Band recordings

Uploading setlist recordings

Upload one or many files, then assign, split, or add them to the player.

Recorded the gig on a phone, a Zoom recorder or your DAW? Upload it to the setlist, then split it into songs or drop it straight onto the setlist player.

Who can do what (by default):

  • Upload: Principal, Core, Member and Crew.
  • Use the upload (add it to the player, assign it to a song, split it, assign several files) and trim: Principal and Core. Members and Crew can upload, but someone with one of those roles has to finish the job.
  • Normalize: Principal and Core.
  • Delete: Principal, Core and Member.

Roles can be changed on the Members page.

Upload

  1. Open the setlist and click Add and Manage Recordings in the Recordings and Photos panel.
  2. Under Upload Existing Recording, choose one or more files.
  3. Optionally add a Title. If you leave it blank, the recording shows the date and time it was uploaded. If you upload several files, they all get the same title.
  4. Tick the Legal Confirmation box and click Upload Recording.

Accepted formats: audio (MP3, M4A, OGG, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OPUS) and video (MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI).

Limits: files up to 4.5 GB. Recordings can be up to 4 hours of audio or 2 hours of video. Files over 100 MB, and any multi-file upload, are sent in pieces, so keep the page open until it finishes.

After upload, video is compressed to MP4 automatically, and WebM or OGG audio is converted to M4A. Other audio formats are kept as they are.

Uploads count toward your band's storage. If you're over your quota, the upload buttons are greyed out and tell you why when clicked.

Import from URL

Import from URL takes a direct link to an audio or video file (iCloud links work), up to 500 MB. Links to ordinary web pages won't work. YouTube links aren't downloaded; they're saved as a YouTube embed named after the video and go straight onto the setlist player.

One file: what did you record?

After a single upload you land on the recording's page, which asks What did you record? (Principal and Core only, by default). For video, and for WebM or OGG audio, the choices unlock once the file has finished converting. Other files can be used straight away.

  • Add to player: puts the whole take on the setlist player as-is, under the recording's title (or its date if it has none). You can assign a song later.
  • Single Song → Assign to Song: the whole file becomes one take of a song. Pick a song from the setlist, or type a title under Create New Song. If the band already has a song with that title, the take goes to it. Otherwise a new song is added to the band's repertoire (but not to the setlist).
  • Full Set / Rehearsal → Split recording: opens the split editor so you can cut it into songs. See Splitting a set recording.

Several files: assign each to a song

Upload several files at once (for example, one per song from a multitrack session) and they upload three at a time. Then you'll see Assign Recordings to Songs: pick a song for each file and each becomes one take. The list offers the setlist's songs, and each song can be picked for only one file. Add New Song finds or creates a song and also adds it to the setlist.

Normalize

Normalize Recording evens out the volume, raising quiet passages so phone recordings are easier to hear. It creates a new recording with "(Normalized)" added to the title. Splits you've already made aren't changed, so normalize before splitting, or re-split afterwards.

Normalizing takes roughly 1 minute per 70 MB. Files over 512 MB are too big to normalize here; you'll be pointed to free tools like Audacity instead.

Other things on the recording page

  • Rename: the pencil next to the title.
  • Download the original file, or Share a link to the recording.
  • Compress Source (Save Space): for WAV and FLAC files, converts the original to a smaller format to free up storage.

Cleaning up

Before a recording is split, its page has a single Delete Recording button. Once it has splits, the Source Recording panel offers:

  • Delete Source removes the full-length file but keeps your split songs, which frees up storage. The full-recording player stops working, and any of these takes that were added to song pages are taken off them.
  • Delete Everything removes the recording and all its splits.
  • Delete All and Re-Split removes the splits but keeps the source, so you can start splitting over (Principal and Core by default).

The setlist's recordings page also has a Danger Zone for cleaning up every recording on the setlist at once: Delete Unprocessed Recordings, Delete Recordings, Keeping Splits and Delete All Recordings and Splits.