Soundcloud is an online file upload/download site for music, mixed with some social networking facility. It’s designed to help people who work with music (say, musicians or record labels) with a way to easily drop their music somewhere that collaborators and other professionally interested parties can get their hands on it and do whatever comes next.
Worth the sign-up? Any compelling features? What makes this different from other large file transfer services? Go try it out – then let us know. As usual – let’s have the review in the comments, please.
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+1 !
Thanks for the post, Dubber.
Their website is easy to use, clean, neat and has great big buttons to push.
Especially I like the feature to add comments on the music track. I have to use the general drop-box idea more often and tell my friends about it. I still attach files to an email…
Apparantely there is already an ongoing discussion about adding a soundcloudplayer widget for wordpress.com.
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/soundcloud-widget-for-wordpresscom
If you upload your mp3 files to soundcloud, try to upload them with a good bit rate (320 kbps). Sample rate of 44.1khz is fine. It takes a bit longer, but think about the listener. They want want good audio quality as you do.
And yes, I’ve decided to sign up and give it a go: http://www.soundcloud.com/mehdikhansari
Mehdi
PS Drop your music tracks in my dropbox. Can’t wait!
http://mehdikhansari.wordpress.com/dropbox/
Been a member since it launched. Great idea – maddening interface and horrible load times when uploading music.
Needs major work before I’ll use it regularly.
I think the creators of soundcloud have come up with something great by mixing music uploading with twitter. Add some people you know, whose music you like and/or trust with music taste, and whenever they comment on a song it automatically becomes a recommendation delivered right to your dashboard. Don’t think I’ve seen something similar happen in other music sharing sites. They’d just need to improve the search function and they’d have an incredible music discovery tool in their hands, but the creator’s aim seems to be somewhere else at the moment, so it remains to be seen how it all pans out.
took me about 10 mins to realized I’ll never come back to this site – I was trying to send an audio album, containing 5 files zipped up. Soundcloud only lets you upload audio files (?) and only FIVE per MONTH? Absolutely no use whatsoever to someone like me sending 10 times that many via DropSend for nothing. Thanks but no thanks.
gJZbCi Very true! Makes a change to see someone spell it out like that. :)