Medium Sounds

This is a neat hack! We (Medium) have been playing around with the right way to do music + stories, and it's super cool to see someone take matters into their own hands. (For now, authors can also embed Soundcloud directly into their posts: https://medium.com/@Medium/embed... Downsides are that the author has to do it, and it won't auto-play the music, but the upside is that it won't mess up the fonts and other embedded media. Seems like the big win here is that anyone can "annotate" someone else's post, with a song.)

This is clearly experimental and unpolished[1], but I like the concept. Music has the ability to insight emotions and change the context of something entirely. Here’s my recent essay, Product Hunt’s Year in Review, In Numbers appropriately mashed up with Mos Def’s Mathematics. [1] As noted on the site’s help FAQ, you have to provide the Wordpress embed code of the Soundcloud sound, not the direct URL.

@rrhoover is abolutely right, this is super-experimental. I wanted to demonstrate to my Twitter followers yesterday, that making a simple MVP sometimes only takes an hour or two. I video-casted the whole thing live, from buying the domain to releasing it. There's a LOT of things one could build on top of this. If anything, this hopefully inspires the right person to get down and dirty implementing a proper service. I am happy to share the code. Someone notified people at @medium about this, so hopefully they consider music an option in the future. I believe the photos enrich the story, but when you add music, you make it an experience. As a tribute, I'm changing the default article to Ryan's PH post. Other suggestions welcome, maybe I'll start rotating ;)

YES! I love this idea. I think there are so many cool things you can do with audio and I don't know why more publishers/publishing platforms don't incorporate it more.

Reminds me of the latest Upvoted podcast episode where @alexisohanian reads a Reddit answer with music behind it. Awesome episode, btw

Conceptually interesting, but hell no! As a 24/7 background music kind of guy, never ever auto-play music or output UI sounds on your website/webapp.

Love this concept. Would be amazing to see a full SoundCloud integration into Medium that is like this.