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While I like SoundCloud a lot, what the hell have they been up to for the last few years? From where I'm sitting Spotify, Apple Music and many more out-innovated them and SoundCloud did... well, nothing.
It is excellent and I cannot recommend it enough, and it is available in Canada (unlike SoundCloud Go).
I'm not sure I see what this is really offering customers. It seems like just another paywell for creators to put their content behind. While that's good for them, as a consumer I don't really have much motivation to sign up for another streaming service when I already pay for Spotify. If an artist is on Spotify, great, I'll listen to their songs a bunch and they'll make a little money off of me. If it's a group I ha…
Hey there - It's a huge catalog of tracks which contains all content from both emerging and established creators. The full details of which can be found on https://blog.soundcloud.com/
I assume SoundCloud will at some point post other blog content and so in a matter of days/weeks this general link will not go to the right spot.
I'm not sure I see what this is really offering customers. It seems like just another paywell for creators to put their content behind. While that's good for them, as a consumer I don't really have much motivation to sign up for another streaming service when I already pay for Spotify. If an artist is on Spotify, great, I'll listen to their songs a bunch and they'll make a little money off of me. If it's a group I ha…
Hey there - It's a huge catalog of tracks which contains all content from both emerging and established creators. The full details of which can be found on https://blog.soundcloud.com/
- Ad free music - Listen offline - More tracks from established creators
The first two are a given with any streaming service. My point was their catalog isn't enough to make me switch over.
As an artist, unless you're getting some kind of crazy deal to just be on one of the services, your best bet is to be on every one out there.
How much Spotify cost in the states? As a Swede it costs 99kr which is more than $9. I use Groove and that costs $9 which translates to about 79kr or something like that. It's 20% cheaper for a little less content and a not as good client. The lesser price alone makes the service worth it.
How does that make the service "worth it"?
It sounds like subpar crap in every way but price, and even at that it's nothing to write home about either (a measly $2.5 savings).
If one can afford $9/month, I don't see how $11.5 month are prohibiting for a better experience and more content.
In previous versions, you could select how much content to cache locally on the device, up to 100%. This meant if you listened to a song once, you could listen to it again offline.
From using their app now, and the website (non-mobile) it seems they have removed all caching completely.
Anyway, it's absolutely trivial to download the raw songs (MP3) from SoundCloud using Developer Tools in your favourite browser. It's not the highest quality, but since SoundCloud is 90% user contributed tracks, the original quality is often questionable anyway.
I see no added value from this service. Just download the songs as MP3 files and listen to them, offline and ad free!
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Hey there - It's a huge catalog of tracks which contains all content from both emerging and established creators. The full details of which can be found on https://blog.soundcloud.com/
I read the article - the pros seems to be: - Ad free music - Listen offline - More tracks from established creators The first two are a given with any streaming service. My point was their catalog isn't enough to make me switch over. As an artist, unless you're getting some kind of crazy deal to just be on one of the services, your best bet is to be on every one out there.
While I like SoundCloud a lot, what the hell have they been up to for the last few years? From where I'm sitting Spotify, Apple Music and many more out-innovated them and SoundCloud did... well, nothing.
"If you’re an iOS user, it’ll cost more, with the company charging $12.99 for signups to account for Apple’s mandatory 30 percent cut." I'd be a little surprised if Apple will allow them to do this. It's kind of like credit card companies requiring stores to charge the same price regardless of if you use the credit card (which has fees) instead of cash (which doesn't). Charging different prices is a negative signal f…
Spotify have the exact same pricing model/discrepancy http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/08/spotify-is-actively...
But see, I was an iOS user paying $10/month for Spotify (because I paid on the web). Does Soundcloud offer this, or is it truly every iOS user has to pay through Apple for their subscription to Soundcloud Go, and thus have no choice but to pay more? It seems like it's the latter by the wording of their copy.
The actual offering left aside, the naming is quite unfortunate.
>> "The actual offering left aside, the naming is quite unfortunate." It seems good to me. One of the major features is offline listening to you can now listen 'on the go'. Am I missing something?
why doesn't any music service come up with a less expensive price plan? I would like to try one, but am pretty sure I would not use it so much as to justify paying 10$ (or £) per month. How about a less expensive plan with limited features (e.g. only n hours of music per month)?