Store and share audio files in Tarkle
Upload audio to your library, then share it in an audio transfer with a waveform player and free or paid downloads.
Tarkle keeps your audio files in your library. An audio transfer shares them on a player with a waveform for each track, where listeners can play the tracks, download them for free, or pay before they download. This page covers the library, the player and the download settings, and links to the step-by-step articles.
Upload audio to your library
Open the Audio page in your workspace. Click Upload, then Upload files, and choose your files. The file picker accepts MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC and M4A files.
Audio files use the storage of your organization's plan. Free allows 5 GB of storage and files up to 1 GB each. Pro allows 3 TB of storage and files up to 200 GB each. Pricing lists every plan.
Albums and playlists
The Audio page has three tabs: Tracks, Albums and Playlists. Star a track from its row to mark it. On Albums or Playlists, click Create album or Create playlist, then add tracks to it. Deleting an album or a playlist leaves its audio files in your library.
Share audio in an audio transfer
Open the transfers page and create an audio transfer in the transfer dialog. How to create an audio transfer walks through each step. Each transfer has its own link and its own settings.
Listeners see each audio track as a separate row in the player, with its waveform. They can pick any track, and when a track ends the next one starts. After the last track the list starts again from the first. The player is drawn in your workspace's accent color.
When you create the transfer, choose what listeners can do. Tick Allow download to let anyone who opens the page download the tracks for free. Tick Charge for download to have listeners pay first. If you tick neither, listeners can play the tracks but cannot download them.
Free downloads
With Allow download ticked, listeners download the tracks without paying. Download all saves all the tracks as one ZIP file.
Paid downloads
Charging for downloads needs three things:
A Pro plan. Paid transfers are a Pro feature. Pricing lists the plans.
Stripe connected to your workspace under Settings, then Integrations on Integrations. Share files and get paid with Stripe explains the connection.
Enable paid transfers turned on under Settings, then General, then File settings. The switch is off by default.
When you tick Charge for download, set the price, the currency and the preview length in seconds. The dialog starts the preview at 30 seconds, and the preview length applies to every track in the transfer. Listeners hear each track up to that length, then the payment prompt opens. After a payment, they can download the tracks. You can also set a sales limit. When the limit is reached, downloads stop.
Payments go to the Stripe account you connected. A paid transfer cannot use a password, an expiry date, an email check, view only or burn after read. Tarkle refuses to create a paid transfer with one of these set. Why can't I turn on paid transfers? explains each message you may see when you try to charge.
What happens next
Once the transfer is shared, What is an audio transfer page? describes what listeners see when they open the link.