What’s New?
- Studio Discoverability Settings
- Faster Sessions
- Free Tier Updates
Studio Discoverability Settings
We’ve been working for several months on some exciting new features that will help you connect with other musicians on JackTrip. Your studio dashboard now includes a “Looking for” discoverability setting. This will default to not looking for anyone, but you can change it to:
- Looking for New Members (if you want to find other musicians to play with)
- Looking for New Students (if you are a music educator, and want to find new students)
Indicating that you are looking for new people will soon make your studio discoverable on JackTrip.com without having to post public recordings.
You can now add tags to your studio to indicate which types of music you prefer, and which instruments you play. You may also want to review and update your studio’s description and image, and consider posting public recordings to build a richer profile.
Please update your settings now to get ready for exciting new features coming soon to JackTrip!
(Updated September 27th, 2024 to reflect the renaming from “Visibility” to “Discoverability” settings)
Faster Sessions
No one wants to wait for a new JackTrip session to be ready, and no one should have to. We started rolling out improvements to reduce session startup times in June. Since then, the average startup time has dropped from about 100 seconds to 70, and 95% of new sessions now start in under two minutes (down from about 3.3 minutes). This still varies quite a bit by location, and the slowest ones have seen the largest improvements. It’s progress that we’re proud of, but it’s only a start.
Today, we rolled out an update that eliminates the delay for closing sessions, and under certain conditions reduces startup time to under 20 seconds. I’ll spare you the details, but basically sessions will now start faster in locations that have more people using JackTrip. Help us make JackTrip faster by telling all your friends about it!
Free Tier Updates
JackTrip members on the “Free” tier can now start a maximum of 1 session per hour. You can still start up to 24 sessions per day, but this means you’ll have to take a 10 minute break if you exceed the 50 minute maximum duration. For as little as about $4 per month ($49 per year), you can now upgrade to our “Lite” subscription plan, which offers unlimited sessions of up to 3 hours each, as well as including HD video.