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It's a huge shame that SoundCloud is likely dying, because large segments of the music industry and literally entire genres of music are solely on SoundCloud. This may sound hyperbolic, but I feel like them shutting down would be the "burning of the Library of Alexandria" of 21st century music
It's a huge shame that SoundCloud is likely dying, because large segments of the music industry and literally entire genres of music are solely on SoundCloud. This may sound hyperbolic, but I feel like them shutting down would be the "burning of the Library of Alexandria" of 21st century music
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Cry me a river, poor well-connected CEO will have to go Serial Entrepreneur another company on the wings of investors. These people only have to deal with mental anguish, the ones with consciences at least. I feel badly for the employees and, to a certain extent, the customers.
Yes, and I only feel bad for those who have cancer, and have no food to eat. The employees only have to worry about the mental anguish of suffering through some stupid whiteboard coding problems to get their next job. /sarcasm off.
This seems strange, given that another article from TechCrunch today states that the layoffs bought them very minimal runway. https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/soundshroud/ > Instead, sources at SoundCloud tell TechCrunch that founders Alex Ljung and Eric Wahlforss confessed the layoffs only saved the company enough money to have runway “until Q4” — which begins in just 50 days. > A core question from staff during th…
I can't help but feel badly for SoundCloud and their CEO. Over the years I've seen dozens of companies get to a point where its clear that the future is not what they had envisioned. It's that moment of facing reality of "If we were likely to win, we would have by now, but we didn't so really what is next for us?" It is that point where the investors have seen perhaps three or four internal projects that haven't push…
Remember the employee you guys had that said "Comment timelines are neat but this is not enough to establish a working business"? Find him/her - rehire him/her, and fire all of the fucking idiots that ignored them. They should have sold the idea to Google - at least then we might all benefit from it. Instead, SoundCloud, and comment timelines, will be a neat idea strangled by poor leadership.
I wish I could somehow archive some of their content. They have a serious amount of audio data and are the only source I know with annotations attached to specific seconds within a track. I've been thinking about building a music-generating neural network–something that may work especially well for electronic (and often instrumental) music that soundcloud has a lot of. Unfortunately, they have limited their API acces…
It sounds like youtube-dl tooling works with soundcloud though, so you could write a crawler to at least archive your favorite artists' tracks individually.
Example: youtube-dl http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182804938
I can't help but feel badly for SoundCloud and their CEO. Over the years I've seen dozens of companies get to a point where its clear that the future is not what they had envisioned. It's that moment of facing reality of "If we were likely to win, we would have by now, but we didn't so really what is next for us?" It is that point where the investors have seen perhaps three or four internal projects that haven't push…
But some companies actually come out of that, especially when they've built valuable assets. It took a long time before it seemed like Facebook could be turned into a profitable business from being a plaything. But the fact that they were sitting on this growing social graph gave people enough faith to believe it might be worthwhile to give them some more rope. At least that's the way I see it -- maybe they started m…