I first heard of SoundCloud a couple of months back when I saw a friend using it. As we sat down catching up over tea, she introduced me to some of her latest favourites in music. She was playing them off an app.
I was intrigued, I love listening to music and also know instinctively whether I love a song or not at first listen but I’m challenged at curation. I don’t do so well at discovering new music and depend on friends to introduce me. Left to myself I’d be stuck in the ones I have and never hear a new song.
Discovery and curation is what caught my attention about this app, using social power and the internet it could lead me to listening to new music and exploring the musical space.
What the Soundcloud App’s supposed to do
A free user of SoundCloud gets a certain amount of space free to upload their music, which frankly isn’t much but users can also connect to their friends, make new friends, make playlists, join groups and discovery new music.
It’s all that’s offered beyond music upload that makes this app so cool. It’s like a GoodReads for music, and it’s power lies in the community using it.
How I’m using the Soundcloud App
I’ve been using SoundCloud to follow a couple of friends whose musical tastes I love, I’ve also been discovering a little music on my own, though most of this is artists I already love. The new ones I’ve been finding via friends and curators like 'A Song A Day’.
My thoughts on the Soundcloud App
Over the last few months I’ve come to like SoundCloud a lot, it’s become my music listening source at almost all times (except when there’s no internet).
There’s one downside though. I wish there was a way to get the app to take some of that music offline, it could be DRMed and all that, I don’t care, but it’d be nice to have my music available even then the internet is on the blink, plus I’d not have streaming lags.
How do you discover new music? What’s your favourite music app? Are you on SoundCloud? Drop me a friend request. :)
App details and link
Stars - ★★★★☆
Developer - SoundCloud
Devices - Android, IOS
Size - 21M
Installs - 100,000,000 - 500,000,000
Link - Android Store | iTunes Store
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