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Immersion
Getting Started
Your music deserves more than a link.
This is how you give it a world.
◈ Before anything else
A Note Before You Begin
From one artist to another
"I built Immersion because I wanted my songs to live somewhere real. Not a streaming page, not a bio link — an actual world. Something a fan could walk into and feel the music before they even pressed play."
You don't need to know anything about websites or code. Each builder is a single page in your browser — you fill in your music, your photos, and your story. Hit Generate, save the file. When all your pieces are built, The Bind stitches them together and gives you one single file to upload. That's the whole magic of it.
Give yourself an afternoon. Make a cup of tea. Let's build something worth entering.
◈ The big picture
What You're Building
Four pieces and one final stitch
An Immersion album has four pieces. You build each one in its own builder — at your own pace, in any order. When they're all done, you drop them into The Bind and out comes a single HTML file: your whole album, one URL, yours forever.
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The Cover — your album's front door
The page every visitor arrives at. It holds your song doors, your streaming links, your story, your support bar. Think of it as the album sleeve opening for the first time. Build this first.
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The Rooms — one world per song
Each song gets its own page with its own mood, photos, video, and player. Visitors step through a door on the Cover and find themselves inside the song's world. Build one Room at a time.
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The Prologue — the opening curtain (optional)
The very first thing someone sees when they arrive — a cinematic full-screen moment with your video or photos, a message, and a beautiful entrance. Skip it if you'd rather visitors land straight on the Cover. Build this if you want one.
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The Back Cover — lyrics, credits, closing
The back of your album sleeve. One long beautiful scroll holding all your lyrics, your credits, your gallery, your closing line. Where listeners sit with the work after the songs have played. Build this near the end.
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The Bind — the moment it all comes together
Once your pieces are ready, drop them into The Bind. It stitches the Cover, Prologue, Rooms, and Back Cover into one single HTML file. No URL juggling. No pasting links between pieces. One file out. One album live.
CoverFront door
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RoomsOne per song
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PrologueOpening (opt.)
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Back CoverLyrics & credits
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The BindOne file out
The golden rule
Build in this order: Cover → Rooms → Prologue → Back Cover → The Bind. Cover first because it sets your track list and atmosphere. Rooms next because they're the heaviest work. Prologue and Back Cover are the trim. The Bind is just confirmation — by the time you sit down with it, every creative decision is already made.
◈ Start here
Building Your Cover
The heart of your album world
Open the Cover Builder. You'll see six steps along the top — work through them in order, or jump around. Nothing's permanent until you hit Generate.
1
Your identity
Type your artist name, album title, and a short album story — a paragraph about what this music means to you. Then choose a mood and a font. These set the entire feel of your Cover and your whole album. There are ten of each — take your time.
2
Your background
Upload one strong photo — your album cover, a portrait, a landscape that represents the whole album. Use the opacity slider to darken it slightly so text stays readable over it. Optionally add a video loop that drifts behind everything on desktop.
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Your songs and their track numbers
Add a slot for each song — upload its cover image, write the title, add a short line about the song. Set the track number for each one — Track 01, Track 02, and so on. This is the secret thread: when you Bind your album, the Cover's track numbers wire to the Rooms automatically. Track 03 on the Cover opens whatever Room you drop in slot 03. You don't paste a single URL.
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Your streaming links and support
Add your Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube — wherever your music lives. Add Bandcamp, Ko-fi, a merch link, anything that lets fans support you. Pick Text Only or Subtle Icons. This is where fans go to stream the whole album or send some love.
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Generate
Hit Generate Cover. Review the summary. Hit Download. Save the file somewhere safe — it's auto-named after your album. Don't rename it. The Bind uses that filename to recognize this Cover as belonging to this album.
"Don't wait until it's perfect. Get the Cover built with your real song list and one good photo. You can refine everything later — your atmosphere, your story, even your cover image. Every builder lets you save your work as a file and load it back in any browser. Done is better than perfect — especially when done is this beautiful."
◈ One song at a time
Building a Room
Give each song somewhere to live
Open the Room Builder for each song on your album. Work through six steps — each one adds a new layer to the world.
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The song's identity
Song title, your name, a short description — a line from the song works beautifully here. Then choose an atmosphere and font specifically for this song. Each Room can have its own mood, completely different from the Cover. The atmosphere of a quiet love song doesn't have to match the atmosphere of a closing anthem.
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The background
Upload a photo that feels like this song. Set the overlay opacity so the image shows through but text stays readable. Around 50% is usually just right. Add a background video if you have one — slow, ambient footage works beautifully.
3
The centerpiece
If you have a music video, paste the YouTube or Vimeo link here. If not, use the Collage — upload a few photos and they'll arrange themselves into a cinematic grid. Each photo has a crop guide — hover over it and click where your subject is so the face never gets cropped wrong on a phone.
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The player, lyrics, and film reel
Paste your song link from Spotify, SoundCloud, or YouTube. Choose how the player looks — the Tape Deck, Record Player, and Headphones styles are all beautiful, each with its own personality. Paste the lyrics. Upload some photos for the film reel — touring shots, studio moments, anything that tells the story of this song.
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Support and tips
Add support links specific to this song if you want — a Bandcamp purchase link, a tip jar, your merch. The tiny teapot 🫖 button at the bottom-left can hold a single tip URL that follows the visitor around.
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Generate
Hit Generate Room. Hit Download. Save the file — it'll be auto-named after the album and the song. Don't rename it. Set it aside. You don't upload Rooms anywhere on their own — they're all going into The Bind together.
Build one Room completely before starting the next
It's tempting to start every Room at once. Resist it. Finish one Room all the way through, see it preview, feel how good it looks — then start the next. You'll enjoy the process so much more, and the energy of one Room will carry into the next.
◈ Optional but cinematic
Building the Prologue
The moment before the world reveals itself
Build a Prologue if you want visitors to arrive through a cinematic full-screen moment before the Cover appears. Skip it if you'd rather visitors land straight on the Cover. It's a few minutes of work, and it's the most cinematic part of the whole experience.
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Choose your signature
At the top, choose what plays before the prologue begins. The ◈ Immersion option shows a beautiful spinning record with the platform mark. Your Label lets you upload your own logo onto that record. Or choose None to go straight in.
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Choose your opening
Pick what fills the screen — a YouTube video playing muted behind everything, a sequence of photos that crossfade, or a single image with gentle motion. This is the mood of the whole arrival.
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Write your message
One atmospheric line that fades in over the media. "For the full experience — tilt your phone." Or something more personal. Then choose what the enter button says — "Enter the Experience" is a good starting point.
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Choose your curtain
When someone taps to enter, something beautiful happens. The Rise lifts the whole screen upward like a theater curtain. The Curtain splits left and right. Fade dissolves gently. Shatter breaks into a tile grid that dissolves with stagger. Try them — each one feels different.
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Generate
Hit Generate Prologue. Save the file. The Bind picks it up later. Inside a bound album, the Prologue plays first, then dissolves into the Cover automatically — you don't paste a redirect URL anywhere.
"The first time I saw the record spin, the ◈ pulse, and then the curtain rise into my album world — I cried a little. After years of sending people to a streaming link, I finally had somewhere to send them that felt like me."
◈ The closing scroll
Building the Back Cover
Where the words and credits live
The Back Cover is the back of your album sleeve — one long beautiful page with your lyrics, your gallery, your credits, your closing line. The moment after the album finishes when a listener wants to sit with it and read the words.
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Identity and atmosphere
Set your artist name, album title, and the year. Upload one strong background image — the whole page sits on this. Pick a font and color palette that match your Cover so the whole album feels of-a-piece.
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Lyrics, track by track
For each song, add a track chapter — track number, title, lyrics. Choose how lyrics are positioned (centered, left, or in a lyric box) and how strong their background tint is for readability. This is where the words of your album live in full — listeners scroll through track by track like flipping through a printed sleeve.
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Optional extras — film reel and gallery wall
Add a small film reel of photos if you want, or a gallery wall of additional images. Both are optional. Both add atmosphere without distracting from the lyrics.
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Credits and the outro
Add credits the way they'd appear on a record sleeve — producers, engineers, musicians, photographers, anyone who helped. Add your label or artist logo. Then write your Outro: one closing line that sends listeners off. A single italic line, like the run-out groove of a vinyl record.
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Generate
Hit Generate Back Cover. Save the file. Set it aside for The Bind.
◈ The moment it all comes together
Running The Bind
One album, one file, one upload
Once your Cover, Prologue (if you made one), Rooms, and Back Cover are all generated and saved on your computer, open The Bind. This is where the magic happens.
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Drop your album pieces
Three slots at the top. Drag your Cover file into the Cover slot. Drag your Back Cover file into its slot. If you built a Prologue, drag it in too. If you didn't, skip it — the Prologue slot is optional.
2
Drop your Rooms in track order
Below the album pieces, you'll see 14 track slots. Drop each Room into its matching track number. Track 01 goes in slot 01, Track 02 in slot 02, and so on. This wires each door on your Cover to its Room automatically.
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Pick a navigation style
Choose the visual style of the navigation chrome that frames your album — a Palette (Studio, Velvet, or Dawn) and a Deck (Headphones, Record, or Cassette). A quiet folk album might want Dawn + Headphones. A late-night electronic record might want Velvet + Record. No wrong combination — just one that fits your music.
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Bind
Hit Bind Album. The Bind reads every file, stitches them together with all the navigation, and outputs one self-contained HTML file. Save it. That file is your entire album.
"This is the part that still gets me. You drag in a Cover, you drag in some Rooms, you hit Bind. One file out. The whole album, every page, every photo, every track, every word — all bundled into a single HTML file you can hand to anyone. That's the moment your album becomes a thing in the world."
◈ One file. One upload.
Going Live
The smallest step in the whole journey
Upload the file The Bind gave you to any web host. That's it. The whole album — every piece you built — lives inside that one file. There's nothing to wire up, no separate folders, no asset paths to manage.
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Upload to your hosting platform
Drag the bound HTML file into your platform's upload zone. GoHighLevel, Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages — any platform that serves HTML works. You get a URL back. That URL is your album.
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Put it everywhere
That URL is the only link you need. Put it in your Instagram bio, your TikTok, your link-in-bio, your ads, your email signature, on every flyer. Every visitor enters through your album, not a streaming page.
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Test it fresh first
Open the URL in a private window on your phone — this is how a first-time visitor experiences it. Watch the whole thing through. Make sure the Prologue plays (if you built one). Tap each Room door. Scroll through the Back Cover.
If it seems to skip the Prologue
Your browser already dismissed it from testing. Open a private or incognito window and it will play fresh every time. The Prologue is designed to show only once per visitor — your browser remembered you already saw it.
◈ It grows with you
Updating Anything, Any Time
Re-Bind, re-upload, same URL
Your album isn't locked the moment it's live. You can update any piece any time — fix a typo, change a photo, add a new Room when a song joins the album later.
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Fix a typo in your lyrics
Rebuild your Back Cover, drop the new version into The Bind in place of the old one, re-Bind, re-upload. The URL stays the same. Listeners see the fix the next time they visit.
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Update one song's Room
Rebuild that one Room. Drop the new version into the same track slot in The Bind. Re-Bind. Re-upload. None of the other Rooms need to be touched.
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Add a brand-new track
Build the new Room. Add a song slot to your Cover with the next track number. Generate both. Drop them into The Bind. Re-Bind. Re-upload. Your album just grew.
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Build a whole new album
When your next record comes, start fresh — a new Cover, new Rooms, a new Prologue and Back Cover, a new Bind. Each album gets its own world. Each world gets its own front door. Your previous album keeps living at its URL, untouched.
"Your music has always deserved this. You just needed the tools. Now you have them. Go build something beautiful."