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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 3, 2022 16:41:33 GMT -6
I've been looking at ditching Dropbox as my way to send people files for review. It keeps fuckin up my audio files during playback.
Samply looks awesome to me. I love how you can send people a nice player to play in the browser. You can load different versions right there so users can go back to v1 from v4 ect. Comments look nice too.
Filepass also looks pretty good but is much more expensive. I like how you can check off requests though.
Anyone using either one of these? Im leaning towards Samply right now. I'll use Dropbox for Archiving stuff.
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 3, 2022 18:48:08 GMT -6
Been using the free WeTransfer: just need emails.
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jan 3, 2022 19:47:52 GMT -6
I signed up for Samply a month ago. It's great. Only knock on it is that the default playback is 256 or something and the user has to know to tap the ellipsis to select lossless playback each time. Otherwise, much better experience than email or DB. I heard about it from the WCA podcast. Not sure it still works but WCA20 coupon code for 20% off when I signed up. |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 3, 2022 20:09:01 GMT -6
Been using the free WeTransfer: just need emails. basically what I do with dropbox. But for some projects the emails get massive. |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 3, 2022 20:09:43 GMT -6
I signed up for Samply a month ago. It's great. Only knock on it is that the default playback is 256 or something and the user has to know to tap the ellipsis to select lossless playback each time. Otherwise, much better experience than email or DB. I heard about it from the WCA podcast. Not sure it still works but WCA20 coupon code for 20% off when I signed up. Cool to hear that. I really like the look of it, i have just a free account right now. But everything looks great and seems to work very well. |
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jan 3, 2022 20:16:44 GMT -6
I signed up for Samply a month ago. It's great. Only knock on it is that the default playback is 256 or something and the user has to know to tap the ellipsis to select lossless playback each time. Otherwise, much better experience than email or DB. I heard about it from the WCA podcast. Not sure it still works but WCA20 coupon code for 20% off when I signed up. Cool to hear that. I really like the look of it, i have just a free account right now. But everything looks great and seems to work very well. I haven't spent enough time with it to figure out the versioning stuff or if you can default to lossless, but for the client-side easy text or email link thing, it does that well, IMHO. |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 4, 2022 2:08:40 GMT -6
Been using the free WeTransfer: just need emails. basically what I do with dropbox. But for some projects the emails get massive. WT just uses the email to contact the person, you download the file,but there are size limits for the free WT. |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 2:10:22 GMT -6
basically what I do with dropbox. But for some projects the emails get massive. WT just uses the email to contact the person, you download the file,but there are size limits for the free WT. yeah i've had people use it. Never feels are professional to me personally. And I know WT isn't known to be 100% in it's upload/downloads. Can corrupt files. Dropbox can too though. |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 4, 2022 2:12:25 GMT -6
All good, I haven’t experienced any problems.
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Post by sirthought on Jan 4, 2022 7:40:36 GMT -6
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 10:53:23 GMT -6
wow that looks great. Plugin looks awesome as well. Some great features here. Same price as samply too but with some very nice features. Good share! |
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Post by trakworxmastering on Jan 4, 2022 11:07:31 GMT -6
Samply is great for auditioning and downloading audio files. It doesn't mangle the sound. I like the look, and the gapless/seamless song transitions. Strangely, I had a few clients who couldn't find the play button, which is...? , but they were legitimately frustrated and wanted me to go back to wetransfer. I was using Samply for a while but it was a bit early in their development and some glitches happened that forced me to go back to wetransfer and dropbox. I can't afford glitches. Also, as a ME I need them to enable DDP, PQ Sheet and other non-audio file uploads before I can really make full use of Samply. I kept my account open and plan to go back and check out their progress when I get around to it. Again, just for auditioning and downloading tracks, Samply is awesome and a great value. For mix engineers it's probably got everything you need. For MEs it could use a few more features IMO.
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Post by sirthought on Jan 4, 2022 11:17:37 GMT -6
Mixup is nice because you can do a certain amount of sharing completely free, and it won't look like a free version to your client.
There's also a certain level of collaboration baked in, which takes it far beyond Dropbox and the like.
Made by the people at Puremix, so you know they've thought of what clients need from you.
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 11:22:36 GMT -6
Samply is great for auditioning and downloading audio files. It doesn't mangle the sound. I like the look, and the gapless/seamless song transitions. Strangely, I had a few clients who couldn't find the play button, which is...? , but they were legitimately frustrated and wanted me to go back to wetransfer. I was using Samply for a while but it was a bit early in their development and some glitches happened that forced me to go back to wetransfer and dropbox. I can't afford glitches. Also, as a ME I need them to enable DDP, PQ Sheet and other non-audio file uploads before I can really make full use of Samply. I kept my account open and plan to go back and check out their progress when I get around to it. Again, just for auditioning and downloading tracks, Samply is awesome and a great value. For mix engineers it's probably got everything you need. For MEs it could use a few more features IMO. Thanks for your input. Im definietly looking at these tools from both perspectives as I do both often. I certainly didn't look at Samply as a way to distribute files, especailly DDPs. But figured it would be a great way to let clients listen to things and comment. Once approved send a zip file via dropbox will everything in it(DDP, wavs, mp3s, whatever else). I don't think any of the tools I'm looking at or that have been suggested do DDP stuff or PQ sheets or XMLs. Which I think is fine. Though I suppose it totally depends on what clients like to do as well. I guess I've been assuming that to make it as "easy" as possible to just click a link and start listening to track(s) would be great for clients and to encourage them to comment in the tool. Doesn't mean they will use it or know how. Im sure that even with a tool like one of these I'd still get a text message or email full of comments. |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 11:24:15 GMT -6
Mixup is nice because you can do a certain amount of sharing completely free, and it won't look like a free version to your client. There's also a certain level of collaboration baked in, which takes it far beyond Dropbox and the like. Made by the people at Puremix, so you know they've thought of what clients need from you. Samply is similar I think from a "pro" look for a free account. Just has no storage. I can't fit an album at 24/96 for instance which is basically my minimum that I work in. I really like the plugin feature though. That makes keeping track of stuff quite well. I wonder how it works with multiple songs in you session though. |
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Post by trakworxmastering on Jan 4, 2022 11:24:49 GMT -6
Mixup is nice because you can do a certain amount of sharing completely free, and it won't look like a free version to your client. There's also a certain level of collaboration baked in, which takes it far beyond Dropbox and the like. Made by the people at Puremix, so you know they've thought of what clients need from you. Mixup looks good at first glance. I sent them a message asking about the features I need. Thanks for the tip! |
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Post by trakworxmastering on Jan 4, 2022 11:33:58 GMT -6
Samply is great for auditioning and downloading audio files. It doesn't mangle the sound. I like the look, and the gapless/seamless song transitions. Strangely, I had a few clients who couldn't find the play button, which is...? , but they were legitimately frustrated and wanted me to go back to wetransfer. I was using Samply for a while but it was a bit early in their development and some glitches happened that forced me to go back to wetransfer and dropbox. I can't afford glitches. Also, as a ME I need them to enable DDP, PQ Sheet and other non-audio file uploads before I can really make full use of Samply. I kept my account open and plan to go back and check out their progress when I get around to it. Again, just for auditioning and downloading tracks, Samply is awesome and a great value. For mix engineers it's probably got everything you need. For MEs it could use a few more features IMO. Thanks for your input. Im definietly looking at these tools from both perspectives as I do both often. I certainly didn't look at Samply as a way to distribute files, especailly DDPs. But figured it would be a great way to let clients listen to things and comment. Once approved send a zip file via dropbox will everything in it(DDP, wavs, mp3s, whatever else). I don't think any of the tools I'm looking at or that have been suggested do DDP stuff or PQ sheets or XMLs. Which I think is fine. Though I suppose it totally depends on what clients like to do as well. I guess I've been assuming that to make it as "easy" as possible to just click a link and start listening to track(s) would be great for clients and to encourage them to comment in the tool. Doesn't mean they will use it or know how. Im sure that even with a tool like one of these I'd still get a text message or email full of comments. I don't like sending my clients multiple links from different services. A significant percent of clients are not tech savvy and they get confused/frustrated having to learn new things or know the difference in purpose between various types of links I send. I need a one stop solution for auditioning and downloading deliverables, and it needs to be fool proof for the luddites. I'm waiting for Samply to get there. Maybe Mixup is there already. I'll find out. I don't care about commenting. Seems like it could get messy. I'd rather do that by email and have bands agree on their comments before sending to me instead of everyone being able to comment willy nilly. Ugh. |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 11:56:25 GMT -6
Thanks for your input. Im definietly looking at these tools from both perspectives as I do both often. I certainly didn't look at Samply as a way to distribute files, especailly DDPs. But figured it would be a great way to let clients listen to things and comment. Once approved send a zip file via dropbox will everything in it(DDP, wavs, mp3s, whatever else). I don't think any of the tools I'm looking at or that have been suggested do DDP stuff or PQ sheets or XMLs. Which I think is fine. Though I suppose it totally depends on what clients like to do as well. I guess I've been assuming that to make it as "easy" as possible to just click a link and start listening to track(s) would be great for clients and to encourage them to comment in the tool. Doesn't mean they will use it or know how. Im sure that even with a tool like one of these I'd still get a text message or email full of comments. I don't like sending my clients multiple links from different services. A significant percent of clients are not tech savvy and they get confused/frustrated having to learn new things or know the difference in purpose between various types of links I send. I need a one stop solution for auditioning and downloading deliverables, and it needs to be fool proof for the luddites. I'm waiting for Samply to get there. Maybe Mixup is there already. I'll find out. I don't care about commenting. Seems like it could get messy. I'd rather do that by email and have bands agree on their comments before sending to me instead of everyone being able to comment willy nilly. Ugh. Yeah i agree that is much nicer to get a band whole comments vs individuals. But that could be done with the app too. THe Mixup one has a way that you can do "private" notes for yourself at least to easily transfer comments to a place you can check them off with the daw plugin which I like. Doubt they will support DDP though. Im not sure I know of an online DDP player. But true on the simplicity factor. I figured Id use this to get approvals. Then do my final renders and send them the download link. They probably won't care its a different service IMO if its communicated that I'll be sending a deliverable package separately. And I keep downloads disabled on the player. I guess Im thinking player is for approvals/comments/revisions. Dropbox zip for deliverables. But keep us posted what Mixup says. |
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Post by Guitar on Jan 4, 2022 12:10:12 GMT -6
Weird, I've never had any problems with Dropbox. But get this... a few people I have tried to send DropBox files to claim they can't get them. LOL! I have no idea what's going on there. Some kind of user error, I would guess. For those people I have to resort to sending 320 kbps MP3 via email attachment (25 MB maxium file size per email.)
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 12:25:28 GMT -6
Weird, I've never had any problems with Dropbox. But get this... a few people I have tried to send DropBox files to claim they can't get them. LOL! I have no idea what's going on there. Some kind of user error, I would guess. For those people I have to resort to sending 320 kbps MP3 via email attachment (25 MB maxium file size per email.) That jazz quartet album I shared a while ago is an example of Dropbox doing something to the audio files. At least on the online player. The bass has some very odd noise/distortion at the beginning. Which is NOT there in my DAW. and its not in the render. And its not in the file if I download it, so that's good. But its enough to make me question it. And another example of tools are only as good as the people using them haha |
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Post by trakworxmastering on Jan 4, 2022 16:34:21 GMT -6
I don't like sending my clients multiple links from different services. A significant percent of clients are not tech savvy and they get confused/frustrated having to learn new things or know the difference in purpose between various types of links I send. I need a one stop solution for auditioning and downloading deliverables, and it needs to be fool proof for the luddites. I'm waiting for Samply to get there. Maybe Mixup is there already. I'll find out. I don't care about commenting. Seems like it could get messy. I'd rather do that by email and have bands agree on their comments before sending to me instead of everyone being able to comment willy nilly. Ugh. Yeah i agree that is much nicer to get a band whole comments vs individuals. But that could be done with the app too. THe Mixup one has a way that you can do "private" notes for yourself at least to easily transfer comments to a place you can check them off with the daw plugin which I like. Doubt they will support DDP though. Im not sure I know of an online DDP player. But true on the simplicity factor. I figured Id use this to get approvals. Then do my final renders and send them the download link. They probably won't care its a different service IMO if its communicated that I'll be sending a deliverable package separately. And I keep downloads disabled on the player. I guess Im thinking player is for approvals/comments/revisions. Dropbox zip for deliverables. But keep us posted what Mixup says. Mixup says: "While the audio streaming on mixup.audio is great, we do not have the capability to host non-audio files." Yeah, I didn't mean a DDP player, just the ability to include downloadable DDPs, tracklist documents, zipped folders, etc., so everything can be together in one organized place, like with Dropbox. So far no one is offering what I want. |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 17:08:46 GMT -6
Yeah i agree that is much nicer to get a band whole comments vs individuals. But that could be done with the app too. THe Mixup one has a way that you can do "private" notes for yourself at least to easily transfer comments to a place you can check them off with the daw plugin which I like. Doubt they will support DDP though. Im not sure I know of an online DDP player. But true on the simplicity factor. I figured Id use this to get approvals. Then do my final renders and send them the download link. They probably won't care its a different service IMO if its communicated that I'll be sending a deliverable package separately. And I keep downloads disabled on the player. I guess Im thinking player is for approvals/comments/revisions. Dropbox zip for deliverables. But keep us posted what Mixup says. Mixup says: "While the audio streaming on mixup.audio is great, we do not have the capability to host non-audio files." Yeah, I didn't mean a DDP player, just the ability to include downloadable DDPs, tracklist documents, zipped folders, etc., so everything can be together in one organized place, like with Dropbox. So far no one is offering what I want. Ah gotcha. Yeah that would be super handy indeed. Have you inquired samply about it? |
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Post by trakworxmastering on Jan 4, 2022 17:36:34 GMT -6
Mixup says: "While the audio streaming on mixup.audio is great, we do not have the capability to host non-audio files." Yeah, I didn't mean a DDP player, just the ability to include downloadable DDPs, tracklist documents, zipped folders, etc., so everything can be together in one organized place, like with Dropbox. So far no one is offering what I want. Ah gotcha. Yeah that would be super handy indeed. Have you inquired samply about it? Oh yeah, I'm a member of their Slack channel and I was posting there for a while. They always say "great idea" to everything I suggest and then nothing happens. I get that it's not like they can just snap their fingers and it's done, but it has been several months. Dropbox but with a quality gapless audio player. Dare to dream it. I'll keep waiting... |
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 4, 2022 18:18:57 GMT -6
Ah gotcha. Yeah that would be super handy indeed. Have you inquired samply about it? Oh yeah, I'm a member of their Slack channel and I was posting there for a while. They always say "great idea" to everything I suggest and then nothing happens. I get that it's not like they can just snap their fingers and it's done, but it has been several months. Dropbox but with a quality gapless audio player. Dare to dream it. I'll keep waiting... Yeah that would be nice. Other than they dont' have THAT much storage really. Hate to think what 2Tb of storage costs from them. |
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Post by svart on Jan 4, 2022 19:22:30 GMT -6
I just use Google drive.
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