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Contrarian here: Soundcloud is an incredibly valuable property. They have obviously had a few managerial cock-ups, but in reality they have massive user buyin,

Contrarian here: Soundcloud is an incredibly valuable property. They have obviously had a few managerial cock-ups, but in reality they have massive user buyin, huge network effect, and anyone who can get some equity in them during this current time of massive negative sentiment is going to do VERY WELL. I wish I had a way to buy in at this point.

fungi 9y ago
love it, live on it, its contributed significantly to my hearing loss. listening to https://soundcloud.com/silent-season/campfire-stories-24 https://soundcloud.com/silent-season/campfire-stories-24 as i type this spiel. would happily become a premium++ subscriber if money went to artists, something like humble bundle... but the paid plan is brain dead and offers no value ┐(￣ヘ￣;)┌ hope it survives or morphs into a decentralised platform that artists can thrive on.
- bartread 9y ago
  Ooh: nice recommendation. I have somewhat mixed feelings about Soundcloud. On the one hand I've discovered a load of cool stuff through them, as well as uploaded a few tracks of my own. On the other I received a takedown notice from them after a complaint from Sony about one of my remixes - my most popular track by miles and, at the time, the third most popular remix of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up (long story) - which left something of a bitter taste in my mouth. To add insult to injury the notice arrived on my birthday last year. Haven't really touched Soundcloud much since.
lupin3 9y ago
Soundcloud is one the rare service I would be happy to pay for. However, their current subscription does not bring me anything interesting. One idea would be to have a monthly limit, and propose an unlimited subscription at around $1 to $3. And how come I have to pay for the artist album through Bandcamp after listening on Soundcloud? Is there no way to implement a payment straight from Soundcloud? Also, there is an obvious return of the podcast scene: here again, plenty of ways to make money from that.
- epa 9y ago
  I agree their pricing decisions were not in line with their users. Soundcloud Go was poorly positioned, and their original premium tiers did not provide enough benefit for what they cost. SoundCloud is far from 'failed' the service is still the go-to website for new music and I do not see a replacement at this time.
tjr225 9y ago
SoundCloud is still the only place, as far as I know of, where underground and loft electronic music is shared and recognized. It's a pretty big scene and I genuinely don't understand all of the huge negative words surrounding SoundCloud right now, but I guess as someone who uses it every day I don't really pay attention to their business decisions.
- keypusher 9y ago
  MixCloud seems to be doing pretty well on the electronic music front. I don't know exactly what qualifies as underground anymore, but there are tons of great electronic mixes on there and a pretty active community.
- manigandham 9y ago
  Sure, it's great for that - but that doesn't make money and what they tried to do to make money was copy spotify, but with a worse product that had nothing to do with why people went to soundcloud.

fungi 9y ago

love it, live on it, its contributed significantly to my hearing loss. listening to https://soundcloud.com/silent-season/campfire-stories-24 https://soundcloud.com/silent-season/campfire-stories-24 as i type this spiel. would happily become a premium++ subscriber if money went to artists, something like humble bundle... but the paid plan is brain dead and offers no value ┐(￣ヘ￣;)┌ hope it survives or morphs into a decentralised platform that artists can thrive on.

bartread 9y ago
Ooh: nice recommendation. I have somewhat mixed feelings about Soundcloud. On the one hand I've discovered a load of cool stuff through them, as well as uploaded a few tracks of my own. On the other I received a takedown notice from them after a complaint from Sony about one of my remixes - my most popular track by miles and, at the time, the third most popular remix of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up (long story) - which left something of a bitter taste in my mouth. To add insult to injury the notice arrived on my birthday last year. Haven't really touched Soundcloud much since.

lupin3 9y ago

Soundcloud is one the rare service I would be happy to pay for. However, their current subscription does not bring me anything interesting. One idea would be to have a monthly limit, and propose an unlimited subscription at around $1 to $3. And how come I have to pay for the artist album through Bandcamp after listening on Soundcloud? Is there no way to implement a payment straight from Soundcloud? Also, there is an obvious return of the podcast scene: here again, plenty of ways to make money from that.

epa 9y ago
I agree their pricing decisions were not in line with their users. Soundcloud Go was poorly positioned, and their original premium tiers did not provide enough benefit for what they cost. SoundCloud is far from 'failed' the service is still the go-to website for new music and I do not see a replacement at this time.

tjr225 9y ago

SoundCloud is still the only place, as far as I know of, where underground and loft electronic music is shared and recognized. It's a pretty big scene and I genuinely don't understand all of the huge negative words surrounding SoundCloud right now, but I guess as someone who uses it every day I don't really pay attention to their business decisions.

keypusher 9y ago
MixCloud seems to be doing pretty well on the electronic music front. I don't know exactly what qualifies as underground anymore, but there are tons of great electronic mixes on there and a pretty active community.
manigandham 9y ago
Sure, it's great for that - but that doesn't make money and what they tried to do to make money was copy spotify, but with a worse product that had nothing to do with why people went to soundcloud.