Questions in white. Observations/Fixes in yellow. Replies from SoundCloud in orange - I have been given permission to post them
1 ) Ever-growing stream page. How do you control it? On the old dashboard, tracks stayed until you remove them. Approx. 10 tracks disappeared today
Right now, the Stream is meant to act as a place of discovery for new sounds, and with the ability to curate your own sets (more information here: http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/por ... -are-they-), you can manage the sounds you want to hear. If you removed tracks from Classic SoundCloud, they would also disappear from the new SoundCloud Stream.
2 ) Stream page layout is cluttered and haphazard.
3 ) Followers ordering random. No most recent listing. User definable sort option would be desirable
4 ) Possible word-wrap issues in profile
5 ) Sharing tracks with groups FIXED - add to group button on player
6 ) Comment replies non-intuitive and usually inserted at a random point in track
7 ) No track-time displayed for comments
8 ) No ability to stop auto play of next track (not a new problem)
9 ) You->Tracks is now artist button->Your Profile
10) Possible redesign of menu system to make it more intuitive?
11) Any news of an increase in streaming bit-rate. Even to 160Kbps.
Afraid we don't have any news on this right now, but we're still hoping to improve the issues that sometimes rise with our current streaming system in the future.
12) Comments hard to read.
13) Replies to comments invisible.
14) Asymetric waveform unsettling to the eye after slaving over a mix.
15) How do you set landing page
On Classic SoundCloud, profiles split up your content into separate tabs, which resulted in lots of extra clicking around. Now, profile pages include all your sounds, sets, and reposts in one reverse-chronological stream, all on one page. Spotlight allows you to showcase some items and enables you to pin up to 3 items (sounds or sets) to the top of your profile. After your three Spotlight items, your other sounds, sets and reposts will be displayed in reverse-chronological order. I don't actually mind the extra clicks involved using the original interface. Others would like the ability to separate tracks from sets. Looking at other people's profiles, it is not blindingly obvious whether you are looking at a track or set, other than by looking at the menu options available from the track/set in question
16) Profile vs. Public Profile vs. Tracks views - confusion
17) Private sharing/Exclusive Tracks - is this supported/implemented in Next SoundCloud? - this is required for distance collaboration
18 ) Non-enlargeable artwork
19) No playcount for individual tracks visible from profile view
20) Comments hard to find - activity tab missing
21) Difficult to see what track is actually playing
22) Public view of User profile should show only tracks created by that user. Any reposts by that user should be separately viewable via another URL
We have released the new site early but realize that there are still a number of necessary improvements and are still listening to the community's feedback. I will definitely relay all these suggestions (including the ones I commented on) to our team that is handling all the feedback about the new SoundCloud.
And today (2012/12/11) I received this link from the SoundCloud helpdesk. It makes interesting reading.
http://blog.soundcloud.com/2012/12/10/a ... oundcloud/
I'll update this from time to time
update 2012/12/07 - Looks like SoundCloud are making little changes to the workings daily.
I submitted 14 of these to the SoundCloud helpdesk. Let's see what happens. I suspect that some of these issues are already being looked at.
It would seem that submitting queries/inquiries via the SoundCloud Help system is the way to go.
