One of the challenges faced by digital creative people like me is finding all those digital pieces of projects over time. I’m constantly trying to remember which hard drive is storing that one video clip I want to reuse. This is equally true for people who make music for a living. If you have several hard drives or more than one computer, remembering where you put a file is a challege. Gobbler is a service that aims to solve that problem by searching across drives, analyzing what music project files are stored and creating a library that makes it easy for you to figure out which drive has the files you need in the future.
Beyond simply cataloging all the files, Gobbler takes things a step further and provides offsite backup with versioning. This is maybe more crucial than the cataloging, because losing music files can be a disaster when you can’t go back and recreate what was previously stored on disk. The offsite backups use a lossless compression that is proprietary to Gobbler, but this is key because it’s one of the only lossless options that recovers all the metadata of audio project files and brings them back exactly as they were in your audio recording software. While there are open lossless standards like FLAC and APE, neither can promise the recovery of metadata essential to a project file.
At the moment, Gobbler is Mac only, which makes sense considering the percentage of the audio recording community using Pro Tools on Mac OS X. A Windows version is expected someday soon. Download Gobbler and start organizing and protecting your audio projects.