I'm guessing you probably need to take stuff off SC for people to buy it on Bandcamp, at least based on my experience with not doing that.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
The end is nigh
http://variety.com/2017/music/news/soundcloud-has-enough-money-to-survive-only-50-days-report-claims-1202494582/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
goddamnit
i gotta grab my shit off there
loved soundcloud
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah, back up your own stuff, and download whatever else is up there that is great. In fact, people want to turn this into a rolling recommendations thread, they should.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Oh, hell.
― nachismo (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
arse, but, not totally unexpected to be honest.
i use it a lot via sonos app to check out new stuff, makes it so easy to hear stuff via my hi-fi as opposed to crappy laptop speakers.
― mark e, Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
how bad does this fuck up the whole podcast industry? seems like a of big podcasts get a lot of their listens through Soundcloud
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
it's a pretty small piece of the picture tbh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
i'm kind of mad at soundcloud actually. they created, basically, tumblr for music, totally failed to get their music rights in order, and now they're letting it die even though people love it :/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
I'll be very sad if it folds, it's the platform I've had the most success with in pretty much all respects (finding music, connecting w/people, and getting my own work out there).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Yeah, same. :(
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
i continue to see things expire before i figure out what they are or if i have use for them
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
I am kind of glad this means I won't have to make an account once I get my one-man-band back together
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
Also, completely on the same page as Morbius here!
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
I mean I knew I should be taking advantage of it, but then I would go look at all the little iconified comments on time stamps along the bottom and just NO NOT
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
Frequently maddened by inability to download podcast episodes. No, i do not want to listen to this on my desktop.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 14 July 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
pour one out
― brimstead, Friday, 14 July 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
Chance to the rescue:https://blavity.com/soundcloud-saved-chance-the-rapper
― groovypanda, Friday, 14 July 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
!!
― brimstead, Friday, 14 July 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
Even more impressive than a money phone!
― albvivertine, Saturday, 15 July 2017 06:23 (six years ago) link
Still seems pretty nebulous: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/chance-the-rapper-says-soundcloud-is-here-to-stay-in-cryptic-tweet-1202496118/
Chance’s manager had not responded to Variety’s requests for comment at press time, and a rep for SoundCloud told Variety that the rapper is essentially spreading good vibes about the company during a challenging time and that if he is making a more material commitment to the service, she is unaware of it.
Soundcloud still says they're here to stay, though.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 15 July 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
Companies that are run badly by incompetent/inexperienced people are not, usually
In the space of a week I have gone from knowing nothing about Alex Ljung to learning that he is very bad at business and terrible with money
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 July 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
Any company that hires about a zillion people and pays for them all to move to Berlin despite not having a business plan has got its work cut out
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
I love Soundcloud but, yeah, no, I never saw how it could be financially viable. Would make a great public utility.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 15 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.axios.com/soundcloud-asks-investors-to-support-rescue-deal-2471398461.html
Axios has obtained a circular sent to existing shareholders on Tuesday, which requires them to accept or reject a reorganization proposal by the end of Friday. If accepted, then the new investment -- $169.5 million at a $150 million pre-money enterprise valuation -- also closes tomorrow. If rejected, then CEO Alexander Ljung suggests the company would not be able "to continue as a going concern."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 August 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
I'm assuming stay of execution at best.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/08/soundcloud-saved-emergency-investment/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/magazine/if-soundcloud-disappears-what-happens-to-its-music-culture.html
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
What was the streaming-download site that Facebook promoted in its early years? Garageband?
A lot of music of highly variable quality, freely available, then it disappears from the internet. It's like Manhandled Birds never existed :-(
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 13 August 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
Do you guys think the bleak and anhedonic sound of so called soundcloud rap is the “future” of rap in the coming years? n.b. I’m not sayint it would be good or bad either way; i love a lot of music that fits this bill, like xo tour lif3, a bunch of lil peep songs, even that juice wrld track with the sting sample which is such an earworm, but something about the scene bums me out.
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link
Maybe it’s not even a “scene” as such but there a notable mood of hopelessness in a lot of rap being released by very young artists. It’s weirdest to me when that dark, super downbeat sound with the low-affect vocals appears in songs where the lyrics don’t seem to warrant it, like “gucci gang.” It’s not that these are sad or angsty or even nihilistic songs—which wouldn’t be new in rap—there is this drift toward numbness that seems notable. People on ilm have probably noted it
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
I think like most developments in music it's more likely to be a trend that will eventually become a sub-genre the mainstream can borrow from
― niels, Sunday, 2 September 2018 09:50 (five years ago) link
my songs on SC have got way more views than my BC albums.
This has kind of gone to shit recently. In the last couple of years the tracks I've uploaded to SC have got a handful of plays each at best.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 2 September 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
Oops.
https://pitchfork.com/news/soundcloud-announces-layoffs-impacting-nearly-20-percent-of-workforce/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
in the three years since this thread was updated it has really gone downhill as a platform, the hyperactive copyright enforcement on samples, the awful search functionality, the autoplay of seemingly random tracks
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
otm. need to move over to mixcloud soon.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
soundcloud engagement is continuously dwindling away but i'm not sure mixcloud is picking up any of the slack.
personally speaking, all the listens i have 'lost' on my label soundcloud have simply transferred to my bandcamp, though of course that is no use for mixes etc.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Mixcloud has it’s own set of problems IMO, not least the inability of rewinding if you don’t have a subscription.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 4 August 2022 08:15 (one year ago) link
mixcloud and bandcamp do two different jobs, and soundcloud tried unsuccessfully to do both, I have had uploads rejected from mixcloud for being too short, "but that's literally every recording from 1860" I said, they didn't seem to know what to say to that.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 August 2022 08:48 (one year ago) link