Dave Haynes

SoundCloud was mentioned on Fred Wilson’s AVC Blog this week. Having been a big fan of Fred’s posts for over a year now it was a great pleasure to see a whole post on SoundCloud. Another great plus is the informed and heated debate that quite often develops in the comments on most of his posts.

Thanks to the awesome ‘reblog’ feature on Disqus here’s what I had to add to the conversation:

I work for SoundCloud and am out there every day talking to artists, labels, studios, producers and A&R guys etc about the service and yes they have bigger problems but they quickly realise that SoundCloud is gonna become part of their daily toolkit for doing business in the music industry.

As for the bigger picture stuff I think the killer touch here is the SoundCloud API and developer platform. I envisage more and more great applications being built around this. Just like I can import my photos from Flickr directly into a service like Animoto to create an animated music video, musicians will be able to pull their music into other services that add value. For example we’ve already seen one MP3 download store build a tool for their labels to automatically deliver music to them via SoundCloud. (http://blog.soundcloud.com/2008/11/21/digital-t…).

Another subtle but very nice feature is that SoundCloud is allowing users to markup their tracks with Creative Commons licenses. So to take my previous analogy further I can really imagine going on to a service like Animoto and pulling in my photos from Flickr and importing a CC licensed track from SoundCloud that I have previously tagged as a favourite. To me these possibilities are extremely exciting and is what the new age of the Web is all about.

Originally posted as a comment by haynes_dave on A VC using Disqus.

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