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I remember when Soundcloud first launched and it was specifically aimed at musicians to encourage collaboration, so its nice that it still occupies that niche p

I remember when Soundcloud first launched and it was specifically aimed at musicians to encourage collaboration, so its nice that it still occupies that niche pretty well. “We both came from backgrounds connected to music,” co-founder Alex Ljung said in a recent interview with wired.com. “And it was just really, really annoying for us to collaborate with people on music — I mean simple collaboration, just sending tracks to other people in a private setting, getting some feedback from them, and having a conversation about that piece of music. In the same way that we’d be using Flickr for our photos, and Vimeo for our videos, we didn’t have that kind of platform for our music.” From: Wired, 2009: SoundCloud Threatens MySpace as Music Destination for Twitter Era https://archive.is/3uFk9 https://archive.is/3uFk9

alisonatwork 3y ago
I already posted this article on the previous SoundCloud thread last week, but it's worth mentioning that a string of decisions that SoundCloud made after their glory years of the late 00s lost them support from the very artists and DJs that originally made the site popular: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999172/soundcloud-business-model-future-spotify-streaming https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999172/soundcloud-busin... Speaking only for myself, I canceled my paid account in 2014 after already not visiting for a year or two due to the spam problem and copyright strikes. I am not deeply involved in making music any more, so I don't know where the hot spot for musicians to collaborate is today, but cloud storage is counted in the terabytes now so sharing projects, samples and stems is much less expensive than it used to be. Timestamped comments and being able to scrub back and forward without loading up your DAW is probably the main differentiator that SoundCloud offered, but I'm not sure that's as unique as it used to be either. One weird site I saw linked on last week's thread was this one from Audacity's new owners: https://audio.com/ https://audio.com/ It's full of janky little samples and snippets that people have uploaded. It reminds me of the early days of musicians uploading whatever unfinished ideas to BBSes and newsgroups for feedback or just to feel like they weren't alone in the world. Artists will always find a way.

alisonatwork 3y ago

I already posted this article on the previous SoundCloud thread last week, but it's worth mentioning that a string of decisions that SoundCloud made after their glory years of the late 00s lost them support from the very artists and DJs that originally made the site popular: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999172/soundcloud-business-model-future-spotify-streaming https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999172/soundcloud-busin... Speaking only for myself, I canceled my paid account in 2014 after already not visiting for a year or two due to the spam problem and copyright strikes. I am not deeply involved in making music any more, so I don't know where the hot spot for musicians to collaborate is today, but cloud storage is counted in the terabytes now so sharing projects, samples and stems is much less expensive than it used to be. Timestamped comments and being able to scrub back and forward without loading up your DAW is probably the main differentiator that SoundCloud offered, but I'm not sure that's as unique as it used to be either. One weird site I saw linked on last week's thread was this one from Audacity's new owners: https://audio.com/ https://audio.com/ It's full of janky little samples and snippets that people have uploaded. It reminds me of the early days of musicians uploading whatever unfinished ideas to BBSes and newsgroups for feedback or just to feel like they weren't alone in the world. Artists will always find a way.