Somewhat offtopic, but why is there an obsession with music discovery services? Soundcloud has its own niche in terms of sharing and usage, but other services like 8tracks and Slacker seem rather unnecessary. Is it that hard to discover new music on one's own?
Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
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Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#22Why have we, as a society, become OK with handing over policing power to corporations unrestrained by due process? For example, by using sites like Soundcloud. Is it the lack of civics education in high school?
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#23Why have we, as a society, become OK with handing over policing power to corporations unrestrained by due process? For example, by using sites like Soundcloud. Is it the lack of civics education in high school?
I'd point out that it is one corporation giving another corporation policing powers. A natural result of extending the rights and power of corporations in our society is that they replace our other existing social institutions.
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#24Farewell Soundcloud. It was nice while things lasted.
I just set up that command line client the other day too.
I always wanted to become better in Elisp, so I'm using SoundCloud now from Emacs ;) https://github.com/r0man/soundklaus.el
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe the ability to have a seed post to go along with the link might be a feature worth evaluating?
You can do that now by posting a comment to the thread. I realize that's not exactly what you mean, but (a) it's close, (b) we're biased in favor of reusing existing features wherever possible, and (c) I'm not convinced that the submitter's comment should be privileged over other users', other than by being first to appear. What chippy wrote was fine, but that would not always be the case.
I don't think the submitter's comment needs to be privileged. But it would be nice if both text and url are entered then the system just magically turns that text into a comment from the submitter. It would just save the submitter a step. I'll refrain from the typical dev comment about how it should be easy to do in the code. It probably isn't that easy. But probably not that hard either. :)
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#26The one looming question is, does Universal have access to spectrum analysis products of tracks, or the actual sounds themselves? If they have access to the actual sounds, they'll be able to harvest song ideas from private tracks. No bueno.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think something similar will happen to Mixcloud too. See U.S. licensing rules: http://support.mixcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/1595564
Then comes another service... The circle of life...
Those are actually really permissive terms, and will likely keep Mixcloud in the clear. They do need to cover the cost of the licenses, but they're not operating illegally like Soundcloud was.
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#28I'm actually working on a service which sits on top of SoundCloud. It's still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear what people think of the concept; the service aims to help musicians and photographers expose their content to a wider audience, and on the flip side, allows you to sit back and listen to a playlist of music whilst enjoying a beautiful photo slide show. The playlists are tailored to a user's mood, and you're able to filter the music based on genre. The website's voliyo.com, and if anyone's interested in signing up to the beta as a photographer or musician, feel free to message me for an invite code!
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#29Why have we, as a society, become OK with handing over policing power to corporations unrestrained by due process? For example, by using sites like Soundcloud. Is it the lack of civics education in high school?
> Why have we, as a society, become OK with handing over policing power to corporations unrestrained by due process?
These companies do not care about due process, they care about the bottom line of making a dollar at the end of the day. Soundcloud determined it is much less expensive for them to go this route than be sued by Universal. Every company follows this practice as for they are serving their best interest.
As a consumer your hope is that their best interest and your best interest share the inside of a Venn diagram.
Re: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
#30The part that really gets me is that Universal isn't even trying to help people "do the right thing". In the email from Greg Morris he states:
"The problem I'm having is the ambiguity of the feedback. For example, on the first strike you just said "Universal Music" said I used one of their tunes. The set started with an Ellie Golding song which I thought was the problem. So I removed that and re-uploaded. It was then taken down again. You're not even telling me which songs are infringing."
That is infuriating. He is trying to oblige to the request to remove a copyrighted song, but Universal isn't even telling him how he is in violation.