Incidentally – weirdly – SC seemed slower to load for me on soundcloud.com than in the embed.
What was your experience with uploading, etc. on SoundCloud? Is the, to use a disgusting late 90s dot com craze phrase, value proposition becoming clearer? That could be a post unto itself.
One thing I’m curious with SoundCloud about is uploading GarageBand files. I can’t really remember, but I think they don’t support that, right?
When I said it was slow, I was referring to how long it took the page to load. Sometimes websites with lots of gadgets tax Flash and stress the browser
If I take the decade-old jargon at face value, then I think the value proposition IS clear. They’re selling bandwidth, and it works because it follows the iTunes model. They’re not selling storage space. They’re selling songs and interface. The tools (commenting on certain parts of the song, broad sharing capabilities, etc.) are simple but have some depth. It’s not just play, pause, volume. It’s a nice interface.
But the key, to me is how they charge – not by file size, but by number of songs. Free = five songs per month. Any more and you have to pay – either 10 euros per month or 100 euros for the year. They got some celebrity endoresments (Moby, not Bono, but nice) and they’re off to the races.
They also appear to have gotten some inspiration from other bandwith salesmen – RapidShare. The come-on pages look pretty similar, and they’re in a similar business. RapidShare provides free uploads and downloads from anonymous locations but speeds and numbers of file are limited by time so you can only up- or download so much at a time. But if you pay (as I did for a month; I believe Reisenberg may have gotten a year-long account) then you can access more files without waiting.
It’s slow, but it worked. Nice!
Sweet, man. Maybe SC will prove useful to us. Mwa ha ha ha ha.
I’m not listening to the track because I don’t want to short circuit my creative machine. Will try and finish up my take tonight.
Oh yeah. Nice, nice, nice.
Incidentally – weirdly – SC seemed slower to load for me on soundcloud.com than in the embed.
What was your experience with uploading, etc. on SoundCloud? Is the, to use a disgusting late 90s dot com craze phrase, value proposition becoming clearer? That could be a post unto itself.
One thing I’m curious with SoundCloud about is uploading GarageBand files. I can’t really remember, but I think they don’t support that, right?
When I said it was slow, I was referring to how long it took the page to load. Sometimes websites with lots of gadgets tax Flash and stress the browser
If I take the decade-old jargon at face value, then I think the value proposition IS clear. They’re selling bandwidth, and it works because it follows the iTunes model. They’re not selling storage space. They’re selling songs and interface. The tools (commenting on certain parts of the song, broad sharing capabilities, etc.) are simple but have some depth. It’s not just play, pause, volume. It’s a nice interface.
But the key, to me is how they charge – not by file size, but by number of songs. Free = five songs per month. Any more and you have to pay – either 10 euros per month or 100 euros for the year. They got some celebrity endoresments (Moby, not Bono, but nice) and they’re off to the races.
They also appear to have gotten some inspiration from other bandwith salesmen – RapidShare. The come-on pages look pretty similar, and they’re in a similar business. RapidShare provides free uploads and downloads from anonymous locations but speeds and numbers of file are limited by time so you can only up- or download so much at a time. But if you pay (as I did for a month; I believe Reisenberg may have gotten a year-long account) then you can access more files without waiting.
Will Soundcloud survive? Who knows?