SoundCloud
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the service to distribute tracks through their blogs and connect with their fans.
We’ve received many requests from WordPress.com bloggers that they would like us to work with SoundCloud to enable this service, and today we have some good news for you! You can now easily embed the SoundCloud player on your WordPress.com blog.
To embed SoundCloud groups or member track playlists or a single track in your blog, explore the SoundCloud website or use the search feature to find a sound that you like.
Once you’ve located a song that you want to embed, copy the URL of that song from your browser’s address bar to your clipboard or click on the “Share” icon and locate the “WordPress” button:
Your shortcode should now look similar to this this:
[soundcloud url="http://soundcloud.com/meat-katie/meat-katie-vs-friends-of-mine-are-you-looking"]
You can then paste this code into your post, and it will display the player::
You can also customize the player size, embed sets and groups, and decide if you want comments within the player turned on or off. For details check out the documentation in our support area.
For those of you on a self-hosted WordPress blog, be sure to grab the SoundCloud Shortcode plugin.
- August 13, 2009
- Features, WordPress.com
Great!….thanks
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sickness
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awesome! very nice app!
wish you guys could add blip.fm as well!
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I hate Soundcloud. The site falters, there is no function to search for categorys and 98% of the songs is sick noise.
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OOOOhhhh wonderfull i like it …thank my dear:)
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Perfect addition! Will try it as soon as possible 🙂 Thanks!
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Another big thanks is due!! I presently use Box.net for music, but this app seems like a great perk for individual posts. Time to get some tunes… Thanks again.
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Ambient sound brings context, atmosphere and bi-dimensionality to the written word. Very cool.
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I’m already using it!
Works pretty fine…
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I try again … maybe I still come to the taste … 😉
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thanks so much…great idea…thanks to those who recommended it, too
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Fantastic, Totally awesome!!!!! I wait so Long for this THANKS WORDPRESS TEAM
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I think this is a great application, one of your best.
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WOW! I love SoundCloud! Thanks guys!
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Hey nice to know!!! will keep it in mind
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I wait this application long time.
And finally, Wp.com accomplished this feature with soundcloud.
Thanks Wp and soundcloud.
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Thanks! I’ve added it already to my blog, my Facebook, and my Twitter account.
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awwwwwwwwesome!
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Great! thing, thanks. My music + my friends + my blog, sweety application.
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THAT IS AWESOME!
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Cool ! , i like .
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Fantastic.. WP forever
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nothing’s perfect…they don’t have the music i’m looking for 😦
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i dont understand this, i really really dont
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For comprehensive instructions on using SoundCloud, please see our support page.
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Great! The Elves are happy. I can listen their laughs… Congratulations
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awesome!!!
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I think I should try this out. I think I will use it too, since I wanted to give some music to my blog. Amazing, WP evolves with ultrasonic speed. Thank you very much for your efforts.
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