I’ve had a long, hateful relationship with soundcloud.com. For whatever reason I’ve always viewed them as creepy and underhanded and untrustworthy. Unfortunately for me they integrate with every site I ever share music to so I’ve grudgingly set up accounts for each of the writing and recording challenges I’ve worked on since… forever.
Everytime they do something to screw over their user base I try to get away, but just like Michael Corleone they always pull me back in. Not this time, I think. Recently they announced they were cutting off all of their free accounts at 15 files. The outrage was pretty intense. Just go to any musician subreddit and you’ll see some grade A fury.
A few minutes ago I received an email from soundcloud saying, effectively, just kidding! We’re not choking off anyone’s accounts. Isn’t that nice of them? What a great buncha folks, doing right by the people they were trying to screw.
Yeah, thanks but no thanks. Consider this chord cut. It’s going to screw up how I share music on this page, and on the Lizardfish page, and on the 50/90 page. I think fawm.org is still okay, and I never used it for RPM. Hearthis.at can post single songs here, but not albums. I’ll just have to deal with that. I’m not going to run the risk of some corporate stooge having a stupid idea that messes up my musical workflows. Hearthis.at, bandcamp.com, alonetone.com. They will get the job done.
Maybe I’ll dig around reddit for other options. I’ve seen a few threads discussing this topic but I haven’t really read them yet.
Thanks for not screwing us, Soundcloud but no thanks.
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