SoundCloud wants to make its streaming music service more affordable to a key demographic: younger users who generally spend more time listening to music, compared with their older counterparts. This morning, the company announced the launch of discounted student accounts, offering a 50 percent discount off its top-tier SoundCloud Go+ subscription. That brings the cost […]
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SoundCloud adds a music distribution service to its premium subscriptions
Last year, Spotify took a stake in music distribution service DistroKid. Apple acquired Platoon. And today, SoundCloud announced it’s adding its own music distribution tools to its premium accounts aimed at artists, SoundCloud Pro and SoundCloud Pro Unlimited. With SoundCloud Premier distribution, artists can upload their tracks to all major music services, including Amazon Music, […]
View More SoundCloud adds a music distribution service to its premium subscriptionsSoundCloud co-founder and chief product officer, Eric Wahlforss, is leaving
SoundCloud’s Eric Wahlforss is stepping away from the music and podcast streaming platform he co-founded after more than a decade at the company, most recently in the chief product officer role. Wahlforss announced the decision to step back from day-to-day ops — and “transition into an advisory role” — in a post on social media, writing: “After […]
View More SoundCloud co-founder and chief product officer, Eric Wahlforss, is leavingPrivacy campaigner Schrems slaps Amazon, Apple, Netflix, others with GDPR data access complaints
European privacy campaigner Max Schrems has filed a fresh batch of strategic complaints at tech giants, including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify and YouTube. The complaints, filed via his non-profit privacy and digital rights organization, noyb, relate to how the services respond to data access requests, per regional data protection rules. Article 15 of Europe’s General […]
View More Privacy campaigner Schrems slaps Amazon, Apple, Netflix, others with GDPR data access complaintsDolby quietly preps augmented audio recorder app “234″
Dolby is secretly building a mobile music production app it hopes will seduce SoundCloud rappers and other musicians. Codenamed “234” and formerly tested under the name Dolby Live, the free app measures background noise before you record and then nullifies it. Users can also buy “packs” of audio effects to augment their sounds with EQs settings […]
View More Dolby quietly preps augmented audio recorder app “234″SoundCloud tracks can now be shared to Instagram Stories
Streaming service SoundCloud is making it easier for its users to share music from its service directly to Instagram . The company announced this morning a new feature that allows users to share tracks to Instagram Stories. However, there’s a big caveat here – the tracks are shared as a link that appears within Stories […]
View More SoundCloud tracks can now be shared to Instagram StoriesSoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later
SoundCloud moves painfully slow for a tech company, and no one feels that pain more than musicians who are popular on the site but don’t get paid. 10 years since SoundCloud first launched, and four years since it opened an invite-only program allowing just the very biggest artists to earn a cut of the ad […]
View More SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years laterSoundcloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize music
Audius wants to cut the middlemen out music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ranidu Lankage, Audius is building a blockchain-based alternative to Spotify or SoundCloud. Users will pay for Audius tokens or earn them by listening to ads. Their wallet will […]
View More Soundcloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize musicRapChat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jams
The first thing to understand about media sharing app RapChat is that co-founder Seth Miller is not a rapper and his friend, Pat Gibson, is. Together they created RapChat, a service for making and sharing raps, and the conjunction of rapper and nerd seems to be really taking off. Since we last looked at the […]
View More RapChat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jamsSoundCloud rejects claims of reduced sound quality on its streams
SoundCloud is still the place to be for budding and established music makers, and it’s fair enough that they won’t budge on sound quality.
Since Wednesday, the company has been on the receiving end of users bemused and angry over a purported change t…
SoundCloud’s new CEO says update won’t change what makes it great
Chance the Rapper traveled across the country over the last year telling crowds, “no problem.”
And yet, for SoundCloud, the music service that helped propel him to fame, it’s been a year of turmoil. In July, the company was forced to lay off 173 employees, about 40 percent of its workforce, as it failed to pull in enough money to meet its costs.
The move upset the SoundCloud community, including Chance:
I’m working on the SoundCloud thing
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) July 13, 2017
A month later, SoundCloud announced a new round of fundraising, the largest in the company’s history, and two new hires. Kerry Trainor and Mike Weissman, both of whom worked at video-sharing platform Vimeo, joined as CEO and COO. SoundCloud was saved, at least for now. Read more…
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View More SoundCloud’s new CEO says update won’t change what makes it greatTo fix SoundCloud, it must become the anti-Spotify
Startups die by suicide, not competition. It wasn’t that anyone was stealing SoundCloud’s underground rappers, bedroom remixers, and garage bands. SoundCloud stumbled because it neglected these hardcore loyalists as it wrongly strived to usurp Spotify as the streaming home of music’s superstars.
But four months ago after laying off 40% of its staff, SoundCloud scored a… Read More