SoundCloud - Music with a
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Almost all owners of smartphones and the more players like the iPod Touch to listen to music on their devices. Modern IT-industry seriously advanced in the "cloud" technologies; and now we're less likely to connect your device to download it to music. It is much easier to use streaming playback using iTunes Match, Yandex. Or music service SoundCloud, which I will.
Let's briefly go over the first two. iTunes Match will let you synchronize your music with the "cloud" of Apple and 799 rubles a year to listen to your favorite songs wherever there is Internet access.
Yandex. Music will provide an opportunity to listen to the entire library of songs without restrictions for 199 rubles per month.
In both radio services there (unfortunately, iTunes Radio does not work for the Russian regions), which allows you to listen to music by genre or by artist. But if in the first case for the radio you do not have to pay (there are ads between tracks, will not be with her subscription), the second imposes a number of restrictions. For example, are inaccessible individual albums and tracks, and rewind the song is given only five times a day. However, using Yandex. Drive, you can to stream music directly from there.
Similarly, the work and service SoundCloud. This kind of social network that enables musicians to communicate with fans, download music and sell it. But we will talk not about the service and its application for iOS. All we need - is a free registration to the service.
Application meets us pretty slides, which briefly describes the service capabilities. Go to your account. We are now ready to search and play tracks.
The first tab shows us the songs that you've downloaded. Without filters and categories. Possible to stream all in order. As long as we do not, we'll do it later.
The second tab shows your profile, number of tracks, playlists, and the number of subscribers to your people.
Average tab - search. Here you can find songs, artists, playlists, or people related to your search query. If you have nothing to listen to, then it is most necessary tab. Here there is always a lot of artists and tracks for all tastes, by other members to my playlists.
Well before the penultimate tab settings - with the "likes", which shows the people who like you've added to the composition, or new subscribers, stay tuned on your page.
It's all fun and useful, but the most remarkable feature SoundCloud streaming I believe it is the music that you have uploaded yourself. Unfortunately, this is not as convenient as the same iTunes Match or Yandex. Disk. The app does not allow somehow to sync music from your library on your i-device, all have to do manually.
Go to the site under your profile and click on the "Upload" button. We were asked to choose a song from your hard drive or make a new record (this is useful if you, for example, record a podcast). Select the file, and the download starts. While the track is processed, you can give it a proper name (if tags spelled incorrectly) select a skin for it and affix tags which other users can find the downloaded composition.
Just below there are privacy settings, where you can enable or disable the downloaded tracks to other users. There is also an opportunity to share the downloaded song immediately via Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.
In the advanced settings, you can provide a link to buy the track (if you are selling, of course), and specify the type of license for the distribution of this content. Now, all decorated, and we go directly to the track. Here we can listen to it, to put the "Like" to add to the playlist, or a group, to share in the social. networks, edit or delete.
Unfortunately, like other similar services, SoundCloud is not completely free. In this case, you do not buy additional gigabytes and minutes. Initially available to us 100 minutes, and after all they are used up, you can switch to two available fare: PRO-tariff allows download additional 4:00 audio, PRO Unlimited lift restrictions completely (but not more than 30 hours per week and a single file must not exceed 2 GB).
Why should use this service? If you are a musician, this is another high-quality platform for the dissemination of his music (in addition to iTunes). For ordinary people are the same - a good opportunity to learn something new musically. Alas, the music on the service provided mainly foreign, but now there appear and Russian performers.
You can also use this service as I do. One hundred minutes - it is certainly good, but not enough. Every time the load on multiple albums, and then removed for lack of space - is not so convenient. So I usually upload to an album that is postponed "for later", and throw your favorite tracks in a single playlist. Thus, the downloaded album will be heard when the player is already all worn out and want something new, a selection of tracks I turn at any time, when I want to re-listen again. In addition, a convenient feature in Facebook rassharivaniya give the opportunity to share a composition (or a whole playlist) with your friends. To do this, they do not even have to move to the site of service. In Zuckerberg's social network will be built a small player with a track or playlist, which you can listen directly to Facebook.
Definitely recommend, even to educate. The more so because it does not need to pay.
Download SoundCloud for iOS is available in the iTunes Store in the version iPhone and iPad