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Totally agree that delivery is a commodity. However, as a user, I ditched all services in favor of Soundcloud because of the discovery part. For example, Diplo
by twelve40 11y ago
Totally agree that delivery is a commodity. However, as a user, I ditched all services in favor of Soundcloud because of the discovery part. For example, Diplo and Tiesto post and repost almost weekly, combined with the rest of people I follow you get a stream of the very latest music of your taste, manually curated (reposted) by the top DJ's themselves. It's not just an "upload feature", its like Facebook for music: you hit play and get a tailored endless stream of awesomeness, 0 effort on your part. No need to hunt for and buy tracks one by one. No need to suffer through some unknown Pandora voodoo that turns up the same tracks of unknown recency, over and over. Just follow the people you like, and it will play the latest music you like, simple as that.
I don't know if Soundcloud can manage to build a viable business, sometimes they make changes that piss off users and uploaders, and the current model doesn't look too lucrative. But for me as a user, the experience is night and day compared to the true commodity services (iTunes, Amazon, Google, Pandora, Spotify, etc etc), who I think will soon start to crack under margin pressure like Rdio, Mog and others.
- dano 11y agoI agree that Soundcloud is a great place to find unknown artists and new music, just as MP3.com was 16 years ago. Perhaps it can be larger than Spotify in terms of users and VC money that it can attract. None of these services will be valuable businesses as their revenue model is fundamentally flawed and the competition runs essentially the same business on much lower margins. The largest music streaming site on the web is Youtube and it charges nothing for the service, nor generally admits, that it holds this distinction. The consumer will pay, but very little, when there is a free alternative.
- volaski 11y agoI feel like you're overly being dramatic about "ditching all services". Do you literally only listen to music through soundcloud? If that is indeed the case, you're missing out on a lot of great music. Also as a listener of both Soundcloud and Spotify, I think Spotify's discovery has improved immensely to the point where it's much better than the filter bubble of a feed you create on soundcloud
- recursive 11y agoI use soundbutt for at least 90% of music I listen to. I use spotify never. The fact is everyone is missing out on a lot of great music because there is more great music than any one person can listen to.