Comments on: SoundCloud adds a new feature: Groups

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:30:26 +0000

I will indeed try to remember to remind you in a few months :D

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:58:47 +0000

I wish I had my records/turntable set up. I have 1000s of New Beat Records. Remind me in a few months to take some photos/samples!

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:23:13 +0000

that is cool the way it shows your groups, and yeh Brian hopefully my group will make people listen to, or at least ‘study’ Belgian New Beat for historical ‘this influenced that’ type reasons, I really do think New Beat’s importance in the evolution of hard 4/4 dance music is always understated…

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:56:26 +0000

I think the Groups is a great addition. It's very similar to Groups in Flickr. What I like is when you add your own song to a Group that Group shows on the right side column of the song page. Take a look: click here

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:27:37 +0000

Not sure yet how I feel about the groups. I’ve discovered a couple of new members’ work that I’d likely not have otherwise (Cyclotron = good) but now I’m getting 30-40 Soundcloud updates a day letting me know about songs added to the groups.
In addition it looks like they aren’t well moderated — there are no less than four Ableton Live groups. I think a DAW isn’t really enough to have music in common. Ok, maybe Ableton Live tracks made with the new Vocoder, or with the Operator synth. But the tracks in the Live groups have nothing in common and frankly I couldn’t tell if they were made in Live, Cubase, or Logic.
I expect some of this will sort itself out, just as I expect that soon enough the benefits of Belgian New Beat will be understood by all.

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:38:02 +0000

yeh the groups thing will become very useful in the future, I still think it may have been futile me setting up a Belgian New Beat one though – unless someone has mixes or something :p – actually I might put one up myself eventually (just made in Live obviously).

By: kurtlrnz

kurtlrnz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:59:39 +0000

I love the new features on Soundcloud. I put my tracks into a set and embed that sets player into my webpage. See it here: http://www.kurtlorenz.com/sound/