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David The Next SoundCloud Becomes SoundCloud

Thanks to your feedback through months of private beta, we’re thrilled to be making a big announcement: today, the Next SoundCloud becomes SoundCloud for everyone.

What you hear and see today is the direct result of your input: this is your SoundCloud. For creators of music & audio like you, it means that you’ll be heard everywhere. For your friends, fans and followers, the new SoundCloud will make discovering, connecting and sharing sounds even easier and more fun.

It’s much more than just a redesign. Not only does SoundCloud look completely different, it has many exciting new features for you:

Reposts:

Grow your audience by seeing your sounds shared across the community, or build a following around your excellent taste by reposting sounds into your own stream for others to discover.

Sets:

Curate a collection with your own sounds or the sounds you love — it’s simple. Sets can be reposted and shared throughout the community, which will help you find new people to hear and share your sounds.

Continuous Play:

Hit play and continue exploring: keep listening while you discover even more music & audio. It’s seamless.

Search & Explore:

Find it, hear it: our improved search lets you find the music & audio you’re looking for. Not sure what you want? Explore lets you discover what’s new and hot.

And there’s more: the new SoundCloud is filled with tons of smaller details that we hope will make your experience better. You’ll see that we’ve improved timed comments and added keyboard shortcuts and a shuffle feature for the sounds you’ve liked. The new Activity tab keeps you informed about what’s happening around your music & audio in real time and a personalized ‘who to follow’ lists helps you find people like you.

This is only the beginning: in the coming weeks, we’ll be working on all areas of the web and mobile apps so that you can enjoy SoundCloud as a cross-platform experience.

On that note, we want to thank you not only for your help during the beta, but for making SoundCloud what it is: a fantastic community of sound creators and lovers where positive spirit, mutual respect and support has made this community one that you can all be proud of. Thank you. Stay awesome!

As always, we love your feedback: leave a comment to tell us what you like most about the new SoundCloud.

David This Week in Tumblr: Sesame Street, Sydney, Vote

Check out all the stuff that went on at our Tumblr blog last week. Everything rad is recapped below! Enjoy!

Monday

  • Hannes at Music Hack Day Barcelona

Tuesday

  • SESAME STREET ON SOUNDCLOUD >> RIGHT HERE.
  • See that? That’s Richard Devine recording Teufelsberg. And it’s also one of the best echo sounds on SoundCloud, and one of our Found Sounds this week. Not bad.
  • SoundCloud Spotted: Jamiroquai, Timo Maas, Sŵn Festival, August Burns Red, Iwrestledabearonce, Retro/Grade, The Hidden Cameras
  • Fancy some Berlin sound? Look no further, Apparat are some of the popular artists around here.

Wednesday

Thursday

SoundCloud Local: Sydney from Trixie Barretto on Vimeo.

  • G’day, mates! Today is a very special SoundCloud Local day. We took a look at Sydney and caught five SoundCloud users on camera, huge thanks to Vimeo creator, Trixie! Learn more about each SoundClouder and how this all came together here!
  • Every Thursday for lunch we hold masterclasses and eat free pizza, pasta and salad. Today’s masterclass was about body hacking.
  • It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another SoundCloud Voices post – this week the topic is New York, or rather some really brilliant creators coming out of NYC.  Radiolab, The New Yorker and Science Line.

Friday

Don’t forget to check out what’s happening this week at our Tumblr blog!

David Tumblr + SoundCloud = ♥

Tumblr and SoundCloud both are fantastic communities of people expressing themselves through the things they create; we think bringing them together is like a match made in heaven. So from today, we are thrilled to announce along with the fine folks from Tumblr that you can now easily share the sounds you create to Tumblr!

Here’s what we’ve made possible:

Record and share to Tumblr:

Capture any audio on-the-fly with our iPhone and Android apps and share your recordings directly to your Tumblr blog. This is super neat for impromptu interviews, commentary, breaking news, comedy or poetry – heck, pretty much anything you hear around you.

Meet Tumblr’s David at a spontaneous Tumblr meetup in Berlin? Hit the record button:

Here are some other nice recordings from Maura, Bijan, Caroline, David & Alex.

Auto-publish your new sounds and favorites:

In your advanced SoundCloud settings, you can now choose to automatically push favorites and new sounds you created to your Tumblr blog. Save time when sharing the sounds you create!

Super-easy sharing:

Found something on SoundCloud you like? Easily post to Tumblr by pushing the Share button on SoundCloud or grab the url and post it as an external source on Tumblr Audio posts.


Search SoundCloud on Tumblr:

When creating an audio post, you can now search, preview and post audio from SoundCloud to Tumblr.

Oh and in case you hadn’t noticed, we’re all big fans of Tumblr and a number of staffers use it every day for their personal blogs. Find out who does and follow at will!

Thank you team Tumblr for your hard work on getting this out in the wild. We can’t wait to see what happens when people capture and use sound in their everyday lives, ultimately making the web less silent.