SoundCloud - New Waves in the Cyber Sea

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Well - I've been searching, listening and playing around with SoundCloud. I found a clip of an old favorite. Here it is:
Big Dee Irwin Swinging On A Star by Camille Styles Events

And to try to record something on my own, my daughter volunteered to play a bit on the piano. So here that is:
MB Intro
And here's the sweet sound of one of our kittens:
Soundcloud.com Indianna Meows

I guess you can use it as an audio instead of a YouTube clip. You could put a clip of soothing music on a blog or website to inspire or soothe your viewers.

I can definitely see how musicians can become self published. The new access to publishing sounds puts the marketing into the hands of the artist. (Just found SoundRain for that exact purpose...) As in the media publishing world, this will be revolutionizing the industry.

As a visual person, I can't seem to grasp why you would want to embed just a sound if you are trying to teach something - wouldn't a video be more useful?

Here are the two fellows that started SoundCloud -

Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss:

Although, after listening to this:
Alex-Eric SoundCloud

perhaps.... Soundcloud could be like an "audio tweet" - this could actually be a bit of a solution to those who wish to text on the go....

Want more info?   http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs