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How to Get Over Writer's Block
As creatives, we've all been there… facing the dreaded writer's block. It's a tough spot, especially for musicians who thrive on creating 💫 . But don't worry, this thread is here to share tips and tricks to help you overcome, or even avoid, writer's block altogether. Let's dive in and get the conversation going on how you conquer this challenge 🤗! Take a Break 💁♀️ Step away for a bit. Go out, live your life, and embrace new experiences. Sometimes, the best inspiration comes when you're not actively searching for it 🏄♀️. Start a Daily Journal 🤔 Use Dropbox Paper to jot down your thoughts and feelings. This can help kickstart your creative process ✍️. Explore Other Creative Outlets 🎨 Try something new, like painting, crafting, or photography . (Psst 🤳, check out our Photographers group for some inspiration!) Revisit Your Archives 👩💻 Go through your old songs. Revisiting past work can often reignite your creative spark 💫. Collaborate with Like-Minded Creatives 😺 You don’t have to be in the same room to create together. Check out our previous thread onMusic Collaboration Using Dropbox- you might find some fellow creatives in the comments 💃🕺. We’d love to hear from you! How do you push through writer's block? Share your strategies and suggestions below - let's inspire each other 🙌.Music Collaboration Using Dropbox
Making music remotely with others can get messy... fast, but Dropbox makes collaboration a breeze. From sharing stems and files to organizing setlists, it keeps everything in one place and accessible to your band 🙌. Ready to streamline your next project to make it sound as sweet as can be? Let’s dive in! 💃 Organise & Share Folders for Easy Collaboration 💌 It’s easy to create a shared folder in Dropbox! You can store all your relevant files like recordings, stems, MIDI Files and project files. You can use the shared link feature or invite collaborators you can adjust the permissions (edit or view only). Using this you can ensure everyone working on the project has access to the latest versions of the files, and they can collaborate in real time without worrying about version control issues - allowing for the diva moments to be strictly about staging/styling/who chooses what dressing room etc. and not about not having access to a file 👩🎤💅. Use our Dropbox File Requests Feature👩💻 When collaborating with multiple musicians and producers, you can use the file request feature. This will allow all collaborators to upload files directly into your Dropbox folder, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account ( but seriously, what musician doesn't have a Dropbox?🤓) This really puts a stop to the hassle of emailing large attachments or sharing folder access 👩💻💌! Dropbox Rewind & Version History💫 As we know there are many different versions of a track before the finished article, Dropbox Rewind allows you to revert to earlier versions of files if necessary. This is particularly useful if you or your collaborators make changes or you want to compare multiple versions of a track. This ensures you will never lose previous iterations of your music project and EASILY undo mistakes 😌! Solidify the Setlists It’s difficult to get everyone in a room sometimes to organise the setlist! Use Paper to write the setlist as a team. Leave comments to say what might be a better order of songs or what would be better left out of the set altogether (without the face to face confrontation 🙈). Everyone will be on the same page and at least you won’t have to tell Dave to his face that the sad song about his ex won’t be played tonight 👀! So, next time you’re teaming up on a project, a gig or just making music with friends for fun, let Dropbox handle the logistics so you can focus on making great music! Got your own remote music collaboration hacks or tips? Comment below and share with the Community, we will be composing symphonies in no time!How DJs organise their music library with Dropbox
If we’ve got any DJs here in the Group, it’s more than likely that probably made the switch fromanalogue to digital sound a long time ago The days of DJs bringing large bags of records to clubs or festivals are mostly gone, there are still some vinyl enthusiasts out there, but for tho who have long made the switch, an external hard drive or a USB flash drive has long been the weapon choice for DJs. But did you know, you don’t even need a flash drive anymore? Thanks to an awesome integration between Denon DJs Engine OS and Dropbox. DJs can now organise their music library and access it from anywhere in the world. Denon DJs Engine OS and Dropbox integration It really is that simple. All you need to do is connect your Dropbox account with your Engine OS and log into any piece on Denon Engine OS DJ hardware and you’ll instantly have access to your music collection. This will allow you to totally pre-prepare a set and even works with Denon Prime, the desktop music management software companion for Engine OS devices, to make sure you’re completely club ready before any gig. But for those of you who like to play off the cuff and be a little less prepared with your sets, you’ll have full access to your music library as long as you have it saved in your Dropbox account. You can then arrange all of your tracks in folders based on things like key, BPM, genre, venue, or anyway that makes the best sense to you. The Dropbox and the Denon Engine OS integration also makes it easier for music producers to share their music with fellow DJs in a way that enables them to play your tracks out without any hassle. Are you a DJ? Tell us how you manage your music and if you’re currently using Dropbox to help in any way.Importing files from MuseScore to Dropbox? Here’s all you need to know!
So, you've created a masterpiece in MuseScore, and now you want to save it to your Dropbox account. Then you can access it on the go, or share with someone else, even if they don’t use MuseScore. Converting the MuseScore file to .PDF is the key (signature😉) to seamless sharing across all devices, don’t worry it’s a super simple process! Here’s how you can do it in step by step! Open Your MuseScore File 🎆 Fire up MuseScore on your computer and open your latest composition.Take a moment to admire your work—look at those notes!You’re practically Mozart 🙌🕺. Convert to PDF Now, it's time to transform your musical genius into a universally readable format. Click on File in the top-left corner. Select Export… from the dropdown menu. In the Format dropdown, choose PDF. Choose your Dropbox folder to save the PDF file. Click Save. Your Dropbox folder will automatically open up and show you where your file is saved. Ta-da! Your MuseScore file is now a shiny new PDF (My Song.pdf) within your Dropbox folder! **(From the above Screenshot, you can see how I also saved the project as a .mscz file - this will only open if you have MuseScore installed on the device you are using) From here, you can share the PDF with friends, collaborators, or anyone else by clicking on the file in Dropbox and selecting Share. You can also access it anytime, anywhere. And there you have it, you've successfully turned your MuseScore file into a PDF within your Dropbox account. You’re a tech-savvy musician now! Now, every time inspiration strikes and you create something new in MuseScore, you know exactly how to back it up as a PDF in Dropbox. Happy composing😀 So opening it up to you guys, how do you read the PDF files? What software do you use on your tablet or iPad? In your opinion, what is the best software for this purpose?Did you notice the Dropbox Replay group we just launched?
Hello musicians. I just wanted to put a little note in here to make you all aware of the Dropbox Replay group we recently launched. What is Dropbox Replay? Replay is a video, image, and audio review tool that allows you to mark up, comment on, and finalize projects. So if you’ve just recorded a killer riff and you want your band mates to give you some feedback, you can send it on using Replay and receive real-time feedback without ever having to leave your browser. Likewise, if you’re making a jingle for a client, and they think a certain part needs more cow-bell, they’ll be able to show you exactly where they want it, speeding up the process and keeping your projects moving in the right direction. The Replay group will be a space where you can discuss how you use Replay as a musician, share your knowledge and experiences with other Replay users, talk about your current projects; and it'll also offer you the unique opportunity to connect directly with the Replay team and share your feedback and ideas directly to the people in charge of the product. Joining the Replay group Joining the group is really easy, all you need to do is follow this link and hit the “JoinGroup Hub” button and you’re in! Hopefully, we’ll see some of you over there soon!Christmas classics thread - share your favorite Christmas song
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and we’re doing all we can to get ourselves into the Christmas spirit here as we finish up another busy year on the Dropbox Community! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and to mark the occasion I’ve decided to start a Christmas classics thread with some of my favourite Christmas songs. Now, I’d love for those of you who celebrate to get involved and add some of your favourites, too, and if you don’t celebrate and you still want to add a song, please get involved anyway! Whether it’s a track you just heard for the first time Last Christmas, or something you’ve loved hearing your whole life, if it’s enough to get you Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, we want to hear it. Basically, All I want for Christmas is you to get involved, share some classics and Have yourself a merry little Christmas! I’ll go first, here are 4 of my all-time favourites and 1 guilty pleasure, see if you can tell which is which!Making a spooky Halloween playlist on Dropbox Paper
It’s getting really close to one of my absolute favourite times of year, Halloween As always, I’ll be building an eerie playlist to listen to while I decorate my house with spooky stuff to entertain the trick or treaters who call at my door. Using Paper to make a playlist This year, I decided to ask some friends for help curating my playlist, to make this process a little easier I created a Halloween paper doc and shared it with everyone and asked them to add their favourite Halloween songs.Dropbox Paper has lots of features to help make your planning easier! Adding Spotify links to a Paper doc I’ll be using Spotify to make my playlist and it’s super easy for people to add a link to Spotify directly to a Paper document. Here’s how to do it Click the Insert media button on the menu bar at the bottom of the page Scroll down the left-hand side of the pop up window until you see the Spotify button Copy and paste the Spotify link and press enter Click the Add to doc button I know that not all of my friends use Spotify, but anyone else who wants to add to the doc can do so by adding a YouTube link, by using the same method, with the only difference being you choose the YouTube option on the pop up window after you click the Insert media button. Our top spooky selections So, to help get you in the mood for Spooky season 👻 here’s some of the tracks that have made their way onto this year’s Playlist so far. Tell us what you think My playlist needs your help, please let me know what you think of it so far and add links to any tracks you’d like to see added.Using Dropbox to play the blues
We're really excited to hear all of your musical stories with Dropbox so we thought we'd get the ball rolling by sharing one of our favourites from the Community over the last year. Nothing makes us happier than hearing about all of the different ways our Community members use Dropbox. So, whenmoverltold us all about how he and his bandmates use Dropbox to keep the music flowing we knew we just had to share it with you all. We promise, reading this will definitely help shift those mid-week blues! We started a new Blues band -"Blue Sky Bluesband". All the members of the new band are over sixty, and we have been in love with party, dance, and rock'n roll music for decades. Since the people who throw the parties that we want to play are a little younger than us, they tend to demand newer music from the 80's and 90's, which we don’t want to play…. We hope instead to attract attention from the growing number of blues clubs and bars in Europe! The love of the blues is growing and we want to be right there! To prepare for a rehearsal or a show, we listen to Youtube and Spotify and make a playlist to agree what songs to play. Our aim is to play high-energy danceable blues rock - both classics and newer material. Once we agree on a set list, I find the chords and lyrics for the song on Ultimate Guitar, and make a playlist for the band here and upload the songs to a Dropbox shared folder that we all have access to. From there I download them to the app "Songbook Pro" where the songs are organized in sets. Then, all that’s left to do is hit that stage and perform! Hearing how creative our Community members can get when using Dropbox never ceases to amaze us and now we really want to to go see theBlue Sky Bluesband perform! Do you have a story of your own to share with us? Or any tips and questions formoverl- drop them in the comments below and we can have a jam session of our own. Ok, sorry for the bad puns!Welcome to Groups: Musicians
If you’re reading this post, there’s probably a good chance that you’re a musician or passionate about music. If that’s the case, you’re definitely in the right place and I’d like to take this opportunity to be the first to welcome you to our brand new Community group for musicians, a place where you can connect with other musicians and people who share your passion. Who can join? This group is open to anyone who has an interest in music. From professionals to novices and everyone else in between, if you’ve mastered the mandolin, just discovered an awesome Spotify playlist or just want to share how you use your Dropbox account as a musician, this is the perfect place for you to come and let others know. What can I post? We want this space to be all about you, so you can post pretty much anything music related here. Whatever the genre, or instrument, this is a space for you to come and discuss what’s currently hitting all of the right notes for you. So, if you want to talk about your favourite band, find a bass player or organise a jam session in your local area, tell people how you prepare for gigs using your Dropbox account, or list the pros and cons of digital versus analogue sound, this group is the ideal place to start the discussion. This group is a social place, so while we want you to talk about Dropbox and help each other, it’s not intended to be your first stop for customer support. So, if you are looking for help from one of our Community Moderators, the best place to find it is still over on our Ask the community board. Tell us what you think This group won’t work without all of you getting involved so we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can make it better, so if you’ve got any feedback, or just want to say hi, please leave a comment below.
About Musicians
This is a space for Musicians of all levels to connect and share tips about using Dropbox. Join today to network or even arrange a jam with others.
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