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Use your own domain

On Artist Pro and the label plans, every release can live on your own domain: https://listen.yourlabel.com/track-name. Variants work too: /track-name/ig.

1. Add the domain in droplr.fm

Admin → Settings → Custom domain → enter listen.yourlabel.com and save. Settings then shows the two DNS records for your domain, with copy buttons.

2. Add a TXT record (proves you own the domain)

Type:   TXT
Name:   _droplr.listen      (full name: _droplr.listen.yourlabel.com)
Value:  droplr-verify=<your token from Settings>
TTL:    Auto / 3600

droplr only connects a domain after it finds this record, so nobody can attach a domain they don't control.

3. Add a CNAME record (points the domain at droplr)

Type:   CNAME
Name:   listen             (the subdomain part only)
Value:  droplr-fm.netlify.app
TTL:    Auto / 3600

Use a subdomain (listen., music., links.) rather than your root domain so your main website isn't affected. Avoid words that describe one moment in a release's life — presave., outnow. — because this domain carries every link you share, long after the track is out. If you really want the root domain, use an A record to 75.2.60.5, or ALIAS/ANAME to apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com if your provider supports it.

Cloudflare: set the record to DNS only (grey cloud) so the certificate can be issued.

Netlify DNS: add both records in Netlify → Domains → yourlabel.com → DNS records. Don't add the domain to one of your own Netlify sites: a domain can only belong to one site, and droplr couldn't connect it.

4. Press Check now

droplr finds the TXT record, connects the domain on its side, and checks HTTPS. The certificate is usually issued within minutes. droplr also re-checks every 15 minutes, so you can close the page.

Until the domain shows Live, your links keep using droplr.fm, so nothing you share breaks during setup. If a live domain stops working (for example the CNAME was deleted), new links switch back to droplr.fm after a few failed checks and Settings shows what's wrong.

5. Spotify BYO app (optional)

To keep the Spotify login on your own domain, also add https://listen.yourlabel.com/api/spotify/callback as a Redirect URI in your Spotify app.

If the plan changes

Custom domains are on Artist Pro and the label plans. If an account cancels or moves to a plan without them, its domain keeps working for 14 days. After that, anyone opening a link on the domain is sent to the same page on droplr.fm, and new links use droplr.fm. Nothing breaks, and upgrading switches the domain back on.

Changing your domain doesn't break the old one. Anything already shared on it — printed cards, a pinned bio link, someone's saved message — redirects to the same page on the new domain for a year, then droplr lets the old one go. Removing your domain outright disconnects it straight away. After 90 days on a plan without custom domains, droplr also lets go of the domain; it stays saved, and upgrading reconnects it.

Troubleshooting

  • TXT value doesn't match: copy it again from Settings. Changing the domain issues a new token.
  • “Already added to another Netlify site”: remove the domain from that site's Domain management, then Check now.
  • Certificate error: DNS hasn't propagated, or a proxy (Cloudflare orange cloud) is in front. Check with dig CNAME listen.yourlabel.com.
  • Domain points somewhere else: an old A or CNAME record for the same name is still there. Delete it so only the droplr record remains.