New Release: SoundCloud Support
We just released 1.5.2 to the Chrome extension gallery. This new release adds support for SoundCloud!
In their own words - “SoundCloud is a new online audio platform that lets music professionals receive, send & distribute their music”. In our words - SoundCloud has a ton of amazing music that you need to to listen to right now!
Support for SoundCloud works both on soundcloud.com as well as any site that has a SoundCloud widget embedded (like this one).
SoundCloud support is really exciting because it opens up a direct link from the artist’s studio into the listener’s music library. If we think back to when bands used to record music for ten’s of thousands of dollars in a studio, then produce millions of plastic discs, then ship those discs to thousands of stores, then have listeners spend 20 minutes trying to open the plastic surrounding those plastic discs, well anyway you get the point. Now artists can make music for the cost of a computer, upload it to SoundCloud and within seconds it’s inside their fans’ music libraries. Pretty incredible!
In addition to SoundCloud, this release also adds Tumblr oAuth support. Previously, logging into Tumblr meant giving us your username and password. With oAuth, you now just tell Tumblr you trust us and they give us a token to use on your behalf. You can untrust us (don’t know why you’d ever want to do that!) any time you want and the token will stop working. It’s a lot more secure this way. If you are already logged in to Tumblr inside the extension, you may want to consider logging out and then logging back in with oAuth.
We’d love to hear what you think about these new features. Leave us a comment here or on our UserVoice page.
