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Re: Alternatives to SoundCloud?

Subject: Re: Alternatives to SoundCloud?
From: "atl" r0t0pan
Date: Mon May 17, 2010 1:28 am ((PDT))
There are several low-cost hosting sites out there that have unlimited
storage and bandwidth with one-click installations of wordpress.  Once
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e
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for wp.*

-aj

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jeremiah Moore <>wr=
ote:

> Yahoo has a media player which is easy to implement and is free.  You hav=
e
> to host your own files.  And it is branded as a Yahoo thing.
>
> http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/
>
> A lot of blogging systems implement some sort of built-in player as well.
>  Try tumblr.com for instance.
>
> Of course, none of these let you do simple you-tube style embed code like
> Soundcloud does.
>
> -jeremiah
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:36 PM, corticalsongs <
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Richard
> >
> > I really think that SoundCloud is currently the best player in this
> space.
> > For long tracks, I have found that you cannot upload anything larger th=
an
> > 1GB - it fails silently. This may well be a limitation imposed by the
> > web-based uploader.
> >
> > Before SoundCloud hit the scene, I had developed something for my own u=
se
> > that I thought about expanding for the particular needs of the nature
> > recordist/phonographer, but SoundCloud satisfies 90% of my current need=
s.
> > That being said, there still may be some niche development to be done
> here
> > to provide services that SoundCloud does not, like spectrogram
> > computation... The site is still up at http://naturerecordists.com
> >
> > I currently have a restriction on the size of the files of 10Mb, but th=
is
> > is completely arbitrary so that I avoid high storage fees. The site is
> > currently free.
> >
> > If you want to do things yourself, just about anything can be
> accomplished
> > with Amazon's S3 and SoundManager2
> > http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > --- In <naturerecordists%
> 40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Richard Folwell <> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm currently using SoundCloud to share my attempts at nature sound
> > > recording. I think it is an excellent system, very neat. However it
> > > does have a couple of quirks that make me want to look for
> alternatives:
> > >
> > > - the pricing structure is, understandably, aimed at at people who ar=
e
> > > producing relatively short music tracks. Where, like me, you want to
> > > share long ambient material the pricing does not make so much sense
> > >
> > > - I have had a few issues with UI stability recently. I suspect that
> > > they are pushing out changes without testing them properly (hopefully
> > > this will stop in due course)
> > >
> > > So the question is, what alternatives do group members know about?
> > >
> > > I see that many people run excellent blogs which provide sound playin=
g
> > > embedded apps. I will be delving into both HTML source and credits fo=
r
> > > tips, but would appreciate any general tips for someone considering
> this
> > > route.
> > >
> > > I have the skills and resources to do my own hosting, but would prefe=
r
> > > to have someone else doing the hard work (as SoundCloud does).
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> jeremiah moore | SOUND | 
> http://www.jeremiahmoore.com/
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>












"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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