Soundcloud rumours

  On 7/11/2017 at 9:36 PM, Squee said:

I've found so much amazing music on SC. If it shuts down it'll be a huge disaster... to me.

+1. It's my main source for unbelievably good music.

  On 7/12/2017 at 2:35 AM, paranerd said:

 

  On 7/11/2017 at 9:36 PM, Squee said:

I've found so much amazing music on SC. If it shuts down it'll be a huge disaster... to me.

 

+1. It's my main source for unbelievably good music.

 

Same here. I like that through my feed or related listens I can get some of the most weirdest and inspiring stuff, and I have absolutely no idea how to reach that otherwise. It's like a random music generator. And because I host my stuff on SC as well, I've paid for the Pro version for the last two years, I don't feel like I am freeloading here either.

http://www.factmag.com/2017/07/13/soundcloud-report-50-days-money-left/

it's over, dammit some of my tracks are live doodlings I only got recorded on sc, gonna have to dl em quick.. also top notch mixes n shit

The great refresh. All the users are still out here but it will shock a lot of them.

We honestly need a good wipe. I would be happy if YouTube and Instagram also got shutdown.

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:29 PM, MIXL2 said:

it's over, dammit

I still have faith some large google'esque giant will step in and swallow soundcloud for sake of data hunger / youth-mind control. If not, fuck it, on to the next. Hope bandcamp will pimp up their site-customization game.  

  On 7/13/2017 at 4:19 PM, sheathe said:

The great refresh. All the users are still out here but it will shock a lot of them.

 

We honestly need a good wipe. I would be happy if YouTube and Instagram also got shutdown.

What are the alternatives? Especially as someone wanting to have private only streams as I'm sending stuff off to labels etc

It's a huge shame if it does disappear but I personally have never rated it. But I am lazy and want easy/automatic promotion not another social platform so... I'm not the ideal user anyway.

I'd be happy if people just realised that the internet is not making them happy and basically spent half the time on it.

It annoys me to see people walking the streets with their head constantly in a phone.

Right. We need to realize that the internet isn't leading us to greener pastures.

I was super hopeful about the platform from 2014-2015, but the endless scroll hive mind is finally looking like it's going to devour everything.

I love the TechCrunch article originally reporting this, that states most of the tracks on SoundCloud are by "lower-quality independent artists".

  On 7/13/2017 at 5:20 PM, b born droid said:

What are the alternatives? Especially as someone wanting to have private only streams as I'm sending stuff off to labels etc

Bandcamp, Dropbox

  On 7/13/2017 at 7:03 PM, purlieu said:

I love the TechCrunch article originally reporting this, that states most of the tracks on SoundCloud are by "lower-quality independent artists".

hahaha

  On 7/13/2017 at 11:00 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 7/13/2017 at 5:20 PM, b born droid said:

What are the alternatives? Especially as someone wanting to have private only streams as I'm sending stuff off to labels etc

Bandcamp, Dropbox

  On 7/14/2017 at 12:18 AM, b born droid said:

 

  On 7/13/2017 at 11:00 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 7/13/2017 at 5:20 PM, b born droid said:

What are the alternatives? Especially as someone wanting to have private only streams as I'm sending stuff off to labels etc

Bandcamp, Dropbox

Didn't realise you could do that with bandcamp, forgot about Dropbox too. Cheers

 

https://hearthis.at/

  On 7/13/2017 at 11:07 PM, sheathe said:

 

  On 7/13/2017 at 7:03 PM, purlieu said:

I love the TechCrunch article originally reporting this, that states most of the tracks on SoundCloud are by "lower-quality independent artists".

 

hahaha

 

''most of the tracks'' by independent artists? of course. it's a numbers game!

''lower-quality independent artists''? lol morons! :facepalm

Now I'm getting ads after songs and the uploading seems to be fucked up. Tried to upload some demos today and only 2 out of 10 of them worked 

Never seen an add here, pro account ftw!

  On 7/14/2017 at 4:11 AM, Auditor said:

Now I'm getting ads after songs and the uploading seems to be fucked up. Tried to upload some demos today and only 2 out of 10 of them worked 

oh lol probably fired some network infrastructure people slightly too early

SC is fine and will go nowhere (as I suspected).  Chance the Rapper invested it appears.  Someone had to, I mean SC is fucking huge and hot.  Someone had to see the potential in it.

well that's anticlimactic.

could have been cathartic instead.

It's going to collapse. We need this catharsis. I realized I can't just keep waking up in the morning checking SoundCloud.

But I wanted sadness and disappointment instead :(

tbh this is only delaying the inevitable.

lessons learned: none

[insert array of photographs of over-the-top Souncloud office spaces, kitchens, that job ad for a star chef for employees' dogs]

When are rappers going to quit bailing out failed businesses? No internet music service should be too big to fail.