If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by twunde on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:01PM (#14904156)

I'm not terribly surprised. The rights management around that is incredibly expensive and very complex. I also have vague memories of some startup circa 2011/2012 that did live DJing that ended up dying pretty quickly

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by threetimesthurs on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:15PM (#14904312)

There was turntable.fm. Now there's https://www.jqbx.fm which is sort of doing live DJing but with Spotify

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by twunde on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:00PM (#14906655)

Ah thank you. That's what I was thinking of

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by dinedal on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:06PM (#14904219)

It was probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable.fm

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by firegrind on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:51AM (#14909501)

It's easy. Artists define a license for each track which explains whether it can be remixed.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by twunde on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:07PM (#14914657)

That's not actually true within the US. Each song sample needs to be licensed individually. This becomes more complex when a song you want to remix contains samples of other songs. In general, this has become prohibitively expensive, which is why most modern songs only have a few "samples". Any company that does remixing as suggested above would have to manage the licensing in some way or pass on the risk to the users while still risking lawsuits from the music industry.

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