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Post by swafford on Feb 11, 2020 15:56:39 GMT -6
Sorry if this has been covered. I did a some searches and didn't hit on anything.
What are people using to enable bandmates and others to listen and download rough mixes? I use to maintain an FTP, then a Wordpress site, but I need to repurpose that back to my baking business and am looking at ways to share without it being public, costly or annoying.
I've tried Soundcloud playlists, but the app sticks in commercials and autoplays shit I don't want to hear. I can put up with that, but I don't want to subject others to it. Plus you can't download.
Bandcamp doesn't let you share private links.
Reverbnation seems more focused on dreamers and their dreams.
I just want a place where I can upload rough mixes for people who will be adding a part, rough mixes for people to hear their parts, and mixes and masters for people to give feedback on without having to email it around. Sort of a running document of a project from demo to master, available for streaming or download to direct people to or where they can drop in to see where it is at without them having to join something.
Suggestions?
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 11, 2020 16:08:55 GMT -6
Google Drive is free.... Firefox Send is for free.... Drop Box ...is free too...
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Post by swafford on Feb 11, 2020 16:18:56 GMT -6
Google Drive is free.... Firefox Send is for free.... Drop Box ...is free too... Apple mail is free. I've used all those at one time or another and they don't have the organizing structure I want and could create via Wordpress, except I don't want to put in the time. Free is not a requirement; maintaining, streaming, sharing, syncing and downloading is. Right now I'm looking at the Songspace app. A bit clunky, but a possibility.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 11, 2020 16:51:47 GMT -6
Dropbox has always worked for me. It even allows comments (which I don’t use).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 17:12:11 GMT -6
I just keep a folder going in Drive. Every time I ad an amended mix or what-have-you, I just delete the previous version and replace it with the new one. As long as the sharing permissions stay the same, that's all there is to it.
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Post by jcoutu1 on Feb 11, 2020 17:22:19 GMT -6
+1 Google Drive
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Post by seawell on Feb 11, 2020 17:25:50 GMT -6
Disco is my current favorite. Really easy to make playlists and It's particularly useful if you're sending out any music that needs to have metadata that you can update easily without having to go into iTunes. disco.ac
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Post by swafford on Feb 11, 2020 17:35:41 GMT -6
Disco is my current favorite. Really easy to make playlists and It's particularly useful if you're sending out any music that needs to have metadata that you can update easily without having to go into iTunes. disco.ac Interesting. Won't release pricing without an account - what's the fee structure look like?
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Post by seawell on Feb 11, 2020 18:00:05 GMT -6
Disco is my current favorite. Really easy to make playlists and It's particularly useful if you're sending out any music that needs to have metadata that you can update easily without having to go into iTunes. disco.ac Interesting. Won't release pricing without an account - what's the fee structure look like? Oh weird...I didn't realize that. Here's what I see on the billing page when I'm logged in:
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Post by tasteliketape on Feb 11, 2020 18:33:19 GMT -6
Just received this email today , don’t know anything about it . Might be worth a look. bounceboss.co.uk/
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Post by M57 on Feb 11, 2020 19:00:24 GMT -6
Just received this email today , don’t know anything about it . Might be worth a look. bounceboss.co.uk/Looks impressive but £ 29/month is the only plan I see. That's awfully expensive and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't need 100 GB of space.
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Post by stratboy on Feb 11, 2020 19:26:12 GMT -6
I use a Dropbox. It lets me make folders and sub folders etc, so I stay organized. Free up to a point, so I clean it during/after a project. I use iCloud for archiving. Price per GB is really good!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Feb 11, 2020 23:46:08 GMT -6
I just send everything via wetransfer.
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Post by levon on Feb 12, 2020 0:20:40 GMT -6
Yes, WeTransfer. It's free up to 2 GB and works great.
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Post by javamad on Feb 12, 2020 2:02:31 GMT -6
I use Google Drive. I am on a paid level because I am using it with all clients for the studio but its literally a couple of bucks a month.
I like being able to have a folder structure and the fine grain sharing options are good.
I have often thought about starting a service that allows in line comments from bands and more importantly .., logging of who actually listened to the whole track ha ha! ... but its too much work to get a startup going with only a marginal use case over whats available.
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Post by swafford on Feb 12, 2020 2:12:37 GMT -6
Thanks for the suggestions.
Wetransfer. Timed deletion is a no go. Plus I read it as Wet Transfer and think "ew". From a collaborator perspective, I'm not seeing what it does different from Apple Mail.
Dropbox is great for the amount of storage they give you on a free account and is easily organized.
Songspace and Disco checks all the boxes I want, but the Songspace free version is pretty useless (25 songs or 50mb space...that's just weird, I wonder if that 50 is a typo...), the next tier, like Disco is a pretty fair monthly price, but probably more then I want to spend since I'm just fulfilling a want and not a need.
Give me the storage of Dropbox with the feature set of free Songspace or Disco minus all the music biz stuff that I don't need for a flat $50 a year and that would be perfect!
Sooo...I'll probably continue to use Dropbox for the occasional client and sing up and go monthly on Songspace for my own projects, cancel it and go free version when I'm in just writing and making demos for me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 5:23:52 GMT -6
Google Drive is the most convenient for me at the moment. Several google accounts, each drive 15 GB for free. Great thing to have.
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Post by Ward on Feb 13, 2020 8:10:44 GMT -6
Yes, WeTransfer. It's free up to 2 GB and works great. Same here. Everybody I know is using it and dropping their drop boxes.
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Post by EmRR on Feb 13, 2020 8:24:44 GMT -6
Dropbox primarily. Organization within Dropbox serves my needs. Things in the trash can be pulled out. Works from Mac Finder universally with all needed options on hand, don't have to go into the App or Browser.
I find Drive to be full of 'gotchas', won't work directly from Mac Finder most times, shared links don't have permissions, getting a direct link versus a shared link isn't what they want you to do, etc.
Wetransfer for one time dumps, like files to mastering.
No one seems to know how to navigate FTP without a tutorial.
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Post by sirthought on Feb 13, 2020 10:21:46 GMT -6
This article may fill in some knowledge gaps for some of us. It covers a few services. I usually use Google Drive, but I may check out Firefox Send. www.wired.com/story/securely-share-files-online/It notes that the service FIREFOX SEND uses end-to-end encryption, which means that, unlike Dropbox or Google Drive, not even Firefox can see the files. It is free to use. You can use it with or without the Firefox browser. Download links can be set to expire after a certain number of downloads or amount of time, and if you want an extra layer of security, you can password-protect them as well, so that someone else needs both the link and the password to get at the file. You can keep an eye on when your shared files are accessed, and the link can be revoked at any time.
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Post by swafford on Feb 13, 2020 10:43:45 GMT -6
Turns out Songspace has an inaccurate description of their free service - in my stats pane, it actually is 50 songs or 1 gig (as oppose to 25 songs/50mg listed on their subscription page), which will work great for my projects. It would balls amazing if the IOS app added the ability to copy songs to IOS iTunes.
For the occasional friend project, I'm going to continue with Dropbox.
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Feb 13, 2020 18:03:28 GMT -6
Yes, WeTransfer. It's free up to 2 GB and works great. Same here. Everybody I know is using it and dropping their drop boxes. Just dropped mine. $29 increase for a bunch of useless "improvements". No thanks. Sync.com for that task. Plus, everything's encrypted. Digging DISCO though. Great suggestion.
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Post by swurveman on Feb 13, 2020 18:17:53 GMT -6
Google Drive
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Post by RicFoxx on Feb 15, 2020 14:07:04 GMT -6
Landr.com is great for this.
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