The companyâs CTO says that the new service for accessing its music will launch later in the year.
SoundCloud has confirmed rumours of a forthcoming subscription service.
The streaming platformâs plan for monetization has been the subject of industry-wide speculation for months, particularly after Sony started pulling its tracks from SoundCloud. A leaked contract last month hinted at a new tiered listening system, and now SoundCloud chief technology officer Eric Wahlforss has confirmed plans to launch a paid subscription service later on in 2015, according to Tech Times. Details are scarce, but the first tier would allow listeners to explore SoundCloud ad-free and download a limited number of files, while the second tier would provide unfettered access to the entire catalogue.
If this means that we can all carry on using Soundcloud like we currently do, but they are adding further levels of paid subscription to download content, then thereâs no problem imo. If not, then in the same way Soundcloud took over from MySpace, something else will take over from Soundcloud.
Might cull the amount of shite though if DJ Cuntface canât offer unlimited downloads on his unmastered spunkstep tune.
People will have to be more selective in what they download assuming they donât want to pay for it, meaning the cream will rise to the top and hopefully the recalcitrant masses will have a long hard think about their life choices and fuck off.
If the tracks werenât at least moderately well produced, people werenât downing them anyway.
But I think that the point of soundcloud is to post rather terrible crap just because you made it.
âŚand this is the death of soundcloud. They have been slowly moving in this direction with the start of their copyright smack down campaign. They needed to purge the content before any money started getting involved. Its ok thoughâŚsoundcloud was never really good at helping people find your music. Something better will def come along. Youtube works pretty well actuallyâŚI think youtube and reddit is killing this forum to be honestâŚ
Everyone online is acting like SC is doing this just because they want ruin your scene. You guys know they are doing this so that universal drops a massive lawsuit against them âbecause commercial labels cant monetize their songs on dj mixesâ etc.
Have they said anything about artists making anything from this?
Or using a system like Bandcamp which allows bands to pay for additional free downloads for their fans?
dollars sign on every fâing thing. fascist socio economic ploys, legal abstractions, limited liability working-class exploitation and domination systems. time for Karma, the Sufferahs Choice then an early rise to go rent myself out to one of these fascist enterprises
@Databoi - Canât have scenes anymore anyway⌠Internetâs murked that off.
Did you actually mean to say âso thatâ and not âbecauseâ or even âin order to preventâ
@SaveMidnight - Thatâs called buying a pro membership.
@dansci - Donât let your reactionary instincts misdirect your thought. Successful black man quite blatantly didnât say soundcloud are fascists.
So would a lot of people, in fact Iâd go as far as to say that no âsuccessfulâ modern economy operates such that the âworking classâ does not constitute less than 50% of their workforce. Additionally, Iâm not even sure that their ethnicity or national documentation need consideration in order for one to identify them as such.