Get Your Music Heard
I’m testing out SoundCloud – a music sharing and distribution service – and I’d like to see if it could be a useful tool for letting Synthtopia readers get their music heard.
If you haven’t tried out SoundCloud, it’s a site that lets you upload your tracks and then share them via websites, blogs, email, Digg, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
Here’s an example of what tracks look like embedded:
It’s a pretty slick player, and the player itself could prove to be very useful for sharing your music.
But the site also gives you a “Drop Box”, so that other people can send you music.
Here’s my drop box:
If you click on my drop box, it takes you to a page on SoundCloud where you can upload a song that goes to me.
I’d like to try this out – so here’s the deal:
- Click on the drop box above, or the one in the right sidebar, and go to my drop box.
- Follow the instructions on the drop box page and upload one of your tracks. The track should be an original work of electronic music that you created. It should not be an awesome track by The Chemical Brothers, a recording of banjo music or your sex podcast.
- I’ll check out your track and I’ll post it on Synthtopia.
You don’t have to sign up for an account at SoundCloud to try this out, but you do have to have a valid email address.
I’m looking forward to hearing your music and sharing it on Synthtopia!
Note: If you’re a SoundCloud member and have uploaded your track to the site, I should be able to embed it using the SoundCloud player. Otherwise, I’ll embed it using the standard player we use on Synthtopia.
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Tags: music promotion, music sharing, SoundCloud
Hi,
how did you embed the soundcloud player in the post?
Answer will be appreciated!
Somos – If a track is a public track, there is a link above the track that says share. Click on that and you get an “embed” option, which gives you HTML that you can paste onto your site.
If a track is a private track, the share option won’t be available.
It should be noted that the free version allows 5 uploads per month. I’m not sure if that’s “within a calendar month” or “within a span of 30 days”, though.
This is a great site, especially since Last.FM stopped providing the ability to stream a song within a different page (you can still link to the track’s page and have it autostart, but they no longer provide the flash play button for you to embed on your own page).
Thanks for posting this!
somos:
In the SoundCloud site, there’s a “Share” link for each track… Within the menu that this link provides, you can either grab the code or you can customize the player and then grab the code.
I’m having my music on-line currently via my website, but also through youtube, myspace and google video. Youtube is most important to my opinion because people can leave comments (through it’s social networking, which is not fully tweakable).
Although, Youtube is good for videos it’s sure not optimized to audio.
The videos are the toughest to make (they take 2 days each, while I’d rather want to put that experience into music).
I’ve been searching for one or another service available to get files heard and have found none very good so far except last.fm which is proprietary and house-mixes.com which is more towards dj’s promoting them mixes instead of single edits.
If there is any need, maybe I should be opening my own xml based media-platform which I’m already using for years, toward the public to get their music heard with commentary etc.. although I’d like to hear first which is available ?
Without any proprietary tools with exception flash and/or quicktime (depending on which rights gets defined)?
This towards artists owning their rights of their music only! Since I’d like to keep this system as clean as possible (which doesn’t mean censoring
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I have two recently uploaded live sets on my new soundcloud page! Check em out!
http://soundcloud.com/gel-sol
The live set from 01.09.09 is pretty tasty. The other live set is all-ambient.
Yer Pal,
Gel-Sol
We have three nice idm/ambient songs from 2008 combined as a set. For your listening pleasure:
http://soundcloud.com/das-punkt/sets/lavey-collec...
All made in Garageband! So it can be used as an example of what is possible with this program.
With love,
Das Punkt
The latest track from Dashiki Johnson using Minimoog Voyager – SRX strings in a Roland XV5050 some recorded preamped samples using a DSP M-audio, Akai DC Vocoder and Cubase for aranging/mastering mostly done with Ozone4, PSP Vintage warmer and Sonalksis compressors. Enjoy
http://soundcloud.com/raphael_kiekens/dashiki-dri...