SoundCloud

The deluge of music applications that seem to constantly become available online can often times be mind numbing. If the shear number of these apps weren’t confusing enough, for the most part these apps are only making music discovery more fractured and less valuable. It’s rare then to find a company such as SoundCloud with an application that has a practical purpose, and offers a useful and valuable service.

SoundCloud has created a clever music sharing and distribution platform, that will most likely change the way those of us who work in music, collaborate and share audio files. I can also easily see the service becoming a powerful platform for consumers to casually share music files with each other.

SoundCloud: The Tour from SoundCloud on Vimeo.

Now I don’t think SoundCloud are solving the moneitization problem here, in fact they are providing an easy way to distribute unpaid music between folks, but the fact is that this ship has sailed. Ownership of music has become a commodity equation. While possessing music still matters, the purchase of that posession does not. SoundCloud understands that, and they have built an application to allow people to share music in a sensible and intuitive way.

Send me your track

I have included the SoundCloud dropbox on my page just above the playlists, so please feel free to drop me a song or two. I would love to hear anything you are listening to at the moment, old, new or a work in progress don’t hesitate to send it my way. I have included the dropbox above, so send me song and set up your own while you’re at it, I will return in kind.

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