I'm Sharable!

As you may have noticed, I have been transitioning my audio streams over to Soundcloud. This move allows me to categorize items better, embed my tracks on Facebook and keep stats on plays and downloads. Another feature I will be using in the future is the ability to privately share tracks, meaning that I can share special items with my Facebook fans and those who are on my mailing list. Speaking of which, if you are not on the mailing list, now is a good time to join!

The best reason behind joining Soundcloud however, is less about what I can do and more about what everyone else can do; share the music! All of my public streams on Soundcloud can be embedded on personal sites, blogs, etc. without worries of copyright infringement. As long as you use the Soundcloud widgets (players), the tracks properly link back to me as the artist.

To share the tracks, head over to my Soundcloud page, find the track or set you want to share and click the "Share" button which is on the player. This will pop up a window giving you some options, including direct feeds to various social media sites as well as the actual code to embed the player. If you want to be super fancy, you can click the "Customize Player" button which will give you size, style and color options, so you can be sure it fits nicely on your page.

When you are done, you could have a player just like this:

Relentless Soundtrack Samples by Nick Olman