PSA: SoundCloud

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:11 am

To those baiters who have their clips and sounds saved on SoundCloud, this might be relevant as SoundCloud may run out of cash and close the shop.

https://www.ft.com/content/47dc2c34-d360-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0

Make sure you have backed everything up in case you don't want to lose anything.

End of PSA. Smile

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:17 pm

Thanks, Mort. I had hoped SCs financial issues of some months ago would resolve. I would have subscribed myself, but it is just too expensive.

I have maybe 20 SC free accts. The original recordings are stored on my HDD but if SC closes it would still cause immense hassle to those of us with multiple accounts. We would have to upload to a new provider and edit every Post containing SC links. Some of the Threads have been locked.

There is another provider with a free option although it too may close in time: www.yourlisten.com It is ad-ridden but still much easier to use than the other free provider 4Shared.

Edited: The Financial Times link above required a subscription to read the article (at least for me) so here is another link to the story: http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/05/soundcloud-52-million-loss-2015-may-run-out-of-cash/

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:23 pm

Even though there is a "Red" option, https://www.youtube.com/ is still free.

It's very simple to do something like this.

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:30 am

^^ bware is spot on, YouTube is less likely to go down