Problem 01
Three years in, no archive.
You can't tell a booking agent which engineer mixed your best show. You can't prove what songs you performed to ASCAP. You don't know which venues paid well.
Hard drives → searchable archive
Showfile is the private archive for your live career. Board recordings, setlists, crew, and royalty exports — built from the folder your sound engineer already uses.
Private by default. No fan-facing layer.
The board recording went to a hard drive no one opens. The setlist photo disappeared into a camera roll. The crew email is buried in a thread from three tours ago.
You can't tell a booking agent which engineer mixed your best show. You can't prove what songs you performed to ASCAP. You don't know which venues paid well.
ASCAP OnStage and BMI Live require formatted submissions. Most artists skip it — not because they don't care, but because it's tedious and manual.
Every FOH engineer, monitor engineer, lighting director, and promoter — scattered across texts, emails, and someone else's phone. No one keeps the full roster.
The archive builds itself from the folder that already exists.
Your FOH engineer drops the board mix into the shared Dropbox folder. Same as always.
You add one address to that folder as a collaborator. One time. Per tour.
Showfile indexes the recording overnight. The show is in your archive by morning.
Works with Dropbox and Google Drive. Direct upload available if you prefer it.
Photographs, press articles, interviews, ads, contracts, and the complete tour evidence live alongside recordings and metadata.
ASCAP OnStage and BMI Live formatted packets, generated automatically from your archived shows. EU publishing workflows coming soon. Stop leaving royalties on the table.
Photograph the setlist taped to the monitor. AI reads it, matches titles to your catalog, and logs it to the show record.
Every FOH engineer, monitor engineer, lighting director, and promoter. Searchable by show, by city, by year.
Board mixes, field recordings, and soundchecks. Stored privately. Never public. Yours forever.
Track other artists on the same bill or festival, including opening acts, co-headliners, and collaboration partners. Keep the full live context together.
Settlement sheets, contracts, stage plots, tech riders, guest lists, and photos. Attached to the show, not scattered across three apps.
Photograph the setlist taped to the monitor wedge. Showfile's OCR + LLM pipeline reads it, matches titles against your catalog, and logs each song to the show record with position and metadata.
ASCAP OnStage and BMI Live require formatted submissions for every show. Most artists skip it. Showfile generates the packet automatically from the data already in your archive.
Two tiers. Your archive belongs to you on both.
No credit card required.
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Get ProYour archive belongs to you. Export everything, anytime.
Upload them. Showfile indexes existing files the same way it indexes new ones. Move a tour's worth of recordings into the watched folder and they'll be archived overnight.
No. Showfile is private by default — there is no fan-facing layer, no public storefront, no social feed. Your archive is yours alone, shared only with crew members you invite.
Foldback.app handles tour logistics — advancing, day sheets, scheduling. Showfile handles what happens after the show: archiving the board mix, parsing the setlist, and generating the PRO submission. They're complementary.
No. Your archive stays accessible on the free tier (up to the 15-show limit). Lossless source files from the Pro period are held in staging for 30 days after downgrade, giving you time to export. You can always re-export all metadata and compressed audio on the free tier.
On the Pro tier, yes — multi-seat crew accounts let your engineer, tour manager, and anyone else on the team access the archive under their own login. Free tier is single-seat.
Take a photo of the setlist. Showfile runs OCR, then matches the detected text against your registered catalog using a language model. Handwritten, printed, abbreviated — it handles all of them. Audio fingerprinting separately timestamps song boundaries within board recordings.
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