(The fact that there’s nothing quite like it, though, may give you pause on a number of levels.) Any acquisition would likewise be crazy not to maintain users and content that’s the whole unique value proposition of the service, and there’s still nothing else quite like it. My hope is that SoundCloud does survive independently. (Anybody want to call Martin Shkreli? No?) To host a Petabyte of data for forseable future would be ~ $1.5/2mil. Had a quick chat with about the Soundcloud thing.
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Jason Scott (of Internet Archive fame) tweets that it could cost up to $2 million, based on the amount of data: (I don’t know what the audio fidelity of that copy is, if it includes the original file I have to test this – and test whether these offerings really boast a significant competitive advantage.)Ĭould someone create a public mirror of the service? Yes, though – it wouldn’t be cheap. Two services offering similar features are hoping they can attract SoundCloud users by helping them migrate their accounts automatically. ( DownThemAll, the Firefox add-on, also springs to mind.) Here’s one open source tool (hosted on GitHub, too) that downloads music.Ī more generalized tool, for downloading from any site that has links with downloads: Okay, so … yeah, if you are then nervous about some music you care about being on SoundCloud and aren’t sure if it’s in fact backed up someplace else, you really should go grab it. Redundancy neatly saves you from having to plan for every contingency. There’s almost never a scenario, then, where it makes sense to have something you care about in just one place, no matter how secure that place is. You might well be the failure point, if you lock yourself out of your own account or if someone else compromises it. The reality is, with any cloud service, you’re trusting someone else with your data, and your ability to get at that data is dependent on a single login. This is really more like a wake up call: always, always have redundancy redundancy. If you’ve got content that’s on SoundCloud and nowhere else, you’re crazy.
Neither are we.īut the question of what’s happening to SoundCloud is immaterial.
*airhorn* Spread the word: your music isn’t going anywhere. In a week when you cut nearly half your staff and have limited explanation of what your plan is, then yeah, you wind up having to use the Twitter airhorn because people will panic.) Vague messaging, no solid numbers on revenue, and a tendency not to go on record and talk to the press have made apocalyptic leaks the main picture people get of the company. (Though, sorry – SoundCloud, you really shouldn’t be surprised. While recent staff cuts were painful for the whole organization, both those who remained and those who left, every suggestion is that the service is going to continue. There’s also no reason at this point to think SoundCloud is going to disconnect without warning – or indeed any indication from SoundCloud executives, publicly or privately, that they expect the service is going away. Key files are best kept in at least one online backup and in at least one locally accessible location (so you can get at it even without a fast connection). Clarification: To be very clear: there is no reason you should ever have a file that you care about in just one location, no matter how secure and reliable you imagine that location may be. SoundCloud’s financial turmoil has prompted users to consider, what would happen if the service were switched off? Would you lose some of your own music?įrankly, we all should have been thinking about that sooner.
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