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Simply Playback
Multi-tenant, browser-based multi-track stem player for musicians. Successor to the original Sonic Artistes stem player — now a full platform where companies issue gated stems, click and backing tracks to their players under server-side IP access control. First tenant: Sonic Artistes.
Overview
Multi-tenant, browser-based multi-track stem player for musicians. Successor to the original Sonic Artistes stem player — now a full platform where companies issue gated stems, click and backing tracks to their players under server-side IP access control. First tenant: Sonic Artistes.
Build log
21 entries
Per-user playback preferences (auto-follow) get their backend
Pitch-preserving tempo — slow a track down without dropping its pitch
The player cockpit, redesigned: premium mobile mixer, visible mute/solo, track-type labels and determinate load bars
The player dock gets an interactive seek bar
Player polish: a help modal, Escape-to-stop and proper motion tokens
Fixed the personal-setlist list view on Home
Musicians can build their own personal setlists — a drag-to-order editor with a reachable-song picker
A reachable-only Library: every song a musician can actually play, with key, BPM and parts filters
Musicians browse setlists and open a tap-to-play set view, with sort and parts filters
The musician's portal begins: a Home launchpad with jump-back-in resume, Cmd-K search and a persistent player dock
Spin up a setlist straight from a theme
Theme administration for setlists
Setlists get a drag-and-keyboard running order
Self-hosted Mona Sans typography
Groups: assign setlist access to a whole group at once
Setlist authoring arrives
Platform admins get a landing page
Refinements to song and stem handling
Songs, stems and protected, tenant-stamped audio upload land
Simply Playback gets its Nuxt 4 scaffold
What Simply Playback is, and why we're rebuilding the stem player as a multi-tenant platform