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• April 17th, 2012 Events SoundCloud at HackTO By paulosman

  On Saturday, I joined over a hundred other hackers at HackTO. This has become a regular event in the Toronto tech scene, thanks to excellent organizing by Leila Boujnane and Corey Reid. SoundCloud joined several other API providers, including Atomic Reach, Context.IO, FreshBooks, Shopify, TinEye, Twilio, Trendspottr, WordPress and YellowAPI.

  The idea behind the event is simple: find a team (or go solo) and build an app using one or more of the APIs presented by sponsors. All apps have to be demoable by 5pm at which time you pitch to the judges who select the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.

  

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• April 11th, 2012 Announcements Ideas Create rich media experiences using timed comments By Johannes Wagener

  In the last weeks we got pretty excited about the idea of using timed comments to create and script rich media experiences. Imagine being able to trigger all kinds of visualizations & interactions for a timed comment while playing a track.

  

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• April 10th, 2012 Announcements Desktop Sharing Kits for OS X and Windows By Amir Shaikh

  Last week we announced a new integration with Ableton Live 8, that lets you easily share your sounds from within Ableton Live to SoundCloud. Today we’re making the technology behind that integration available to everyone through our new Desktop Sharing Kits.

  

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• April 5th, 2012 Announcements Wave Raid powered by Timed Comments By Lee Martin

  

  One of the SoundCloud API's most powerful features is the timed comment. At its core it seems simple enough: a piece of text associated with a point in time for a particular track. But where you see timed opinions, I see a light-weight game scripting engine.

  So when Johannes Wagener told me he was adding an ontimedcomments event to our JS SDK, I immediately began work on Wave Raid: Quest for the Timed Comment.

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• April 4th, 2012 Contests Developer Contest: SoundCloud + Acapela Group Mashup By Paul Osman

  SoundCloud is teaming up with Acapela Group for our first Developer Contest. Acapela Group offers amazing text to speech solutions and have a variety of SDKs so you can write apps that create sound files using one of their voices (including hip-hop and country!). Take a listen to some sample voices.

  We're calling on our developer community to mashup SoundCloud and Acapela. Show us what you can do using a text to speech service with the best audio content platform on the web. Maybe you want to have your email read (or sung!) to you layered on some instrumental or drum tracks. We think there are loads of options for making interesting and accessible apps using these two services.

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