Are you looking for the next big artists alongside chart-topping albums, live sets, and mixes for every occasion? SoundCloud gives you all that. SoundCloud is the world’s largest music and audio streaming platform and it harbors over 150 million tracks from emerging and established artists.
Being the world’s largest music and audio platform, it allows the discovery and enjoyment of the greatest selection of music from the most diverse creator community on earth. After launching in the year 2008, it was renowned for its unique features and contents. Also for its ability to share music and connect directly with artists together with tracks, raw demos, podcast and much more.
SoundCloud, used by Music and audio creators to share and monetize their content with a global audience. By the same token, receiving detailed stats and feedback from the SoundCloud community. The Founder is Alexander Ljung while the Chief Product Officer (CPO) is Eric Wahlforss.
SoundCloud, established in Berlin, Germany in September 2007. And launched October 2009. After establishment, it had 40 million registered users and 175 million unique monthly listeners. SoundCloud, announced by Twitter in the year 2013 as a third-party music partner. Alongside iTunes, in developing the Twitter’s first integrated music app.
Subscription Service
29th March 2016, the subscription streaming service, SoundCloud Go was launched. It allows users to remove ads and listen offline for $5 monthly. A later version was released and renamed SoundCloud Go+. This version allows access to 150 Million songs, offline playback, no ads, no previews and premium music tracks for $10 per month.
Also, it offers premium services for musicians under the banner SoundCloud Pro. The Pro service allows users to upload up to six hours of audio. And to add additional features such as enhanced analytics, and the ability to disable comments on tracks. The Pro Unlimited tier allows unlimited uploads.
SoundCloud Features
SoundCloud’s amazing feature is the ability to access uploaded files. Via unique URLs, and allowing sound files to be embedded in Twitter and Facebook posts. Also with it, you can join music community that will enable you to share tracks and build collections of your favorite recordings. With the app, audios can also be listened to online.
Furthermore, you can create a playlist of your favorite songs. You can also share your own recordings and include links for purchase so that listeners can download the recording online. It supports AIFF, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, OGG, MP2, MP3, AAC, AMR, and WMA files. It then trans-codes them to MP3 at 128 kbit/s for streaming purposes. And SoundCloud to Mp3 is available for iOS and Android devices.
SoundCloud.com Pricing
For payment, it is free for listening to music, interacting with the community and uploading just 180 minutes of audio. $7 per month Pro plan is the pay for 360 minutes of audio uploads, additional stats, and pin track option to your profile. Also, $15 per month Pro unlimited for unlimited uploads, city-level stats and info on the sites and apps that your tracks are being played. Be aware that, there is 25% discount on Pro and Pro Unlimited with annual plans.
Mobile App
The Mobile App, SoundCloud Pulse, released for Android devices in November 2015. Primarily oriented for users to upload and manage the uploads, for giving a reply to contents, and for viewing statistics. As a matter of fact, this mobile App had over 100 Million downloads towards the end of 2016. To the iOS App. Chromecast support was added, on 1st April 2017.
Another Mobile App is the SoundCloud – Music and Audio. This App was released on the 11th October, 017 and has over 100,000,000 – 500,000,000 downloads. Also, it requires the android version 4.1 and up to install. This App version enables you to listen to current music and see the latest album of Worlds musicians. And it is compatible with all devices.
How to Download Soundcloud App
The Mobile Apps can be download using the keyword “SoundCloud” with the google search engine. Using the Keyword, it displays all the Mobile Apps available. Open your web browser. And visit the Google Play Store that is, play.google.com While the official website is www.soundcloud.com or click HERE.Try it now and connect with artiste and also get to record your own audio.
