Based in Berlin, Germany,
SoundCloud is the world's leading audio distribution platform, allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings. It allows anyone to upload, record, and share originally-created sounds via its built-in social network.
SoundCloud is a blissful online tool for music lovers and professionals who’ve been longing for an easy and effective way to publicly or privately share and access music. SoundCloud has become a platform for emerging artists, brands, and others to build a fan base. All it takes is a click to share sounds to popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. People can follow, like, comment,
repost, and add tracks to their personal playlists. They can also follow their friends and any other account that creates songs, podcasts, or speeches. All this activity takes place in a News Feed-like home page.
SoundCloud provides several ways to discover artists and their music: you can search for a track or artist if you know one already, you can check the hot lists, forums, explore trending music, explore genre, latest public tracks or suggestions of people with the similar interests as you. To receive updates about new releases, you can follow the musicians.
According to the company’s data in December 2014, the service attracts more than 175 million unique monthly listeners, while content creators upload about 12 hours worth of audio every minute. There is no need to download anything, as the
SoundCloud hosts the tracks and offers a web-based playback, but if you want to use it with your mobile device you can download
app from
Google Play &
App Store.
