19. Stab Cloud and Publish

Publish

Publish makes a public page of a song: the score, the tab and a player, at your own address on stab.page. Anyone can read it and play it in a browser, search engines can find it when the music is yours to share, and you can embed it on your own site. The page shows the song as it was when you published; you go on editing, and republish when you want the page to follow.

Publishing a song

Available on every platform.

Before you start

• The song is in Stab Cloud, and it’s yours: see Songs in Stab Cloud. Publishing a song shared with you is its owner’s.
• Right after a move, the song’s first version is still going up: Publish waits a moment for it.
• The free plan has one published page; Stab Cloud has 200. See Stab Cloud plans.

Publishing a song

1. Choose Publish… from the File menu or the home › cloud songthe Session menu or the home › song ⋯. It opens the song’s Share at its Publish card (Shared songs). Choose Publish… on the card.
2. The first time, choose your address: stab.page/@ and a name of 2 to 30 lower-case letters, digits or hyphens. Every page you publish lives under it.
3. Fill in the form, A new page:
   • Title: the song’s, to start with.
   • Address: the page’s part after your name. Left empty, it’s made from the title.
   • Shows: Score, Score and Tab or Tab.
   • Readers may: Play, Loop, Change speed, Transpose, Mute tracks. Play, Loop and Change speed are on to start with. These are the player’s controls: they don’t keep the song itself from readers (see What readers get).
   • The music is: My own work, Public domain, Licensed to me or Someone else’s song. Nothing is picked at first, and Publish waits until you pick one. Your own work and the public domain may be listed by search engines. A licensed song is kept out of them until Stab has seen the licence; someone else’s song is kept out too, readable by anyone with the link, and it comes down if the song’s owner asks.
   • Embedded on (with Stab Cloud): the sites allowed to show the page inside their own, one a line, up to 10. None: nowhere. On the free plan the form says that embedding comes with Stab Cloud instead.
4. Choose Publish. It says Publishing… until Stab Cloud answers, and can’t be pressed twice. Once the page is made, “Published on stab.page” is said and the form closes; if it’s refused, the form stays as you filled it, with the reason under it.

The page is made on Stab’s servers: it says Being made, then Live, with its address. The version published gets a name in the song’s history if it had none, such as “Published 2 Oct 2026”, so the history shows what went out.

Your pages

Share’s Publish card shows each of the song’s pages: “Published on stab.page” (its title when there are several), its state (Live, Being made), its address, and how far behind the song it is (“this song is 3 versions newer”). On each:

• Its address is a link: choose it to open the page. Copy copies the address, and says Copied for a moment.
• Republish, shown when the song has changed since: the page then shows the song’s latest version, at the same address. It says Republishing… until it’s done, then “Republished”.
• Edit Page… changes the page’s title, address, what it shows and what readers may do; a new address keeps the old links leading to the page.
• The ⋯ menu: Another Page for This Song… makes a second page from the same song, for instance the tab alone. Add to Collection… puts the page in one of your collections (or a new one); a page in a collection offers Take Out of it instead. Copy Embed Address copies the address to embed it on a site listed under Embedded on. Withdraw… takes the page down, once you confirm: its address then says the page was withdrawn, and publishing the song again makes a new page.

To publish an earlier version, pick it in the song’s Version History (in Stab Cloud) and choose Publish This Version: Share opens at its Publish card with that version in the form (or Show on the Page, when the song has one page): see Versions and conflicts.

Published pages can be gathered into a book with a contents page: see Collections.

What readers get

The page has the score as it’s engraved in Stab and the tab as text, so it reads before anything loads. Then it becomes a player in place: play, loop and the other controls you allowed. Readers need no account and no app.

To play it, the page carries the song itself, the page’s embed too, and anyone with the page’s address can get it: every track and note of the version published, to open in Stab and keep or export like any other song, even with Play off. Readers may sets what the player offers, not who has the music: publish what you’re happy to share whole. That copy has the music as it plays and none of the song’s own files: no PDFs or photos of printed music and nothing read from them, no impulse responses (their names stay; the player uses a stand-in sound), no plugin settings (their names stay), no takes but the one playing, no practice log, MIDI settings or recordings’ places on your computer.

If your page is reported

Every page ends with Report this page, after “Made with Stab” (an embed has Report at the end of its top line): anyone who thinks the page breaks the law or someone’s rights can tell Stab there, or by writing to [email protected]. People at Stab look at each notice; nothing is taken down automatically.

• If the page stays up, nothing changes for you, and you aren’t told.
• If it’s taken down, you get an email saying what was done, the facts and the rule it rests on (section 8 of the terms), and how to contest it: reply to that email. The page’s address then says it has been taken down. You aren’t told who sent the notice.
• An account that repeatedly infringes others’ rights loses Publish.

Publish, like everything in Stab Cloud, is for people 15 and over (Your age).