A while back I put down some thoughts on how best to utilise Soundcloud in your promotions (read the article here). Well, time stands still for no man, woman or blogger and with a series of new features rolled out on Soundcloud this week I thought I ought to see what it means to me, you and the rest of the world.
The new Dashboard
It's no secret, the Dashboard and the amount of information flowing through it has caused those folks living on the cloud a great deal of headaches, outages and hard work to streamline. The benefits are that you're now better able to customise what you want (within reason). The downside is it has meant 'Tracks from people you follow' has been removed. To see new tracks from people you follow you'll need to click on the 'Incoming Tracks' option along the header of the Dashboard area.
It's no secret, the Dashboard and the amount of information flowing through it has caused those folks living on the cloud a great deal of headaches, outages and hard work to streamline. The benefits are that you're now better able to customise what you want (within reason). The downside is it has meant 'Tracks from people you follow' has been removed. To see new tracks from people you follow you'll need to click on the 'Incoming Tracks' option along the header of the Dashboard area.
Personally I used that bit of the site a lot, so to be sure you never lose track of that track you love you'd be best making a favourite of it, and if you've linked your Twitter account that activity will show up there - share and share alike!
New Upload and Sharing
Not much change here other than the aesthetics really, some of the options like adding the label, BPM, release date, video links or purchase links are now hidden on arrival, simply scroll down and select 'Show More Options' to get to them.
The old 'Building Soundwave' screen has been replaced with a two part uploading progress bar. Nice touch, but not sure it really makes any difference?
You can also add a note to tracks now, most useful if you're sharing privately and want to put some info with the track, be that unmastered, in progress or whatever.
Be sure to scroll right down and enable the Downloading, Widgets and Apps enabled bits to get full expose for your tunes.
Perhaps the most interesting addition to the sharing options is the new Secret Widget feature - aimed right at those of you wanting to embed a player in your promo pages. More info on that can be found here (Secret Widget)
By no means a radical update of operations over on the cloud but as more of more music professionals get involved they're working hard to push on enhancing things, recent additions of being able to click on tags and see more tunes of the same genre and a whole lot of work around copyright and the creative commons licensing really does make Soundcloud the unrivaled site for getting your music out there - as long as you do it right!
New Upload and Sharing
Not much change here other than the aesthetics really, some of the options like adding the label, BPM, release date, video links or purchase links are now hidden on arrival, simply scroll down and select 'Show More Options' to get to them.
The old 'Building Soundwave' screen has been replaced with a two part uploading progress bar. Nice touch, but not sure it really makes any difference?
You can also add a note to tracks now, most useful if you're sharing privately and want to put some info with the track, be that unmastered, in progress or whatever.
Be sure to scroll right down and enable the Downloading, Widgets and Apps enabled bits to get full expose for your tunes.
Perhaps the most interesting addition to the sharing options is the new Secret Widget feature - aimed right at those of you wanting to embed a player in your promo pages. More info on that can be found here (Secret Widget)
By no means a radical update of operations over on the cloud but as more of more music professionals get involved they're working hard to push on enhancing things, recent additions of being able to click on tags and see more tunes of the same genre and a whole lot of work around copyright and the creative commons licensing really does make Soundcloud the unrivaled site for getting your music out there - as long as you do it right!
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