Soundcloud Bankruptsy

Just a heads up.
As some of you know, Soundcloud is in financial trouble.
http://www.factmag.com/2016/02/11/soundcloud-financial-report-44m-losses/
 
However I have just read that the company which owns Soundcloud has itself just filed for bankruptsy.
 
As products like Sonar incorporate features regarding Soundcloud, I expect many of us have files etc at Soundcloud we may like to recover just in case their homepage suddenly becomes an 'error 44' !
 
 

Yeah, hopefully it wont go defunct, but as I said, the owners have filed which leads me to think Soundcloud becomes an asset as part of that action. Im not an expert on that stuff but I think it works something like that. Id be gutted to see it go.

Well that's just great. Really though it turned into a pile of annoying crap shortly after I signed up. The original design (or the one I stumbled in on) was simple and did it's job. Now with the completely unrelated autoplay crap and weird falsh design (or whatever it is) it's a bear to deal with and annoying to use.
 
But it seems to be the standard embed tool for a lot of soundplaying on news articles and websites so if they go mammories up it could be devastating for a lot of archived webpages. Also the fact that SO many sites use them (assumingly the pro version) it's a little weird they'd be struggling like that. Sounds like mismanagement or perhaps outright vulture capitalism.
 
Also with HTML5 embed stuff gaining traction (which AFAIK has a decent audio embed function) maybe it's simply becoming obsolete. However the server storage and reliable streaming for larger audio files is a huge part of it which makes HTML5 solutions not so great for the average shmuck.
 
Meh... thanks for the heads up. I've been meaning to look into other solutions anyway.
 
Cheers.

sharke
It's a strong brand. Someone will buy it.

It, at its core, is a great service. Someone just made some dumb design mistakes IMO.
 
Maybe a new set of corporate overlords is just what they need to tidy up the design.
 
Seems to have purged some of the weirdo crap Roland was doing to us.
 
*ducks*

Bapu:
they lost $44M but it's indicative of strong growth.
 
 
more of the insanity;
companies lose money, then borrow and buy back their own stock and keep the insanity going a few more months.

I just hope Apple doesn't buy it and make it iSound-cloud. Then it will be impossible to figure out how to use it. You won't be able to get there without going somewhere else first. Maybe Drop Box will buy it and make it easy to move files between the two. That might be nice, but I'm with R3V3RB... I don't know how this stuff works. I just like to push buttons and turn knobs. I think it is a way I can create! LOL. (Apologies to Frank)
J

Well, he made off with a lot didn't he? 

TerraSin
Soundcloud needs to come up with a business plan. Right now they only have two money making options: Pro and Pro Unlimited, both which are overpriced IMO.
 
What they should do it make a single Soundcloud Pro option at $5 month while getting rid of Pro Unlimited and code in a way to sell multi-format music much like bandcamp does so people can buy the tracks directly from Soundcloud and take a smaller 10% commission on it. Have it setup so that only people who have Soundcloud Pro can sell music on their service so they make their $5 guaranteed and then 10% of sales on top of that which is more than fair seeing as sites like Bandcamp simply ask for 15% with no pro fees. You'll see a ton of people subscribe instantly because of the low price for being able to sell music on their site and use Soundcloud without the restrictions they have in place currently. With as many people as there are that use the site now, 40m would seem like nothing.

Sounds like good sense to me.
 
I'd like them to ditch that awful scrolling 'waveform' and the attached comments/avatars, which are ludicrously small and impossible to read.