Dreamer Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I'm curious, I'd like to know how musicians/producers communicate their project ideas to other musicians nowadays using smartphones. I've had great success with cats that have desktops/laptops or Macs, but occasionally I have to deal with musicians that don't have any of these. All they have is a smartphone. I usually just circumvent them and use other musicians. But, I think that's not a good idea. With smartphones, sending a music file, is a hassle with some SMS due to file size. I've tried WhatsApp, but some cats are not that smartphone savvy or do not use it. What other simple, free ways are there to share a project music file via a smartphone? I'm not sure if this is the proper forum for this question, but there are a lot of bedroom producers here such as myself who use Cakewalk and have tons of great music and great ideas. I hope I'm not breaking any rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 You can create an account with SoundClick, SoundCloud, etc and you upload the songs there. All the other people need is to install the app for the service you choose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 You could always use BandLab itself? Cakewalk can upload your ideas as a new BandLab project, and you can invite others to add to it if you want. BandLab will run on most browsers, and also iPhone, iPad & Android devices. Best of all, it's free. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 Bandlab who would have thought of this. It does work and it is free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Peters Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 I tried to set up albums on Bandlab, but I found that the upload of larger files nearly always failed, and that the retries often went back to the beginning, only to also fail at some different point. I would end up with multiple incomplete uploads for longer songs. Support were not able to fix the issue. I ended up just uploading to basic cloud services that are not as good, because they don't allow streaming, and are not tailored to albums per se, but at least the file transfers worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr No Name Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 I had the idea of a cloud based DAW about 7 years ago, wish I would have patented it, could have been rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helios.G Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 3 hours ago, Mr No Name said: I had the idea of a cloud based DAW about 7 years ago, wish I would have patented it, could have been rich. Don't feel too bad, AI is coming for all of our ideas anyway. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer Posted July 1 Author Share Posted July 1 (edited) Great idea. But yeah...AI? ☹️ I am an aficionado of the 70s, the golden years. Decade of the producers. AI may mean the end of it all. The beginning of the end of natural creativity. Edited July 1 by Dreamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Faughey Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 On 6/29/2024 at 8:27 PM, msmcleod said: You could always use BandLab itself? Cakewalk can upload your ideas as a new BandLab project, and you can invite others to add to it if you want. BandLab will run on most browsers, and also iPhone, iPad & Android devices. Best of all, it's free. its a game changer! one of the BEST features for sure! I have turned so many people on to bandLab I might need a commission. LOL it’s a crime that more people don’t know about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Peters Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 On 7/1/2024 at 11:42 PM, John Faughey said: its a game changer! one of the BEST features for sure! I have turned so many people on to bandLab I might need a commission. LOL it’s a crime that more people don’t know about this. I am glad this is working for someone. It's not worked for me though, and I've decided to pull all my albums off Bandlab now. There are two reasons. I've already mentioned that repeated upload aborts meant I couldn't upload larger files, even after dozens of attempts. On top of that, I just want to share music with non-musicians, and forcing them to set up an account and fill in personal preference information before being able to listen to anything has put them all off. I have not yet come up with an alternative site. Still looking... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 5 hours ago, Mark Peters said: I am glad this is working for someone. It's not worked for me though, and I've decided to pull all my albums off Bandlab now. There are two reasons. I've already mentioned that repeated upload aborts meant I couldn't upload larger files, even after dozens of attempts. On top of that, I just want to share music with non-musicians, and forcing them to set up an account and fill in personal preference information before being able to listen to anything has put them all off. I have not yet come up with an alternative site. Still looking... soundclick. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 bandlab let's me upload WAV files (50-75mb) no problem. other sites like reverbnation, soundcloud, soundclick, broadjam (and most others) etc require a paid subscription to upload WAV files. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass Guitar Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 2 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said: bandlab let's me upload WAV files (50-75mb) no problem. other sites like reverbnation, soundcloud, soundclick, broadjam (and most others) etc require a paid subscription to upload WAV files. Sound Click lets you upload Wave files and even Videos in the free version. And you can listen to your friends music without logging in, you just might get adds. That's how they all work. Don't like adds? then pay the fee. Sound Cloud became weird so I abandoned it. I also have a Reverb nation account kicking around somewhere but there must be a reason I never use it, I forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Faughey Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 15 hours ago, Mark Peters said: I am glad this is working for someone. It's not worked for me though, and I've decided to pull all my albums off Bandlab now. There are two reasons. I've already mentioned that repeated upload aborts meant I couldn't upload larger files, even after dozens of attempts. On top of that, I just want to share music with non-musicians, and forcing them to set up an account and fill in personal preference information before being able to listen to anything has put them all off. I have not yet come up with an alternative site. Still looking... That’s a drag that it doesn’t work the way you need it. It works great for my needs. When I am working with different artist at the end of the session, I can just upload it to bandlab and just send them the invite and they can obsess over the session in the car ride home.LOL they also can then open the session as a stereo file and add ideas that I can just open back up in sonar. I upload my albums for streaming services through distrokid. I don’t use the bandlab service for that. But you are correct. You do have to sign up and give your personal info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Peters Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Thanks for all the feedback, guys. I somehow missed SoundClick when I was searching for alternatives. Last night I uploaded one album to SoundCloud, which seems to work OK, but the free account is limited and I doubt I'll be able to upload the rest of my stuff without hitting the limit. I'm trying Jamendo now - uploading a different album as I type this. It appears to offer unlimited free uploads. I wish I had kept better notes on the problems I had with uploading to BandLab. I do know that I managed to get one file of 122 Mb uploaded, but that appears to have been a bit of a fluke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 soundclick must have changed. i've had a free account there for ~18 years? and you were limited to MP3 and under 8mb each. i'll have to revisit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conteloto Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 You can use, for example, https://wetransfer.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 Perhaps my question was not worded correctly? I think this has sidetracked. I was asking about androids, iPhone apps for sharing music between musicians via smartphones. A lot of my musician friends don't even have PC's or Macs anymore. Just phones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 (edited) what are your friends then doing their recording, mix, etc on then? just phone apps? and what do you mean by sharing? listening or performing/editing? sharing is easy - many many many sites for sharing music. performing and editing reliably across phone OSes etc - not really... Edited September 4 by Glenn Stanton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer Posted September 5 Author Share Posted September 5 I record their performances. I send them a scratch track to listen to, and they come to my home to do the actual recording. Some just don't have PC's or Macs. Just their phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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