FAQ

A Mac running macOS 12 Monterey or later, on Apple silicon.

Coming soon. It'll be on the download page when it's ready.

If you said yes to keeping it up to date, Dubplate Studio downloads a new version by itself and asks before installing it: Restart to update, Remind me later or No thanks. In Settings you can have it update automatically instead, when you quit, or turn updates off and get new versions from the download page.

An update changes the app, never your music. Before one installs, a copy of your library is kept, and the first time the new version opens it checks your library against that copy. The version history says what changed.

No. Your music, and everything you organize around it, stays on your computer, and Dubplate Studio never sends any of it anywhere. The only thing it goes online for is a new version of itself, and only if you say yes. The privacy policy has the details.

No. Dubplate Studio reads your audio and project files where they are and never writes to them. When you export, it makes new files in a folder you choose.

It recognizes projects from Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo, Studio One, Reason, Reaper, Bitwig Studio, Audition, Audacity and LMMS, as well as OMF and AAF files. Open project opens a session in whichever app your Mac uses for that kind of file.

WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC and M4A, OGG and Opus. WAV is the safest bet. If a file you use won't read, write in and say what kind it is.

No. A song whose file has gone missing is kept, never removed. Dubplate Studio looks for it by name on your connected drives and in your usual folders, and relinks it when it turns up — or point it at the file yourself with Find file.

In Dubplate Studio's own folder on your Mac, ~/Library/Application Support/dubplate. Dubplate Studio keeps dated copies of it there too, and puts the library back from them if its database is ever damaged. To keep a copy somewhere of your own, open Settings and choose Back up this library…

A backup is your library, not your music. Dubplate Studio points to your songs and projects where they already sit on your Mac or your drives, and never copies them. So a backup holds everything you've organized: folders, artists, records, lyrics and notes. It also holds the artwork, photos, clips and voice takes you've added, because Dubplate Studio keeps its own copy of those, so they're still there if you move or delete the original. Your audio and project files aren't in it. Keep backing those up the way you already do, with Time Machine or a drive.

Delete the app, then the folder at ~/Library/Application Support/dubplate. That's everything. There's nothing on a server to delete.