[doublerabbit]

First bandcamp and now soundcloud.

It's looking bleak for music services.

I use soundcloud as my sole music provider.

[alisonatwork]

I don't really see a decline in Bandcamp yet. It was great when it launched and is still great today, regardless of its current ownership.

I'm surprised people still stuck with SoundCloud, to be honest, especially after they betrayed the very DJs and producers who had made the service popular in the first place. I canceled my paid account ~10 years ago and never looked back.

[chimeracoder]

> I don't really see a decline in Bandcamp yet. It was great when it launched and is still great today, regardless of its current ownership.

It's only been a couple of months since the sale[0]. They've already shut down a couple of features/services that Bandcamp previously had, as part of the layoffs which "just happened" to cover every single member of the union's bargaining team (and nearly all members of the bargaining unit). You're not necessarily going to see the full effects of a change like that so immediately.

It's too early to say what will actually happen beyond that, though signs aren't good.

[0] The Songtradr sale is the more significant of the two, because Epic only purchased Bandcamp in order to improve their legal standing for their otherwise-unrelated suit against Google. Now that that's not an issue, they sold it to Songtradr which is by far the more worrisome owner.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Yeah, agreed on thus-far-lack-of-decline for Bandcamp.

However, always important to note that there are different POVs on such things:

  * customers
  * musicians
  * employees
  * partners

I only know that I see no change as a customer, have not been notified of changes as a musician, and sense that it's probably worse for employees.

[leotravis10]

I'm sure the decline is coming eventually and folks need to be ready for that at anytime. The dust hasn't truly settled yet.

[jasonjayr]

I'm in the same boat.

I don't even care about the ads from SoundCloud, even if they are repetitive, there's a lot of genres of music I enjoy that seem to have an epicenter on SoundCloud that I have not been able to find elsewhere, that's as easy to listen to + discover.