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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by lavezzi on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:52PM (#14991791)
On your first point, 100% yes. I used to run a relatively popular new music blog, and have several friends who still do. SoundCloud used to make up 98% of my blog post music embeds. And that is absolutely where they went wrong, even from the get go. It would have been insanely easy for them in the last decade to implement: one-click .mp3 purchases for individual songs, artist merchandise stores, ticket sales, etc. You name it.

Instead they made a conscious decision to push ahead with bizarre business strategies and without providing any meaningful functionality updates to their core service (I even think they regressed in this regard, the dumpster fire that was song reposting was the final nail in the coffin for me).

Honestly I think the service needs to make a graceful exit to let another service emerge who actually wants to push things forward for developing new artists.

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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by asddddd on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:36PM (#14992321)
> they regressed in this regard, the dumpster fire that was song reposting was the final nail in the coffin for me

Absolutely, repost spam (particularly repeat reposts of the same song so it would stay at the top) making the feed unusable was what drove me away. Then all the random bugs that persisted for ages, and frequent weird/unnecessary UX semi-redesigns. One bug I recall is that going to a song page then back to the feed would never put me back at the same point in the feed.

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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by pier25 on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:53PM (#14993022)
> It would have been insanely easy for them in the last decade to implement: one-click .mp3 purchases for individual songs, artist merchandise stores, ticket sales, etc. You name it.

Exactly.

SC was too focused on the social aspect instead of trying to be a useful tool for music/audio pros.

> Honestly I think the service needs to make a graceful exit

Couldn't agree more.

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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by remote_sf_ on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:02PM (#14991938)
Does amazon still hold the patent for one-click purchases?
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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by i_cant_speel on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:22PM (#14992747)
I can't believe they were ever allowed to have that patent in the first place.
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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by burkaman on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:30PM (#14992825)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent

Looks like it expires soon, and even so it's been restricted to a shopping cart model.

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Re:SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside by Sholmesy on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:57PM (#14993058)
What in the world. Did not know this existed.

Gonna apply for the patent on two-click purchases...

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