Embed SoundCloud In Blogger – Add SoundCloud Track And Playlist

How To Embed SoundCloud In Blogger – Add SoundCloud Track And Playlist

SoundCloud shortcode lets you embed Soundcloud Music Players in your Blogger blogs.

UsingBlogger shortcode plugin, you can now embed Audio Tracks and playlists hosted at soundcloud anywhere on your blog, you can insert MP3 tracks inside your Blogspot comments, Posts, Pages and HTML/Javascript Widgets. The shortcode is a code in Textual format which can be pasted on any visual editor or composer. You can now add Top-of-the notch Sound Technology in your blogs with just a simple line of code! Our Shortcode Plugin is much more user friendly when compared to Wordpress SoundCloud Shortcode because it supports attributes instead of parameters to keep the shortcode clean and tidy. It is now time to add a new life to your blog and let your visitors hear music when they browse your site!

You can play the following files using the shortcode AIFF, WAVE (WAV), FLAC, ALAC, OGG, MP2, MP3, AAC, AMR, and WMA files. You can now upload sound files as big as 5GB in size to your SoundCloud account and then embed them anywhere on your blog using this unique Plugin.

I myself spend more time in SoundCloud than Facebook because I love exploring latest EDM tunes. How about you and what’s your favorite music genre? Whatever it may be, SoundCloud is undoubtedly the ultimate place for music lovers. With 2 hours of free upload anyone can upload music, record sounds, and promote it. After reading our article on how to Embed Media Files In Wordpress, a visitor asked us about embedding SoundCloud tracks in his Blogger blog. Here we will see how to embed SoundCloud in Blogger blogs.

YouTube is for video and SoundCloud is for audio. Just like YouTube and Vimeo; uploading audio files in SoundCloud is quite simple. We will also see uploading your own sounds in SoundCloud. Other than uploading tracks, SoundCloud lets you to share your own sounds or other artist tracks to social networks. As well as with more customizable options you can embed any tracks in to your blog posts. Here we will see on embedding SoundCloud audio tracks as and the entire playlists in Blogger posts. This topic will be useful for people who run their blog in music niche.

But Is This Really Necessary For My Blog?

Do you own a music or entertainment blog?

Or do you sometimes "um..." If yes; I’m sure this will benefit you greatly, especially when you're the type that love sounds. But all the same; it still depends whether or not to have this setup (install) in your blog.

Why Do People Listen To Music (Or Sound)?

The best reasons are following to listen a music!

--- It helps relax the nerves
--- It helps reduce stress
--- It brings about inspiration
--- It brings about the best of people
--- And more...

Why Do I Need It In My Blog (Site)?

We need a sound playlist!

--- To reduce bounce rate
--- To improve domain authority (DA)
--- To improve page rank (PR)
--- To make your blogger blog SEO friendly
--- And more...

What Can You Do With SoundCloud Shortcode?

The shortcode for Soundcloud can be nested inside other shortcodes such Accordion or Tabs to make it work just perfectly

You can create tracks or even playlists of your favorite singers, musicians or Nasheed reciters. Add the playlist inside your Post composer, Sidebar widgets or even inside your threaded comment form!

You can create both classic Player (shown below) or the new Visual Player as shown above.

So this is the most important to learn how to embed SoundCloud in blogger. Lets now learn how to add it in blogger by following these basic steps!

Step: 1

Go to SoundCloud Website. If you already have a SoundCloud account, simply click on "Sing in" to proceed. If you don't have, you can create a new one by clicking on "Create Account".

To create a new account, you can use your Facebook Account or Google Account or Even you can proceed with your e-mail ID as shown in below image.

Step: 2

After you've login, you can then explore the music of your choice from other SoundCloud users or if you’d prefer, you can rather upload the one you like. To upload an audio file from your PC to SoundCloud, you should click on the "upload" text located at the top right end corner or better yet, you can click on this link: https://soundcloud.com/upload and then be redirected to a new page.

Now you have two options, one is “choose a file to upload” and while the other (second) is “start new recording”. You can choose any option as you want.

Step: 3

After clicking on "choose a file to upload", you have have to select an audio file from your computer.

While uploading your track, be sure to write the "title", select the "Genre", put suitable "tags" for your track and write a short "description" for your track. Also choose an "image" for your track.

After uploading of your track, it will take a short moment to "Processing" your track. After complete uploading and processing, click on "save" to save your track.

Step: 4

Now the time to get back to your track. When you click on save, you will be redirected to this page.

Now click on "Go to your track" as shown in above image.

Step: 5

This time, you will be directed to a new page where a list is displayed, select “share” from the list of options and click "Embed". Make sure to copy the entire HTML code to your clipboard.

You are all done with getting embed code for your track. Now the time is to embed this code to your blogger. Below is given a very simple method.

How To Embed SoundCloud In Blogger?

1. Go To Blogger.

2. Proceed straight to your “blogger dashboard” or “blogger panel”

3. Click on “new post” and make sure to select the “HTML” tab from the post editor located at the top left corner.

Now paste the HTML code of your track you have just copied in previous step, inside the HTML text box area.

Now; click the “save” button and "preview" to see result.

That is all done! Cheers!

How To Customize The SoundCloud Player?

Following is the complete list of attributes supported by SoundCloud Shortcode.

Attribute	Definition
src	Insert Track ID or Playlist ID here
color	Changes background color of the Player Button in Classic View only.
playlist	By default player is displayed for playing a single Track but if you wish to display a Playlist or multiple tracks then you need to insert this attribute with value set to "1" and insert the Playlist ID inside src attribute
auto	Setting this attribute to "true" will auto play the track. Setting it to "false" will turn off the auto play mode.
width	Changes width of the Player iFrame. Can also be assigned in percentage for responsiveness.
height	Changes height of the Player
visual	Setting it to "true" will display the "Visual" Player with wide background image. Setting this option to "false" will display the old HTML5 Classic Player.
comments	Setting it to "true" will display user comments on the player. Setting it to "false" will turn off displaying user comments
user	Setting it to "true" will display the uploader name. Setting it to "false" will hide the uploader name.

Remember! Use the attributes in following format

[soundcloud auto="true" user="false" visual="true" comments="true" width="550" height="400" src="106634299"/]

Need Help?

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