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Soundcloud is the only music service I happily pay for even though I really don't need to. There aren't enough ads to justify giving them money, so it's really

Soundcloud is the only music service I happily pay for even though I really don't need to. There aren't enough ads to justify giving them money, so it's really just because if they went away I'd lose access to all the best music

non-entity 7y ago
I paid for Soundcloud for a while. Unfortunately I ended up cancelling for two reasons. For one, with Soundcloud Go+, I'm supposed to be able to listen to albums, artists, songs that arent independent soundcloud artists, but for some reason, albums that were available on just about any other streaming platform from US artists, weren't available in my country. Secondly, there's no volume normalization, which I understand why, but it gets annoying having to re-adjust the volume constantly because I had to turn it all the way up to hear one song while the next will nearly blow my ears on that level.
mkgolden 7y ago
Interesting, my experience is different. I recently canceled my subscription and the amount of ads soundcloud plays drives me up the wall. It makes me want to resubscribe.
dna_polymerase 7y ago
I really wanted them to succeed, and subscribed to their Go+ tier for years. This year I pulled the plug and went back to Spotify. I can't say I it miss too much. Of course, liking EDM I miss the live sets of many talented artists, but overall their service was just not worth it anymore. Their recommendation system is bullshit, since they have tons of duplicates in their database I would often get suggested music I already listen to uploaded by someone else. This gets more frustrating when one duplicate is unavailable in my country when another isn't and I have to curate the song myself. The biggest change to their app in the past few years was introducing darkmode (only a few weeks back). Their last marketing mail was about some new feature for artists, that's when I finally pulled the plug. They lack any direction, they focus on the artist side of things, while their listeners get a mediocre music player.

non-entity 7y ago

I paid for Soundcloud for a while. Unfortunately I ended up cancelling for two reasons. For one, with Soundcloud Go+, I'm supposed to be able to listen to albums, artists, songs that arent independent soundcloud artists, but for some reason, albums that were available on just about any other streaming platform from US artists, weren't available in my country. Secondly, there's no volume normalization, which I understand why, but it gets annoying having to re-adjust the volume constantly because I had to turn it all the way up to hear one song while the next will nearly blow my ears on that level.

mkgolden 7y ago

Interesting, my experience is different. I recently canceled my subscription and the amount of ads soundcloud plays drives me up the wall. It makes me want to resubscribe.

dna_polymerase 7y ago

I really wanted them to succeed, and subscribed to their Go+ tier for years. This year I pulled the plug and went back to Spotify. I can't say I it miss too much. Of course, liking EDM I miss the live sets of many talented artists, but overall their service was just not worth it anymore. Their recommendation system is bullshit, since they have tons of duplicates in their database I would often get suggested music I already listen to uploaded by someone else. This gets more frustrating when one duplicate is unavailable in my country when another isn't and I have to curate the song myself. The biggest change to their app in the past few years was introducing darkmode (only a few weeks back). Their last marketing mail was about some new feature for artists, that's when I finally pulled the plug. They lack any direction, they focus on the artist side of things, while their listeners get a mediocre music player.