Songs in Stab Cloud
A song lives in one place: on this device, or in Stab Cloud. A song in Stab Cloud opens on every device you sign in on and on the web, keeps its history, and can be shared and published. The apps keep a copy of each cloud song on the device, so it opens and saves offline too; edits go up when the connection is back.
Moving songs to Stab Cloud and back
Available on Mac and Windows. Not on Web.
This isn’t on Web.
The Stab Cloud shelf
Signed in, the home has a Stab Cloud shelf beside this device’s songs. Its + card sets up a new song straight in Stab Cloud, and Save in at the foot of each Bring a Song In dialog can send a song you bring in there too. Each cloud song’s card shows how it stands when it isn’t in step:
- Edits waiting to go up, Going up, Coming down.
- A newer version from another device is waiting: see Edits on two devices.
- A problem, in words: “Stab Cloud is full: edits wait here”, “Your plan’s songs are all used: this one waits here”.
While a cloud song is open, its state shows beside its name: “Edits going up in a few seconds”, “Saving to Stab Cloud…”, “Can’t reach Stab Cloud: edits go up when it’s back”, “Up to date”. A song open on another of your devices says “Also open on …”.
Moving a song to Stab Cloud
- On the home, open the song’s menu.
- Choose Move to Stab CloudMove to Stab Cloud (not on Web).
The song leaves this device’s songs and appears on the Stab Cloud shelf, with its name. If it was open, it closes first. It counts as one of your plan’s songs. Right after signing in, Stab offers to move several songs at once; a song’s Stab Cloud offers it too.
Keeping a song on this device
Choose Keep on this MacKeep on this PCKeep on this Mac (not on Web) from the cloud song’s menu on the home. A copy goes into this device’s songs, and the cloud song goes to Stab Cloud’s trash. While your account holds more songs than its plan keeps, Stab says so first: the cloud song is then deleted for good, since songs in the trash still count. A song shared with other people says that they lose it.
Deleting a cloud song
Move to Trash in a cloud song’s menu puts it in Stab Cloud’s trash. The trash counts towards your plan’s songs, so emptying it makes room. It happens at once, and a note in the corner offers Undo for a few seconds. A song in it with 3 days or fewer left says so in orange (“goes for good in 2 days”).
How many songs, and when Stab Cloud ends
The free plan keeps 3 cloud songs, and those count among your 3 free songs; Stab Cloud keeps up to 2,000. See Three free songs and Stab Cloud plans.
When your account holds more cloud songs than its plan keeps, its cloud songs open read-only, saying “Read only: your Stab Cloud holds more than its plan keeps”. The first edit you try in one says “Read only for now: your Stab Cloud is over its plan” at the foot of the pane, once in that song; it never stops you with a purchase. Edits made before the device knew stay on it and go up once the account is back within its plan. Without a licence or Stab Cloud, holding more than 3 songs of your own makes every song read-only, until you’re back to 3.
When a Stab Cloud subscription is cancelled, it runs to the end of its period. The home’s card says so beforehand: “Stab Cloud ends in 5 days. Then free Stab keeps 3 songs; download the others within 14 days.” Cloud songs past the 3 can be downloaded for 14 days after it ends (see Download All), then they’re deleted. Keep on this MacKeep on this PCKeep on this Mac (not on Web) brings a song down to the device before then; with a licence, songs kept on the device have no limit.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Move to Stab Cloud | the home › song | |
| Keep on this Mac | the home › cloud song |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Move to Stab Cloud | the home › song | |
| Keep on this PC | the home › cloud song |
Not on Web: Move to Stab Cloud, Keep on this Mac.
Downloading all your cloud songs
Available on every platform.
Download All keeps a copy of every song you have in Stab Cloud, the trash’s too, with their recordings. Your cloud songs stay as they are. It works at any time, not only when a subscription ends.
Choose it from the account menu: your face, at the right of the home’s bar. Stab first says how many songs come and where they go, then starts on Download All.
- The songs arrive in this device’s songs as songs of your own, each as its own file, its recordings in the library’s Recordings folder, in a folder named after the song.
- A song with the same name already here is kept, and the copy is named “Riff (from Stab Cloud)”.
- Without a licence or Stab Cloud, the copies count among your three free songs, as well as the cloud songs themselves. When they’d take you past three, the question says so first: Stab then becomes read only until you unlock Stab, subscribe to Stab Cloud, or delete songs to get back to three.
- Its progress shows on the Stab Cloud card: which song is coming, how many of how many, and the size. Stop pauses it; Download All again carries on where it stopped. It also carries on by itself after a lost connection or when Stab opens again.
- A song that couldn’t come is named at the end; the others are there.
Stab Cloud allows 5 downloads of everything a day; one carried on within the day doesn’t count again.
When a subscription has ended and songs are to be deleted, the home’s Stab Cloud card says on which day, and which three stay, with Download All and Subscribe beside each other.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Download All | the home’s account menu (your face) |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Download All | the home’s account menu (your face) |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Download All | the home’s account menu (your face) |
The Stab Cloud pane
Available on every platform.
Stab Cloud answers one question about the song in front: where is it, and is it safe? Click the Cloud pill in the title bar to see it in a popup, or choose Cloud as a pane’s kind (Panes). Version History… opens it on the song’s Version History.
From the top:
- Its state, in words, beside a tile in that state’s colour: “Saved in Stab Cloud”, “Edits going up in a few seconds”, “Saving to Stab Cloud…”, “Waiting for the network” (your edits are saved on this device and go up when Stab Cloud is back), “Can’t go up” with See Plans…, “Up to date” for a song you can view. When a newer version came from another device while you had edits here, it says so with Reload, Keep Mine and Compare (see Edits on two devices). After edits made on two devices at once it says “Edited on iPad as well: both kept”, with Open Beside, Use Mine… and Fine as It Is, or “Merged with iPad’s edits”.
- Where it lives: this device and Stab Cloud, each ticked when it has the song.
- Also open on another of your devices, with Edit Together (Live editing).
- Who it’s shared with, in one line, and Share ›, which opens Share. The line isn’t there while the song is only yours.
- Recent versions: the last three, and Version History…, which shows every version in its place (‹ Stab Cloud goes back). A pane 640 points wide or more shows Version History beside the rest.
- Download a Copy… saves the song’s file where you choose. Keep on this Mac Only… (this PC, this iPad…) brings it out of Stab Cloud onto this device. Move to Trash…, in red, puts it in Stab Cloud’s trash. Each asks first.
- Your account: its address and how many songs it has in Stab Cloud, and Account Settings ›, which opens Settings › Account. Signing out is there.
Signed out, it says what works without an account and what Stab Cloud adds, with Sign In…, which opens the account sheet (Your account). A song only on this device says “Only on this Mac”, with Move to Stab Cloud and Show in Finder (File Explorer on Windows).
Sharing and Publish are Share’s: see Share links, Shared songs and Publish.
While a song isn’t saved in Stab Cloud, the Cloud pill shows a small dot at its foot: brass while edits go up, orange while it waits for the network, red when it can’t go up.