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If you are working on a podcast, music track recording, audiobook, or jingle it can be hard to share your ideas when you can’t directly comment or mark-up digital audio. Luckily, we are here to help! Notetracks provides a functional audio annotation tool to generate ideas and gather feedback by allowing you to collaborate on audio files. It’s similar to annotating and adding comments on SoundCloud, but Notetracks provides additional playback features such as multitrack sessions, markers, shortcuts, and annotations (text, drawings, stamps) to your MP3, MOV, WAV, MP4 or WAV files. This makes it a more powerful tool and software to comment on audio files for private team collaboration and will help you save time on sending emails regarding revisions and edits with clients, editors, team members, producers, and co-workers.
With Notetracks, adding a tag, bookmark or highlighting important ideas on an audio file is easy to do! It is also good practice to add text comments on audio if you want your audio projects to be self-documenting. Notetrack’s software platform allows you to tweak audio by identifying changes to be made easily and gathering feedback from editors and collaborators.
In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about adding tags, highlighting, toggling, and commenting on WAV or MP3 files. We will also break down step-by-step how to type sticky notes directly onto different file formats, whether it’s a podcast interview, jingle, audiobook, or music recording.
If you're working on a podcast and you want to annotate soundbits, Notetracks allows you to add tags or notes to exact audio timestamps. You can write a timed comment on a track with the text box below the podcast waveform. You can either directly drag and drop the audio waveform into the session, or choose to upload your recording from Dropbox or Google Drive. After loading your MP3 or WAV file, click on the part of the waveform that you want to comment on. This allows you to annotate your podcast recording and add commentary while listening to an episode without having to pause or switch between different apps. In other words, you can add digital sticky notes to your audio while it's playing back!
Notetracks allows you to take notes while listening to a podcast or an audiobook. So, instead of verbally mentioning to your co-worker at next week's meeting that, “there’s a clicking noise on the soundtrack in the first minute of recording,” you can place a comment at the 1:00 mark and say, “remove clicking noise”. Easy, right?
If there is a larger section of the track that you would like to fix — perhaps your guest’s microphone stopped working halfway through the interview — you can highlight an entire section of track and add a suggestion. This will allow you and other editors to add a real-time comment to know the exact timestamp that needs fixing. Not only will this reduce editing time, but it also provides your team a shortcut for exchanging thoughts and ideas on audio tracks. No more going back-and-forth with emails!
Noteworks is a versatile app for audio professionals working in teams. This audio annotating software allows you to annotate projects, invite group members to share feedback, add timed comments, and work on audio together. It is an amazing app for podcasters looking for an easy interface to get brainstorming sessions and sticky notes uploaded to audio tracks. The stamps feature allows you to add an MP3 or WAV file, invite a friend to the platform, point out the bits you like the most, and quickly receive feedback. These audio features can be accessed by clicking on the ‘Drawings’ button.
Notetracks provides a full range of stamps, such as musical instruments and recording buttons, to help you write, draw or make voice notes directly on your waveform.
Text buttons such as ‘intro’, ‘outro’, and ‘chorus’ are also effective tools for inserting comments at specific timecodes. It can help share your podcast vision and get voice memos across to your team. Additionally, the drawing feature can aid in visually representing your ideas and getting notes on WAV or MP3 files.
You have just made your first podcast episode. Before you publish and launch your site, you first want to make some edits, add tasteful music, and receive feedback from other podcasters.
Notetracks allows you to quickly convert your audio notes to multitrack sessions. This will help you decrease the amount of time processing, editing, listening, and brainstorming your project ideas. Not only will it help you speed-up the approval process, but Notetrack’s powerful annotation tools will help you increase listenership in the long-run.
Simply share your project with other collaborators by clicking on the ‘Save project’ button in the top right corner, then the ‘Share project’ button, and lastly by adding their email to send the file directly to their inbox.
For music recording sessions, commenting on specific portions of audio can help streamline the process of sending and receiving feedback. It makes collaborating with other creators and tweaking audio as a team more efficient (not to mention, minimizing the number of Zoom calls). Not only does this save time, but it also helps to receive more targeted feedback, faster approval, and enhanced playback.
Notetracks is a powerful system for analyzing music and extracting information from lyrics. Similarly to SoundCloud, it allows you to annotate directly on MP3 and WAV files to add notes on pitch, phrase structure, harmony, vocals, and audio mixing.
As a song analysis software, Notetracks allows you to add your MP3 or WAV file to the ‘add track’ button. You can either double click on the waveform or press the ‘+ comment’ button to leave an idea or highlight a part of the track. Write your lyrics and then press ‘enter’ for the rest of your band to see. If you need to edit the comment, press on the pencil icon in the top right corner of the tag.
If a band member is struggling to translate their ideas into words (or they find writing too exhausting), Notetracks allows you to add voice to text. Click on the part of the track you want to add a voice memo, press the red microphone in the bottom left corner and record away! (Tip: make sure that your microphone is enabled on your computer, an alert will appear and you will need to manually press on the button “enable microphone”)
If you are also interested in adding bookmarks to specific points of interest in a multitrack session, you can leave a quick note. This will create a simple and clear audio tagging tool for you to use in the future. Let’s say that you return the next day to your recording session and want to toggle between bookmarks, you can press CTRL + the arrow keys.
A commonly asked question is, can you transcribe an already recorded Zoom meeting? With Notetracks, yes, you can! This audio software tool allows you to write directly on audio clips, add notes to multitrack audio, and write digitally on WAV and MP3 files.
First, you will need to begin by uploading the specific waveform of the Zoom recording that you want transcribed. (Tip: when transcribing, begin by cutting up your original track into smaller sections. This will help to prevent you from feeling overwhelmed when transcribing your presentation, speech or interview). Then, highlight the first segment of your file, change your playback speed to 0.25x or 0.5x, and begin transcribing! This will allow you to listen to your Zoom recording at a slower pace, so as not to make any mistakes.
You can also use the ‘loop’ button to replay your WAV or MP3 track back. This will enable you to tag or mark out important sections that need to be transcribed.
Now let’s say that you want to create an audiobook. As you record your first chapter, you find yourself stumbling over a few words. Notetracks allows you and your team to add digital comments directly to voice recordings and annotate audio files. As an audio quality assurance software, this means that you can add commentary while listening to voice recordings. Simply upload your MP3 or WAV file, double click on the part of the waveform where you jumbled your words, and leave yourself a note to re-record that section!
If you mix up a small word — such as ‘of’ with ‘to’— then use the zoom function in Notetracks to locate and comment on the error. This can be done by dragging the viewfinder above your audio track. Simply zoom-in to a section of the track that you want fixed and add a tag to set a reminder. This provides a clean, simple and practical tool for audio professionals looking for a concise way to send audio notes to a team. It is an easy and effective audio quality control software.
Now let’s pretend that you have just recorded half of your book and, to make life easier, you want to bookmark each chapter. Find the exact time stamps where your chapter begins and ends, add a digital sticky note, use the CTRL + the arrow keys and jump between sections. Alternatively, you can click on the ‘marker’ button besides the ‘+ comment’ to provide an easier visual representation of each chapter. This will not only help you save time finding specific time stamps, but this audio annotation tool will ensure that your files remain organized.
To mix vocals like a pro, Notetracks is a useful software program to comment on raw audio files. This app can help audio teams break down sections into workable pieces that can get and incorporate focused audio feedback from other professionals or editors in the field. You can record, edit, and publish your comments on-the-go!
With Notetracks, you can send and receive approval by sharing your project with other content creators and professionals in the field. If you are an editor or vocal mixing pro, Notetracks is also an easy application for collaborators to provide feedback on music.
If you notice an error or section of a WAV file that needs to be fixed, simply comment on a portion of the multitrack that needs re-working. This will allow you to build songs and track recordings with musicians anywhere in the world. It is a useful and simplistic software to help creators receive audio feedback and approval, breakdown audio edits and create precise audio corrections.
Regardless of your skill set, working with multitrack WAV and MP3 files can be confusing. This software allows you to manage and customize tracks so that you can spend less time editing, share thoughts faster, add voice to text, point out errors, and communicate with other vocal artists. All these features combined can help enhance the quality of your multitrack session.
If you have just been commissioned to make a jingle for a company, saving time when communicating with clients is key. Notetrack provides a simple and clear audio tagging tool to add notes and suggestions to audio. Simply share your audio track with clients to allow them to comment directly on your multitrack session.
Now let’s say that your client has just left you with a suggestion. You can write a reply to their comment, such as “I’m on it”, by clicking on the arrow in the top right corner or giving them a thumbs up by clicking on the smiley face icon… as a project management software for audio, the possibilities are endless!
If you are creating a jingle for a group project, this application provides a user-friendly and functional collaboration tool to enhance cross-team collaboration. Group members can review edits and revisions in real-time, which makes the checking and verifying process easier.
Lastly, Notetracks makes it easy for content creators to add tags, comments, and bookmarks to highlight their thoughts directly on an audio file. But what if you just want to save your comments in a plain text file (.txt) for future reference? Clicking on the downwards arrow button above the audio track will allow you to download all of your commentary. This .txt file will include a list of timestamps, the name of the commenters, and their suggestions.
If you have more than one audio file or speaker, this platform for audio notes allows you to easily compare talent. You can drag comments onto audio, notate audio back and forth, and email audio tracks to compare versions or speakers. Additionally, you can send WAV samples to teams and get notes on WAV files, all within the same day. This can help you and your team increase work efficiency and gather podcast feedback.
You can also mute and solo tracks in order to compare audio files. Simply click on the m + upwards arrow to mute your track. If you have more than one file, you can also use the color waveform option to help distinguish between different audio tracks.
Notetracks allows you to add timed comments to specific timestamps in MP4 and MOV video files. If you are planning on creating a TikTok video or YouTube tutorial, you can begin annotating your video file directly in Notetracks. Simply click on the ‘video’ option when creating a new project, drag and drop your recording from your desktop into your browser, and allow your video to upload.
Double click on the section of the track that you want to edit, leave a comment, press enter, and publish your message for the rest of your team to see. (Tip: make sure that your video file has audio attached to it, otherwise you may have trouble uploading your MP4 or MOV file).
Now you are ready to begin sharing your ideas!
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