For a while now, Soundslice has had two separate concepts: “folders” and “lists.” They started as separate things, but over time they’ve become so similar that it’s just plain confusing. So we’ve decided to merge the two concepts into a single concept: list.

Lists are more powerful than folders, because:

• You can control the order of slices in a list.
• A slice can be in multiple lists.
• A list can contain both slices you’ve created yourself and slices other people created (for example, slices somebody has shared with you).
• A list has a dedicated “practice view,” with a left sidebar that makes it really fast to navigate between slices.

Beyond those differences, lists can do everything folders can do.

With this in mind, we are planning to automatically convert all folders to lists and remove the idea of folders. But we’re going to do this in phases, specifically for the benefit of our technical customers who have integrated Soundslice into their own products using our data API.

Here’s our plan:

• One week from today (January 20), we’ll automatically migrate all folders to lists, for all Soundslice accounts except those that have an active API key.
• In three months (April 16), we’ll automatically migrate all remaining folders to lists (for API users).

If you don’t know what an API is, no worries. You’ll be included in that first group.

Update, April 16: The migration is done. There are no more folders in Soundslice, only lists.