If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by pier25 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:34PM (#14906828)

SC wasn't the first audio sharing website and certainly won't be the last.

IMO it has become the IMGUR for audio, and users won't pay for uploading images to IMGUR or videos to Youtube.

Maybe SC pretends to be a storage/bandwidth reseller, but in that case it's outrageous that it is charging $7 / month for 6 hours of audio which (at the most) are 3.6 GB in uncompressed CD quality audio (44.1Khz/16bit). You could argue about bandwidth costs, infrastructure, etc, but Vimeo is doing great and its smallest plan (cheaper than SC) allows you to upload 5GB per WEEK.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by lavezzi on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:07PM (#14907621)

they still stream in 128kbps, even for premium customers. It's insane.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by j00lz on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:48PM (#14915384)

Agreed, this is my biggest issue with soundcloud is sub par compression that they use which complete distorts the highs. I feel it maybe better if soundcloud does go so thats it replacement will support better codecs.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by sitkack on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:22AM (#14907905)

afaik Vimeo is still running on VC cash and will in the same position. Start mirroring vimeo.

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Re:If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? by pier25 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:16AM (#14910715)

Any source on that?

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