I can't believe that they still exist, I use to have an account on SoundCloud but I don't use it anymore.
SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM
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> get makers pay some nominal fee for hosting It doesn't work well and for obvious reasons. If you're an indie producer, you don't necessarily have the money to keep paying for hosting indefinitely. Instead you want to upload your work somewhere where it will always be available, for free. Vimeo charges producers instead of consumers and they are struggling — if you have a commercial website that has to serve content…
> This partially explains the success behind YouTube I thought the success of YouTube was largely due to their low bars for quality of content. Put simply, they allow all kinds of crap as long as it generates views. Vimeo's model is quality content from indie producers, actually they are similar to SoundCloud in some ways. Think about this: for example NASA has plenty of quality audio and video materials, where shoul…
NASA isn't your typical indie producer, because their content generates views and because they can afford pro subscriptions.
Also NASA is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nasatelevision
I'm not saying that Vimeo doesn't have a market. But their market is quite small and it definitely isn't for hobbyists.
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I think like the person you replied to I misread is as having 6 or 7 SxM subscriptions, which sounded like a big flex "I have 6, maybe 7, cars". 6 or 7 paid subs sounds reasonable.
> Aside from Netflix, SxM is probably the one I would cancel last of the group. I read it that way as well right up until I read the rest of the comment where the last sentence made it clear.
Yeah, I originally misunderstood and thought it was that many SxM subs. Was a little confused. Makes more sense now.
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#214someone say a little prayer for 8tracks
one of the nails in their coffin was when SoundCloud cut them off
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#215I feel like sentiment around soundcloud is a little mixed these days, but I'm glad to see that they're still financially viable enough to attract capital. Would be pretty bummed to lose all my playlists and likes if they went under.
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#216When I was a truck driver, Satellite Radio was practically a necessity. Sure I loaded up my ipod with music, but the selection was too damn limited and I would tire of hearing the same songs over & over again. The best case scenario for FM radio (when you would finally find something that you could tolerate) was 1 hour. 1 hour of variety to stave off bordem and try to save your sanity. The effective range of the FM s…
Stuff like soma.fm replaced that for me. There’s nothing like turning on groove salad for a bit. There was a period of time where, after work, some friends and I would get together in one of our university's research labs to solder keyboards. It was always empty by then. We'd put on soma.fm and then get to work. Good times.
same here. I am gladly donating every year. Today I find hand picked music more valuable than ever.
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This might actually be the one case where this limitation is not entirely artificial. :-) The SiriusXM sattelites are in an inclined eliptical orbit with the highes point being over the norther hemisphere. This is the so called Molniya orbit, named after the first Soviet sattelites using it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit (Soviet Union had a lot of territory in higher latitudes where geostationary satt…
In 2016 Sirius discontinued broadcasting from tundra orbits. Their newest FM-5 uses geostationary. [1] Satellite radio was tried a few times in other geographies, but only in North America did it succeed. [2] In 1999 Worldspace launched for EMEAI, and looks like it collapsed in 2008. MobaHo! was a mobile satellite digital audio/video broadcasting service in Japan whose services began on October 20, 2004, and ended on…
Interesting, I totally missed that they use GEO now!
Still pretty cool that one can receive digital radio without a directional antena from a satellite all the way up 36000 km in GEO. Though looking at the article about Tundra Orbit you have linked it was 25000 x 39000 km already, so not that much of a difference.
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What is wrong with bot followers? Is it like fb where you would be paying to promote your content to fake users?
Some people's audio portfolio is on SoundCloud. You would hope that your followers are people who are enjoying your creations.
why is that important? Are you saying if they didn't have very many "real" followers, then they wouldn't continue making music?
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#220I feel like I'm in the minority of those who love SoundCloud. It's one the very few places for indie music makers and DJs to showcase their work that otherwise may not necessarily be published via the official publishing channels. That includes e.g. long running DJ mixes, not exactly the type of material for the official release bureaucracy and associated costs. The only problem with SoundCloud is that instead of fol…
> That includes e.g. long running DJ mixes, not exactly the type of material for the official release bureaucracy and associated costs. Mixcloud does a much better job at this.
Mixcloud is pretty unreliable in my experience. It does one thing better than soundcloud: a stream can consists of multiple tracks, which is excellent for mix-sets.
But the only reason I use it more than soundcloud is because their app supports CarPlay. Soundcloud doesn't do that, which makes listening to it in my car much more difficult, even if the mixcloud app is pretty crap on-the-go.