ACETATE

share unreleased music without giving it away.

they get a link that plays at the highest quality. they get the file when you release it.

send an acetate. it's free.

send music from anywhere

upload from the browser, the menu bar, or right inside your session. the file you upload is the file they hear.

listens in any browser. no login. it just plays, lossless.

this is what they open when you send an acetate. nothing to install.

send an acetate. it's free.

then the link disappears.

links expire on your schedule, or after a single play. when it's gone, it's gone.

this link has expired.
the sender set it to disappear. that's how acetate works.
the lineage

this idea is older than you think.

pre-80s
a white-label acetate disc in a worn paper sleeve
the acetate. one cut. trusted ears.
80s & 90s
a stack of cassette demo tapes
the demo tape. handed over, mailed out.
2000s
an mp3 player's click wheel, close up
the mp3. everywhere, forever, sounding worse.
now
ACETATE
full quality. your people. gone when you say.
send an acetate. it's free.

it played perfectly, it didn’t last forever, and nobody ever asked for a login.

that’s what your link is.

who it's for

engineers sending mixes for approval. producers shopping demos. artists playing an album to their manager before anyone else hears it.

send an acetate. it's free.
the pieces
the studio

drop a mix, name it, and a link is ready to send in seconds, with everything you've sent in one place.

listen links

your track plays beautifully in any browser, with nothing for them to install.

the plugins

stream your master bus straight from the session, and play streams back inside your daw.

iphone app

your studio and both players in your pocket, so you can send from the road.

menu bar helper

drop a file on the menu bar and a link comes back.

security & quality
live streams: end-to-end encrypted.

sealed on the sender's machine. even our server can't listen in, it just passes locked boxes along.

encrypted everywhere, always.

in transit over https, and stored encrypted at rest by cloudflare.

we don't keep your filename.

or your file's hidden tags and artwork. they're stripped on upload, and the track is stored under a random name only your link can reach.

no downloads. unless you release them.

your track streams through a signed, expiring key. the download button exists only when you say so.

gone means gone.

expiry is enforced on our server, and delete removes everything, the track and its record.

we don't log who played what.

no play-by-play surveillance of your listeners.

0
downloads

no download button to find, until you put one there.

0
accounts for listeners

no app, no login, nothing to install.

0
play logs

no play-by-play surveillance of your listeners.

send an acetate. it's free.
plays in any browser. no app, no account.