2. What is SoundCloud?
Your sounds from anywhere to everywhere
Lots and lots of sounds
All kinds of audio – Music, samples, loops, recordings
Almost 2 million users
Lots of activity
A platform open for hacking
100s of developers, 1000s of registered apps
4. Hacking
Three lines of code for sharing any audio
Huge database of tracks – growing every second
Great search tools over API
Streaming, oEmbed, widgets, players
Machine tags
Big social graph of audio creators
5. The SoundCloud API
Restful
Libraries for most languages
AS3, C, Cocoa, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby
Connect with SoundCloud
oAuth 2 authentication – Facebook connect style
Typical actions
Track Upload, download, searching & streaming
Meta Data, Artwork, Comments & Favorites
Public & Private Sharing