Need To Host Your Clips Online?

[Virtual Kevorkian]

This is only partial spam. :laugh2:

I know you know the situation... you click on a thread title thinking "oh cool, I'll listen to this guys clip!" only to be met with the dreaded mediafire, yousendit, megaupload download or the less-dreaded but still annoying Soundclick page.

The solution? Dropbox. It's a free (up to 2GB) hosting service that syncs with a folder on your computer. You copy files you want hosted into the folder, and they automatically upload. You then right click the file, select the dropbox menu option, click on the 'copy public link' option, and paste it into your thread. Now you can directly like to .mp3, .wav, .jpg, etm... files right from the threads, and avoid having to send people to random other sites just to listen to a quick clip of you new JB installation or whatever.

You can get it at the above link, www.dropbox.com, or by clicking the link below:

http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTM5MjYzNzk

With both the hyperlinked one and the referral link above, when you register, you'll give me an extra 250mb of storage. If you think I'm a ******, just go t the normal website - if not (doubtful :laugh2: ), just go to the plain link.

 

[El Dunco]

Re: Need To Host Your Clips Online?

Does it stay hosted indefinitely or does the link become broken after a while?

 

[Virtual Kevorkian]

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Does it stay hosted indefinitely or does the link become broken after a while?

Indefinitely - I've never had a link lost or any downtime incurred in the year or so I've been using DropBox. It's not as fast as my dedicated FTP server, but it's still really fast on the upload/download side!

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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LoL we broke it already... hahaha. .. error error

 

[ratherdashing]

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Dropbox was exactly what I was going to suggest in the other thread.

My band uses it all the time. We share demos and rehearsal recordings with each other. I've also used it to post pics and mp3's on the web.

I got the paid 50 GB account so I can use it as a backup service.

 

[DankStar]

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ahh, so that's how it works. thanks!

 

[Markk]

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We've been using dropbox for a about year to share school documents, etc. Good stuff.

 

[Franknfilms]

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I used dropbox for work, it really gets the job done, I would definitely recommend it for many uses, but I prefer netmusicians.org for posting clips.

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

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Bump.
Gotta get more guys using this.
So much better than all the other solutions

 

[DankStar]

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I'm not seeing how peeps would be able to download the clip if they want to - can you only let "friends you share with" download 'em?

 

[Virtual Kevorkian]

Re: Need To Host Your Clips Online?

Nope, you just post the .mp3 and people can right click/download if they so choose, or just listen within the browser.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Need To Host Your Clips Online?

Nope, you just post the .mp3 and people can right click/download if they so choose, or just listen within the browser.

cool. seems to work pretty well. with soundclick's headaches (today they were down entirely), I've switched over.

looks like I got an extra 250 mb extra for signing up through your link too!

 

[Warheart]

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I tried to get this to work for a reunion of a band i was in a few years ago.

I tried uploading all the mp3s I had and it would have taken a full 24 hours to upload ~1gig.

Then when I went to my friends house to show him all the stuff I posted online and how to download it, all the folders were empty except two.

I dunno, I don't forsee myself giving it another shot!

Edit:
Actually, if so many of you guys are find this working for you, I'm gonna try it again!

 

[ParameterMan]

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Dropbox works great. Another service I've been enjoying is Soundcloud. Very simple and straightforward. Instead of limiting the length of tracks you can upload, they give you X number of minutes... it can be one long track or twenty short ones, at any resolution.