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Preparator

The Preparator gets your tracks ready to upload: it reads each version's duration and builds ready-to-upload bundles. Exports are grouped by platform — AudioJungle (WAV + MP3 archive and a watermarked MP3 preview, with a choice of preview bitrate), Motion Array (WAV 24-bit/48 kHz archive and a single-file WAV preview), and a Custom ZIP where you pick the format, sample rate and bitrate/bit depth yourself. No sign-up needed.

Registered users also get AI metadata: stock and creative names, Envato and Motion Array tags, an AudioJungle description and a short description — all generated from the brief you write and real Envato Elements ranking data.

Names are picked before they are written. The suggestion looks for real Elements searches your brief supports and offers the ones with room left in them — a search whose top ten is already full of items by that name is not an opening. How full it is, how many items wear the tag and who else ranks there all feed the order; none of them is the whole story, so the chips carry names rather than numbers. Anything your own catalogue already answers is marked when you are signed in. If the brief matches nothing we track, the model writes a name instead.

As you write the stock name, the field says what Envato's naming policy makes of it: over 100 characters, non-English characters, ALL CAPS or all lowercase, banned words like "best" or "free", a repeated word or root, "Music" at the end of a descriptive title, a descriptive title past five words, and two titles in one field split by a dash. Red is what Envato's own wording refuses; amber is where the rule leaves room and the call is yours. Nothing is blocked.

1. Drop in your masters (WAV or MP3), one file per version. We detect the version name (Main, Loop, 60s…) from the filename.
2. Write a brief — describe the track in your own words (genre, mood, instruments, use-cases). English works best for the AI.
3. Generate names, tags and descriptions (registered users) or fill them in by hand. Live counters keep you within each platform's limits.
4. Download from the platform block you need: AudioJungle archive or preview (choose the preview bitrate), Motion Array archive or preview (one .wav 24/48 with every version and 1–3 s of silence between them), or a Custom ZIP in any format, sample rate and bitrate/bit depth you pick.

Linking your Envato account

To sync your portfolio and check tags, connect your Envato account. The connection uses Envato's official OAuth — we never see your password.

Once connected, an "artist" is created automatically for each author name, and your AudioJungle tracks are imported into the Track Manager on the first sync. You can connect several Envato accounts.

Envato connects whichever account you are signed in as there — it gives you no account picker. And once epicukulele has been authorised, it stops showing the consent screen and returns that same account immediately. So before adding a second or third account you have to end the current Envato session and sign in as the one you want; the Add another account button walks you through it with links. If Envato hands us the wrong account anyway, we say so and name the one that arrived, instead of silently changing nothing.

1. Open Settings → Services.
2. Click "Connect Envato" and approve access on Envato's page.
3. Back in the app, click "Sync with Envato" to import your portfolio.

Tag checking

Tag checking analyses each track's tags against Envato's keyword-stuffing rules (repeated word roots, banned words, brands, invalid characters and more), plus words Envato won't carry in tags at all — obscenity and explicit language. The latter is narrow: outright pornography terms. Suggestive words like sexy, sensual or erotic are left alone, because they live perfectly well on AudioJungle. Envato treats word roots as the unit: a root may appear in at most 2 tags, and at most 2 roots may repeat across the track — a third repeated root is keyword stuffing even if each root is used only twice.

Click "Check Tags" on the Tracks page to recompute everything. Problems show up right where they live: the Tags cell of a problem track is tinted (red for errors, amber for warnings) with a ⚠ icon — hover it for the exact violations, click it to open the track with the offending tags highlighted. The Issues filter narrows the table to tracks with tag or Content ID problems, and the banner above the table counts both.

The rules get sharpened now and then — usually after Envato rejects something we did not catch. Verdicts are stored per track, so for a while after such a change they still show the old answer. When that affects you, the "Check Tags" button carries a number: how many tracks were judged under older rules. Click it to see where things actually stand. Autofix and bulk edit always work from the current rules, even while that number is showing.

A separate checkbox turns on the misspelling check. We collected spelling mistakes from real AudioJungle catalogues — 306 typos covering 183 words — and match your tags against that list. It is not a dictionary and not blind autocorrect: every pair was read by hand, so British and American variants (colourful, glamour, synthesiser) and genuine rare words are left alone. Here Autofix corrects the tag rather than deleting it: backround becomes background. If the correct tag is already on the track, you end up with one.

Tag-check settings

In the "Check Tags" window you choose which rules to enforce and how strict to be. Your choice is saved and used everywhere: sync, manual edits and auto-editing.

Rules come in two groups: Envato's documented rules (on by default) and experience-based rules other authors have seen flagged (off by default). Checkboxes turn each rule on or off. The keyword-stuffing limits — a word root in at most 2 tags, at most 2 repeated roots — are fixed to Envato's policy and always applied. You're responsible for your own settings.

Synchronization

"Sync with Envato" pulls in your portfolio: new tracks are added, existing ones updated (title, description, tags, date). Overwrite mode refreshes existing tracks with the latest data from Envato.

The table always shows one account at a time — there is no combined view, because every Envato action runs in one browser session against one account. Tabs come from your catalogue, so an account you disconnected keeps its tracks visible (read-only until you reconnect it).

Important: Envato's search index doesn't update instantly — after you edit tags on Envato's site it can take a few hours for the change to appear in the API. If a sync didn't pick up your edits right away, try again later.

If a connected account hasn't synced for a while (10+ days), the Tracks page shows an amber notice naming it — the table may no longer match Envato until you sync, and if syncing fails, sign in to that account on audiojungle.net first, then reconnect it in Settings → Services (the ↻ button next to the account).

Editing tracks

Every AudioJungle field you can edit lives right in the CRM: the description (a visual editor limited to exactly the formatting Envato accepts, with images by URL and the Content ID banner as an ordinary image in the text), tags, the Content ID fields (banner, registration, administrator), composer and publisher. The item name is not among them: Envato requires a renamed item's files to be renamed and re-uploaded — the title is part of every filename — and the masters are on your disk, not ours.

Edit one track in its panel (click the title) or straight in the table — click a Composer, Publisher or CID admin cell to type, toggle the CID checkboxes. Every change is saved locally on epicukulele first: the track turns yellow ("Ready to update") and nothing touches Envato until you push.

The filter row above the table narrows a big catalogue down to the rows you actually mean: status, Content ID, Elements, tag slots, issues — and item type, which is Envato's own category, so tracks, music packs, music kits, logos and sound effects can be told apart. Pricing is the reason it exists: a price that suits a track rarely suits a pack. Filter first, then the header checkbox selects exactly what is on screen, and Bulk edit applies to that. The type menu only lists the categories your catalogue actually holds.

Two colours mean the track no longer matches Envato, and which one you get depends on who moved second. Yellow is you alone: your edit is waiting and Envato still shows what it showed the last time we read it. Orange means Envato moved as well — a reviewer's change during a review, an edit you made on Envato's own site, or a push that saved the metadata and left the tags with moderation. Neither colour overwrites anything. Open the track and the panel lists every differing field, so "Update on Envato" keeps yours and "Discard changes" takes Envato's.

Bulk edit applies one operation to all selected tracks: add/remove the Content ID banner, check/uncheck registered, set the administrator, add/remove/find-and-replace text in descriptions, add or remove a tag, fix flagged tags, set composer or publisher. A plain-language summary spells out exactly what will happen before you hit Apply.

Changed your mind, or edited something by accident? Open the track panel: if it holds anything Envato doesn't, a yellow box at the top lists it field by field — old value, new value — and "Discard changes" puts every one of them back. Bulk edit has the same thing under "Undo" for a whole selection. Two cases it refuses rather than guess: a track still with Envato review (reverting would clash with the approval), and one whose last update we sent but haven't read back yet — run Deep refresh first, so the undo restores what's actually live rather than something older.

The CRM also cross-checks Content ID: if some of it is filled in (say, an administrator) but the rest isn't (no banner in the description, or "registered" unchecked), the incomplete cells get an amber tint with a ⚠ explaining what's missing.

Autofix is the one-click way to clear all of that. Select the flagged tracks, open Bulk edit and pick its first operation, "Fix everything obvious": it replaces flagged tags with the compliant set and completes any partially-set Content ID (adds the banner, checks registered, sets the administrator). It only touches Content ID that's already partly set — never a fully-empty one — and since an administrator can't be guessed, it asks which one to use, preselecting your catalog's most common. Like every edit, it saves locally; push when you're ready.

Two fields the API can't see are editable too, at the top of the track panel once Deep Sync has read them: the five license prices and the "List on Envato Elements" checkbox. They behave like everything else — saved locally, applied on the next push. One caveat worth knowing before you touch a price: Envato blocks discounting an item for 30 days after its price changes, so we only send a price you actually changed.

AI tags

Most catalogues are a few tags short rather than empty: the average track here carries 26.9 of the 30 tags Envato allows. So this is not a “write me thirty tags” button — it fills the slots you have left, and it tells you where each suggestion came from.

Open a track and look at its tag field: the button names the number, so on a track with 27 tags it reads “Suggest 3 tags”. Suggestions land inside the tag field itself, as dashed chips beside your real ones. Tap one and it becomes an ordinary tag; the cross removes it exactly as it removes any tag. There is no separate Apply: the drawer holds everything until Save, and Envato sees none of it until you push. Whatever you drop is remembered, so running it again will not offer the same tag twice — and “Suggest others” fetches a fresh set.

The suggestions are not guesses. We track thousands of Envato Elements searches every week and record which items rank where. For a search your track competes in, we compare the tags carried by the top three against the tags carried by everyone further down the same page. A tag the leaders have and the tail does not is worth having; a tag everybody already carries separates you from nobody, however popular it looks. That comparison only means anything inside a single search, which is why suggestions name the search they came from — and, when we have seen your item ranking, your position in it.

Where we have no ranking data for a track's searches yet, suggestions come from the vocabulary the marketplace actually uses — tag words carried by many tracks across many different authors — and the panel says so rather than implying evidence we do not have.

Strong suggestions carry dots. One means the leaders use that tag at least twice as often as the tail of the same search; two means five times. A chip without dots is not a worse tag — it is one we have no measurement for. Hovering a chip says which it is: the search it came from and your position in it, the multiple, or the platform vocabulary.

Suggestions are always single words. Two-word tags are their own trouble on Envato: unless they are a set phrase like acoustic guitar, they tend to smuggle in an extra word root and count against the repeat rules more often than they earn their place, so we do not offer them at all.

Everything is checked before you see it. A suggestion that would break a tag rule is dropped and the panel tells you how many went that way. This matters more than it sounds: adding one tag can create a third repeated word root out of two that were fine, so candidates are tested against your whole set rather than on their own. Relevance also beats popularity — getting two tags that fit is the right answer, and better than three where one does not. A suggestion can also be perfectly legal and still spend a word’s whole allowance: take it, and no other tag may contain that word again. Those are flagged separately rather than quietly handed to you.

“Rewrite all tags” replaces the whole set on one track. It is deliberately the quieter control and exists only inside a track panel: it throws away keywords you may have chosen for reasons no model can see, so it is a decision to take while looking at the track.

To do many tracks at once, select them and use “Top up tags”. It never rewrites — only fills empty slots — and it tells you the cost before it starts: how many tracks it will process, how many are already full, and how many of your monthly generations it needs. If your plan does not cover the whole selection it sizes the run to what is left, tops up that many and tells you how many it left behind — it never stops halfway without warning. Keep the tab open while it works.

Nothing here goes to Envato. Topped-up tracks turn yellow like any local edit — review them in the table, push when you are happy, or revert with bulk “Discard changes”.

Two more things now weigh on the order. A tag already sitting on many of your other tracks is worth less than one you have never used — the point of a catalogue is that different tracks answer different searches — and a tag carried by thousands of items on Elements is a crowded shelf. Neither vetoes anything: a strong enough measurement still wins, and both facts are on the tag's tooltip so you can disagree for a reason.

Installing the extension

Updates on Envato are performed by the "epicukulele helper" Chrome extension — it makes the edits right in your own logged-in browser. The extension runs only locally and has no access to your Envato password.

You need to be logged in to two places at once: epicukulele (to provide your saved edits) and AudioJungle (so the extension can edit your items). The version you are running shows in the extension popup.

Installed from the Web Store the extension updates itself — no reinstalling on every release. Run one build at a time: if two are running at once, the page will say so. If you installed manually, updating is manual too: download the archive again and reload the extension in chrome://extensions.

1. Open the Chrome Web Store page below and press Add to Chrome.
2. Pin the extension icon to your toolbar.
3. Reload this page — the status turns green.

Or manually: download the archive, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked. Download the extension (.zip)

Updating on Envato

"Update on Envato" pushes your local edits live: for each selected track the extension opens its Envato edit page, sets the description, tags, Content ID fields, composer, publisher, license prices and the Elements checkbox to your saved values, writes a message to the reviewer and applies the change — one track at a time.

Under the hood Envato has three separate forms and the extension uses the right ones, submitting only those where your value actually differs from what's on the page: metadata and prices (description, Content ID, composer, publisher, the five license prices) are saved with "Save Changes" and apply directly on live items — no review needed; the Elements checkbox has its own form and its own submit; tag changes, and ANY edit to a hidden item, additionally go through "Submit Files for Review" with a note describing what changed.

Only tracks with local changes get pushed: yellow "Ready to update" or orange "Differs from Envato" or red "Update error" (a retry). After a push we read Envato's own "Currently Processing Uploads" list, so the "In review" badge reflects what Envato actually has queued rather than what we assumed. Anything that goes through that queue (tags, and every edit to a hidden item) shows the badge — it turns green only once a later sync brings back data newer than the push, which is the proof Envato accepted it. Metadata-only saves on live items apply instantly and turn green right away; a failed push turns red. The Free plan can push up to 5 tracks a day; Pro and Max are unlimited.

A new capability never blocks your whole push. If some selected tracks carry a change your installed extension is too old to apply — today that means prices and the Elements checkbox — those tracks are held back and named, and everything else pushes normally. Update the extension when you want to include them; if you never touch those fields, nothing changes for you.

A submitted track drops out of the "Update on Envato" count — sending it again tells Envato what it already has. It stays yellow with the "In review" badge until the change is applied. Edit it after it was submitted and it returns to the queue, because that edit was not part of what went out.

1. Edit tracks (in the panel, the table cells or bulk edit) — they turn yellow.
2. Select them with the checkboxes and click "Update on Envato".
3. Run the dry run first — it fills every field on the first track without submitting, so you can verify the result on the Envato page.
4. Turn off the dry run, confirm the disclaimer and start. Watch the progress; Stop ends the run — tracks already submitted stay submitted. If it stops because an edit page didn't return its form, that's normally Envato throttling a busy session: wait a minute and hit Retry, which re-runs only the tracks that didn't get through.

Hidden items (Beta)

Envato sometimes soft-disables items (often during keyword-stuffing enforcement) — they vanish from search and from the public API, but their edit pages keep working. A normal sync can't see them, so there's a dedicated scan.

"Sync with Envato" → "Scan hidden" reads your hidden_items pages in your own logged-in browser, then opens each hidden item's edit page and reads its CURRENT tags, description and Content ID. It's strictly read-only — nothing is changed or submitted. Afterwards the table shows the truth: Hidden badges, refreshed fields, honest compliance checks — and hidden items that were never synced get added automatically.

From there it's the usual flow: hit "Show hidden", fix the issues (Bulk edit → "Fix everything obvious"), push with "Update on Envato". Pushed hidden items are saved AND submitted for review — that's their way back on sale — and the badge switches to "In review". Once Envato restores an item, a later sync or scan flips it back to active automatically.

Deep Sync (Pro)

Envato's public API refreshes an item's data only after a review cycle, so titles, tags and descriptions it returns can lag your edit pages by months — and license prices, discounts and the Elements checkbox aren't in the API at all. Deep Sync closes that gap: the helper extension quietly fetches every item's edit page with your own AudioJungle session (no tabs open, a few requests per second) and the CRM saves the CURRENT state of each track: title, tags, description, composer/publisher, Content ID, all five license prices and the "List on Envato Elements" checkbox.

"Sync with Envato" → "Deep Sync" shows live progress and can be paused, stopped and resumed — an interrupted scan continues where it left off, even after closing the browser. It's strictly read-only on Envato. Tracks with un-pushed local edits are never overwritten: they're flagged as drift for you to review, and tags that are awaiting Envato review are left alone so a fresh push doesn't bounce back. If a tag fix you already pushed is NOT on the page and no review is outstanding, the fix never took effect — that track keeps your tags and goes back to "Ready to update" so you can push it again.

A single track can be deep-refreshed from its edit drawer ("Deep refresh") — free accounts get 5 of those a day; the full portfolio scan is part of Pro and Max. You can also start Deep Sync straight from the extension's popup.

A track you edited is never overwritten by a scan. If Envato's copy moved as well, the track turns orange ("Differs from Envato") and the choice is yours: "Update on Envato" keeps your version, "Discard changes" takes Envato's. Fields are compared by what they say, not by markup — Envato itself formats a description differently on the edit page and in its API.

Market analytics

Analytics turns Envato Elements ranking data into producer-ready insight: which authors top each keyword, which tags the winning items actually use, and how the popular searches break down. Copy a winning tag set straight into your next brief.

My rankings shows where your own tracks appear in the search results we capture weekly, with week-over-week movement and a position trend per track, plus your place in the author rating (PremiumBeat excluded). Sign in and connect Envato — matching runs on your artist names. Motion Array has its own My rankings tab — MA seller names differ from Envato usernames, so you can look up your exact seller name there.

Motion Array is tracked separately, under its own tab. Your MA seller name is its own thing — it is not your Envato username — so it has to be stated once: paste your producer page link under Settings › Services. Until you do, we have nothing to look you up by. Linking also answers the other half of the question straight away: it says whether we have captured any placements for you yet, because a seller who has not charted in the genre charts and searches we capture is linked correctly and still sees an empty table.

Charts are the weekly Popular-ordered captures of Elements mood, genre and theme pages. Envato's own PremiumBeat catalog dominates these, so each chart shows its PremiumBeat share — an independent author breaking in is a notable event.

Open Analytics from the header. It lands on My rankings when you are signed in, and the Envato / Motion Array switch at the top right keeps you on the same tab when you change marketplace. Full analytics is a Max feature; Free and Pro accounts get a limited preview.

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