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This is not The Greatest Website in the World, no. This is just a tribute.

I was approached by Tenacious D a week ago with an incredible quest: raising a phallus shaped phoenix onto the internet (oh and the first clip of audio from their new record.) How could I raise this majestic beast with the power of SoundCloud’s legendary API? The answer was simple: Have the sound itself rize the phoenix from its ashes.

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Today we’ve added support for our new HTML5 widget to the oEmbed endpoint.

Aside from a brand new user interface with lots of improvements, the HTML5 widget doesn’t require Adobe Flash anymore. That means the widget will load much faster and finally work well on most mobile platforms, including Android & iOS.

And we won’t stop here. We’ll continue to improve the new widget in the coming months.

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OmniAuth is a great little Rack library that standardizes multi-provider authentication for web applications. As OmniAuth says, “it was created to be powerful, flexible, and do as little as possible.” I use it constantly on hacks that mash up multiple API providers.

You can now add SoundCloud to the growing list of strategies OmniAuth 1.0 supports.

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Today we’re excited to announce a big update to our JavaScript SDK. Aside from improving the existing functionality like authentication, API read requests and oEmbed, we’ve added some sweet new features:

• API write support:

  Create comments, follow users, like sounds and update user profiles

• Audio Streaming:

  Build your own player powered by SoundCloud

• Audio recording and uploading:

  Let your users record and upload sounds to SoundCloud from your website.

All of these features can be added…

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Competitions are a great way to get your fans involved around a particular theme or release. They encourage original content creation and tend to be extremely viral due to the high level of self-promotion involved with participating.

The infrastructure you choose to throw these contests on should be accessible from any device while also providing a nice aesthetic backdrop to apply your branding. Users should be able to submit, vote, and comment no matter where they’re coming from: Web, iPhone, Facebook Tab, etc.

Today we’re putting forth an open-source app called Competition which we think is a great solution to the problem.

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Not long ago we released a sharing kit for Android. Today, we’re equally excited to announce a similar sharing kit for iOS.

With the sharing kit, you can add SoundCloud sharing to your iPhone and iPad apps with only a few lines of code. We provide everything you need to let your users share their sounds to SoundCloud, including authentication, UI and connections to other social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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• Android

Are you an Android developer and want to integrate SoundCloud in your own app? With the new Android Sharing Kit this has become very easy.

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It is now possible to share all public tracks and playlists to the connections of the authenticated user. So if a user is already connected e.g. with Facebook on SoundCloud, this connection can be used from your app to share a track.

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Today we announce new activities available over the API. As a reminder: Activites are the items on your Dashboard.

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Today we announce a better way to share sounds in SoundCloud via the API.

The new interface resembles the way sharing happens on the website. You can retrieve, create, update and delete sharings to other users on SoundCloud based on user_id or email address for your tracks and playlists.