RIP Soundcloud?
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- section_014-1
How could such a massive site go under? I get that they have a lot of server / developer costs, but can't they just flood the damn thing with ads? Everything else free like this does.
- zarkonite0
Too bad I can't just PAY for it or something...
- dbloc0
someone will save it.
- SimonFFM0
What's an alternative for me to hook up with musicians to license their stuff for my videos?
- Beeswax1
- NOOOOOOOOOORamanisky2
- i know someone who works there. a fuckload of people in the states got laid off in the last two weeks.shellie
- jagara0
meh... Soundcloud will be bought by someone with business sense enough to properly monetize it, the relaunch. A brand this big doesn't simply die...
- yuekit0
Has a site of this size ever been completely lost to posterity?
I backed up all my stuff on there just in case :/
- prophetone0
Speaking of backing up, is there a service out there to bulk auto d/l fav accounts? *he asks w/ nervous laugh
- Miguex0
I stop using it over a year ago and 98% of my clients are in the music industry.
It all went downhill when they started implementing that system that will take down copyrighted music automatically, a lot of big name artists had their own albums taken down for absolutely no reason. Then they make it hard for them to prove they owned the recordings, that's when they turn against artists instead oh helping them. The amazing thing about soundcloud was that it gave the artist a voice over record labels, when big labels got involved the artist got screwed again and they left.
Then they started putting ads on the songs and stuff... It was inevitable. Everyone moved to bandcamp / mixcloud and spotify.
There was a time where soundcloud was king though, I loved them so much...
- it's still going strong in terms of users.
I agree the ads are shit but the copyright issue was forced on them - wasn't their choice.fadein11
- it's still going strong in terms of users.
- ernexbcn3
They got more money
