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SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by lgierth »

TekMol wrote: post #81
alistproducer2 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly don't understand the hate. If you're going to DV me at least take a sec to read the thread or let me know what your issue is. The thread has some good responses from Juan; that's really the only reason I posted it here. I thought of going decentralized because (at the time) I loved soundcloud. I used it as an artist and also as a listener. I've been around long enough to know that their model was not susta…

I see 2 problems with this approach: 1) IPFS does not work in the browser. 2) People might not want to share because of the copyright issue.

There's an alpha implementation of the IPFS and libp2p stack here: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p

Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by Figs »

cbhl wrote: post #7
esaym wrote: post #3

> Now it’s asking investors for $169.5 million at a pre-money enterprise valuation of just $150 million Ouch. I hope they get the money. I really don't want it to go away. I have not found an alternative that has so many 1+ hour long megamixes :(

What about the Internet Archive?

SoundCloud blocked them from making a backup copy of the site. Source: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/888093838107189249

I don't know why.

Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by kakarot »

autotune wrote: post #86
mynewtb wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or make a true backup by downloading it all with e.g. youtube-dl instead.

Can't help but wonder what the sound quality of a downloaded youtube vid converted to mp3 would be vs a straight up mp3 or FLAC.

Looks like it's time for you to learn about the magic that is youtube-dl. It will change your life.

Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by CrystalLangUser »

autotune wrote: post #86
mynewtb wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or make a true backup by downloading it all with e.g. youtube-dl instead.

Can't help but wonder what the sound quality of a downloaded youtube vid converted to mp3 would be vs a straight up mp3 or FLAC.

Bad. Lossy -> Lossy transcoding will always introduce artifacts. Unless the origin source is lossless. (Actually lossless, not a file someone transcoded to a lossless format from a lossy origin)

Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by HNNoLikey »

15charlimit wrote: post #66

"Soundcloud is fine and will be around for years, stop backing up all of the music". Didn't the CEO say something along those lines ~2 weeks ago when they forced the archive.org folks to stop pulling down a backup copy of everything? Funny how quickly that was proven to be BS. Not that anyone should be surprised by this outcome.

Two years ago, folks still said they'd close shop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11079864

Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by [deleted] »

nxsynonym wrote: post #10
sarreph wrote: post #6

For all those looking to make a SoundCloud clone: What is HN's opinion on its failings (from a user perspective) — i.e. how would you make SoundCloud better right now? Also interested to hear those who can balance with commercial viability.

Go back to basics. Keep it focused on community facing artists, remixes, dj sets, etc. From what I've seen they suffered most from lack of direction, weak leadership, and no real business plan from the beginning. It seems (correct me if I'm wrong) it started as a hobby project and got twisted into a SaaS model that didn't fit it's purpose or audience. As far as monetization - why not have a Patreon-esque system of su…

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Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

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Post by wiredearp »

caoilte wrote: post #93
esaym wrote: post #3

> Now it’s asking investors for $169.5 million at a pre-money enterprise valuation of just $150 million Ouch. I hope they get the money. I really don't want it to go away. I have not found an alternative that has so many 1+ hour long megamixes :(

I've always got my mixes from mixcloud. Never really saw what differentiated soundcloud.

Well, if the uploader remembered to enable that setting, you can download the mixes in a much better quality than the 128 kbps streaming quality that both services use. Sometimes even in WAV of FLAC format. This was not possible on Mixcloud the last time(s) I looked, but do speak up if you know it to be possible! Without this option, you (obviously) risk loosing your favorite mixes whenever the funding runs out of the service, so I believe this to be a differentiating factor. Apart from how it sounds when you play it back on a real stereo setup, of course.

Re: SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

#109

Post by k-mcgrady »

Figs wrote: post #102
cbhl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the Internet Archive?

SoundCloud blocked them from making a backup copy of the site. Source: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/888093838107189249 I don't know why.

>> I don't know why.

Wouldn't that be mass copyright infringement that Soundcloud would have a duty to prevent?

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