How-To:

To create your account or just to login you need to click on the button "Register/Login" at the top menu bar. For either registering or signing in, you have two methods:

1) Google Sign-in: you need a Gmail account to reuse an existing Google authentication on your browser.

2) Two steps authentication with any email provider. You will receive a 6 digits code at your inbox and you need to introduce it in a verification screen.

Note that the first time you sign in, you will also need to accept the terms of use.

To sign out you have to open your profile, from the option at the header menu bar and just click on the "Logout" button. From the profile page it's also possible to delete your account.

A Collection can contain other Collections or just a bunch of Compositions. There are two options for creating a new Collection:

1) Using the shortcut. The first time you arrive at the landing page, if there are no Compositions yet, a blue-green button will offer the opportunity to create "New Music".

2) Header menu option. A button with the text "Create New" is displayed at the top of the app to pop-up the form for filling the Collection info. This is equivalent to the shortcut option.

Note that in the form is required to select the option "Collection" from the selectable list. After filling the form and saving it a green dialog confirmation should be displayed.

You can access your list of Collections from the option called "My Collections" at the header menu. From there you can modify a Collection name or completely remove it, including its content (be careful).

In a similar way to how you create a Collection, you can create a Composition too, 1) by using the shortcut at the landing page, or 2) from the header menu option. See previous section. Instead of selecting "Collection" from the selectable list you need to choose "Composition".

Once you have successfully created your Composition, right after filling the form, you will be redirected to the Composition page, which has all the necessary functions to create and work with the music.

In the Composition page you also have another option at the top bar that allows you to edit or update the Composition details such as: description, privacy level, collaborators, etc. and you can also delete the Composition itself from this modal dialog.

Adding or uploading a new track it's possible from the Composition page. There is a file explorer button, right below the music controls, that opens the pop-up window that allows you to choose one or several audio files. Currently, the allowed audio types are: .mp3, .wav, .m4a , .flac and .aac.

Depending on grant access to the Composition a Track attached to it can be saved and synced with the database or just temporarily hosted locally on your browser.

If you have admin access to the Composition, to delete a Track you need to click on the blue options-menu, placed at the left top corner of each Track and select the option "Delete". After that you will need to confirm the deletion.

Recording a new Track from the microphone or the audio input source it's possible by clicking on the mic icon at the music controls. It will directly create a new track and start recording. It's important to allow the browser access to the microphone, this option will be prompted immediately right after visiting the Composition page.

Before recording a new Track it is recommended to do the latency estimation, for that the mic needs to be accessible for the browser and you need to place the output of your audio system very close to the input so the signal that is emitted can be easily recorded.

Be aware when running the latency test that a noise will be played so keep the volume as low as possible but high enough to be recorded.

It's also possible to collaborate with other musicians by adding them to the Composition as contributors.

The option to add any contributor by email is located at the "Composition Info" dialog, accessible from the Composition page top menu bar.

There are four different roles depending on the level of contribution: Owner, Admin, Member and Guest. If the collaborator's email is not yet registered at the database, a pop-up message will let you know that an invitation email will be sent to that person in order to accept the collaboration.

You need to click on the "Confirm" button so the action gets completely executed.

If you want to remove any existing contributor you need to click on the switch and toggle into red and then click on the "Confirm" button at the bottom of the modal window.

You can manually enrich the metadata of each track by adding key-value pairs using the annotations form available when clicking on the options menu of each track (a blue icon at the left top corner).

Only owners or admins at the composition, or track owners, can edit or access manual annotations.

By default, the fields: title, comment, recording date/place, performer or instrument are listed on the form, but new custom fields can be added or removed.