RIP Soundcloud

[tremolo3]

OK not yet.... but maybe in 24 hours.

So download/backup your shit if you haven't


http://cdm.link/2017/07/heres-download- ... oundcloud/

[PeteeBee]

Didn't Spotify buy SoundCloud a few months ago? Or did that fall through?

[tremolo3]

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/0 ... -24-hours/

Incidentally, Spotify apparently passed on a deal to acquire SoundCloud. That could play into the current decision, especially the analysis of whether SoundCloud is actually sellable or not.

[Mudfuzz]

Fucking finally.

[MechaGodzilla]

While checking out the old account to see what was worth archiving, i found this fucking thing:

there is nor reason that it needs to be nearly six minutes long

I guess I was just learning to mess around with ableton and plugins by fucking up Daft Punk samples but man, there's some good fucking ideas/loops in that track. The rest of my acct is pretty much shit though.

[Jwar]

But what will we do with this?

[Chankgeez]

The same thing we do with the bandcamp tags.

[Olin]

Guess it isn't quite dead yet.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40907724

[oscillateur]

Apparently the new CEO/COO did some decent work with Vimeo, so there might be some hope. I still backed up all my stuff just in case.

[codetocontra]

It bums me out when companies like this fold or have other issues. Like how recently Photobucket has tried to extort people into paying hundreds of dollars in order to share pictures. I get it is a business, and I am not anti-profit, but it is obvious their business model wasn't working. In the end our archived history suffers. I always imagined that websites and forums like ILF would be archived somehow, either through the owners of the site or perhaps automatically by some government program or 3rd party service, and then long after a place like ILF closes down it would still live on as a document of history. We are at a time where everything we put on the internet could possibly be saved forever and our descendants could research our generation, the first era online. Our great great great grandchildren could find out what things we were into, the sounds we made, the pictures we took, etc...They could know us so much better than you would know your ancestors from a century ago through a few old photographs and possible saved letters or diaries. But when things like Soundcloud fail, Photobucket fails, forums fail... We lose that history forever and that is a bit of a shame. Sure, we can all use another service that pops up going forward from now, but all those broken links on places like ILF aren't going to be fixed. Not unless each of us goes through our personal archive and every post we every made and re-uploaded those photos to another service and then edited our posts. Not going to happen.

[chuckjaywalk]

My pedal review blog is dead, now. I will have to reconsider my plans of resurrecting it.

[JonnyAngle]

It bums me out when companies like this fold or have other issues. Like how recently Photobucket has tried to extort people into paying hundreds of dollars in order to share pictures. I get it is a business, and I am not anti-profit, but it is obvious their business model wasn't working. In the end our archived history suffers. I always imagined that websites and forums like ILF would be archived somehow, either through the owners of the site or perhaps automatically by some government program or 3rd party service, and then long after a place like ILF closes down it would still live on as a document of history. We are at a time where everything we put on the internet could possibly be saved forever and our descendants could research our generation, the first era online. Our great great great grandchildren could find out what things we were into, the sounds we made, the pictures we took, etc...They could know us so much better than you would know your ancestors from a century ago through a few old photographs and possible saved letters or diaries. But when things like Soundcloud fail, Photobucket fails, forums fail... We lose that history forever and that is a bit of a shame. Sure, we can all use another service that pops up going forward from now, but all those broken links on places like ILF aren't going to be fixed. Not unless each of us goes through our personal archive and every post we every made and re-uploaded those photos to another service and then edited our posts. Not going to happen.

As a side note...

There is so much information being shared every minute vs 50 years ago. I thought it was cool when we found my great grandfathers journal and read that. But will my great grandkids will have TB's of data to sift through in order to learn about me or will they just not care?

Lack of physical evidence and quantity of data makes it really hard :/

[repoman]

How the heck did soundcloud stay open for so long? Was there a subscription service or something? I don't remember seeing ads on it.
It was handy, worked well and was free as far as I can tell?

So many websites boggle my mind how they have no observable way of making money, yet get hundreds of millions of dollars in investment?

[ognoy]

I pay 5$ a month to have unlimited amount of music up there.

[tremolo3]

So many websites boggle my mind how they have no observable way of making money, yet get hundreds of millions of dollars in investment?

This is the age of free services in exchange of personal data, email addresses more than anything.

1. User creates account
2. Free service sells your info for advertisement purposes
3. profit

Freemium type of model seems to be (surprisingly) working for some companies too.