Sorry to everyone, has been a while since my last blog. Was too busy with all my assignments and was moving out as well.
Eventually I am able to blog about SoundCloud, as announced.
SoundCloud was founded 2007 in Sweden but established in Berlin. It is basically a platform for artist to share their music. It is the equivalent of Vimeo/Youtube for videos or Imageshak/Flickr for photos, but in this case for music. It sees itself in competition to Myspace but differentiates from Myspace through several features.
I don't know how many of you have experience with Myspace ? Actually I discovered Myspace in 2007 and joined the network, even before joining Facebook. At that time I really liked the idea of being able to lisitening to the newest releases from the artist I liked.
But I was really struggling with the speed of most of the artist's homepages. As most of the artists had extensive designed Myspace pages, it become very difficult to buffer the songs. Sometimes it took me 10 minutes to listen to a three minute song. In addition I was only able to listen to it and was not allowed to download it.
A key feature of SoundCloud is that it lets artists upload their music with a distinctive URL. This contrasts to MySpace, which hosts music only on the MySpace site. By allowing sound files to be embedded anywhere, SoundCloud can be combined with Twitter and Facebook to increase its audience reach.
Furthermore the artist can allow fans to download the songs or offer a puchase opportunity.
What makes SoundCloud especially interesting for DJs is, that there are no limitationa for the maximum size of the uploads. Therefore DJs are able to upload whole DJ sets.
Another feature of SoundCloud is that the user can comment at a specific part of the tracks, making it easy for fans to ask for a specific track within a whole one hour duration DJ set.
Meanwhile, a lot of blogs I mentioned in my second post are using SoundCloud.
Have a check of my favourite artist - Boys Noize from Berlin on SoundCloud.
http://soundcloud.com/boysnoize
What I forgot to mention, the SoundCloud player is suitable for Iphones/Ipod touches !
Eventually I am able to blog about SoundCloud, as announced.
SoundCloud was founded 2007 in Sweden but established in Berlin. It is basically a platform for artist to share their music. It is the equivalent of Vimeo/Youtube for videos or Imageshak/Flickr for photos, but in this case for music. It sees itself in competition to Myspace but differentiates from Myspace through several features.
I don't know how many of you have experience with Myspace ? Actually I discovered Myspace in 2007 and joined the network, even before joining Facebook. At that time I really liked the idea of being able to lisitening to the newest releases from the artist I liked.
But I was really struggling with the speed of most of the artist's homepages. As most of the artists had extensive designed Myspace pages, it become very difficult to buffer the songs. Sometimes it took me 10 minutes to listen to a three minute song. In addition I was only able to listen to it and was not allowed to download it.
A key feature of SoundCloud is that it lets artists upload their music with a distinctive URL. This contrasts to MySpace, which hosts music only on the MySpace site. By allowing sound files to be embedded anywhere, SoundCloud can be combined with Twitter and Facebook to increase its audience reach.
Furthermore the artist can allow fans to download the songs or offer a puchase opportunity.
What makes SoundCloud especially interesting for DJs is, that there are no limitationa for the maximum size of the uploads. Therefore DJs are able to upload whole DJ sets.
Another feature of SoundCloud is that the user can comment at a specific part of the tracks, making it easy for fans to ask for a specific track within a whole one hour duration DJ set.
Meanwhile, a lot of blogs I mentioned in my second post are using SoundCloud.
Have a check of my favourite artist - Boys Noize from Berlin on SoundCloud.
http://soundcloud.com/boysnoize
What I forgot to mention, the SoundCloud player is suitable for Iphones/Ipod touches !
Well, i wonder if the SoundCloud will be influenced by the pirate music. For example, you share some original edition (itunes aac from apple shop) and then find some pirate music from others, will it demotivate you to share original edition?
ReplyDeleteTerry: I don't think piracy will be an issue. SoundCloud is more about sharing you're own music that you create. You can also link you're music to iTunes so people can purchase your songs from iTunes.
ReplyDeleteI love it how SoundCloud can be used by anyone and it's free (to a certain extent). It's really active on Twitter as well sharing new uploads and giving people information about using SoundCloud.
Sounds like a great idea, I really need to look at these music sites a little, I don't know a lot about them.
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Am listening to Boys Noize while considering my post...Kinda catchy background music, but I reckon I could only listen to so much! Thanks for sharing SoundCloud site details, I wasn't familiar with until now.
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