Egnaro TV

The obvious comparison for SoundCloud, one of the latest social communities to hit the web, is Flickr. Instead of photos though the site is a place for amateur and pro musicians, bands, producers and samplers to share their audio with the world.

Audio creators can upload their work and tag it, while listeners can browse and search through tracks, adding the best stuff to a list of favourites, sharing tracks with their friends and of course leave comments.

Like Flickr's notes, SoundCloud users can leave comments on the time line of track. If you really love the way a beat drops at 1:23 you can say so. The audio player is a nice clean design that clearly shows the load status, the waveform of the track and all other relevant info.

There are no limits on file sizes which means I'm listening to an hour long breaks mix as I write this. Free accounts are limited to uploading five tracks/month and they offer pro accounts ranging from €9 – €59 per month with varying limits on track uploads and access to stats.

One interesting feature is the Dropbox. People can send tracks directly to you either through SoundCloud or via embed code for your website. They also support the usual "Web 2.0" suite of features such as friend following and widgets for your blog and Facebook accounts.

The best part is the quality of the content so far is really good. Great electronic tracks but also some good metal and rock that I've heard as well. SoundCloud is easily the best music sharing site I've seen so far. Rather than mess with things, they've emulated the Flickr formula so closely that it will be hard for this service not to succeed.