About
SoundCloud is one of the world’s
leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them
everywhere. The site allows people to easily share their sounds privately with their
friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. People can easily link
their SoundCloud to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare.
Features
SoundCloud is available around the
world and is free for anyone to sign up and use.
It allows you to record, upload and
share originally created sounds. Recently, Soundcloud has introduced SoundCloud Go, which is the premium version. Members
of the premium version are offered the promise of an expanded musical catalogue provided by recent licensing deals
with Warner, Universal and Sony as well as tracks from
20,000 independent labels represented
by global music rights agency Merlin.
The interface for Go on the SoundCloud app is easy to use
and extremely fast on an iPhone 6S, and rather than weigh down the app
with options, SoundCloud has wisely opted to strip things back.
SoundCloud Go has an option to make all current and
future likes and playlists available offline, something that’s arguably simpler
than the way Spotify and Apple Music’s apps add it on as an extra step.
The search function also seems solid, and always retrieved what was searched
for quickly. The music library isn’t quite as elegantly organised as Spotify or
Apple Music, though it seems SoundCloud Go is aiming more at streamlining
music discovery than its rivals.
Download Links
SoundCloud is available for download on
iTunes for iPhone users GooglePlay for Android users.
The Verdict
SoundCloud is great for anyone interested In creating, distributing and
sharing audio content and finding new artists. Those
looking to simply stream mainstream music will like sites like Pandora or Spotify better. However, anyone with an interest in
uploading their own work (or hearing others' work) will find SoundCloud the
go-to place for audio on the web. Less creation tool and more sharing platform,
SoundCloud would do well to offer users some basic production tools while
recording.
Reviewed by Grace
★★★★☆
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