Music collaboration based on exchanging audio files
Playing music with several musicians usually means getting everyone in the same room at the same time. Our online jam sessions on wikiloops let you do that from the comfort of your living room whenever you find the time.
Live jamming over the internet (even by video conference) is rarely technically reliable and still requires scheduling, so on wikiloops we play "together" by sharing recordings instead.
But just sharing a home-recorded track and having someone else play along at home isn't a wikiloops collaboration yet: wikiloops can be used as a great collection of backing tracks, but to join the collaboration the second musician records themselves playing along to the initial track and posts the recording as a remix.
Once the remix is posted, the first musician gets to hear what was played, and anyone browsing wikiloops can play or remix any version of the track.
Most of the time there are no prior discussions between collaborators — whoever posts a track has no way of telling what instruments or melodies others will add. The surprise of hearing an unexpected new remix is part of the appeal, much like a live jam session.
help article was written by Richard Kaiser on and last edited on
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