If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by fiatpandas on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:32PM (#14905024)

Glad I've had a script running for the last 6 months that has been polling + backing up my soundcloud favorites. This is stuff that, if SoundCloud went under, I would never be able to find nor listen to again. It really is depressing to think how much music culture disappears with SoundCloud.

I'm doing the same with my YouTube stuff, but not because I think it's going anywhere anytime soon.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by sitkack on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:20AM (#14907898)

Seriously, when the shit hits the fan, it is data troves like this that will re-ignite culture and humanity. So many things from my youth that we highly prevalent are totally gone to the sands of time. Remembering via downloading is to internalize your own memories. Vendor your own ephemeral existence.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by fiatpandas on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:44AM (#14908199)

That's exactly it. With the internet, you have to take your memories into your own hands. Everything is ephemeral. Even if you think you're paying for it, it can disappear.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by haltingthoughts on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @05:36PM (#14905606)

Is that or s similar script somewhere public? I'd like to do the same.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by fiatpandas on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:39AM (#14908183)

Check out YouTube-DL. It supports SoundCloud, and I believe you can point it to playlist URLs for batch downloading.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by icebraining on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:57AM (#14908234)

Yeap. Just pass --batch-file <file with urls>

Also, you can give it a SoundCloud user or a playlist, and it'll download it all. And if you use --download-archive, you can re-run it later and it'll only download the new songs.

I have a cron with no scripting, just the youtube-dl command, that pulls down new videos from an YouTube channel every week. It's awesome.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by Nightshaxx on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @05:44PM (#14905665)

Yea, I would love that script. Online services I've used to download my likes kinda suck.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by colecut on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:09PM (#14905869)

https://github.com/flyingrub/scdl

I used this one to download all of my soundcloud likes and some tracks/likes of other users, was pretty fast/painless

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by bballer on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:08AM (#14909832)

Heres my script https://github.com/jbhamilton/Soundcloud-Downloader

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by rsync on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:18PM (#14906744)

"Glad I've had a script running for the last 6 months that has been polling + backing up my soundcloud favorites."

Can you share who your soundcloud favorites are ?

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