Getting Started with Vandall

Have an audio file ready, finished or in progress (WAV, FLAC, MP3 or AIFF), and an email address. That's all. You don't need a credit card or a contract. Vandall doesn't change your recordings. It keeps track of what happens around them: feedback, credits, agreements and handover.

Go to app.vandall.com and sign up with your email, Google or Apple. If your label has invited you, sign up with the address they invited. Your account links to their invite, and you'll see their workspace in your track list.

Click Create track, type a name under Track Name, and attach your audio with Select file(s). Then click Continue. That's all the dialog asks for. Once the track exists, you add its metadata, files, credits and agreements to it.

• On the web, Create track is the blue tile above your track list, next to Share files with link. On a phone, tap the same tile, or the + in the middle of the bottom bar.

Drag an audio file onto the track, or click Upload on its Files tab. Vandall reads the duration, bitrate, sample rate and waveform from the file. Your upload queue is saved on the device, so closing the app doesn't lose it. Anything still queued carries on the next time you open Vandall.

Click ⋮ on the file and choose Share file link. You'll see a link anyone can open to listen and leave timestamped comments, without an account. Click Copy to send it. The link doesn't expire, so click Stop sharing when you're done. Working solo, this is often all you need.

When you're ready, click the members button at the top of the track and invite people by email or QR code. Co-producers and artists then work on the same track as you, in real time. If your label invited you, they already see everything you upload. You don't need to send it.