Dear music lovers,

for a while now SoundCloud has been growing steadily as a private beta version accessible only to a lucky few… After months of hunting bugs, listening to the requests of our beloved users and tweaking the site into perfection, we feel SoundCloud is ready for the next step. Pretty soon we’ll be opening the site up a little bit for more users (invite’s will still be required for accounts) and this calls for a release-party!

To celebrate this special event, we’d like to invite you to storm the top floor & roof-top of the Postfuhramt and turn it into a crazy dancefloor on Sunday the 11th of May from brunch-time (2pm) until late!

Since music is what we love, we managed to get a pretty insane list of DJ’s, musicians, performers and all-round music nutters to rock with you. Expect everything from deep house to bass-filled dubstep to garage rock to electro-pop and beyond. Come over and check out performances from over 20 (!) acts throughout the day & night!

We’re starting at 2pm with a rooftop brunch and will be supplying food and drinks all through the day/night/morning. So, we’d love you to join us to check out the sun & great music from the roof of the classic Postfuhramt building.

We’re all looking forward parting with you on Sunday!

• What: Release-party / brunch with over 20 DJs, musicians & performers
• When: 11:th of May from 2pm until late
• Where: SoundCloud, Auguststrasse 5a , 10117 Berlin, Germany (The postfuhramt building)
• What to bring: sun-cream & dancing-shoes

Update! Here’s the list of confirmed acts (subject to change still):

Mesak (FI), Fabio Genito (IT), Cornelia (SE, Live), Le Choix (SE, Live), Little Jinder (SE, Live), Bookhouse Boys (SE, Live), Kalle Kuts (GER), Snax (US, Live PA), Trickski (GER), Quarion (CH), Jack Migger (GER, Live), Ben Mono (GER), Michelle Owen (AUS), Noema (GER), Dirk Rumpff (GER), Andre Lodemann (GER), Hunee (GER), Hauke Freer (GER), DJ Humus (IL), Cloud (SE), Barbara Hallama (GER), Yeah Fool! (SE/US), Der Klaus (GER), Exit Ghost (GER), SoundCloud DJ team (SE-GER)

The winter is slowly dying away, the temperature is rising, the sun is peeping down on the Berlin streets and most people have already started lounging around outside again. Sipping Lattes, brunching away and taking it easy. We say “most people” since at SoundCloud we’ve been ignoring spring while being über-busy crafting one of our biggest releases ever! There’s so much to talk about but we’ve actually decided to keep this post fairly simple as we need some sleep right about now Much more detailed info on the new stuff will follow in a few separate posts explaining all the ins and outs.

So, anyway, this one is our “Fabio”-release, in honor of House maestro and one of the original SC supporters Fabio Genito. Grazie Mille Fabio!

The first things you might notice is the new SC logo, new tighter colour-scheme, cleaner dashboard, restructured menus & an even slicker & more kick-ass user-experience! That’s the start.
Then there’s some pretty sick stuff… automatic waveform-resizing. Check it out by going to a track and resizing your browser window. Enjoy the magical resizing of the track waveform to make full use of your entire browser window. If you’ve got a huge monitor in the studio this is a pretty nice one!

Oh, and we almost forget. Anybody wanted some sets?

This is a big one so there might be a bug or two in there – let us know and give us lots of feedback on this one!

Just a quick post to welcome out latest release Debbie into the world (wide web). Its live right now so, as usual, give it a spin and let us know what you think.

This release brings a whole lot of behind the scenes work on security & other important stuff like that. But of course there’s always a few new visible features too. For example, all the peepz who like to keep their stuff organized can now remove items from their own dashboard. So if you like to keep things neat and tidy your dashboard is ready to serve you. And, to keep things tidy in your email inbox you now have a few more options for controlling exactly when, what and how you get your email-notifications, check it out in the email settings.

You’ll also find some extra goodness on most buttons, give them a click and see. Then there’s also a few nice extra features concerning id3 tags but these we’ll keep a bit quiet about those until you find them!

Remember, its spring-time, so close the laptop every now and then, get yourself an ice-cream & watch the beautiful clouds. Cheers.

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!

Miss Caroline Hervé says it best as she describes her new “Batbox” album: “Let the bats fly out of your head! Goodbye old ghosts!” We felt we had to do the same and got rid of the “FANS” sharing mode! And for that, we’ve dedicated our latest release to her: Caroline aka Miss Kittin is ready for you & we’re ready for her.

The reason for this little feature slashing was mainly to make the upload interface even simpler & smoother with only two sharing modes: public & private (less buttons is gooooodness). Plus, we figured the “Fans” mode was kind of unnecessary since we could add the exact same functionality to the private sharing mode instead.

If you want to share music to all the peepz who are your fans, the new way of doing it is to select “private” and click one feature (”select all” from your list of fans). The result is exactly the same as with the “Fans” mode, but with less buttons.

For those of you that feel you might suffer from this loss, fear not, as we’re kick-starting something that will allow you to participate even more in SoundCloud’s further developments: the SC Forums.

So, from today on, you’ll have an open space for sharing your views, ideas and critics on SoundCloud with other artists and, of course, us, the peepz building the site for you. Oh, by the way, in case you just want to hang out and talk music in the forums that’ll be OK too… See you there, last one in is a yousendspaceitwhat user!

We hope you enjoy our “Caroline” release and we’re looking forward to hear your feedbacks!

A lot of  things are happening here in the Cloud and we’re all pretty excited! First of all, we’d like to welcome the new member of the SC crew: Sean Treadway. This kick-ass programmer has joined us since a few days and his input has already been amazing. Expect an interview with Sean really soon. This week sees the release of the Louie version of our site, named after the incomparable Louie Austen. We’re currently tracking him down to send him an invite so we hope to have soon the world’s coolest crooner on SoundCloud. We’re also glad to now count legendary producer Howie B as an artist on the site. He has put up a bunch of demos and unreleased tracks for you to enjoy! Concerning the platform, we hope you’re enjoying the little extras we’ve added recently (the “unheard” marker, the digest e-mail, the graphic relift of the dashboard, the overall better pagination). To thank you for all the massive support you’ve showed us, we’re working on a surprise feature for the next release. Believe us, you’ll love it. The SC crew hopes you will enjoy our Louie release!

Happy new year everybody! The SoundCloud team was scattered all over the world this Christmas, from Tokyo to San Francisco via Stockholm or Geneva, but we’re now back in our Berlin HQ and we’ve just (at 7am…) finished a release dedicated to the one and only Farah. So what are the latest improvements to the Cloud?

• We moved the whole site to bigger and better servers.
• The whole messaging system has been reworked and it’s now possible to have nice threaded conversations.
• You can choose to receive a digest e-mail that condenses a daily or weekly update of all the notifications you want to know about (messages, comments, adds, etc…). You can still choose what, if any, stuff you want to get email notifications about right away.
• We’ve redesigned the Dashboard a bit, making it cleaner, tighter and generally easier to use.
• The e-mail system has been improved so you’ll now get mails with direct links that are much easier to read.
• The pagination is smoother (e.g. after playing all the tracks on a page, the player automatically shifts to the next page and starts playing the tracks there)
• And, as usual, much more!

We hope you’ll enjoy our Farah release!

Our Ruth release is up but we’ve been busy hunting and squashing some more bugs that have been creeping up since…sorry if you had troubles in the last couple of days, we’re working our asses off to make sure everything will run smoothly for christmas. Don’t hesitate to ask us for help if you have any problems…

On the community front, we’re slowly but surely heading to platinum status: 1000. Yes, there’s soon going to be 1000 peeps on SoundCloud! We’re all excited of course, but Alex was so thrilled that he decided to cut his hair as a statement…and he promised to shave his dome if there’s 1000 more users before february! Keep sending these invites people…

Extra special thanks to my old schoolmate Owain for bringing some of the UK’s finest electronic producers to SoundCloud! We will soon all bounce to the sounds of Luke Solomon , Vince Watson and Rob Mello …

We’re about to head to a special Christmas Party organized by the nice folks at Ableton. It’s at the 103 Club and apparently there’s going to be some secret performances so we’re all looking forward to this!

Stay tuned for the new release of the site next week! Among other wonderful things, you’ll be able to ask for a daily or weekly digest e-mail that collects all the notifications you wish to be informed about…

F-R-E-S-H, fresh, fresh. fresh, yo that’s fresh! We just finished another update of the site with some nifty new features! Many thanks to all the cloud testers for helping us out, keep sending us your excellent feedback. This is how happy we get when you send us all the good feedback!

Here’s a rundown of some additions to the SC platform:

• New basic “search” feature for users and tracks: located at the bottom of the page, in the “crowds” and “music” segments, this function will help you find your favorite artists and tracks.
• New audio formats supported: now you can upload up to 24bit/192 Khz uncompressed, as well as flac, ogg/vorbis and more. And the uploader is much smoother too!
• New “favorite” notification: you’ll get info in your dashboard when somebody favorites your track.
• New player feature: now you can jump directly to a certain point in the track by simply typing in a time value (underneath the play button, in the field that shows the current length of the track). Kind of like a sequencer.

We also had a major bug-squashing session and now we have more (binary) blood on our hands than Shackleton! But the result is that the site currently runs much smoother (better pagination, correct “discogs” input field, etc…), so there’s more to enjoy for all the clouders…

Show us your love by becoming our friend at myspace ! And if you can’t get enough of social networks (like we do), you should join our group and support our product at Facebook!

The SoundCloud team hopes that you’ll enjoy your weekend and the new site!