Reference Guide

1084 Sharing your songs on SoundCloud
Uploading audio to SoundCloud
The Share with SoundCloud dialog box appears and shows a progress bar along with the
name of the file that is being uploaded. To cancel the upload, click the Cancel button.
The Upload Successful dialog box appears when the file has been uploaded successfully. Click
the displayed link to view the uploaded file on SoundCloud.com.
The Upload Failed dialog box appears if the upload is not successful. There are various reasons
why an upload may have failed. For troubleshooting help, click the Help button or see
“Troubleshooting” on page 1087.
To share selected audio with SoundCloud
1. In the current project, drag in the time ruler to select the time region you want to share with
SoundCloud.
2. Go to File > Export > Audio to open the Export Audio dialog box.
3. In the Files of type list, select one of the following options:
• Share with SoundCloud - CD Quality. Creates a 16-bit 44.1kHz .wav file.
• Share with SoundCloud - MP3. Creates a 256kBit/s .mp3 file.
• Share with SoundCloud - FLAC. Creates a 16-bit 44.1kHz .flac file. FLAC is a royalty-free
high quality lossless audio compression codec. Files compressed with FLAC can be 30-50%
smaller than the original wav file and, unlike MP3, there is no loss of audio quality.
4. Under Bounce Settings, select the desired settings, such as channel format, sample rate and
bit depth.
5. Enter a name in the File name box.
6. Click Export.
SONAR exports the selected audio to the specified format, then launches Cakewalk SoundCloud
(see “The Cakewalk SoundCloud interface” on page 1078). In Cakewalk SoundCloud, the Title,
Artwork and File Location fields are pre-populated.
7. Specify the desired settings in Cakewalk SoundCloud.
8. Click Share.
The Share with SoundCloud dialog box appears and shows a progress bar along with the
name of the file that is being uploaded. To cancel the upload, click the Cancel button.
The Upload Successful dialog box appears when the file has been uploaded successfully. Click
the displayed link to view the uploaded file on SoundCloud.
The Upload Failed dialog box appears if the upload is not successful. There are various reasons
why an upload may have failed. For troubleshooting help, click the Help button or see
“Troubleshooting” on page 1087.
Note: By default, Cakewalk SoundCloud lets you upload either a .wav file or an .mp3 file. If you
want to upload a different audio format, first use the File > Export > Audio command to export
to the desired format, then go to Utilities > Share with SoundCloud and select the exported
file. SoundCloud supports the following file formats; WAV, MP3, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AIFF and
AAC.