Music Hacker

How to Use Soundcloud to Promote Your Music

2011-02-25T11:12:00.000-08:00

SoundCloud is a new online audio platform that lets music professionals receive, send and distribute their music. Primarily SoundCloud provides an efficient and simple way for music professionals to exchange music they are working on in private settings allowing for easy collaboration and communication prior to a public release.

SoundCloud - Scion Music(less) Music Conference from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

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Island Def Jam opens music to app developers

2011-02-25T05:56:00.000-08:00

Island Def Jam has partnered with The Echo Nest to give developers access to its recordings to use within mobile apps.

The deal was announced at the Digital Music Forum East in New York. While no prior rights clearance is required, Island Def Jam will become the publisher of the app. As such, it will handle payments to publishers and split revenues with The Echo Nest and the app developers.

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Music Hack Day NYC - hacking ideas

2011-02-12T07:08:00.000-08:00

Really looking forward to the NYC hack day! There will be plenty of
developers and other people from SoundCloud, so anyone using our API
you will get support and happy shout-outs from us.

Here is an introduction to the SoundCloud API:

The API makes it easy to upload, download and stream audio. You also
have access to related resources like comments, followings, favorites,
etc.

The documentation is available at GitHub together with links to a
bunch of API wrappers for different frameworks: https://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki

There are two basic use cases for the API:

- Any app that generates sound can use SoundCloud to share that sound
on the web. It's also possible to get an uploaded track posted on
Facebook and Twitter.

- Any app that uses sound for playback, remix, in-data, etc. can use
SoundCloud to stream or download tracks from the database. You can
either search the database or make use of followings, genres, tags,
etc. to find content.

To illustrate how the API can be used, here's an idea for an app:

I would love to see an Audiogram (or Instasound) app, i.e. something
similar to Instagram but for audio recordings instead of photos. Users
can record and share sounds from different locations and instead of
filters you could have some nice voice effects. Each user can get a
feed of recordings from the people he follows (on SoundCloud) or
browse sounds from different locations.

This would be pretty straightforward to build with the API without any
extra web services (if it's e.g. an iPhone app):
- each user connects with SoundCloud using OAuth 2
- the app can record tracks and potentially add effects to the
recording
- each recording is uploaded to the connected SoundCloud account
together with artwork (let users take a photo) and a geo location
- the users can follow other users and get a feed of recordings
- each recording is represented with the artwork and a waveform

We'll post some more ideas in this thread…

See you soon,
Henrik

Oliver 'Tuku'Mtukudzi -Todii

2011-01-26T12:11:00.000-08:00

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Congo Music - enjoy
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Powering The Future of Music

2010-09-04T20:36:00.000-07:00

Hackeress

2010-09-04T17:37:00.000-07:00

Dave Haynes

2010-09-04T17:17:00.000-07:00

Hack this way

2010-09-04T15:39:00.000-07:00

Hacking Goes on at the Hub, Kings Cross, London

OpenSocial R&B Music Player

2010-09-04T06:58:00.000-07:00

I've put together an R&B music app using OpenSocial. - http://goo.gl/8IBH. It works on any website. You can download the code from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3645025/rb-music-player.xml #musichackday

The T-Shirt

2010-09-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

The Hacking Room

2010-09-04T05:44:00.000-07:00

C.R.I.$.I.$. aka Mr. Swagger with Sean Paul

2010-09-03T12:55:00.000-07:00

AKON & SEAN PAUL SHOW. Supported by Zambia's very own, Hip-Hop star,'C.R.I.$.I.$. Mr. Swagger.' performing a Live Concert on SAT. SEPT. 4TH 2010 at the National Sports Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Visit http://diamondchainmusic.com for more details. Website designed and managed by Sam Mbale

The Echo Nest and 7digital Partner to Give Developers a DIY Online Music Store Platform

2010-09-03T04:53:00.000-07:00

Developers will be able to create innovative new music retail websites and music applications with the full suite of music data APIs at developer.echonest.com including artist and song similarity, song attributes (tempo, key, etc) and news feeds along with access to 7digital's album art, preview clips and sales fulfillment for over 10 million songs. Developers will earn affiliate revenue from every MP3 sold through their applications. The companies will unveil the new developer offering at the London Music Hack Day, to be held September 4 and 5 at the Guardian offices in London. Read more

London Music Hack Day 2010

2010-07-27T19:30:00.000-07:00

A quick plug for London Music Hack Day 2010 which is on the 4th - 5th of September at the O2 Bubble.

YouTube, Last.fm mashup

2009-11-08T16:03:00.000-08:00

YouScrobble takes elements of Last.fm and Youtube and wraps them up in a neat package. What a shame that it’s almost certainly illegal.

YouScrobble is designed to make searching for music quick and easy. By combining Last.fm’s music database with YouTube’s library of music videos it creates a slick platform for finding and watching your favourites artists’ perform. Read more....

Google Wave: Soul Grooves

2009-10-26T04:35:00.001-07:00

This is the Love

2009-07-12T13:18:00.001-07:00

Love to all who made the event a great succes

Final wrap up

2009-07-12T11:09:00.000-07:00

I drank gallons of red bull and ate lot's of pizza. I have not slept in 24 hours. All things considered the Hackday was a blast. Lot's of interesting and clever hacks some of which you can see here.

This is what I developed in 24hrs http://www.mpelembe.net/latest-sonybmg.html

Trying out Google Ajax API

2009-07-11T09:11:00.000-07:00

Tinkering around the Google Code Playground for some tricks and ideas. I'm considering adding Friends Connect elements and some other funky stuff.

Changing Categories

2009-07-11T08:39:00.001-07:00

Finding the line up is limited to alphabetical order.

Trying Again, Now This is Beyonce

2009-07-11T07:23:00.001-07:00

There is no sleeping tonight, well we'll see.

Blogging From the Player

2009-07-11T07:13:00.001-07:00

This is a neat feature for music fans who want to add videos to their blog. I'm working on adding to social networks. It's going to be a long day. At least I have beyonce to entertain me/us. Enjoy!

Mashing Up Content from SonyBMG, Brightcove Player and Google Ajax API

2009-07-11T03:55:00.000-07:00

I'm start with Brightcove Player, and some music from Brandy. http://www.mpelembe.net/Brandy-right-here.html

I'm now done with the video player. This one does not require much work, all that was needed was an API key from SonyMBG. Here is the player featuring 20 the hottest current videos from SonyBMG. Watch and enjoy http://www.mpelembe.net/latest-sonybmg.html!

Registration

2009-07-11T01:37:00.000-07:00

I arrived the Guardian Offices for the Music Hack Day. Registration was smooth and the wi fi is pretty good. A nice start to the day. Opening speeches and introductions and more coffees.

Glad this blog is topping Bing results for Music Hack Day.

About half the attendees are here now.

Dave Haynes from Soundcloud explaining the purpose for this event. The old school music experts want to meet with developers and brainstorm over issues challenging the music industry.

7digital one of the companies representatives has openened up their API today. BBC Music is also looking for innovative solutions for their vast music and programmes data. Echonest a music intelligence company specialising in analysis and remixes has several feeds for various categories. Also, Echonest has developer APIs in each category.

More details about companies running workshops can be found by joining the google group http://groups.google.com/group/musichackday. Updates on how to get APIs keys will posted the group.

Music Hack Day

2009-07-10T08:33:00.000-07:00

The Music Hack Day is an event for the international tech and digital music community taking place in London this weekend (July 11 to 12).

This hack day involves a number of invited attendees creating new Web applications in a 24-hour timeframe using digital companies' APIs (Application Programming Interface) or open source libraries.

BBC Music, SoundCloud, Last.fm, RjDj, Songkick, Echonest, Gigulate and People's Music Store are among the companies taking part in the event. Representatives from several major labels will be in attendance as well.

I will be attending as a developer. Also attending this Music Hack Day are leading international web developers, hackers and invited journalists. The event will be held at the London offices of British daily newspaper the Guardian, who recently launched their own open platform for developers.

You can find more information about the event here