Recommendations: Sharing sound files - What do you use?

[michelew]

Are you someone who shares audio files and video files with people? If so I'd love to hear about your experiences. Naturally I'm not talking about burning it onto a CD or some other physical device like a thumb drive; but remote sharing. (Yes... Of course snail mail is always an option too )

What programs (etc) do you use?

What have you used before, that you wouldn't bother with any more?

What do you recommend and why?


I currently use Dropbox which works well and just emailing .mp4 files. Has anyone used SoundCloud? Would you recommend it or any other program /approach over Dropbox?

I'm looking forward to learning more from those of you who are more familiar with this area than me.

Thanks in advance.

Michele

[jayswett]

I wish I had enough technical know how to give you some good advice, but I don't. Dropbox is what I use, and I'm sure your understanding of that that platform far exceeds mine. I will watch this thread carefully as I have a alot to learn.

[daryl]

I too use dropbox. But I sometimes find the interface a little confusing. Perhaps it's just old age.

Another option might be Microsoft's OneDrive. I've never used it. And I imagine that Apple has a similar sort of thing with iCloud.

[willem]

First of all it is email but if it is larger then 10 mb I use onedrive,, dropbox is a third but removed it from my windows pc,, most I use onedrive.

[neverfoundthetime]

Hi Shel

I too use Dropbox mostly. Its usually the quickest way. I sometimes am not sure in whos Dropbox I am when sharing.... but it always seems to work out. Anyway, I have loads of space on my Dropbox.

I also am on Soundcloud and like to post audio files there when I don't want to make a video. I usually save higher quality wave fomat there.... videos on YT are MP4 at best.

Chris

[michelew]

Jay, Daryl, Willem and Chris,

Thanks for responding guys.

Chris, you've just unravelled a mystery for me that's better getting on my goat. So to speak.

The tracks always sound better when I listen to them in GarageBand itself. They always sound different when I export them to iTunes and YouTube; volume levels seem change too. I've just looked in GB and there's an uncompressed export option and an option to export to Soundcloud. I'll check them out.

Thanks.

M

[tombo1230]

Hi Michelle,

if you need to send a file to someone to view or use, then why don't you use We Transfer, it has a free version which will accommodate any of your files back and forth to Bill for your Time Zombie videos etc.
You have a max of 2GB at a time which should be plenty. This is like emailing, but with a 2GB limit.

Tom N.