Music files can be just as important to keep organised and accessible as documents or photos, especially for people working on creative projects. Composers often need to manage recordings, drafts and reference tracks, while directors may collect musical material for films, documentaries or other productions. Finding the right source recordings is another part of that process, and https://www.tracklib.com/ can be worth exploring when looking for music inspiration and material for creative work.

Hi!
A dedicated music section in Proton Drive would be really useful, especially for people who prefer keeping their personal music collections organized and private. It would be great to include playlist support and tempo tools for musicians. I often use Tap Tempo Tool to identify song BPM and make music practice easier. https://taptempotool.com/

I’d be interested to see the study that found that most Proton users need that. 🤣️

yes

I don’t understand why one would like to use encryption on music files (unless perhaps for musicians for their own personally created music).

As a musician/songwriter/producer this would help me to stop using Google altogether. Currently I use their music app to upload songs I'm working on to be able to play on my other devices.
To have a Proton music player that would be able to create playlists and albums, and even update new versions of audio, would be a great deal for me. It would keep my songs private.
Also having flac compatibilty as well as mp3 would be icing upon the cake.

I support this feature. The streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music are providing a terrible deal to artists making music and means customers never own the music they listen to. An alternative to this is for customers to buy physical CD's and rip them, or purchase from one of the growing digital stores like Bandcamp or Subvert (Member owned collective currently in development - very cool).

Lots of people also have a collection of CD's, however these are reaching end-of-life and will start to experience disc rot.

There is however no easy way to store manage and most importantly play digital files across multiple mobile devices using open source formats.

I don't think Proton needs to get into the music selling or streaming business, there are a number of ethical companies providing high quality open-source files for download.

What would be amazing Is if I could store these files in Proton drive, easily manage their metadata and play them on a mobile app while out and about. No horrendous streaming model, no setting up my own media server, just my files when and where I want them.

Thanks!

I recommend Grayjay by FUTO. You can find it on f-droid. It's a great app for both local files on your phone, as well as a reliable ad-free player for youtube and other music sources.

Nah, file would have to always be downloaded on all devices, I understand that's good method but it's way nice to stream and cache the file to not fill up storage, cuz with that is likely that people would shove ton of files

Adding developement effort for that makes no sense: a better way would be to be able to listen to synchronized music with your favorite music app (expose music files) and leave only the drive part to Proton.

Adding developement effort for that makes no sense: a better way would be to be able to listen to synchronized music with your favorite music app (expose music files) and leave only the drive part to Proton.

Proton music (I know there's one other post, but I want to add other features)

open source cloud drive based, like Spotify, file steamer

We have files and photos section in drive app

Why not make an song section?

IT would take files within specified directory and put in an player UI

Also have hand off to remote control and sync devices, save YouTube id to import, retrieve comments and create shareable playlists with other users

Search metadata, lyrics, track local plays for year review

Ofc, user must own the files from CDs or whatever

I've gone trough many players and most kinda suck,I want to have properly, with good UX
I'm a designer willing to work on it, maybe even without payment