Sound Cloud Music App for android free download

Sound Cloud Music App for android free download

Type           Private

Foundation date 2007 (Berlin, Germany)

Headquarters Berlin, Germany

Area served Worldwide

Founder(s) Alexander Ljung

Eric Wahlforss

Key people Alexander Ljung (Founder & CEO)

Eric Wahlforss (Founder & CTO)

Dave Haynes (VP Business Development),

David Noël (Evangelist & Community Manager)

Employees 190

Website Soundcloud.com

Alexa rank Increase 189

Type of site Social networking service, music website

Registration Required to post/upload, but not to listen

Users 40 million registered users, 200 million listeners

Launched October 2008

Current status  Active

Description

Hear original music & audio from the world's largest community of musicians, bands, producers and audio creators of all types. SoundCloud is the world’s leading audio platform, with over twelve hours of music & audio posted every minute. Find and play new songs, remixes, comedy, news and more. With the SoundCloud app for Android, you can hear anything, wherever you are.

How to use SoundCloud:

SoundCloud brings you the best original new music & audio direct from the creators themselves. Find and follow your favourite bands, singers, producers and audio creators of all kinds, so that their latest tracks, sets and recordings appear in your stream.

Sharing your favourite music and audio to social networks is simple and fast: post tracks to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Tumblr so your friends can hear them too.

Get started with SoundCloud: it's easier and simpler than ever to discover and share music & audio you love.

- Join the community: connect on SoundCloud with friends and music & audio creators you already follow on Facebook 

- Choose your favorite genres to launch your SoundCloud stream full of music & audio you want to hear

- Get personalized content suggestions to help you discover new music & audio creators you'll love

Praise for SoundCloud:

"SoundCloud is focused on building out a massive trove of content, weaving it all into the Web and making it easier to share. The "YouTube for audio" analogy looks increasingly apt, especially if its metrics continue to shoot skyward." - ReadWrite

"Over the past few years the company has grown from a small Berlin-based startup into one of the world’s leading online audio distribution platforms with a truly global footprint." - The Independent UK

"SoundCloud is a sharing machine. Remember the early days of audio online — when you had to download the Real Player or Windows Media Player to listen? The days of downloading before listening are over." - USA Today

"Podcasts have been around for ages, but making one still feels too much like making a radio show: You face the empty-mic problem—what do I have to say? Tools like SoundCloud make it easier to archive and share stray snippets. It’s more like Instagram than NPR." - Wired Magazine (US)

"It's an evolution of audio's most vital self-service creation and discovery platform, music's best analogue to Twitter, YouTube, and Kindle Direct Publishing. It's not just finding or sharing songs or podcasts or spoken-word readings your friends may be listening to — it's finding and sharing the people who make those recordings, too." - The Verge

Discovering great new music has never been simpler. Use the powerful search feature to search for specific people, sounds or sets. Whether you are seeking dubstep, R&B, hip-hop and rock music or the latest news & current affairs, you can find it on SoundCloud.

SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany that enables its users to upload, record, promote and share their originally-created sounds. In May 2010, it announced that it had reached a million users

History:

SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but it was established in Berlin, Germany in August 2007 by Swedish sound designer Alex Ljung and Swedish artist Eric Wahlforss. It had the intention of allowing musicians to share recordings with each other, but it later transformed into a full publishing tool which also allowed musicians to distribute their music tracks.

A few months after it began operating, SoundCloud began to challenge the dominance of Myspace as a platform for musicians to distribute their music by allowing recording artists to interact more nimbly with their fans.

In a 2009 interview with Wired, co-founder Alex Ljung said:

We both came from backgrounds connected to music, and it was just really, really annoying for us to collaborate with people on music—I mean simple collaboration, just sending tracks to other people in a private setting, getting some feedback from them, and having a conversation about that piece of music. In the same way that we’d be using Flickr for our photos, and Vimeo for our videos, we didn’t have that kind of platform for our music.[4]

In April 2009, SoundCloud received €2.5 million Series A funding from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. By May 2010, SoundCloud announced it had one million subscribers. In January 2011, it was confirmed that SoundCloud had raised a $10 million Series B funding round from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. On June 15, 2011, SoundCloud announced they had five million registered users, and investments from Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Fund. On January 23, 2012, SoundCloud announced on their blog that they had 10 million registered users. A story wheel was created for the occasion, which can be found on the SoundCloud blog.[5] In December 2012, a new SoundCloud layout was released to the general public. Among the many new features was the ability to continue playback of a track whilst navigating around the site, and the ability to read comments without them obscuring the waveform.

Features:

• New Explore: browse trending tracks by genre or check out the 'Trending Music' and 'Trending Audio' feeds.
• Search and discover new music & audio for free
•  Discover and follow diverse music & audio creators 
•  Listen to sets (collections of tracks), or create your own playlists and share them with your followers
•  Listen to a stream of new tracks wherever you are; streaming audio playback over WiFi or cellular data connection
•  Record your own sounds with one touch and share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
•  Geotag recordings with location information (requires ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission)
•  Includes optional Record Widget for the homescreen
• Lockscreen playback supported (play, pause and skip tracks without unlocking the screen)
• Google+ Sign-in and share!

A key feature of SoundCloud is that it lets artists upload their music with a distinctive URL. This contrasts with MySpace, which hosts music only on the MySpace site. By allowing sound files to be embedded anywhere, SoundCloud can be combined with Twitter and Facebook to let members reach their audience better.

SoundCloud distributes music using widgets and apps. Users can place the widget on their own websites or blogs and then SoundCloud will automatically tweet every track uploaded.SoundCloud has an API that allows other applications or smartphones to upload or download music and sound files.

This API has been integrated into several applications, most notably the professional version of the PreSonus Studio One DAW.

SoundCloud depicts audio tracks graphically as waveforms and allows users to comment on specific parts of the track (also known as timed comments). Other standard features include reposts, sets, followers, and downloads.

SoundCloud also provides users with the ability to create and join groups that provide a common space for content to be collected and shared.