Hi all! My friends and I are hoping to continue writing and recording music though we live very far apart now. We all use MacBooks for recording tracks, and I was curious if anyone has a good way to share/sync our recordings with each other.

Years ago I used Resilio Sync without much fuss, though I’d lean more towards Syncthing now. I have a always-on and internet-connected home Linux server. Thanks for any suggestions!

Edit: I forgot to mention my buddies are not techy types, so ease-of-use on their end is an important feature.

  • mook71@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’ve used both syncthing and recently resilio. My Syno NAS has their own app Synology drive. All three have worked great for me.

  • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    Absolutely not selfhosted nor foss nor anything close to this sub’s content but if money is not a problem, Protools has a collaborative feature that is pretty neat. You can all work on the same session at the same time and send tracks back and forth.

    This or syncthing as everyone mentioned.

  • flunky@lemmy.flunky.clubEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Nextcloud maybe? Not specifically geared toward collaborative music recording, but maybe you could come up with a good workflow.

    It’s an interesting use case. I’d be curious to see what you (and/or others) come up with.

    • tomatobeard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the suggestion! It’s the workflow part I’m worried about. 😄 I was kinda thinking a git would be perfect: different branches are different versions or styles of the song, versioning is taken care of, and probably other benefits I can’t even dream of. But my friends won’t be staging and committing. I also haven’t done this in a while, so it’ll be cool to see what others may know about.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        There’s a git plugin called “annex” which is geared towards working with binary files. I use it for photography as a way to “checkout” and remove photos locally while keeping them all in git on a server.

        It’s a little complicated to use though. But I believe it could do branching/versioning.

  • FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    Do you want the files to be automatically shared? Like there’s a folder on both your computers that’s synced

    If so, syncthing is the way to go.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Syncthing was mentioned, but I would think something that doesn’t auto sync to everyone would be better. Nextcloud or really any kind of central storage would let people who need a given part selectivley pull what they want and give a bit of flexibility for each to store things in a folder structure they like.

  • LiquidMastering@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    Ooh. Finally something I know a good deal about.

    I’m a mastering engineer and sync files with folks all over the world.

    I have been using this really great app for the past few years: SAMPLY

    https://samply.app/ Let’s all collaborators upload files and comments by timestamp are excellent. Works on a potato.

    Also, for general big file swaps, The 2 most easily obtained by the majority of people in my experience are Dropbox and Google drive.