We have added some new collaboration features: It is now possible to easily invite all of your friends to a track (a friend is someone you follow and who also follows you). If you are feeling even more adventurous, you can also allow everyone in! To always keep you in charge of your track, new users can only join as long as you are active in the track. Opening up a session for all of your friends will also send out a notification to them.
These options can be found at the invite dialog in the app.
We also added a sidebar next to the newsfeed that (among other stuff) shows the currently active collaborations you can join.
Update #1: If you open up a track for everyone, it is always a good idea to use bookmarks frequently, so that you can revert changes you don't like.
Update #2: Owners and administrators of a track can now roll back changes done by other users (via the history panel on the right). Note that the keyboard shortcuts for undo / redo still concern your changes only. We also added an option to permanently ban a user from a track. This is done by simply removing them via the "get together" button.
Mini-Update #3: We have rewritten some parts of the network layer. Joining collaborations is now much faster.
Comments (71)
Oh nice, this is pretty dope
oh hey
cool
this is gonna become a mess
trap kid charting mega collabs have become 10 times easier
it was dope, till i saw how broken it is lol
that seems to be the trend with at these days, ANDRE DON'T RELEASE BROKEN THINGS, ITS BETTER to WAIT UNTIL SOMETHING WORKS THAn ruSh it To ReLEase
but I guess the cool thing about these days is that audiotool is like league of legends and is updated like every month
so andre pls dont ban me, I recognize ur trying ur best
wow, you usually just bash at for lag and shit
good to hear actual good things come from you for once XD
I say I have a balanced opinion of at as I recognize that is a good daw, but it is not on the same level as ableton or fl, its more equivalent to reason before reason got 3rd party vsts
but its free
XD
p cool :)
noice
PLEASE MAKE IT SO WE CAN UNDO
trolls have already been coming here and thinking its funny to delete everything
use bookmarks or only invite friends
can we please have undo
he is right though, undo would be nice
some pieces of shit thought it was funny to delete everything
oof
dicks
Also, be sure to report users who engage in this kind of vandalism. Then it's easier for the devs to evaluate the situation and block them if necessary.
^^^^^^
oml. why so much maitainence?...
so much maintenance?
sry, i was in the app, and it closed due to maintenance. but for some reason, it let me back on.
@mbelow Same here. The app closed due to maintenance. Was this latest update to add the live collaboration notifications appearing now constantly on the top right of the browser window? Is there a way to deactivate them? I don't see anything in my preferences for that.
It seems that the status "Editor" or "Viewer" can't be chosen for the three categories of invited users (Only invited, Friends, Everybody). They automatically join as Editors and their status can only be changed afterwards on a one by one basis. Only users invited by name on the text input field can have their status assigned prior to joining. It would be good that the status could be chosen for any selected category prior to joining.
Maybe it would be easier if everyone joined as viewer by default and can be permitted afterwards on a one-by-one basis. I guess it doesn't make sense to add more then like 5 editors which can easily be handled manually.
This is just theory - you might have more practice as reference.
but I like the ability to be able to hop on an edit as like a million ppl join it
I would just prefer that trolling is able to be prevented through undoing or something
Correction: If you open up a track for everyone, it is always a good idea to use bookmarks frequently, so that you can revert back when people think it is funny to delete the entire track
So if I just go into one of my drafts anyone can join?
How did you deduce that? The thread states multiple times, that you have to explicitly invite people.
alright my bad it's because people are trolling
and I don't want my stuff deleted
but no need to say it like that just let me know yes or no
Didn't meant to offend you. I just wanted to know if there's some misleading information around.
And yeah - I'd like more people to just downvote troll-posts rather than debating or joining.
yeah thanks for not being like the immature people "it literally says it you retard" I'm just making sure :)
True
Ouch
I'd seriously advise everyone not to open a session to "Everybody" for now. At the moment you can't invite them as Viewers, they automatically join as Editors and you run the risk of a vandal joining your session and deleting your arrangement completely. There have been several such reports lately. Invite only selected, trusted friends or people in Viewer mode.
this is a project vandal https://www.audiotool.com/user/chabyers/
what
wtf u mean
@instablocked
I'd seriously advise everyone to have fun and open as many "Everybody" sessions as they want. There's a cool feature called Bookmarks you can use to make snapshots of your draft in case any vandals come along and you want to go back to how it sounded before. Problem solved :)
Don't scare people from opening "Everybody" sessions. There's a simple solution to combat vandals. You can save bookmarks (snapshots) of your drafts to always go back to.
@kepz I'm not scaring anybody. Just describing a circumstance which is clear from all the reports AT has been receiving. There are too many users frustrated with the experience already. Right now, every session opened for everybody as editors is going to attract vandals and end up deleted. This is the unfortunate reality. Of course you can use bookmarks, but there's little point in opening the session if you're always going to have everyone's work deleted and have to go back to the bookmark state.
Martin already told the community about bookmarks. It's even mentioned in the topic text above. But even then, as soon as the session is open to everyone, any subsequent work will be very likely deleted. Judging from the reports it is happening very often. Where's the fun in that?
i agree with that statement its really interesting to see what the community can make and see how it evolves
I'm currently working on the history so that admins the owner of a track can easily roll back changes made by others. There will also be a way to quickly ban users from a track.
nice!
Owners and administrators of a track can now roll back changes done by other users (via the history panel on the right). Note that the keyboard shortcuts for undo / redo still concern your changes only. We also added an option to permanently ban a user from a track. This is done by simply removing them via the "get together" button.
thank you, still don't think I want to use live
Cheer up, it's fun!
it's not like I don't wanna try it, but I just hate when people ruin songs that people work really hard on, I might :)
awesome
thank YOu
well done!
That's great. Do you think that you will make the choice Editor/Viewer extensive to the rest of categories of invited users, instead of only the explicitly typed in the text box?
Mini-Update:' We have rewritten some parts of the network layer. Joining collaborations is now much faster!
Can you explain the difference between an "Editor" and a "Admin" and what they each have access to?
Admin can publish/republish the track where Editor cannot.
i did a collab with someone and he is the owner of the project and it wont let him publish it why is that ?
Might have been a temporary problem. See here: https://www.audiotool.com/board/newbie/cannot_publish-koXUHEXFs
thanks for the information
I am absolutely devastated. I opened a track for collaboration and someone removed all of my creation. I was not active in the session when this happened o I don't know how this happened without my permission. I am absolutely devastated by this. Please inform me if there is anything I can do about his?
If you logged out of the draft while everything was deleted
there is nothing you can do
sorry :T
So sorry to hear that mate. Loss of work is one of the worst feelings and I've had that before, but I can assure you, you will create bigger and better things in no time. Keep up the hard work!
Btw you can create bookmarks of your drafts (like snapshots of your work) in the app this will help in situations like this
thanks for letting me know.