SoundCloud have just pushed their latest upgrade called
Taylor, named after Taylor Swift and the fun she had with Kanye.
I've been using several
SoundCloud accounts for almost six months and there are a lot of improvements to be made but, for a service that has only recently celebrated their first birthday, they are doing well.
Anyone using SoundCloud knows that the team behind it are very engaged in perfecting the service for the end user and the Taylor update goes some way in the development. An excellent step!
SoundCloud now comes with three
player widgets;
The Minimalist (the name says it all),
The Expressionist (a square player for displaying album artwork and is pictured right), and
The Modernist (which is the original player). These will easily enable embedding of the player into different areas of websites and offer a wider choice of functionality.
An account I handle has around 950 tracks and the stats were completely inadequate at coping with this volume of content. The
new stats should go some way in delivering more meaningful information.
There is now a wider range of
Premium accounts, what used to be called
Pro accounts, that should appeal to the majority of people by offering good choice and value for money.
Along with the new accounts comes a return to the number of minutes of music you are limited to in your account, instead of a monthly upload limit. SoundCloud have termed this
Minutes with a quaint but, I think, useless analogy to tape - “
The Massive Tape Reel in the Cloud”.
One of the small, and much needed, additions that people have asked for in their accounts was an indicator to display the remaining upload space/tracks. This is finally in place on the upload page. Thank you SoundCloud team!
For a full explanation of what's new in the
Taylor release, check out the blog entry:
http://blog.soundcloud.com/2009/11/10/taylor/I'm off to play with what's new...
Labels: John Hartley, Music, News, SoundCloud, Tech
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