Publishing music

A saved Glob Studio project is a track you can play from the Jukebox and share with other people. Start with a private track, choose the excerpt listeners hear, then decide whether to make it public or offer it on Freemarket.

Save your work to Glob before setting its cover, visibility or collaborators. See Projects and saving for saving and reopening your work. The controls below appear when music is available to your signed-in account.

Choose a title, cover and preview#

In Studio, open Project, then Track details. You can also open Settings beside one of your tracks in the Jukebox.

The track's creator can change these details:

The preview sliders move in half-second steps. Let go of a slider, or finish adjusting it with the keyboard, to save the selection. The text beneath shows its start and end in seconds. For example, a start of 20 seconds and a length of 10 seconds selects 20 to 30 seconds of the song.

When a track has no preview, the Preview button saves an initial excerpt from its beginning. It uses 15 seconds when the song is long enough and shortens that to fit shorter songs. A song shorter than 5 seconds cannot have a preview. The public-release buttons stay disabled until a preview is saved.

While a track is for sale, the preview sliders are disabled. After saving a new version of a track, check the preview again: a new version clears the previous preview selection.

Make a track public#

1. Open Project → Share.
2. Change Visibility from Private to Public.
3. Tick I made this, or I have the rights to publish it.
4. Choose Make public.
5. Keep the page open while listener audio is prepared.

The same release action is labelled Make free in the Jukebox's Release section. A public track appears there as Free to save. Other people can save it to their music library and play it.

Making a track public cannot be undone through the visibility control. Private becomes unavailable after that change. The rights and use conditions are in the Terms of Service.

Unresolved collaborator invitations can prevent a release. Review Collaborators before publishing.

Credits and invitations#

In Project → Share, the Collaborators row shows initials for credited accounts. Invite expands Credits and split. A collaborator viewing the track sees Credits instead of the owner's Invite button. The Jukebox's Settings shows the same credits list under Collaborators.

The creator can type a username into Invite by name and choose Invite. Friend-name suggestions appear while typing; choosing one fills the field. The track allows up to six collaborators in addition to its creator. A pending person is labelled Invited, and a declined invitation is labelled Declined. Accepted credits show their percentage; Shared equally. appears when there is more than one accepted credit.

The creator can use Remove beside a collaborator, including a pending invitation. Right-clicking a credit also offers Copy name and, for the creator, Remove collaborator. Removing an unresolved invitation removes that invitation from the track; it does not record that person as having accepted it.

If you are stopped by Wait for every collaborator to accept., check this list. Contact [email protected] if you need help with an invitation that remains pending. Do not keep adding the same person to try to change its state.

What Private means in these controls#

Private means the track has not been publicly released. Copying its link does not make a private track public.

You can select a track you hold for a radio station or as node music. A private selection does not provide listener audio to people who do not hold that track. To let those visitors hear it, release the track and finish preparing its listener audio.

Finish preparing listener audio#

Releasing a track also prepares audio for people listening without a saved or purchased copy. You may see Preparing listener audio…, Compressing listener audio… and Uploading listener audio…, followed by Listener audio is ready.

If preparation fails, the message is:

Your project is saved, but listener audio is not ready. Try preparing it again.

Choose Prepare listener audio again. Your saved project and the listener audio have separate completion states; a successful save alone does not mean a new listener can play the preview or song yet.

Someone trying to listen before that step finishes may see Audio is not available yet. The creator needs to finish publishing it. Finish preparation, then ask them to try playback again.

Share a link or post to your feed#

In Project → Share, Copy link copies the current saved track's page address. Post to Feed posts its title and link to your feed. Both need a saved track; posting also needs your feed to be ready.

The track page shows its cover, title, creator, duration, playback control and accepted credits. The link follows the track's existing access. Use the visibility setting when you want to make a track public.

Offer music on Freemarket#

When Freemarket is available, For sale in Visibility opens its music listing form. In the Jukebox, the equivalent control is Sell on Freemarket. An existing listing opens with View listing.

The form is called Sell music. It lists what you can sell under What to sell. A track can be unavailable there because it has no preview, a collaborator invitation is pending, it is already public as a free release, or it is already for sale. The form shows the reason beside it.

For an eligible item, set:

Choose List it. The form prepares listener audio for your tracks before submitting the listing. Cancel, clicking outside the form or pressing Escape closes it.

Selling requires creator approval. Only approved creators can sell. Apply in My Store. directs you to that part of Freemarket. For the rest of the marketplace, see Glob Social. Read the Terms of Service for the conditions attached to sharing, buying and selling.

When publishing pauses or fails#

A release or listing can be stopped for review. Follow the displayed result:

A track offered for sale cannot accept a new saved project version while it has that release state. For an active listing, use Freemarket's listing controls to manage it before trying to update the project.

For notices about released music, see Copyright notices. For information about data handling, read the Privacy Policy.