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I wouldn't say it's the same experience. Youtube is cluttered and music is a side offering, primarily in the form of music videos. Song-only videos have been no
by boyaka 13y ago
I wouldn't say it's the same experience. Youtube is cluttered and music is a side offering, primarily in the form of music videos. Song-only videos have been notorious for being posted by somebody other than the owner and not existing reliably (copy infringement). Soundcloud makes a home for your song that can be shared forever, is pleasant to visit, and links you to tons of related music and explore the musical interests of other people that like that music.
- Kiro 13y agoThis is definitely not true for the EDM scene where even successful artists want to get on the big promotion channels (no music videos, just sound).
- boyaka 13y agoHmmm. I've been in the trap scene myself lately, and this is the trend I see. Soundcloud just works so much better because of the community, the ease of linking artists together (I love how rappers will feature other rappers, then you can go listen to that other rapper and explore an entire new world of music), the overall presentation of audio with waves, similar to an audio player (Google tries to do this more with Google Play Music rather than Youtube). Souncloud is just a much more polished experience for music.
- Kiro 13y agoI agree SoundCloud is better in many aspects but for trap I follow two really good channels on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/trapandbass https://www.youtube.com/trapandbass https://www.youtube.com/alltrapmusic https://www.youtube.com/alltrapmusic It's these kind of promotion channels I'm missing on SoundCloud, even though it has started popping up some good ones.