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For uploading audio files (podcasts) and then embedding them in blogs and the like

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Wow! That is a lot of answers! This is gonna take a while to go through... thanks for all the answers so far! – eidylon Aug 25 '09 at 3:32
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SoundCloud without a doubt.

  • No headaches on file sizes
  • Statistics on who viewed it
  • Fast Uploads
  • Track Storage
  • Customizable widget for embedding

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This is the youtube for audio :D Its the stuff

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limitation on number of minutes... – Tal Galili Jul 26 '10 at 0:40
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People seem to use YouTube all the time for audio-only content as well...

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+1 That was what I was thinking while reading the question – fretje Aug 23 '09 at 22:23
You can actually provide the audio and in the mean time show some pictures rotating or something like that. – fretje Aug 23 '09 at 22:24
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Either pictures rotating (like a slideshow) or a fixed "title" screen detailing the name of the recording, date, etc. By the way, if you're going to upload church recordings to Youtube, you may want to disable posting comments. Take a look at any religious video's comments to see what I mean. – T Pops Aug 24 '09 at 14:52
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Youtube's length limit makes this answer inappropriate for the poster. – Nelson Aug 25 '09 at 16:30
The original question didn't mention any length, but now that it does - this answer is not a good answer anymore ^^ – Oskar Duveborn Aug 26 '09 at 12:29
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Depends if you're talking about user created audio or licensed music. As for licensed music there are a huge number of options (some of these also have user created content mixed in):

On the other hand if you are looking user created content:

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(Nitpick: Spotify is currently available in a couple of European countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, France and Spain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify#Cost_and_availability) – Jonik Aug 24 '09 at 21:05
also pandora don't work everywhere either (us only ?) – Joakim Elofsson Aug 24 '09 at 23:15
The Hype Machine has good music suggestions – Jader Dias Dec 26 '10 at 15:51
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As soon as this problem is solved...

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I'm not sure about uploading music, but what about Groveshark for music streaming?

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Yes, you can upload music with Grooveshark. – musicfreak Feb 4 '10 at 22:54
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The one I have been finding best so far is Grooveshark.com !

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While it's tailored for muscians, Sound Cloud is a really good tool for sharing audio on the web.

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I like drop.io for this purpose. I can't find any documentation of a length limit, but there may be one. Another option is to set up a tumbleblog on Tumblr. Then again you can also just use YouTube, adding a picture, although they have length limits.

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drop.io looks promising, I'll have to check that one out further... – eidylon Aug 23 '09 at 16:21
There's no MP3 length limit but free accounts are limited to 100MB per 'drop'. – briealeida Nov 10 '09 at 20:00
+1 for drop.io - just uploaded a small AIFF audio file, didn't require any signup etc, and it has a decent little embedded player – dbr Dec 30 '09 at 16:54
This is a pretty old question, but I wanted to note that drop.io no longer exists. – Andrew Maiman Sep 19 '11 at 2:09
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If you're looking to post messages from your church, check out SermonAudio.com.

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I recently discovered that archive.org has a huge library of audio files, podcasts, etc. AFAIK it's pretty simple to upload, too.

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Maybe you can try fizy

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soundcloud.com

If you sign up for a free account you can send 5 tracks/month and use most features on SoundCloud.

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http://jukefly.com/

Manage your youtube audio :-)

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excelent!!!!!!! – Jader Dias Dec 26 '10 at 16:06
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Negative on the uploading, but Pandora lets you keep playlists and is pretty good at recommending new music based on what you "like."

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Lala plays music, enables you to match your own music library (and upload the actual files if there's no match), and creates and maintains playlists. It's an iTunes-like interface, which is even more appropriate now that Apple control them (as of December 2009).

You didn't specify whether you wanted a strictly free site. Lala offers a lot for free, including uploading your own library, but adding new songs is 10 cents each and buying downloadable MP3s is around 79 cents each. Their download prices are competitive with Amazon MP3 and iTunes and are DRM-free, but be sure to check the encoding quality if that matters to you.

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I would also add last.fm even though it is more like a personalised Internet Radio and doesn't work in every country anymore, but I still really like using it for discovering new Music and Events.

The problem is always the copyright thing (e.g. YouTube had trouble with the German Copyright Agency and now they must remove Music Videos under their license for German YouTube visitors... don't know if they actually did yet). Most services are only localised (like Pandora and Spotify mentioned by William). So probably YouTube is still the best and most popular source for playing Music.

One service that doesn't have that problem is Jamendo. It only offers music that is published under free licences. You won't find popular artists but browsing there might bring up some really cool stuff.

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Tindeck provides free MP3 audio hosting.

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Entertonement Is very similar to youtube but only for audio. Plus it has amazing collections of soundbites that are fun to browse through. They don't mention any limits on upload lengths either, although they still might exist.

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http://freesound.org has a ton of free audio files available for playing online or downloading. I think it's better than youtube.

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So, I found a very similar question over at webmasters.stackexchange.com. I quickly gathered most of the relevant and non-broken answers here and answered that question. Here is that answer.

(I hope its not bad practice to post the same answer on 2 stackexchange sites)

Here are my favorite answers:

  • Youtube - Works just fine for audio. You can have a static image as a background or get creative and make a slideshow or something. Drawback: length limit
  • SoundCloud - This would be my favorite if not for a limit on minutes of audio per account (120 minutes I think) Its got a really nice and easy embedded player too
  • Archive.org - If you don't already know about this site, go now.

Others I haven't had the chance to scope out yet:

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