Places where to put music for people to hear

[jonetsu]

Hello,

I do not know much about web sites that offers hosting music, and less about the ones that are frequented a lot. I know about Soundcloud on which I have an account and post from time to time improvisations, jams, and sketches.

What are the other populars places where people put their music ?

What about forums ?

Cheers.

[haraldthi]

I have been visiting http://wikiloops.com/ from time to time, and it may fit you.
They call it "online jam sessions", and that's a fine description. Not the place for finished works, but when you have an idea and want to see other people expand on it, or want to have something you want to add on to yourself.

[jonetsu]

I have been visiting http://wikiloops.com/ from time to time, and it may fit you.

Interesting, but that's not what I meant. I'm not a soloist anyways. Maybe there are not many responses to this because perhaps most people here are commercial users. Once they have a finished product they are paid as mixing engineers, or they already have their market outlets.

I could be nice eventually to have a list of places where to put music for people to listen to.

UPDATE: I did a little search and it turns out it might be not that obvious to find an alternative to Soundcloud. Many are DJ-oriented. Bandcamp is for professionnals, which is OK, but I'm not a t this stage yet. I'm more looking for audio hosting and not archive.org which is for misc stuff and does not have the type of interface that goes along with current times.

So there is one non-free audio hosting service, from Iceland, which looks very good. But it's $20 per month.

https://octave.is/

Still not an alternative to Soundcloud, because of the fee.

[Jostein]

Hello,

I do not know much about web sites that offers hosting music, and less about the ones that are frequented a lot. I know about Soundcloud on which I have an account and post from time to time improvisations, jams, and sketches.

What are the other populars places where people put their music ?

What about forums ?

Cheers.

If you don't want to host it by yourself, then the most powerful ones are probably still Youtube and an artist profile at Facebook. Jamendo and the likes might also be something for you.

And if you googles for "myspace soundcoud alternatives", then you should be occupied for a while.

I checked out the very promising Inmusik (inmusic.co - yes, .co, not .com) for a while, but they never lifted and right now, it seems to me that they are down. It's a sad because one could upload and play high quality sound as opposite to the really bad regenerated 128-bit mp3 files at Soundcloud.

EDIT: Maybe Inmusik still exsists, I found a recent snapshot of the webpage at archive.org. I will monitor inmusic.co and see if they still offers all the goodies one need or if they changed everything - if they are coming up on Internet again..

[GMaq]

Hi,

Unless you're famous, or a Social Media genius hosting it yourself gives the most control, but is like wearing a cloak of invisibility to much of the outside world..

Somebody shared a song with me the other day on this service which I had never heard of, seems cool: https://clyp.it/

I'm personally on Soundcloud too, it's not perfect with the recompression but Youtube is the same problem.

[jonetsu]

Somebody shared a song with me the other day on this service which I had never heard of, seems cool: https://clyp.it/

Thanks. Looks like it simple to use and does what it's meant to, straightforward.

I tried it:

https://clyp.it/oh3kl3rs

[GMaq]

Hi jonetsu

Hey cool clyp! I now see it also has widget embed code too, looks like you have to put up with some ads though.

[jonetsu]

Thanks.

He he.. at first I thought that .it meant the service was from Italy !

[jonetsu]

Here's one I stumbled across. Looks good. Looks like a real Soundclound alternative.

Orfium

[betaguy]

soundclick
or
bandcamp