It’s no secret that we are big fans of Soundcloud. Based in Berlin, the company makes it easy for artists to share their digital music online. Besides being incredibly passionate about music, they are serious audio engineers. Soundcloud is ideal for musicians, record labels and other industry professionals.
Distributing music online can be a real hassle. File sizes are often large, FTP is too technical and no artist wants their hard work covered in remnant ads on a fly-by-night file hosting site.
Soundcloud gives musicians a private, collaborative web presence and social network for their music. Each track has its own dedicated page with statistics, comments, a clean URL and can be embedded using Soundcloud’s slick audio player. There are no file size limits and Soundcloud sorts out the mess of format conversion for AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, OGG, MP3 and AAC files.
For a real world application of Soundcloud, we need to look no further than Flavors’ very own designer, Jack Zerby. A lifelong musician with three albums and two EPs under his belt, Jack recorded a theme song called “From Down Here” for a new sitcom pilot. After uploading the master to SoundCloud and sharing it privately with the producers for feedback, the song was chosen as the TV shows introduction music!
Flavors supports full audio playback of Soundcloud tracks, sets and favorites. If you create music or work with those who do, sign up for a Soundcloud account and connect it to Flavors.
And for inspiration, check out these existing Flavors + Soundcloud combos:
