{"id":1051,"date":"2011-03-02T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:47:30","slug":"sharing-audio-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2011\/03\/02\/sharing-audio-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Audio Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been wondering why there isn&#8217;t something like YouTube &#8211; but for high quality sound files instead of video.\u00a0Now there is. The German firm <a title=\"Soundcloud\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud<\/a> has just opened offices in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>SoundCloud allows users to upload just about any audio format, host it in the cloud, and share it over social networks, private sharing, or HTTP embedding. Listeners can be allowed to post comments, re-share a file, download or purchase files.<\/p>\n<p>The service was originally created for musicians who wish to share their files, but I think it will also be extremely useful for radio reporters and those who want to embed sound files in their blogs or social media sites. In addition, direct web sharing can turn a small portable device into a sound recorder with virtually unlimited recording capacity.<\/p>\n<p>SoundCloud is a lot simpler and more flexible than other audio file hosting services, for instance the one offered by AvidAudio, the makers of ProTools.<\/p>\n<p>Unique is also that SoundCloud offers simple apps for portable devices. For instance, the iPhone app places a &#8216;record button&#8217; on the iPhone, which allows direct recording to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>There are also plenty of related apps for the iPad, one of which turns the iPad into a portable recording and sound editing studio, which allows direct recording to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Basic SoundCloud accounts are free.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.SoundCloud.com\">http:\/\/www.SoundCloud.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3449\">A Space Poster With Mysterious Origins<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3428\">Did Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard Ever Work On Mount Wilson?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3208\">Size Comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3178\">Don&#8217;t Believe It When You See It<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3071\">Apple Music Classical<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New service allows sharing of audio files over social networks, privately, or via HTML embedding. Apps for mobile devices allow recording directly to the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,40,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-media-industry","category-music","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}