Orchid tapes, an indie outfit, made their name off of Bandcamp releases. Labels like PC Music, Mall Music and Dream Catalogue have all pushed independent music to bizarre new limits in the last 4 years alone. However, despite its shortcomings, Bandcamp is where cutting edge music lives in an age without Soundcloud. Everything lives outside of their network - in Facebook chats or Reddit threads or some random forum. I used to legitimately befriend like minded musicians through SC messaging and we'd collab or remix each others stuff. Last, there's no way to communicate with other people, other than the email that you send when you buy things. So if you want to buy someone else's music but you're signed in, you have to sign out, get on your other account, purchase, and then log out/in again. There's no 'feed' like Soundcloud had.Īlso, possibly the most irritating part of the site is that fan profiles and artist profiles are distinct entities. It's still really limited on the social side - the only way you get 'likes' is when people download your stuff, the discovery tools are limited to 'what's popular in this tag today' and random curated content. There's still plenty of room for someone to do this right.īandcamp is fine, but it's not on the level that Soundcloud was for browsing music (or for hosting your own). I ran the numbers once on how CDbaby and Bandcamp became successful (based on stats trickled out over the years) while SoundCloud could never turn a profit. I think producers would have paid more, better subsidizing free plans, if discovery hadn't gone downhill. And at the end by a desperate grab for stats and cash. SoundCloud to me has always been a great idea with some great design that got ruined by some poor engineering choices from the top. Their most recent frontend HTML5 rewrite always winds up my CPU and hasn't changed in a couple years.

They famously had issues with early Mongo adoption so this would fit right in. My bet is that since trending likes are a Graph DB problem, SoundCloud just chose not to solve it once it became too hard on their database. My friends who are successful producers but refuse to play the bot and pay-for-repost game are completely drowned in the noise. Then repost bots were allowed to require repost to unlock a free download and now discovery on SoundCloud is almost dead. Reposts allowed a single user to spam a feed with their personal taste. Trending likes actually showed which tunes my friends found most interesting.

It's been a downhill trend ever since trending likes were replaced by reposts.

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