Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?
by _jtrig on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:10AM
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This is why I fully expect the digital dark age to become reality.
Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?
by visarga on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:46PM
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Mp3.com closedown was a disaster. So much valuable music was there.
Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?
by feedbeef on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @03:48AM
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Like the few on here who remember how great mp3.com was, I too lament the loss of its huge array of excellent indy music. Hopefully the archive will be fully restored some day[0,1,2]. Digital antiquities indeed.
Take warning: download and archive a copy of every digital asset you care about. I highly recommend the excellent utility youtube-dl[3]. I rely on it daily for copying obscure youtube videos that could disappear at any moment. Fool me twice...
[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/03/mp3_com_archive_is_...
[1] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/04/19/2318226/mp...
What matters is that tons of stuff disappeared. I learned that I can't trust these types of platforms because they are for-profit and may screw us all over or make stupid decisions. I also can't trust non-profit options if they aren't really stable. I trust Wikimedia to stick around, and archive.org and some others (although everyone should donate to keep them strong!), but other, I dunno.
Instead of fully embracing SoundCloud, I've basically stayed distrusting and my creative publishing actually suffered a lot (although my concerns are part of what led me into understanding free culture, free software, etc. and why I'm aware of Hacker News now etc)