عربي

Making Music a Social Experience: SoundCloud's Thom Cummings at SHARE Beirut [Wamda TV]

Wamda •

At SHARE Beirut 2012, Thom Cummings of SoundCloud discusses how their platform is making music and other audio files a more interactive and social experience.

SoundCloud allows users to upload and share sounds and turn them into a visual object; users can leave  comments and highlight select points on the sound bar.

Cummings explains that musicians use the platform to promote their brand, allowing fans to interactively discuss and share each song over social their networks. Podcasts likewise use the platform to expand their reach and continue the conversation online.

Thus, SoundCloud is becoming a crowdsourced archive of all types of sounds; from songs to speeches, podcasts to independent compilations. The team hopes that SoundCloud will effectively become an archive of music and sound history as it grows.

Thank you

Please check your email to confirm your subscription.

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

(1/1) ErrorException

file_put_contents(): Only 0 of 289 bytes written, possibly out of free disk space
in Filesystem.php (line 122)
at HandleExceptions->handleError(2, 'file_put_contents(): Only 0 of 289 bytes written, possibly out of free disk space', '/var/www/wamda-frontend/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php', 122, array('path' => '/var/www/wamda-frontend/storage/framework/sessions/oJOp0miK8CgB1yzhUvqDTKJZRfATlvYYlrDEtXSb', 'contents' => 'a:3:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"GUA2LNy7yZN1K34U5rWeus8R2Z6mbWDENYrTGIDI";s:9:"_previous";a:1:{s:3:"url";s:130:"http://staging.wamda.com/index.php/en/2012/11/making-music-a-social-experience-soundcloud-s-thom-cummings-at-share-beirut-wamda-tv";}s:6:"_flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}', 'lock' => true))
at file_put_contents('/var/www/wamda-frontend/storage/framework/sessions/oJOp0miK8CgB1yzhUvqDTKJZRfATlvYYlrDEtXSb', 'a:3:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"GUA2LNy7yZN1K34U5rWeus8R2Z6mbWDENYrTGIDI";s:9:"_previous";a:1:{s:3:"url";s:130:"http://staging.wamda.com/index.php/en/2012/11/making-music-a-social-experience-soundcloud-s-thom-cummings-at-share-beirut-wamda-tv";}s:6:"_flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}', 2)in Filesystem.php (line 122)
at Filesystem->put('/var/www/wamda-frontend/storage/framework/sessions/oJOp0miK8CgB1yzhUvqDTKJZRfATlvYYlrDEtXSb', 'a:3:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"GUA2LNy7yZN1K34U5rWeus8R2Z6mbWDENYrTGIDI";s:9:"_previous";a:1:{s:3:"url";s:130:"http://staging.wamda.com/index.php/en/2012/11/making-music-a-social-experience-soundcloud-s-thom-cummings-at-share-beirut-wamda-tv";}s:6:"_flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}', true)in FileSessionHandler.php (line 83)
at FileSessionHandler->write('oJOp0miK8CgB1yzhUvqDTKJZRfATlvYYlrDEtXSb', 'a:3:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"GUA2LNy7yZN1K34U5rWeus8R2Z6mbWDENYrTGIDI";s:9:"_previous";a:1:{s:3:"url";s:130:"http://staging.wamda.com/index.php/en/2012/11/making-music-a-social-experience-soundcloud-s-thom-cummings-at-share-beirut-wamda-tv";}s:6:"_flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}')in Store.php (line 128)
at Store->save()in StartSession.php (line 88)
at StartSession->terminate(object(Request), object(Response))in Kernel.php (line 218)
at Kernel->terminateMiddleware(object(Request), object(Response))in Kernel.php (line 189)
at Kernel->terminate(object(Request), object(Response))in index.php (line 58)