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Re:SoundCloud Raises $60 Million at $700 Million Valuation by strict9 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @10:42AM (#7121065)
SoundCloud is on my top 5 sites that I use on a daily basis, there really is no comparison for someone who listens to electronic music.

The sad thing is that their only focus is on creators (subscribers). Customers who only listen to music routinely get the shaft via shoddy quality assurance and lack of discovery features.

Playback, search, browse, and discovery in general routinely fail to load ("Something went wrong. Retry?"). Playing and finding music on their platform shouldn't be such a buggy experience given how long they've been around.

Re:SoundCloud Raises $60 Million at $700 Million Valuation by mercer on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:49PM (#7121516)
I heard SoundCloud's codebase is quite a mess (on Rails 2, I think). Maybe they need to do some refactoring/updating...