Gobbler vs Gdrive/Dropbox?

HI All,
 
Nice to meet you! I am the CEO of Gobbler and I thought I would weigh in here.
 
Hi Steve, 

Gobbler is very different from Dropbox. The only thing we really have in common is that we both use Amazon web services. 

That's where the similarities end. Gobbler is designed from the ground up to be an application for pro-audio. I'll list some of our major differences.

1) Dropbox requires you to put all of the files you'd like to back up in the "Dropbox" folder on your main computer. Gobbler will back projects up from any connected device (an external drive a thumb drive, a firewire drive ect)

2) With Gobbler you can send projects of any size to any of your collaborators. Even when they are located on an external drive (read you don't have to move them to your main hard drive to send them)

3) Gobbler helps organize all of your projects no matter where they are stored. Dropbox is a folder on your drive you can save things in but it's up to you to organize them. 

4) Dropbox runs constantly in the background and we check to see if you are recording or using a DAW. If we detect this we sleep so we do not get in the way of your recording. 
 
5) Gobbler has a feature called Gobbler collect which makes Gobbler better able to ensure your project is properly backed up. Say for example your X3 project file is located on Drive A and your audio files are on Drive B. You do not have to do a save collect to back up or send your project. Gobbler will collect it all in the cloud there by keeping your local organizational structure. 
 
6) Gobbler's security model is also more robust. We encrypt your data on the client side. 

We are a different piece of software and the only one on the market designed for pro-audio.

hope this answers your question

Chris

WallyG

fooman
...I manually backup to a hardrive at the end of the night.  Doesn't take much time to do so, and I can safely leave my PC and have it move things over.  Simple enough.  But the storage space is often an issue as sessions grow in size and I am becoming busier and busier.

I have a Dropbox account for working with clients, does Gobbler allow us to mixdown and upload mixes automatically in some way?  What about sharing them among selected email addresses?

I work in a similar manner. I first tried Gobbler on my home office computer, but quickly removed it after seeing .gobbler everywhere I looked. I don't like the idea of "the cloud" gobbling up all the files on my computer. Yes I know you can supposedly select the files that are "gobbled, but I have a consulting company and have clients sensitive information on it.
Granted I have a separate computer for music production but I have two separate 3 TB external drives, one connected to that computer and another on my home network. Like you, I back up at the end of the day to both drives. (Belt and suspender guy). I also use Dropbox to share music files, etc.
 
Walt
 
 

Hi Walt!
 
I wanted to address your concerns about the .gobbler file. This is something that is actually written by the cakewalk application. The file gives Gobbler assistance to make sure your project is always accurately backed up. Gobbler has a feature called Gobbler Collect which effectively gives you a virtual collect feature. So instead of having to do actual save collects to send things to the cloud Gobbler can do it virtually this eliminating having unnecessary redundant folders on your desktop and eliminating the possibility that something does not get set to the cloud. 
 
WRT what gets sent to the cloud we are VERY VERY strict with our about everything being Opt-in and for that matter, none of your files get set to the cloud without you explicitly letting Gobbler do so. We are company built by creatives for creatives and are backed by some of the biggest artists in the world. (all of whom use Gobbler in their workflows) a breach of privacy or security would be a massive failure for us. As such we have many layers of security and privacy controls to ensure this. 
 
We one of very few cloud companies which actually encrypts your data on the client side to that even a man in the middle attack on your data would be rendered useless. 
 
Granted trust is only built over time. But we have been around for more then three years and have had no breaches of privacy and security. 
 
All the best!
 
Chris