SoundCloud is an online audio platform with almost 2 million users that allows users to share music, samples, loops and recordings. It has a large social network of audio creators and offers APIs for developers to access its huge database of tracks and metadata through libraries for languages like AS3, C, Cocoa, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python and Ruby. The RESTful SoundCloud API allows developers to build apps that can upload, download, stream and search tracks as well as access comments, favorites and other metadata.

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

3. Social Sounds

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

6. RESTful API
> http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2
<track>
<sharing>public</sharing>
<tag-list>electric,beats</tag-list>
<streamable type="boolean">true</streamable>
<bpm type="float">120.0</bpm>
<license>cc-by-nc-sa</license>
<waveform-url>
http://waveforms.soundcloud.com/KcoNolQWb1bB_m.png
</waveform-url>
<stream-url>
http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2/stream
</stream-url>
</track>

7. Connect with SoundCloud

8. Custom Player API
$('a.sc-player').scPlayer();
http://github.com/soundcloud/soundcloud-custom-player

9. Widget API
soundcloud.addEventListener('onPlayerReady', function
(player, data) {
console.log('player ready');
});
http://github.com/soundcloud/Widget-JS-API

10. oEmbed API
http://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=track-url
http://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki/oEmbed-API

11. soundcloud.com/developers

12. Hacks

13. Radio Free

14. Tracks on a Map

15. CloudPost

16. AmpKit

17. Prize

18. Thanks!
eric@soundcloud.com
twitter.com/ericw

19. We’re hiring :)
soundcloud.com/jobs