Posts Tagged ‘sharing’

DavidDavid New feature: Share user’s latest tracks Comments

We’ve just released a little new feature that we think is pretty nice.

When you look at a user’s profile you’ll see that we added a new ‘Share’ button. This will allow you to share this user’s latest tracks in chronological order (newest tracks on top) in our flash player widget.

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And here is how this will look like when embedded to another site (in this case, that’s my blog but you can also embed it to the sidebar of your blog or any of your profiles or sites that allow you to add html codes).

Echolot, a blog by David Noël - David Noël

One more little thing: you can now easily share a user’s URL (http://soundcloud.com/forss) to Facebook. Just add it to the “What’s on your mind?” field and it will post the player with the latest tracks to your Facebook stream. Have a look:

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DavidDavid Blogger.com integration Comments

Another week, another blogging service integrated to the Sharing option on SoundCloud. This week’s guest: Blogger.com.

Here’s your step-by-step guide to show you how easy it is to share your favorite tracks, sets and group sets to your blog hosted on Blogger.com.

Let’s start by looking at the Share options where you’ll see the Blogger logo:

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Now when you click it, we’ll ask you to authorize SoundCloud to connect with your Blogger account (you can always change the authorization settings in your Blogger/Google account):

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By clicking Go to Authorization, you’ll be redirected to the Google page (shown below) where you simply click Grant access. Once the access was granted, we will take you back to the page on SoundCloud to continue with your post.

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In the window pictured below, you’ll be able to edit your post title, add tags and write more about the track/set/group you wish to post. You can also save the post as a draft if you don’t want it to get posted immediately.

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Click Post and – Ta-da – you just blogged a SoundCloud track:

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DavidDavid SoundCloud gets full WordPress.com integration Comments

SoundCloud has been steadily growing popularity within the musical blogosphere. As well as our DropBox feature, which allows music bloggers to easily receive demos & promos, we’ve noticed more and more people using SoundCloud to embed music into their posts. So we’ve been working hard to make this easier and easier for bloggers.

Today’s ‘YAY!’-moment is triggered by the excitement to finally be able to announce the the full WordPress.com integration. It is now super-easy to share SoundCloud tracks & sets blogs hosted on WordPress.com. Here’s the run-down of how that works.

If you look at the “Share” option of a track, set or group, you’ll see that we’ve added WordPress to the list of services we support.

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Click on “WordPress” and you’ll be able to copy the shortcode to your clipboard and simply add it to the edit field of your blog:

WordPress Shortcode

This simple shortcode line in your Edit field…

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… will turn into the good-looking SoundCloud player you all know:

SoundCloud Player

We think that’s pretty nifty, don’t you think? Oh and by the way: you can also customize the appearance of your the player and have it match the design of your blog. To do so, click on “customize your player” as seen in the first screenshot above.

Player customization

One more thing: if you run a self-hosted blog on WordPress, make sure to check out the updated version of the SoundCloud ShortCode Plugin over on WordPress Plugin Directory.

Huge thanks go out to Raanan over at WordPress.com for making this possible.

Update: Here’s the WordPress announcement. Great!

Update 2: And below, find a nice how-to video that just got posted over on WordPress.tv:

DavidDavid Sharing SoundCloud tracks on Soup.io Comments

WhaSoup.io, people? Last week during Music Hack Day in London we had the chance to meet Christopher from micro-blogging platform Soup.io and quickly decided it would be a great idea to make it easy for users to share their SoundCloud tracks on Soup.io. Less than a week later and we’re all set!

If you have a (micro)blog over at Soup.io, you can now easily import publicly shared tracks from SoundCloud. Just head to your account, add any SoundCloud username to the list and it will automatically import the public tracks to your blog.

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This is how your Soup.io blog looks after importing the tracks. Whenever you upload a public track to SoundCloud it will automatically be added. Pretty cool!

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Also, much like the Posterous integration, whenever you’re on a SoundCloud track page (or any other page with SoundCloud tracks embedded for that matter) you can use the Soup.io bookmarklet to post a track with just one click:

Soup Bookmarklet

Hats off to Christopher and the Soup.io team for getting this great new feature live so quickly. Try it out.

EricEric Saturday: Re-share the Player Comments

“Ain’t it funny how men think
They made the bomb, they are extinct
It’s only Saturday”

Yes, it’s Saturday and we conclude six days of sharing with some… sharing! There’s now a “Share” button in the top right corner of the player widget. Click it and you get the embed code of the player so that you can re-embed it somewhere else directly. So if we find a player here:

… we simply click “share” and paste it into our blog here:

Curious about the lyrics we’ve been quoting? Well, it’s the from the beautiful track Six days by Dj Shadow (video by Wong Kar-Wai), which in turn is a cover of the original 1971 track Six Day War by Colonel Bagshot (Lyrics discussed here)…

EricEric Friday: Re-introducing… Email! Comments

“Although that shelter is your home
A living space you have outgrown
It’s only Friday”

It’s Friday and we decided to hack in a basic “Send this track via Email”-solution for your convenience. Simply click the Email-icon in the on the share-box above each track, like this:

and out comes this:

EricEric Thursday: I just Stumbled Upon a Track… Comments

“You hear a whistling overhead
Are you alive or are you dead?
It’s only Thursday”

For the few millions of you guys who are addicted to StumbleUpon, you can now stumble tracks from the share-box above each track.
Simply do this:

and out comes this!

EricEric Wednesday: Damn, that track is Delicious! Comments

“We’ll all go running underground
And we’ll be listening for the sound
It’s only Wednesday”

Maybe you guessed it by now? Yep, you can now bookmark tracks on Delicious straight from the share-box above each track.
Simply do this:

and out comes this!

AlexAlex Out with the old and in with the new ish… Comments

Caroline aka Miss Kittin

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!