Darren Cooney

Velocity is an alternative loading method to the standard to YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Soundcloud iframe embeds.
With Velocity you will decrease the loading time and increase overall performance of your website by lazy loading media on-demand instead of on initial page load.
To add Velocity to your site, simply create a Velocity shortcode by selecting a preview image and media type using the intuitive shortcode builder then add the generated snippet to your page.
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<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>type – Choose a media type [youtube, vimeo, twitch, soundcloud].</li>
<li>id – The ID of the media item.</li>
<li>options – Add optional styling and display parameters for the embedded media – e.g. rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0.</li>
<li>playlist – Is this a Soundcloud playlist [true/false].</li>
<li>img – The path to the preview image.</li>
<li>alt – The alternative text to be attached to the preview image.</li>
<li>color – Play button arrow color.</li>
<li>bkg_color – Play button background color.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example Shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[velocity type="youtube" id="239793212" img="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/image-1263626715.jpg" alt="Play Video"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Tested Browsers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Firefox (Mac, PC)</li>
<li>Chrome (Mac, PC, iOS, Android)</li>
<li>Safari (Mac, iOS)</li>
<li>IE10+</li>
<li>Android (Native)</li>
<li>BB10 (Native)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Website</h4>
https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/

Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo

I wish it could manually grab the image thumbnail for me and load locally. The manual builder is enough work as it is.

Thank you for this great plugin, though.

works great, missing some key features

Improve website performance by lazy loading and customizing your YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and SoundCloud media embeds.

wpsolutions

The SoundCloud Ultimate plugin allows musicians, podcasters or web owners who use SoundCloud to manage or display their tracks from their WordPress site. 
The plugin’s features are listed below:
<ul>
<li>
Secure authentication/connection from your WordPress site to your SoundCloud account using oAuth2
</li>
<li>
Display any of your tracks with the special SoundCloud player anywhere on your blog by using a special shortcode
</li>
<li>
Upload new tracks from your WordPress administration panel directly to your SoundCloud account.
</li>
<li>
View your current tracks from the WordPress admin panel which you have already been uploaded to your SoundCloud account.
</li>
<li>
Play/preview currently uploaded tracks directly from the WP admin panel
</li>
<li>
Delete tracks from your SoundCloud account directly from the WordPress admin panel
</li>
</ul>
For more information on this and other plugins, visit the <a href="http://wpsolutions-hq.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSolutions-HQ Blog</a>. 
Post any questions or feedback regarding this plugin at our website here: <a href="http://wpsolutions-hq.com/soundcloud-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">SoundCloud Ultimate</a>.

SoundCloud Ultimate Plugin

Allows you to upload, display, preview, or delete tracks to/from your SoundCloud account.

Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo vs SoundCloud Ultimate Plugin