like to download is very different because you’ll have to put up with people’s shit on the chaos that is, Facebook. Follow to download on soundcloud is okay ish-? for me.
Don’t draw conclusions like that, you probably haven’t heard any of my music, and I don’t want you to. Who would want such blatant hate.
I have thought about watermarking, but I hate that myself - I’m not really trying to sell my tracks right now. That will be a thing of the distant future. I listen to a lot of music on soundcloud and a watermark right before the drop really ruins the immersion for me. Plus, I don’t have that many followers so that would look incredibly needy.
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Don’t draw conclusions like that, you probably haven’t heard any of my music[/quote]
I stand by my original comment.
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Yeah, I totally agree with you… If I download a track I’ll probably end up following people after all, facebook and twitter postwalls are pretty bad…
You can make it a musical watermark, lots of producers do.
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like>DL>unlike
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Btw Inverted Silence, have you ever googled Soundcloud Download?
(Your) Soundcloud songs are not that protected.
Fuck follow to download lol. If I like the music I’ll play it out in clubs / radio. People listening to your music don’t owe you shit and vice-versa. If you decide to make a track publicly available then that’s your decision. Put a price tag on it if you want, but a stupid follow isn’t a price I’d pay lol. Much rather paypal the artist 2 quid than indulge in someone’s self-degrading social media antics.
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Yeah I know this, I sometimes I use it to bypass like to download. But as I said usually I end up following people anyway and it’s just a reminder to me, just like how youtubers ask for a like at the end of their video.
so cringe doe
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I see this a little differently though…this is someone directly asking to support them and and it is unrelated to access of content. Adding a like or follow to download is still requesting a payment of some nature so it isn’t free music.
Didn’t Datsik require a follow for is Katana remix comp? I might be wrong about who it was but it seems like recently someone did that. I was really put off by someone not having a lack of followers requiring a follow to access the remix stems. That basically says…this competition is about marketing…fk your tracks. Truth be told…remix comps are 100% marketing but asking for follows on top of it? meyah.
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I purchase a lot of music from independent musicians on bandcamp. I dont see SoundCloud or Facebook as vaible platforms to find music I like. So, I guess its a none issues for me.
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This probably. I don’t see why that’s a bad thing though?
^ I think this is for the best to be honest. SoundCloud’s war on copyright material has made it a bad platform for electronic music…you know…the music founded on sampling. This will make a good tipping point for a SC exodus to a better platform.
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I 100 agree with this, but it’s like how facebook is a bad form of social media, we all know this, but nobody has switched to something else. And facebook knows this
Okay cool, but “follow to download”-mechanics are still bad and make whoever’s using them look immature.
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