SoundCloud currently has 15M users, including celebrities like Snoop Dogg and John Mayer. The company says that it wants to “Unmute the Web”, by making the recording of the sounds in daily lives as simple as possible. Its users tell SoundCloud that they want more sounds and features, and the company is dedicated to doing just that. Here’s what you can expect from “Next”: - Redesigned profiles - More sharing options, including “Re-posts” - Real-time notifications - Continuous play, so you can explore the site and still listen - Sets, so you can create lists of sounds to keep for yourself or share - Revamped “personal navigation search with real-time indexing” “See More. Share More. Hear More. Find More.” is the tagline for SoundCloud Next. This site is a complete overhaul, and performs very “app-like”. It’s also blazingly fast to navigate using keyboard shortcuts. Seeing a demo of how powerful the “Re-post” option is, I can tell you that sounds on the service are going to go super viral faster. It’s very similar to a retweet on Twitter, or a re-post on Tumblr. The service should be available to everyone within the next few weeks. The decision to launch “Next” at such an early iteration is because SoundCloud wants to get as much feedback as it can from its dedicated users. You can request early access by visiting: http://next.soundcloud.com
(via SoundCloud Announces 15M Users and New Version of Its Site)
