Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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Since getting my new computer set up last November, I have increasingly been sent to Soundcloud links, none of which have ever played.

My brother sent me a one-day-only link today (he is Dir. of Comm. at NEC), so I finally took some time to Google for answers, but after an hour of trying suggestions, still cannot get the play button to work in Safari, Opera, Camino, or Firefox -- even after adding soundcloud.com as a whitelisted site in ClickToFlash.

My head is a jumble after all I've gone through the past hour, including downloading a desktop version of Soundcloud from the Apple App Store that requires a mysterious and unknown login, and somehow accidentally signing up for a Soundcloud account via my Facebook login (this came later).

I haven't the time to sort through this sea of confusion and apparently incomplete steps involving my new blank/default Soundcloud account and how to find out my login info for the desktop app version of Soundcloud, as I have to leave for an all-day private party gig in less than an hour, but at least want to resolve the browser-hosted Soundcloud problem on one or more of my browsers today if I can, so that I can hear this Jimi Hendrix special that my brother linked me to (as performed by an NEC student, I gather):

necmusic.edu/voodoo

Longer-term, I also want to figure out Soundcloud as a service, as many recommend it over MySpace and Facebook's barely-working music hosting pages for linking music via on-line community services such as MySpace and Facebook.
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Re: Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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Working over here. I'm on 10.6.7, Firefox 4.0.

FYI, I saw a Soundcloud app in the App store - don't know if that could help you.

Good luck!
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Re: Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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Late to the party but no problems with Soundcloud here in SL 10.6.6 inside Firefox 3.6.16 Didn't have to download anything, sign up for anything, files play just fine. I did have to give it permission to play because I run NoScript but otherwise A-OK.
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Re: Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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OSX and Firefox up to date and everything working fine.
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Re: Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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Hmm, come to think of it, I think I skipped the last OS X update and then forgot about it (I was in the middle of a session at the time). I'll check all my version stati this weekend and see if maybe I have some incompatibilities.
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Re: Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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mhschmieder wrote:Hmm, come to think of it, I think I skipped the last OS X update and then forgot about it (I was in the middle of a session at the time). I'll check all my version stati this weekend and see if maybe I have some incompatibilities.
Don't do the 10.6.7 update or you'll screw yourself. It's not ready for primetime. Get the combo update for 10.6.6 instead.
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Re: Does Soundcloud work at all in Snow Leopard?

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Thanks for the heads-up. I am on 10.6.6, but did NOT do the Combo Updater this most recent time as it seemed a small update (or maybe I was just in a rush). Maybe that's the source of my troubles. Good rule of thumb is to ALWAYS go for the Combo Updater, and maybe stay one revision behind. :-)
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