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Moving to Modern Streaming: Introducing AAC HLS on SoundCloud APIs
September 15th, 2025 by Youssef HassanWe’re introducing an important change that will affect how you stream tracks!
Playback on Web at SoundCloud
May 3rd, 2019 by Tom JenkinsonMaestro is a library we have developed to handle all playback across SoundCloud web applications. It successfully handles tens of millions of plays per day across soundcloud.com, our mobile site, our widget, Chromecast, and our Xbox application. We are considering open sourcing it, and this blog post is a technical overview of what we’ve achieved thus far with Maestro.