SoundCloud? There’s an iPhone app for that…
Popular digital music industry service SoundCloud has just launched its official iPhone app, letting users access tracks sent to their account from their device as well as their desktop. It’s aimed at artists, producers, A&R folk and label managers.
The app also allows people to send tracks via email from their iPhone – its App Store blurb suggests this is likely to be done “while meeting potential clients or partners right on the spot”. Naturally, the app requires an existing SoundCloud account to work. It’s available on the US App Store now for $0.99, although at the time of writing (8pm GMT) it’s not yet made it to the UK App Store.
We write a lot about consumer-focused iPhone music apps, including those launched by artists. But it’s a mark of iPhone’s evolution that B2B music apps are also being released on the App Store. In separate news, Apple today announced that the App Store has officially passed the 100,000 apps milestone.
UPDATE: SoundCloud have got in touch to say the app wasn’t supposed to go live last night – it’s actually launching officially on 17th November, so has been whisked off the Store until then.
Tags: iphone, soundcloud
November 4th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
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November 4th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
try again. not available in US as of right now.
November 5th, 2009 at 12:27 am
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November 5th, 2009 at 5:25 am
so it’s not available in iTunes US store. So where is it available?
November 6th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
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November 9th, 2009 at 1:43 am
This B2B angle makes me laugh – Whilst their “business model” is all about targeting “music professionals”, they must know that most people are using SoundCloud to share copyrighted music. For that purpose, it is simply fantastic, and they seem to be getting away with it for the time being.
The same can be said for youtube, who now host a user-uploaded version of just about every record ever made. Using the APIs of these services, other companies are knitting it all together, for instance discogs now link directly to the youtube version of every track in their database.
To me this last year has seen the most dramatic and amazing changes in the way I can use the internet for listening to, buying, sharing and publishing music. At this stage, as an end user I have contributed financially to fund discogs (who take a small cut from the seller every time I buy a 2nd hand record), Youtube are starting to make money (by *being* google) but Soundcloud have made no more than the revenue from a few poxy ad impressions from me.
Without being able to identify copyrighted music and embed an ad to purchase the track in the way Google can with youtube, how are they going to survive? I do hope they manage it.