[tiredoffps]

A lot of new people might be wondering, "What's difference between SoundCloud and Pandora/Spotify?". SoundCloud focuses only on indie music. Tracks that get more comments, listens, get on the Hottest Track List. There are a ton of gems that aren't played on the radio that can be found on Sound Cloud. Now you can be a hipster too.

[kitsune_]

This is SO not what the old SoundCloud was about. I've been using this site, as a musician, since 2008 or so. One of its founders, Forss, was part of the same scene (dnb) that I was in.

SoundCloud was a site by music creators for music creators.

Those early days were AWESOME. Then venture capitalism entered the scene. It was a nice way to host your tracks and get some feedback of like-minded individuals. In the process you got to know new and relatively unknown music.

Now it slowly built up a massive base of passive listeners. And of course their founders and investors now smell the big all mighty dollar. It has to be social. And cool. And uber.

This redesign is hated by almost every paying customer (the musicians!) I know. The reactions on most music production forums are awful.

I pay for their service, if they don't change, I'll cancel my subscription.

I'm getting a distinct DIGG V4, MySpace vibe about this redesign...