Songs and files

A song is one .musiostudio file.

Save a song

• File > Save (Cmd+SCtrl+S) saves the song. Save As… (Shift+Cmd+SShift+Ctrl+S) saves it under a new name or in another place.
• Studio also saves the song when you switch to another song or quit.
• Studio shows whether the song is saved: Not saved yet, Changes not saved or Saved.

Songs are saved as .musiostudio files in ~/Music/Musio Studio/Songs, on Mac, Windows and Linux. File > Show Songs Folder opens it. There’s no setting to change this folder.

Open a song

• File > Open… (Cmd+OCtrl+O), or Open… in the sidebar.
• File > Open Recent lists your recent songs, and so does Projects in the sidebar.
• File > New Song (Cmd+NCtrl+N), or New song in the sidebar, starts a new one.

Songs reopen as you left them: the zoom, the scroll, track heights, and the track and clip you were on.

Get unsaved work back

Every 60 seconds, Studio backs up songs with unsaved changes. If it closed before your song was saved, it asks the next time it opens whether to recover the song. Choose Recover to get your work back, or Discard. Saving a song clears its backup.

The backups are in Studio’s own folder, not with your songs:

Backups can’t be turned off. See Studio closed unexpectedly.

Manage your songs

Right-click a song under Projects in the sidebar to:

• Open it;
• Show in Finder (Show in Explorer on Windows);
• Rename… it;
• Archive it, into the Archive folder in your Songs folder;
• Move to Trash… (Move to Recycle Bin… on Windows).

Move a song to another computer

1. Send the song’s .musiostudio file.
2. The other computer needs the same sounds.
3. If the song uses mics that computer doesn’t have, its tracks still play, and Tracks offers to download the song’s mics.

If the song has audio tracks, use File > Save a Copy with Audio… instead. It asks where the copy should go, and gathers the song’s audio files with it. A song finds its audio on another computer when the files come with it.

Older songs

Songs keep sounding the way they were made. When Studio adds something that changes the sound, such as Delay Compensation, songs made before it open with it off.

Where your files are