SoundCloud is a social media platform and online audio distribution platform founded in Berlin, Germany. It allows users to share their original sounds and music through profiles, and engage with other users through likes, comments, reposts, and playlists. Key features include the ability to upload, promote, and sell music tracks, record audio directly through the site, and view waveform visualizations of tracks. It also offers both free and premium membership tiers for musicians and creators.
2. What Is Soundcloud???
SoundCloud.com is an European network based
in Berlin,Germany. It is a musically influenced
social network that emphasizes the sharing of
music (legally). SoundCloud plays host to
musicians, producers, music enthusiasts, music
critics, almost everyone who can find something
to do with music. Musicians can also sell their
music along with advertising on SoundCloud, or
they can redirect customers to a site that will
host their product music.
3. Business vs. Social
• Business Aspects: It is possible to start a business
through SoundCloud, or one may use it’s benefits
to make little profit for basic reasons.
• Social Aspects: SoundCloud is primarily for music
enthusiasts and artists alike. Although it is also
available for casual socializing as opposed to
music, but with less features than a primarily
social based networking site.
4. 3 Key Features
1. SoundCloud advertises the option to share and
sell your music through a registered profile.
2. SoundCloud also lets you record through their
signature music player in a registered profile.
3. Users may also place timed comments in
another users uploaded track. (homemade or
licensed commercial track)
5. Their Player
SoundCloud features its own music player like
other music sites, but its most distinctive feature
is that it shows the wavelength of the track
playing (i.e smaller pitch tones in a track result
in a smaller wavelength while larger tones result
in an expanded wavelength.)
6. Their Player: Save Your Favourites
With SoundCloud you can also make and save
playlists to share with other user profiles. From
there you can save your absolute favourites for
easy access.
7. What Kind Of Track Was That???
In most legit tracks that are uploaded on
there, you can also view what genre of music
that track belongs in if your interested in what
someone shared.
(Drum & Bass)
8. Hey They Have Like Too!
Yes SoundCloud has like, dislike etc. buttons
too. In a way it makes it easier to see what’s
good or not good. If your one of those people
that have to be up-to-date with what’s popular,
Its also a good way to see what music is going
strong, what a lot of users are listening to, which
artists seem to be soaring through popularity.
Yes, Usher has nearly 30k likes.
9. The Comment Strip
This is the interactive comment strip that shows
a users timed comment when the duration of
the track hits that certain time.
SO, if at 0:30 someone placed a comment, it shows
10. They Have Groups As Well
If you are a person who likes music and you like
social networks that like groups too, then
SoundCloud fits your basic needs for that too.
You can hold discussions with other members of
the group, and post music within the group for
other members to hear through the “DropBox”
(Contributors).
11. Creative Commons
Creative Commons is non-profit organization on
the web hosted within SoundCloud that is a
place for mix practitioners to innovate off of the
works of other artists (legally). The tracks that
users upload and mix off of must be legally
bought and will be recorded into the
SoundCloud database. This is for NON-
COMMERCIAL purposes only.
12. Mobile Compatibility
Go cloud with SoundCloud! SoundCloud also has
a mobile app for the android phone and the
ipad/iPhone and you can listen to whatever suits
you tastes at the moment with a more than
interesting visual experience. You can record
what you hear at the moment immediately with
the mobile record feature also.
13. For Musicians
Check to see if your work is gaining positive
feedback and attention with the Lite Stats
feature. Lite Stats displays like a basic stats
graph showing how much attention your music
is gaining and whether its going strong or going
gone.
14. Premium Features
Of course there are always the premium options
for entrepreneurs and people who just can.
• Lite: €29/year Appearance modifiers, 240
minute track upload limit.
• Solo: €79/year or €9/month Unlimited
downloads, Quiet Mode (no one can see what
you don’t want them to see.) - 12 hour
15. (cont.)
• Pro: VIP customer service
support, Professional insight. €250/year or
€29/month -36 hours
• PRO +: EVERYTHING AND MORE! €500/year or
€59/month – However long you want!
