developers.soundcloud.comadded August 2026
SoundCloud Backstage Blog10d ago
We removed one log statement from a service’s hot path this week. Its 99th-percentile response latency fell from a steady ~48ms to ~18ms, and CPU usage dropped by about the same factor.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog18 Jun 2026
Last year, SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder for the first time in over a decade. The new one (Fraunhofer’s libfdk_aac) delivers higher perceptual audio quality across every metric we track.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog18 May 2026
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a music app, a custom playlist curator, or a unique way to discover underground tracks on SoundCloud, but lacked the programming skills to actually build it?
SoundCloud Backstage Blog29 Apr 2025
To all developers using SoundCloud’s public API — we’re introducing an important change that will affect how you reference resources like tracks, playlists, users and comments. 🧠 What’s Changing?
SoundCloud Backstage Blog3 Apr 2025
A while ago we made an improvement to how track and artist information is displayed on SoundCloud, making it clearer and easier to understand.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog2 Dec 2024
tl;dr: If your app doesn’t store SoundCloud access tokens outside of the context of a user’s client (i.e. a database) the following should not affect you.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog23 Apr 2024
Earlier this year, we updated our API Guide to let developers know that SoundCloud authentication is now operating on the OAuth 2.1 protocol, a popular open standard used by many API providers.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog31 Jul 2023
Large Screen Devices - The New Frontier Recently, the Android team at SoundCloud took on a project to optimize the Android app for large screen devices.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog2 Jun 2023
We’re working on improving our API offering. In order to do that, a few changes are coming: - We need to revoke access for some of you with inactive apps.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog6 Jan 2023
I recently celebrated my one year anniversary as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) trainee at SoundCloud. Looking back, I had very little idea of what I was getting into.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog11 Nov 2022
We recently made updates to our SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to address key user experience (UX) fixes according to user feedback.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog25 Oct 2022
In an earlier blog post, we talked about how we changed the interview process during remote working as a way of improving our recruiting efforts.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog17 Oct 2022
We recently made updates to our SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to address key user experience (UX) fixes according to user feedback.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog13 Oct 2022
The SoundCloud Android app recently got a significant makeover: a “new year, new me” type of thing.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog19 Sept 2022
We’ve seen considerable adoption of our internal humane registry, Services Directory, since we sanitized ownership definition and introduced an easier-to-use user interface (UI) to our development...
SoundCloud Backstage Blog2 Aug 2022
SoundCloud has a variety of resource groups, and one such group is called Women in Engineering, or WINE.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog12 Jul 2022
The first step to any code review is understanding what the code does and why. Although the author is by far the most qualified person to answer these questions, all too often, the reviewer is left...
SoundCloud Backstage Blog19 Apr 2022
I’m a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its microservices, so when I joined, it was important to learn it.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog14 Mar 2022
This is the story of how we used the Strangler pattern to migrate our public API from a monolithic codebase to a fully fledged BFF over the course of eight years.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog1 Feb 2022
In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily influenced by Prometheus — which we open sourced.
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