This glossary defines the customer-facing language used throughout the Help Center.
My Library and folder language
Audio file — A file eligible for playback and audio-only analysis features.
Create New — The main entry point for creating, uploading, importing, or recording.
Favorites — Files and folders you have marked for quick access.
File — Any supported item in Traklist. Use "track" informally only for an audio file.
Folder — A separate space used to organize files and other folders.
Home — A view with quick destinations, Recently Played, and Recently Created.
My Library — A root space separate from folders. It is not a folder.
Offline — Files and folders downloaded to an iPhone for offline access.
On Hold — A marker for a file you want to revisit.
Recently Created — Items you created or added most recently.
Recently Played — Audio you played most recently.
Recordings — Audio captured with the iPhone app.
Playback and analysis
BPM — Beats per minute, a tempo measurement for audio.
Camelot — A notation used alongside musical key for harmonic mixing.
Compare — Traklist's audio comparison mode.
Gapless — Traklist's Compare term for switching between compared files at the same point with no playback interruption.
Goniometer — A view in the iPhone app for visualizing stereo phase and width.
Integrated — A whole-track loudness measurement.
Key — The detected musical key of an audio file.
LUFS — A loudness measurement used for audio analysis.
Short Term — A loudness measurement over a short listening window.
Spectrum — A view in the iPhone app of the audio frequency balance.
True Peak — A peak-level measurement that accounts for inter-sample peaks.
Waveform — A visual representation of audio amplitude over time.
Presentation, sharing, and plans
Backdrop — A folder presentation style on Web and in the iPhone app.
Poster — A folder presentation style in the iPhone app.
Processing — Preparation that begins after an upload or import finishes.
Share Link — A link you create for a file or folder so visitors can open it.
Tags — Web-only Pro labels used to organize files.
Free — The Traklist plan with 2 GB of storage.
Pro — The Traklist plan with 3 TB of storage; $10 per month or $48 per year.
Collaboration language
Collaborator — someone invited to a folder, who opens it with their own Traklist account.
Invitation — a request to join a folder, sent to one email address and usable once.
Role — what a person can do in a folder: Owner, Admin, Editor, or Viewer.
Direct access — access from an invitation to that exact folder. Inherited access — access that comes from a folder further up, shown as Access via that folder.
Shared folder — a folder people were invited to. A public link is an address anyone can open, with no account and no role.
Grace period — the 14 days after you go over your storage limit, before access is reduced. Browse-only — what your library becomes when that period ends.
Artwork Gallery — Traklist's curated covers for files and folders. Previously used — artwork you applied before, kept so you can reuse it.
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