Here’s a quick one that will come in handy for track titles that are a little longer than usually. Until now, the permalink of your track got automatically generated from the track title. That changes today with the new little feature that lets you edit the permalinks of your tracks. You’re able to do that directly on the upload page and also later in your track settings.

The two nice little screen grabs below will help you find it.

Here’s the upload page:

And here’s how it looks in your track settings (also works for tracks you have already uploaded) – don’t forget to save:

One important note: if you change the permalinks of existing tracks, please note that this will also affect links & widgets you’ve posted across the web. Please update these accordingly.

Have an awesome weekend, everyone!

Recently we introduced some new extra info fields on track pages, allowing you to say more stuff about your music in easier ways. Entering any extra info is of course optional but we’ve been receiving a lot of positive feedback from these new “meta-data” fields so we wanted to give you a little rundown of how to find them and work with em.

When uploading a track to SC, everything is as simple as before, but we’ve also added a little “show extra fields” button. This is where the fun starts!

Pressing it will expand a whole new set of description fields. You can specify things such as genre, BPM key of the track, and a whole lot more.

If your record label is a contact of yours on SoundCloud, they’ll will appear in the “Record label” drop-down menu. In case they’re not on SC yet, just select other and fill in their name. Or better, send them an invite and then ad them as it’ll make your track page look much nicer!

You can also add some information about the catalogue number and release date (or only year if you don’t know exactly when it’ll be out) of your track then say what sort of track it is with a few “track types”.

You can also describe your track using keywords or tags, this is quite handy for people to have an idea of what your song is about. Plus, we will soon build a full-on tagging system, so you’ll be able to find tracks via search and filters (e.g. give me all the “house” tracks in 120-130 that are “bass-heavy”).

Finally, you can add a link that leads to an online shop of your choice where people can buy your release. It works best if you ad a link that goes straight to that release and not just to a shop in general.

So, remember, all fields are optional but the more info you put up the nicer the tracks looks and it’ll help listeners find the tracks that you want to promote.

The info will be visible on the tracks page & could look a little something like this

So, be cool, add some meta.

Welcome to another chapter of the fabulous & ongoing SoundCloud saga! Working in the Clouds is not always easy, bugs need to be squashed and germanism needs getting to grips with (check out our startup mode adventures). But nevertheless, we all feel we’re slowly but surely approaching a revolutionary platform, piece by piece. This latest piece is dedicated to remixer-extraordinaire Ewan Pearson, an artist who has constantly been pushing the musical boundaries and whose recent album Piece Work regroups most of his greatest remixes.

So what’s new in the Ewan release? Well, ta-da, you asked for it and you got it – now you can now add much more information about your tracks! New fields such as “genre”, “key”, “label”, “release date”, “track type”or “keywords/tags”  allow you to give an accurate description of your music (but, of course, it’s all optional). Plus you now have the possibility to provide a direct link to an online shop of your choice that sells the track.

To add info to tracks you’ve already uploaded just head into the tracks edit mode and go for it. For new tracks you’ll have the option to add as much extra info as you like right from the regular upload page.

We’ve also reworked the “settings” page a bit, using the “Actions” menu to allow you easily jump to a specific field of information that needs changing. It is now also possible to change your user name, add additional e-mail addresses and we also support more types of Discogs links.

So, big thanks for all the support, enjoy Ewan and have an awesome weekend!