The web has come a long way. We have APIs that allow developers to create amazing applications quickly, and browser technologies have…

On Saturday, we hosted Story Hack Boston along with P2PU and Mashery at the MIT Media Lab. About 50 people from content and technical backgrounds joined us to create new story telling experiences. The crowd was pretty evenly split, which made for a lot of awesome collaboration.

On Saturday, we hosted Story Hack Boston along with P2PU and Mashery at the MIT Media Lab. About 50 people from content and technical backgrounds joined us to create new story telling experiences. The crowd was pretty evenly split, which made for a lot of awesome collaboration.

We’re making some changes to how we manage our App Gallery and wanted to take some time to explain them to you, our developer community. The…

We’re making some changes to how we manage our App Gallery and wanted to take some time to explain them to you, our developer community. The…

Just over a week ago we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud. You can read (and listen!) about it on our community blog or read…

This is a story of how we adapted our architecture over time to accomodate growth. Scaling is a luxury problem and surprisingly has more to…

Just over a week ago we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud. You can read (and listen!) about it on our community blog or read…

This is a story of how we adapted our architecture over time to accomodate growth. Scaling is a luxury problem and surprisingly has more to…

As some of you might know, we had an outage yesterday. We believe that in every mistake there is something to learn from, so after each…

As some of you might know, we had an outage yesterday. We believe that in every mistake there is something to learn from, so after each…

Today we’re featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They’ve built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms an...

Today we’re featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They’ve built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms an...

SoundCloud is a polyglot company, and while we’ve always operated with Ruby on Rails at the top of our stack, we’ve got quite a wide variety…

SoundCloud is a polyglot company, and while we’ve always operated with Ruby on Rails at the top of our stack, we’ve got quite a wide variety…

A few weeks ago, I attended News Hack Day in San Francisco. News Hack Days are events that bring together journalists, developers and designers for multi day creative coding and brainstorming sessions. I really like the idea of hack days that bring together people from different backgrounds. After c...

A few weeks ago, I attended News Hack Day in San Francisco. News Hack Days are events that bring together journalists, developers and designers for multi day creative coding and brainstorming sessions. I really like the idea of hack days that bring together people from different backgrounds. After c...

There are many approaches to building libraries that wrap HTTP APIs. For many of our officially supported SDKs we chose to build light wrappers around HTTP client libraries with a few added features to make it easier to work with the SoundCloud API. This approach has a few benefits. It guarantees a ...

There are many approaches to building libraries that wrap HTTP APIs. For many of our officially supported SDKs we chose to build light wrappers around HTTP client libraries with a few added features to make it easier to work with the SoundCloud API. This approach has a few benefits. It guarantees a ...

SoundCloud loves hack days. Our latest hack day adventure brought us to Music Hack Day in Barcelona and we thought we’d share a bit of the great experience we had there. Photo by Thomas Bonte

SoundCloud loves hack days. Our latest hack day adventure brought us to Music Hack Day in Barcelona and we thought we’d share a bit of the great experience we had there. Photo by Thomas Bonte

Waveforms I’ve worked at SoundCloud for over two years now, and if there’s one thing I do a lot, it’s color waveforms. Tons of them. And, I’ve done it several different ways. Today, Johannes and I are pumped to announce a new JavaScript library called Waveform.js that will assist you in your colorin...

Waveforms I’ve worked at SoundCloud for over two years now, and if there’s one thing I do a lot, it’s color waveforms. Tons of them. And, I’ve done it several different ways. Today, Johannes and I are pumped to announce a new JavaScript library called Waveform.js that will assist you in your colorin...

Premiere 1.5 Smashing Pumpkins are using a BETA of the next version of Premiere to debut their new record “Oceania.” Here’s what’s new about the app.

Premiere 1.5 Smashing Pumpkins are using a BETA of the next version of Premiere to debut their new record “Oceania.” Here’s what’s new about the app.

This article is also available in: Serbo-Croatian: Pravljenje novog SoundCloud Armenian: SoundCloud (ձայնամպ) ծրագրավորողների համար The…

This article is also available in: Serbo-Croatian: Pravljenje novog SoundCloud Armenian: SoundCloud (ձայնամպ) ծրագրավորողների համար The…

On Saturday, I joined over a hundred other hackers at HackTO. This has become a regular event in the Toronto tech scene, thanks to excellent organizing by Leila Boujnane and Corey Reid. SoundCloud joined several other API providers, including Atomic Reach, Context.IO, FreshBooks, Shopify, TinEye, Tw...

On Saturday, I joined over a hundred other hackers at HackTO. This has become a regular event in the Toronto tech scene, thanks to excellent organizing by Leila Boujnane and Corey Reid. SoundCloud joined several other API providers, including Atomic Reach, Context.IO, FreshBooks, Shopify, TinEye, Tw...

In the last weeks we got pretty excited about the idea of using timed comments to create and script rich media experiences. Imagine being able to trigger all kinds of visualizations & interactions for a timed comment while playing a track. Timed Comments with Media