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Soundcloud does a great job at frustrating me by suggesting lots of great tracks I'd love to play which I can't find available for sale anywhere. I am happy to
by marssaxman 9y ago
Soundcloud does a great job at frustrating me by suggesting lots of great tracks I'd love to play which I can't find available for sale anywhere. I am happy to pay for high-quality downloads via beatport / juno / bandcamp etc., but my experience with Soundcloud has been that it's rarely worth bothering to look. I don't really understand what's the point of good music discovery for previews only, if I can't get at the actual content.
- tomc1985 9y agoMost of the artists I follow include links to Beatport/whatever and other music stores in their tracks. If yours aren't, why not ask?
- marssaxman 9y agoWho would I ask? Most tracks on soundcloud aren't posted by the people who would be selling them, so far as my experience goes.
- saaaaaam 9y agoOften this is because they are unofficial remixes or otherwise "grey area" content where the licensing isn't in place to be able to commercially release. If you make a track using element from a well known artist, often that track will be allowed to exist in the largely non-commercially exploited environment of soundcloud but as soon as you want to release it for money then you will be hit with a copyright takedown.