the right kind of file for that question, and use a Flow instead of separate tools if you're going to run more than one check on the same track.