Up to date system requirements can always be found here. 

An "Organizer" is a user with organizer privileges, meaning they have paid for a product or signed up for a “Free Test Drive”. The resulting account has a license tied to it that allows them to be able to create sessions and invite guests. A "Guest" user account does not have a license (they have never paid for a product or signed up for a test drive), and is able to join sessions only, not create them. A participant refers to all attendees of a session, "Organizer", and "Guest(s)".

This is for security reasons. There is a macOS keychain option so that you can store this information in for future use.

Yes, internet access is required. Internet is needed to verify a user's license, to perform the session stream, for guests to join a session, and for security reasons

Playback utilizes TPN, CDSA, GDPR, MPA and HIPAA compliant cloud infrastructure for real-time communications. Please view our content security white paper for more information.

As of Playback 1.9 (Released in June of 2026), Playback is available as both a macOS and Windows application.

For more information regarding system requirements, please visit our System Requirements article.

Playback is DAW agnostic. It has been tested and verified with Reaper, Logic Pro, and Pro Tools.

For more information regarding system requirements, please visit our System Requirements article.

Playback is a real time review and approve tool, and does not communicate with the source DAW/NLE in any way. Source media is not stored by Playback. There is no ability to perform non-live sessions.

There is no direct communication between the host DAW/NLE and Playback. All exchanges are completed at the operation system level.

When a session streams 5.1 or 7.1, Playback automatically folds the mix to stereo on stereo outputs (headphones, laptop speakers, iPhone, or Web). Dialogue, music, effects, and LFE stay audible; surround immersion is reduced to a front stereo image. The source stream is unchanged — downmixing happens locally on each device. Surround-capable outputs (Desktop or Apple TV with a receiver) can still hear the full mix.

See How Remoto Playback Handles Multichannel Audio Fold Down for more details.

When a session is scheduled through the “Edit Session Details 1of 2: Schedule” window, there is the option to “Enable Email Notifications” for Guests. Email invitations and subsequent scheduling updates will not be be sent to Guests until this option is checked, or once the session has been started. 

No. invitations can not be imported/saved to Google, Outlook, or iCal at this time.

Yes. Remoto Playback 1.9 / 1.9.1 allows the same account to stay signed in on more than one device. When you sign in and Remoto detects an active instance elsewhere, choose Be a Scheduler on the second device so the first can keep full access. Choosing Force Logout signs out the other full-access instance instead.

Yes — choose Be a Scheduler on the second device so the first can keep full access.

Choosing this log in option only limits what your account can do on this device.

It signs that account out on the other device and forces leave of any live session that account was in there. Guests and other participants are not part of this takeover; this applies only to your signed-in instance.