SoundCloud Social Music Community Lets You Visually Comment On Music

SoundCloud takes music creation and collaboration and adds a social twist. In a platform that's attracted close to 100 application developers, the music service is quickly becoming the standard for music creation and social collaboration on the internet.

German music startup Soundcloud was founded in 2007 and has steadily grown to become a one of the webs most popular music collaboration services for aspiring musicians. The service exists as a platform for artists to easily create and share music to the web and receive instant feedback on their work through the systems extremely simple sharing and visual commenting system.

An freshly minted song is sent to SoundCloud then placed on a visual graph called a waveform, so when that killer hook comes at 57 seconds a listener can leave a comment at that precise moment, giving the musician insight into what parts of the song he or she liked most.

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