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Re:SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors by yellowapple on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:53PM (#14983489)
"Employees told us the company is “a shitshow,” with a lack of product direction, talent leaving and employees secretly using Spotify."

Weird. I never really thought about SoundCloud and Spotify being actual competitors. I've always felt that SoundCloud did a lot better with indie/obscure artists, remixes, and the whole "soundclown" meme genre, whereas Spotify did a lot better with commercial/mainstream artists and albums. I use both frequently.

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Re:SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors by ocWavean on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:48PM (#14985079)
That's part of the problem. They focused all their attention on making a Spotify competitor, when the core principle of what SC unique is the community and a vast underground culture of unknown artists hoping to make it big.

The two are similar in that they're online streaming services, but insofar as everything else, not even close.

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Re:SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors by k-mcgrady on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:13AM (#14987597)
If you haven't seen it checkout Soundcloud GO. Essentially they pivoted to a Spotify competitor a couple of years ago but they still have the old, non-subscription version of Soundcloud available too.
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