These days, you can get free cloud storage nearly everywhere — from Dropbox, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more. They offer us space for our photographs and music libraries, for our office documents and backup files. And these same clouds can be a great way to collaborate with your band or your friends!
All these services let you share links to private files. So you can upload a project to a cloud service, copy the share link, and then send it to all your collaborators. This way, all your friends or bandmates can grab the file and work on it while keeping it private.
Some cloud services like Dropbox also keep previously saved versions. This way, if a collaborator adds something you don’t like, or you or a collaborator ran into an error in uploading, you can revert to a previous version. And while you might want to save your final archive somewhere else, one of the nice things about cloud storage is that the company in question handles backing up your files.
The days of having to lug DVD-ROMs or hard drives around in order to collaborate musically are over! Using Cloud storage for musical collaboration offers more convenience, more options, and more security than ever, and is worth checking out.