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Streaming albums is an important part of music sales nowadays, and no one does streaming better than SoundCloud. So when we decided to figure out how to let everyone in the world stream and embed their player throughout the internet easily, it was no surprise to many when we went with SoundCloud as our official streaming player, as opposed to designing our own. And not only are they clean and easy to use, but last time I checked, SoundCloud had nearly 10 million users. This means that most people that are going to use Limited Run, have an account with SoundCloud already. Needless to say, it didn’t make any sense for us to force you to get used to a whole new streaming system. But what we did think we could do was figure out a way for you to only have to upload once, and both your store and your SoundCloud account could get updated at the same time. And that’s exactly what we did. Now let’s take a look at how we did it.

1. In our module section you can choose to install the SoundCloud Integration feature. This will immediately send you over to SoundCloud so you can connect your account.

2. Once you’re connected, you can now go into your Digital Items module and choose to upload lossless audio. Make sure to check the boxes below the SoundCloud icon on the tracks you’d like to stream.

3. In the background we’re now converting your lossless audio to a slew of different formats, as well as sending it to SoundCloud and creating a set.

4. Then, when you’re creating your product we give you a little drop down menu that allows you to select the set you’d like to stream. Whether you created it with us, or if it was already in your SoundCloud account.

5. Now just list your product and a SoundCloud player gets automatically dropped into your product page.

It doesn’t get any simpler than that.