FIX THAT TYPO!

Many of you requested to be able to edit and fix typo’s for your previously submitted Shoudio Recordings. You can now do so, via our inline editor. Whenever you accidentally made a mistake when uploading an audio recording, browse to the Shoudio website, login and edit inline and instant! 

Here is how: Simply browse to single Shoudio pages for Shoudio’s you own, so the best place to start is your profile page. Follow the ‘X time ago’ links behind each recording to end up on the ‘Single Shoudio’-page for that recording. 

Now all you need to do is to click on the big title in the top of the page, or the description (new!) below the <embed> button, modify your changes and hit Enter or OK to propagate the change to the Shoudio servers. Please note that these changes will take a few minutes to be propagated everywhere due to caching.

The Next Web Conference 2012 - flat out rocked /w Pancakes & Pitches!

After another great Queensday it’s time to look back at last week’s The Next Web Conference. With Shoudio we paid hommage to our roots with the Pancakes & Pitches stand at the conference. 

Just like last year the Pancake Stand returned to Amsterdam. Visitors could grab a fresh baked pancake (original recipe) right outside the main venue of the conference and tune into some of the Next Web Conference’s Microsoft Bizspark Startup Rally Pitches while they waited.

While baking the pancakes we transmitted the flipcam videostream live on PancakesAndPitches.com. Here’s a 3 hour recording session from the ‘flipcam’:

Cows, Pancakes and Sun

Friday more than made up for a rainy Thursday. Sun, music, Klara shitting the day away in Dungville and flipping Pancakes all day long. Many of you visited the pancake stand: investors, startups, students, speakers, all of you seemed to like the dutch flatties.

Startup Pitch Interview Sessions

More than 25 Startup Rally competitors joined our Shoudio Interview tool and ‘audio pitched’ their startup. The interviews with the founders of those startups can be listened via the Collection on Shoudio. 

Here is a selection of interviews with some of the Startup Rally Winners, embedded in this blogpost using our new embed widgets:

Listen to the interview with Edward Lee from Between, winning ‘Best Mobile App’:

And here is the interview with co-founder Timan Rebel from Snowciety, winning in the category ‘Best B2C App’:

Also the founder of Beamapp, Heiko Behrens, winner in the category ‘Most Innovative Product / Service’, joined us:

You can tune into all the The Next Web Startup Pitch Interviews via the Collection on Shoudio! 

New widgets

We have been playing around with some new widgets. A first release is now in beta. 

*UPDATE* You can configure your own Shoudio Embeds by knowing the Shoudio Recording’s ID and visiting the Widget Configurator at http://shoudio.com/widget

Two examples showcasing the two types of new widgets:

Playerbox Version:

<iframe src=”http://noise.shoudio.com/widget/index.html?s=2323” style=”width: 350px; height: 80px; background:transparent;” scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0” marginheight=”0” frameborder=”0” vspace=”0” hspace=”0” width=”350” height=”80”></iframe>

Cover Version:

<iframe src=”http://noise.shoudio.com/widget/cover.html?s=3807” style=”width: 200px; height: 200px; background:transparent;” scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0” marginheight=”0” frameborder=”0” vspace=”0” hspace=”0” allowtransparency=”true” width=”200” height=”200”></iframe>

iframe dimensions: any width x height : best square.

Both widgets are available for single recording embedding only at the moment. Use the parameter ?s=ShoudioID in the iframe src to load the right Shoudio recording in the widget.

Android beta 2 live: featuring HD Recording, Shoudio Collections and more

We pushed another update to Shoudio for Android (still beta), with major new features:

1. High Quality audio recording now also available for Android!
2. Save and upload later: in the details screen you can choose to save instead of upload now, and share whenever it’s convenient for you.
3. New: Collections! explore audiowalks, audioguides and albums nearby or by popularity.
4. And… Find and share any audiofile on your phone on Shoudio with an intent!
5. Sync to Soundcloud (next to Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare)

 NOTE: In order to use audiorecording on Shoudio 4 Android Beta 2 you need an SD-CARD in your phone, as your recordings will be stored on it.

Get Shoudio for Android in the Android Market here: http://j.mp/shoudio4android

Or were you looking for Shoudio for iPhone instead?

Xmas gift from Shoudio - now available: File uploading and webrecording.

From various users we received questions whether we could allow previously recorded audio content to be published on our Platform as well. Up till now that wasn’t possible. You could only record and share through our apps. But as of today you can record on shoudio.com as well or even upload a previously recorded file (wav, mp3 or aiff).

Simply login to Shoudio.com and find the ‘New Shoudio’-button in the navigation bar. Click it, appoint a GPS location (or hit ‘Locate me’) and choose whether you want to record live with our flash-microphone-recorder or upload an already existing file instantly. 

Filesize limits at 95mb but we might increase that. Be smart and upload in mp3 to get the most minutes out of that limit.

*NOTE: You are only allowed to upload your own works. Works you legally own and have redistribution rights to. Duh.

Some people have been using our upload tool already to create wonderfull Collections on Shoudio.

Know people who make audio? Storytellers?  Musicians? Enable their new audiopath by pointing them to Shoudio. 

Shoudio virtually at Music Hackday Boston - developer notes

It’s Music Hackday / Weekend in Boston and Shoudio will introduce it’s APIs through a 5 minute introductionary video. Unfortunately we won’t be IRL attending this edition of MHD, but we will do so at the upcoming London edition. 

Here is the movie and presentation for MHD Boston. Below the embeds you find some details mentioned in the movie, such as the Soundcloud Sync (Alpha, only available through the Shoudio API atm.)

About the Shoudio Soundcloud Sync (API alpha only, released for MHD Boston)

Especially for the MHD Boston we have enabled The Soundcloud Sync. This means that postings to the Shoudio API on behalf of a Shoudio user which has their Soundcloud account connected will be automatically synced to Soundcloud, resulting in every location based audio recording being posted to Shoudio for that user, also being crossposted to the connected Soundcloud account.

In order to get the Shoudio Soundcloud Sync working, you have to do the following:

1. Login or register for Shoudio
2. Go to Settings and then ‘Connected Networks’
3. Find the link: ‘Connect your Soundcloud’.
4. You will be redirected to Soundcloud: Login, and allow us access.
5. That’s it. All postings (via the API only for now!) will be crossposted to Soundcloud.

Other resources mentioned in the introductionary movie:

1. Shoudio developer portal: http://shoudio.com/developer . The place to register your app.
2. Shoudio API docs: http://j.mp/shoudioapi

Shoudio API support:

Ping me through the IRC #musichackday (@roelandp) or via @roelandp on Twitter. Or send a mail to info@ shoudio.

HAPPY HACKING!

Shoudio supports Movember and so do you!

It’s that time of the season again. Growing your Mo for the good cause. Movember is here. We thought it would be nice to give this great initiative some extra exposure by adding a Mustache to your avatar here on your profile page on Shoudio.

Find your Mustached-self by going to your profile page, eg. mine is http://shoud.io/roelandp or see this sample:

Movember is the annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Australia and New Zealand. This year these events run amongst others in the Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Spain, the United Kingdom, Israel, South Africa, and the United States. 

Mustachify.me is providing the web based service to turn your avatar on the fly into a Movember-worthy version. Note that you need to have a decent picture with your face on your profile to get mo-fied. You can update your avatar at http://shoudio.com/settings/avatar

Your Shoudio stream as an App on iOS (iphone/ipad)

Next to our recent design changes we have something new for you: Every Shoudio user is from now on an instantly installable application for iPhones and iPads. Your avatar becomes the App’s icon. 

We think this can come in handy for podcasters or musicians who want to give their fans the opportunity to install their app on their devices. Like it? Spread the word! 

Share or view your stream by pointing your iOS device to this url: http://m.shoud.io/[YOURUSERNAME]*

* ofcourse you need to replace [YOURUSERNAME] with your actual Shoudio username.

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Here is what we did last summer

I don’t know about you, but the summer here in the Netherlands has been rather rainy.

Still, the team of great radio reporters and Shoudio-veteran (:D) Amber and Tamar made the best out of the summer it and visited some of the finest festivals which resulted in, amongst some others, the following audio-projects:

Shoudio summer 2011 projects:

• Oerol RadioMap (mostly Dutch): a community project to record the ‘sounds of an Island’, the theme of the outdoor theatre, dance and performance art’s festival Oerol, on Terschelling, an island in the north of The Netherlands. 
• Awakenings Festival reporting (English/Dutch): first inhouse experiment to report a techno festival near Amsterdam. Featuring interviews with artists, organisation and visitors.
• Appelsap Festival reporting (Dutch): Tamar and Amber and myself reported interviews, live broadcasted to various sites through embedded widgets.
• Lowlands (Dutch): With 3FM (Dutch NPR) we beta tested reporting the massive Campingflight to Lowlands Festival. 
• Magneet Festival (Dutch): Tamar visited the multiple-weeks lasting festival crowdsourced festival in Amsterdam for one weekend.

These projects were kindly supported by amongst many others: 3FM, 3voor12, DJBroadcast, Kindamuzik, AmsterdamFM, Volkskrant, NOS and quite some other Shoudio users, THANK YOU! 

Are you going to Oerol? Join the #Oerol Radio Map!

Are you going to #Oerol on Terschelling (NL) this week?

Join the #Oerol Radio Map by tagging your Shoudio recordings with ‘#Oerol’ in the title!

Oerol is celebrating it’s 30th edition of the annual street art, theatre, music and performances festival on the island of Terschelling, north of the Netherlands. 10 days of exploring the island started last friday.

The theme of Oerol 2011 is ‘Sounds of an Island’ and we have setup a dedicated #Oerol Radio Map which you can find on http://j.mp/eilandgeluiden.

If you are attending Oerol you can add your location based audio recordings once you upload them through Shoudio and add the hashtag #Oerol in the title. 

Enjoy the Sounds of Oerol!