*CloudDeck* is music streamer that taps into Soundcloud's database to serve
you songs. CloudDeck is written on the Adobe Air platform, so this app will
work across systems. It is a good media streamer that lets you *search
SoundCloud's* huge database of songs. As is the case with Soundcloud, the
quality of songs uploaded by artists vary. If you're looking to stream songs
by a particular mainstream artist, this app isn't for you. If instead you
want to discover undiscovered artists and DJs remixing songs, then CloudDeck
is great! While the main function of CloudDeck is to serve you music, it adds
*social media integration* with Facebook and Twitter. If you found an
interesting song that you want to share, you can click the Facebook or
Twitter icon at the top of the application to share it with your friends or
followers. You can also find and *follow artists* within CloudDeck. Following
an artist will automatically deliver their new tracks to your feed. Users can
also use CloudDeck's search feature to *find new music*. There's options to
search by artist, user, or group. Searching by group is interesting as it
allows you to find groups of people who have similar tastes in music as you.
In use, we found CloudDeck to be a *bit unstable* and searching was more of a
miss than a hit. A few of our searches returned no results and for some
searches that did yield results, the results weren't very relevant. Also
disappointing is the inability to upload your own tracks directly from the
application, although you can download tracks from other artists if they
allow it, but it will open up a browser to get the link. *Overall, CloudDeck
has some great ideas to make Soundcloud more social, but its developers need
to work on stability and usability.*Download *CloudDeck 0.3* in Softonic
