Product Updates

Feature: Request Access to a Space
Now, if a link changes or someone has issues accessing your Space, they will no longer receive a “you don’t have access” page but instead have the option to “Request Access” from the owner. The owner will then get a notification to either allow access, deny, or resend the link.

Feature: Smoother + Faster Downloading
Previously when waiting on a large download, you saw a spinner animation that didn’t offer much info about your download’s progress or remaining wait time.  This was because we were downloading everything in the background and then giving you an “instant” download experience once that finished. Depending on your connection that could feel like it was taking a long, long time.

Now, when you click to download a large Space we’ll calculate the size and estimated time it’ll take to process that download. If it’s a large file, we’ll let you know and even send you a notification when it’s packaged and ready to be downloaded. If it’s smaller, your download will start instantly.

Feature: Fine-tuned track navigation
Introducing Skip Mode: you can now adjust the way the navigation controls affect the waveform. Choose from the default full skip to move you to the next track, or smaller 15sec and 5sec increments to move forward and backward through a long track.

Other Improvements

Improvement: When you reach a file size limit (4GB), we now send a notification tell you what happened

Improvement: We’ve increased file sizes supported, to make your workflow faster 

Uploads:
-  Individual audio files up to 2GB
- There are no limits on total size of batch uploads, as long as you’re within your total storage space of your plan

Downloads:
- 10GB per batch download
- If you do have a space that’s more than 10GB, which we haven’t seen happen often, you’ll just need to do a couple batches

Improvement: You can now easily remove yourself from a Space via the ellipsis / the “...” in your upper left corner

Improvement: If you have folders within your Spaces, you can now toggle the triangle to open that folder and see its contents on the left hand library navigation, without leaving the Space you’re in

Improvement: The share screen permissions toggles were laggy for some users. We have accelerated that

Fix: Updated mobile experience to use HTML5 audio and improve playback on mobile

Fix: The list of Spaces in the sidebar was in a different order than the Home tab

Fix: When being newly invited to Highnote via a nested Space, some users didn’t receive permissions to the appropriate Spaces within that tree

Fix: When moving files using the Move To picker, users could get into a state where no action could be taken

Fix: When loading a large number of tracks, some files would show processing errors

Fix: When loading a large number of tracks, hitting play would cause multiple tracks to play at the same time

Improvement: Smoother, faster downloading

Previously when waiting on a large download, you saw a spinner animation that didn’t offer much info about your download’s progress or remaining wait time.  This was because we were downloading everything in the background and then giving you an “instant” download experience once that finished. Depending on your connection that could feel like it was taking a long, long time.

Now, when you click to download a large Space we’ll calculate the size and estimated time it’ll take to process that download. If it’s a large file, we’ll let you know and even send you a notification when it’s packaged and ready to be downloaded. If it’s smaller, your download will start instantly.

Improvement: Shortcut to remove yourself from a Space You can now access the “remove me” option right from the elipsie on each Space in your left nav

Improvement: Expandable Spaces If you have folders within your Spaces you can now toggle open that folder and see it’s contents right in the same view as your Space

Improvement: We’ve increased file sizes supported, to make your workflow faster

For Uploads:

• Individual audio files up to 2GB

• There are no limits on total size of batch uploads, as long as you’re within your total storage space of your plan

For Downloads:

• 10GB per batch download

• If you do have a space that’s more than 10GB, which we haven’t seen happen often, you’ll just need to do a couple batches

Fix: The list of spaces in the sidebar was in a different order than the Home tab

Fix: When being newly invited to Highnote via a nested Space, some users didn’t receive permissions to the appropriate Spaces within that tree Fix: When moving files using the Move To picker, users could get into a state where no action could be taken

Improvement: When you reach a file size limit, we now trigger a notification tell you what has happened

Fix: Updated mobile site to use HTML5 audio and improve playback on mobile

Fix: When loading a large number of tracks, some files would show processing errors

Fix: When loading a large number of tracks, hitting play would cause multiple tracks to play at the same time

Feature: “Request Access to a Space”, Now, if a link changes or someone has issues accessing your Space, they will no longer receive a “you don’t have access” page but instead have the option to “Request Access” from the owner. The owner will then get a notification to either allow access, deny, or resend the link.

Fix: Removing yourself from a Space caused various other problems

Fix: Misaligned icons in track rows

Feature: Introducing Skip Mode: you can now adjust the way the navigation controls affect the waveform. Choose from the default full skip to move you to the next track, or smaller 15sec and 5sec increments to move forward and backward through a long track.

Refinement: Improved notification settings for track plays and downloads. Easier to mute noisy spaces.

New Feature: Highnote Public Pages for sharing interactive playlist and track pages.

Bug Fix: Miscellaneous system improvements and bug fixes.

New Feature: Highnote Public Pages. Turn any Space into a Highnote Public Page for interactive playlist and track sharing.

Bug Fix: Fixed a bug preventing users from accessing chat on Space pages.

Feature Update: Improved notifications for comment thread chatter and comment resolution.

New Feature: Share Link. Simplified way to share a Space with others. With permission, they can comment, send files, and download tracks without setting up an account.

Fix: Unread notifications have been buggy for a while. We finally got around to fixing them this week! You should see notifications as expected in your activity feed.

Deprecation: Removed dots and “NEW” icons to indicate unread items, replacing them with better notification functionality.

New Feature: Introducing modular permissions! Now users have finer grain control around member permissions in your Collections and Spaces.

Refinement: Related to the above change, Share Settings are now in a dialog instead of a panel, which means you can edit permissions directly from your Library instead of having to click through to the item’s page.

New Feature: Overhauled our Notifications system to bring you better, more customizable options that are easy to understand. Visit your Account Settings → Notifications to check it out!

Refinement: Streamlined the login and signup flows into one simple, elegant experience.New Feature: SMS Notifications are finally here! We began supporting phone-based account credentials a while back, but now you’ll also receive notifications via this number.

New Feature: Track Version Tabs! Added a simple visual representation in your Track View so you can easily pin your favorite versions and switch between them seamlessly.

Fix: Fixed an issue where the rows in your Library were not counting items that you owned.

Refinement: Editing Space and Collection details (title, description, artwork) now happens in-place. Click or hover each item to enter into an editing state.

New Feature: Users can now log in using a phone number and verifying via SMS.

Fix: Fixed some audio playback issues. Track versions should swap seamlessly (if they are preloaded), switching between tracks in a Space should play/pause as expected, and you should not have to refresh in order to see the waveform of your newly uploaded version.

Fix: Fixed a bug due to a recent Chrome update that caused certain areas of carousel cards to be un-clickable.

Fix: Waveforms should now render immediately after loading new Track versions without needing to refresh the page.

Fix: Fixed an issue where uploading versions that had different durations would cause playback issues.

New Feature: Introducing account linking! Now you can add multiple sign-in methods for a single account. Go to your Account Settings and click “Add Sign In Method” to start.

Fix: Fixed an issue where users could get mysteriously logged out of their Highnote session in certain circumstances if they had multiple tabs open.

Refinement + Performance Improvement: Overhauled our authentication system so that users no longer have to leave the Highnote domain to log in or sign up. This makes things much faster and more reliable.

System Improvement: When a user creates a Collection with Spaces inside, those Spaces now inherit permissions from the parent Collection (with an option to further specify if needed). This also applies when Spaces are moved to different Collections.

Fix: Fixed a bug where anonymous users could not see a list of items inside public Collections, even if the items were publicly viewable themselves.

Fix: Cleaned up some interactions where playing voice comments would cause confusing overlapping states.

New Feature: All valid audio files uploaded to Highnote are now saved in three formats: a lossless FLAC file at the original bit rate and sampling rate, a high quality MP3 file at 320kbps / 44.1kHz, and a lower quality MP3 file at 96kbps / 44.1kHz.

Performance Improvement: Being able to play the lower quality MP3 version on any audio file allows us to load your audio way faster on slow connections.

Fix: Added Log In / Sign Up buttons back to the top navigation when the user is not logged in.

Fix: When users get a new demo space, the Tracks should now get copied in the correct order.

Performance Improvement: Instead of preloading all your track versions when you visit a Space Track page, we now only preload the default version and the next most recent one. This should make a massive improvement in performance and memory usage, especially on mobile devices.

Fix: Due to a regression in min-height behavior, reintroduced a minimum height so that if the viewport dips below 600px, the user can scroll the entire contents of the app.

Fix: Waveform calculations corrected for accuracy and consistency.