Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account

Post by kefs » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 9:34 PM UTC

Ryanmf wrote: post #17

It's been really interesting over the last 24 hours or so to watch the reaction from Joe Kay[0], whose label/collective Soulection[1] has shared hundreds of hours of mixes and dozens of original tracks and remixes on Soundcloud[2], and to an extent (at least initially) built their following on the site (not to take anything away from the impact performances, etc. have had on their growing popularity), but were always…

Post by Ryanmf » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

kefs wrote: post #51

Ryanmf wrote: post #17

It's been really interesting over the last 24 hours or so to watch the reaction from Joe Kay[0], whose label/collective Soulection[1] has shared hundreds of hours of mixes and dozens of original tracks and remixes on Soundcloud[2], and to an extent (at least initially) built their following on the site (not to take anything away from the impact performances, etc. have had on their growing popularity), but were always…

Soulection originally uploaded their shows to MixCloud, but made the move to SoundCloud about a year back. :( http://www.mixcloud.com/soulection/ ..if any HNers enjoy these tunes, the live show is every Saturday at 10am pst on rinse.fm.

Post by polemic » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:02 PM UTC

ilyanep wrote: post #49

polemic wrote: post #38

So SoundCloud users had a good run, but now the popularity of the service reached critical mass and raised the ire of the labels so they're knuckling under like every other provider. SoundCloud (sensibly) doesn't want the burden of dealing with the massive copyright infringement by it's users and outsources the job to the owners of the tracks. Now I get that it sucks that you don't get explicit explanations of what i…

You're completely right: artists who make mixes and use samples should probably do it above-board and follow all applicable copyright laws. However, the problems are three-fold: 1) Lack of information. It looks like the new automated process provides no clues on what the infringing content was/is. 2) Lack of appeals process. 3) The fact that previously rolled out systems that have allowed major labels this sort of ac…

Post by ElectronicSleep » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:49 PM UTC

Post by unknownian » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 11:25 PM UTC

kingnight wrote: post #45

unknownian wrote: post #21

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?

8tracks is user created playlists right? Why wouldn't that be useful — that's generally the best way to find music in a lot situations. Slacker is internet radio I think and more run of the mill so not sure for that one.