Boom. It’s just about that time again: New release! Who’s in for the tribute this time? Well, as we’ve been keeping real busy with some grandiose plans for new big features we’ve had no choice but to keep blasting huge music here at the SoundCloud head quarters. And who makes big enough sounds to use a track titles like Chariots of Fire, Conquest of Paradise, Tales of the Future? Mr Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou aka Vangelis of course. As we all know, there’s big, there’s bigger and then there’s Vangelis. So, Evangelos, this one goes out to you!

So, what have we been up to apart from planning big new things? Actually, quite a bit! For one, you’ll probably notice that the overall performance is a lot better (faster commenting in particular and overall speed of the interface in general). Also, thanks to a lot of new users out we’ve been able to really push our uploader to the max by asking it to process all kinds of strange audio formats. After a few hick-ups we now have the most solid uploader ever, ready to feed on just about any audio format you’d like to serve it.

Thanks for all the great response on the widgets! It sounded like you guys really liked them so we hacked together a Facebook app too. So, now you can basically put your soundcloud tracks just about anywhere on the web.

The forums and feedback messages have been totally on fire (thanks! keep em coming!) and we realized that we needed to improve our systems a bit to be able to respond as fast as we want to. Instead of building a lot of stuff around this we’ve taken the help of our friends over at the great site Get Satisfaction. So, from today we’re trying out running all of the feature request and help forums on Get Satisfaction’s great system. Check it out, drop us a line, and, as always, keep the excellent tunes coming.

Oh, and finally, a few words from the man of the hour.

July 22nd, 2008