PinnedSoundCloud Engineering@SoundCloudDevJul 27Welcome to our new portal for developers developers.soundcloud.com13679
SoundCloud Engineering@SoundCloudDevAug 13One extra condition on an if cut our p99 by 3×. Five lines changed. Four of them were the comment explaining why. developers.soundcloud.comOne line of Python, and a 3× drop in p99We removed one log statement from a service’s hot path this week. Its 99th-percentile response latency fell from a steady to , and CPU usage dropped by about the same factor. The cleanest way to see...1675
SoundCloud Engineering@SoundCloudDevJun 25You asked for details for our new transcodings! Here you go: developers.soundcloud.comLess Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks DifferentLast 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. But if...14429
SoundCloud Engineering@SoundCloudDevJun 18In May we opened self-service app registration for Artist Pro subscribers. That fixed the browser flow. Two requests kept coming up anyway: can I do this from the terminal? And where is the OpenAPI file? 👇 developers.soundcloud.comAPI Credentials from Your Terminal, and OpenAPI on GitHubA small CLI for API credentials, plus the OpenAPI spec on GitHub where you can actually wget it.1284
