@bdesseyn Thanks Brannon, we're actually working on adding a private sharing feature so that you can share a song with a friend through a text link and they can stream to preview the song or download it straight to their own Jukebox.
@bdesseyn What do your friends in Nashville do right now for sharing/listening to demos?
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@whattheferguson@jamesfzhang Love the private sharing feature, James! Tyson - mostly email attachments or CDs, which is horrendous. Sometimes private soundcloud links.
@bdesseyn Yeah, I had a feeling you were going to say that. Definitely a bit antiquated. Would love their feedback on Clyp, especially since we're already tackling that problem of quickly and easily sharing demos and WIPs.
Really neat idea. Only down side is that you need to select which files to download. I have a mix of songs and audio recordings and there's no way I'm going to manually select the songs and deselect the recordings. If only I could select folders to sync, I would simply tick my Music folder and it would be done. It's basically unusable as it is.
@rfreling You're totally right Reinald! When we built this it, we didn't have that many songs in our Dropbox. We know that the importing step would be a big challenge for someone with lots of music, but we wanted to get it out the door to test out the idea first. We definitely will work on improving this experience!
Just a few questions:
1. You said you'd tick your music folder and be done. Do you have just one folder where you store music in? Are there sub-folders within that folder?
2. How much storage do you have on your phone?
3. How much storage would all your songs take up?
Thanks!
@jamesfzhang I have around 10Gb of audio files, out of which 1/3 is audio recordings I don't necessarily need on my iPhone. Yes, I have a folder called Music and then subfolders for artists (yes I'm old school when it comes to managing files). I imagine a scenario where a user wants to sync its Music folder or maybe David Bowie folder but not Sinatra folder. The basic principle should be to display both folders and files and if a folder is ticked, all items within the folder would be downloaded locally. I have a 64Gb iPhone 6S and I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to space usage. I use and try many many apps (as any ProductHunter should) so I'm being very careful about space. But I would really value using Jukebox as an offline player for music I own (a concept that is slowly disappearing...)
@jamesfzhang so what I'm saying is maybe sync music by selecting folders/files using a file picker sheet rather than scanning Dropbox for audio files and letting the user manually select files to sync from an endless list of files (Jukebox found 833 files in my Dropbox, way too many to manually select/deselect the files I wanted to listen to locally)
Guys - I just went out of my way to log in to twitter then to PH just to write a big congratulations to you! This is awesome, just downloaded the app and tried it and worked perfectly, even when the first song I tried adding was 1 hour 20 minutes long. I was sick of Apple Music and other options, as they never have the mixes I like... such as the ones I have on SoundCloud. So now I download it from SoundCloud, moved it to DropBox and have it available offline on my phone thanks to you! Good luck and hope this sticks around for a while!
@bitaxel Thanks Axel, that really means a lot to us :) Cheers!
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By the way @jamesfzhang , would love to see a progress bar when playing music (especially long sets or even podcasts). Something like soundcloud would be amazing later on.
@vytasbu There should be a progress bar for files where we know the duration of the song (most MP3s), are you playing a WAV file by any chance?
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@jamesfzhang right! Wasn't working for a particular file only. It's an mp3. Nevermind it's a track made by a friend, maybe it's corrupted in some way or something. Thanks! 👌
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Exactly what I was looking for, since I don't like iTunes/Apple music and in order to listen to other tracks I needed to find a crappy app to do it. 100x this
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