Shared songs
A shared song is a song in Stab Cloud with people in it: a band’s songbook, a teacher’s exercises, a duo writing from two cities. Each person is invited by name, and can edit it or only view it. They find it in their own apps and on the web; when several of you have it open, you edit it live together. The song stays its owner’s, in the owner’s Stab Cloud.
To let someone read a song without an account, a share link is enough. Sharing is for people who work on it with you.
Songs shared with you
Available on every platform.
Who can do what
| Owner | Can Edit | Can View | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open it, play it, practise it, every pane | yes | yes | yes |
| Edit and save it, rename it, name and restore versions | yes | yes | no |
| Invite and remove people, make links, publish it, move it to the trash | yes | no | no |
| Make copies (Duplicate, Save a Copy…, exports) | yes | when the owner allows | when the owner allows |
A song you can only view opens read only: you can play it, loop it and slow it down, but nothing you change goes up. The first edit you try in it says “You can view this song, not change it.” at the foot of the pane, once in that song; when the owner makes you a viewer while it’s open, Stab says so (“You can view “Riff”. Ask Seb to edit it.”).
Sharing a song
A song is shared from Share. It has to be in Stab Cloud and yours (Songs in Stab Cloud).
- Click Share at the right of the song’s title bar, or choose Share… from the File menu or the home › cloud songthe Session menu or the home › song ⋯. Share opens under the title bar. Choose Share… from the File menu or the home › cloud songthe Session menu or the home › song ⋯. Share opens under the title bar (on a phone, as a sheet).
- Type the person’s email address, pick Can Edit or Can View, and choose Invite. Invite turns brass once there’s an address to send to. On a song shared with nobody yet, this is the Invite your band card.
They get an email, and the song appears on their Shared with Me shelf, in the apps and on the web, waiting for them to accept. Someone who has no account yet gets the email, and the invitation waits 14 days for an account made with that address. The list under People shows who’s in the song and who’s invited (“Invited · Can Edit”), with Cancel for an invitation not answered yet.
Invite links
For a group chat or a class page, an invite link lets in whoever opens it and signs in.
- Under Links, choose + Invite Link… (on a song shared with nobody yet, the Invite Link… tile).
- Pick what it Joins as (Can Edit or Can View), how long it Works for (1 day, 7 days or 30 days) and how many it lets in, Up to 1 person, 5, 10, 25 or 100.
- Ask me before each person joins is on at first: each newcomer waits for your yes. Turn it off to let them straight in.
- Choose Make Invite Link, then Copy. This device keeps the link’s address, in its keychain, so Copy Link on its card works again later; Stab Cloud keeps only a fingerprint of it. A link made on another device says so, with Make Another.
People asking to join come first in Share, in brass: “Alex asks to join”, with Refuse and Approve, and the Share pill wears a dot while someone is waiting. The link’s card says how many have joined and until when (“3 of 10 joined · until 15 Oct”); Turn Off stops it.
Managing people
The owner’s list has a menu beside each person: Can Edit, Can View, Make Alex the Owner…, Report…, Block…, and Remove last, which asks firstTransfer Ownership… and Remove. A new role applies at once.
- Remove takes the song from that person’s devices and shelf. They’re told “Seb removed you from “Riff”.”
- Transfer Ownership… offers the song to a member, who has to accept it and have room for it in their plan. Accepted, it’s theirs, and you stay in it as an editor. The song’s view links and published pages carry your name, so they’re withdrawn when it moves; the offer says how many.
Members can make copies, in Share, is off at first: people in the song use it in Stab, without Duplicate, Save a Copy or exports. Turned on, they can make their own copy, and new share links offer one. It isn’t a lock: anyone can still film a screen.
Choosing Keep on this device for a shared song (it reads “Keep on this Mac”, “Keep on this PC”…) asks first: it takes the song out of Stab Cloud, and the people in it no longer have it.Share: a song’s people and links
Available on Mac and Windows. Coming to Web.
This isn’t on Web yet: it’s coming.
Songs shared with you
Invitations are on the home’s Invitations shelf, shown while there are some: “Anna invited you · Can Edit”, with Accept and Decline, and ⋯ for Report… and Block…; declining says nothing to the person who invited you. Songs others share with you are on the Shared with Me shelf; a song you’ve just accepted comes first, marked New until you open it. On your own shared song, the card says when people are asking to join it through an invite link (“2 asking to join”).
To join with an invite link, open it, or paste it with Open Invite Link… (the File menu or the home’s account menu (your face)the home’s account menu (your face)). Stab says who invites you, to which song and as what; choose Join, or Ask to Join when the owner approves each person. Signed out, you sign in first.
A song shared with you:
- doesn’t count as one of your free songs, and stays editable when you’re over them, if you can edit it (Three free songs);
- has its versions in Stab Cloud, and Share shows who’s in the song; publishing is its owner’s;
- is gone from your devices if you leave it or are removed; your saves stay in its history, under your name.
To leave, choose Leave This Song… in its Share or on its card’s menu. It goes from your devices and your Shared with Me shelf, and its owner can invite you again.
If someone sends you invitations you don’t want, Block Seb… (the person’s name) on their invitation’s or song’s menu stops their invitations reaching you, and Report… tells Stab. Neither tells them.
Editing together
When two or more people in a song have it open, they edit it live together, without asking: each edit reaches everyone at once, with their carets, and the song’s status says Editing live with Alex and Sam. Viewers are in it too, following along. Playback stays each person’s own until someone turns on Shared Playback (Following and shared playback). One device saves for everyone; each version in the history names who was in it (“Alex and Seb, live”).
To edit a shared song on your own and let others’ edits come in as they save, turn off Join live editing automatically in Settings › General, under Stab Cloud, on the Stab Cloud page › Stab Cloud (Join Live Editing Automatically). While others edit it live, the song offers “Alex is editing live: join?” with Join.
A device running the app holds these sessions when there’s one in the song; otherwise a browser holds it, when the song’s owner has Stab Cloud (keep that tab open). Without either, everyone’s edits keep in step by saving.
A shared song can’t be hosted in Play Together by its members: letting other people in is its owner’s. Its edits on two devices at once are merged as for any cloud song: see Edits on two devices.
Limits
The owner’s plan decides: the free plan shares one song, with up to three people in it; Stab Cloud shares every song, with up to twenty. Being in someone else’s song needs no plan. When the owner’s plan is over its limits, the song is read only for everyone until it’s back within them. See Stab Cloud plans.
Accounts, and so sharing, are for people 15 and over (Your age).
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Open Invite Link… | the File menu; the home’s account menu (your face) |
Not on Mac: Duplicate to My Songs.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Open Invite Link… | the File menu; the home’s account menu (your face) |
Not on Windows: Duplicate to My Songs.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Open Invite Link… | the home’s account menu (your face) | |
| Duplicate to My Songs | the Session menu |