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Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

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Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

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Post by dshanahan »

brianbreslin wrote: post #19
cloudwalking wrote: post #9

Please buy Soundcloud. They have a great product that hasn't made many improvements in the last couple years. Hopefully an acquisition by Twitter would give them the resources they need to thrive, without too much negative oversight. (Vine is an example of a very successful Twitter acquisition.)

don't get ahead of yourself. remember twitter #music product? was vine an acquisition or an internal dev project?

Vine was an acquisition. Dorsey found it and convinced the Twitter team to acquire.

Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

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Post by wahnfrieden »

Touche wrote: post #15
pgtruesdell wrote: post #2

I think this could be an interesting move for Twitter. Especially for podcasting, since Twitter started out as Odeo, and pivoted due to lackluster interest in the medium.

What is Soundcloud's relation to podcasting? I'm not familiar.

Soundcloud is a platform for sharing audio, people upload audio podcasts to it among other things.

Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

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Post by dntrkv »

cloudwalking wrote: post #9

Please buy Soundcloud. They have a great product that hasn't made many improvements in the last couple years. Hopefully an acquisition by Twitter would give them the resources they need to thrive, without too much negative oversight. (Vine is an example of a very successful Twitter acquisition.)

I hope that will be the case but I'm not holding my breath, they have received over $120M in funding up to this point. They had so much potential when they launched and in the last year or so they have just fell behind. When they moved over to this new look there was so much functionality lost and so many critical bugs introduced that they still haven't fixed.

Infinite scroll on their site is completely unusable, on the desktop and on the iPhone. Try to scroll past page 5 on either device and it will begin to slow to crawl, and then it will just start repeating pages of songs over and over. As you scroll, they load more and more elements until the page is using a ridiculous amount of ram. There is no playlist shuffle capability on the iPhone. The shuffle functionality on the desktop is a joke, it shuffles the current page of songs that have been pulled in via infinite scroll.

The whole site in general is very buggy. Many times I can't scroll through my list of playlists when I try to add a song to a playlist. Sometimes I'll like a song and it won't register. All these things have made it become almost unbearable to use.

So between the non-working scroll and lack of real shuffle, it is impossible for me to access any songs I have liked when I started my account. Which are the main songs I want to access. I was thinking of creating my own client on top of their API but I'm worried it will get pulled off the app store like they did with Soundflake.

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