With apologies if this sounds self-promotional,
the difference between the Internet Archive (archive.org) and the
commercial services mentioned, is that the Archive is a nonprofit (NGO)
organization whose core mission is to preserve cultural materials and make
them available for all=96future, and current.
We most definitely do not have the slickest widgets, or advanced social
media, etc.; but that's because we spend our time focused on trying to
preserve the most material we can, as safely as possible, with no
requirement to reach quarterly profits etc.
The looming demise of Soundcloud is just the latest in a long series of
eventual end-of-life events to services in which people have poured their
work... only to see it evaporate, often with meager notice.
Part of what we try to convey to people is: however lovely, and convenient,
one of the defining characteristics of a cloud is its ephemerality.
We also exist on the cloud; but we are an archive, and we take seriously
the mission of long-term preservation.
With that in mind I would urge people to use us as a safety store, in
addition to more feature rich commercial alternatives.
As a side note, because of my passion for field recordings of all kinds, I
hope myself to put some better organization in place when I can to organize
and celebrate what we have. The challenge is always metadata...
...so if you *do* upload to us, please do provide the richest metadata you
can. Best is to put it in the metadata fields of the items you create...
but even including any sane format that details what you have, ensures that
a later generation of researcher (probably aided by very smart tools...!)
will be able to learn as much as possible about the context of your
recordings. The Etree band taper community has set a fine example of
recording rigorous provenance etc.
Final aside: for large collections, there *are* some very handy tools
available to make wrangling and uploading many items (thousands or more...)
with appropriate metadata and multiple files, pretty easy. The native
clunky 'upload' tool for creating items one at a time is not the limiting
factor. :)
best regards,
aaron
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 9:02 AM, rapsac
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:
> I can also recommend archive.org, especially for the ability to upload
> and stream FLAC. Bandcamp has the same functionality pretty much.
> Archive.org or bandcamp are not the best places to showcase short
> previews, sketches, etc. though. I guess more people will take to
> Youtube for these kind of ephemeral uploads if Soundcloud disappears.
>
> On 2017-07-15 23:15, Aaron Ximm [naturerecordists]
> wrote:
> > As an employee and believer in the nonprofit Internet Archive at
> archive.org
> > I beg you to consider making material available there!
> >
> > The benefits are: we will accept full resolution recording and preserve
> > them for you free of charge forever; and we will make lower quality
> > streaming copies automatically and keep the formats up to date as they
> > evolve. You can add other media as well, any file type that is not
> > executable, really; and add searchable metadata as you see fit. We
> generate
> > spectrogram and you can use our embedded cross-browser player or deep
> link
> > from your own site.
> >
> > We have very high bandwidth up and down; and people can download via
> > automatically made BitTorrent.
> >
> > The only catch is that we ask that material be made available by CC or
> > similar open license; but we support all CC including my own default
> which
> > specifies no commercial use [unless otherwise negotiated of course].
> >
> > For large collections with good metadata we can also set up custom
> > collections; by default you can just create an account and upload to
> items
> > in the catch all "community" collection at once. Items can be migrated
> > later so if you'd like to try it out upload away :)
> >
> > best,
> > aaron
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:43 AM Steve Sergeant
> > [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
> >
> >> So it appears that Soundcloud.com is going away.
> >>
> >> What are the alternatives out there for hosting sounds under public
> >> domain or Creative Commons licenses that work for you?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/15/17 1:58 AM, rapsac [naturerecordists]
> wrote:
> >>> No, don't do that. Soundcloud is in trouble because they tried to
> >>> compete with Apple and Spotify and hence have to pay large amounts of
> >>> money to record labels. Sound recordists are not a part of the equati=
on
> >>> https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/soundshroud/
> >>>
> >>> On 2017-07-06 23:33, Steve Sergeant
> >>> [naturerecordists] wrote:
> >>>> Like many other nature sounds recordists, I depend on Soundcloud.com
> for
> >>>> my work to be heard [ http://soundcloud.com/stevesgt/ ].
> >>>>
> >>>> However, it seems that they're in some financial difficulty.
> >>>>
> >>>> [
> >>>>
> >> https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-slashes-40-staff-
> financial-reality-hits-hard/
> >>>> ]
> >>>>
> >>>> If you are currently a free member and this is an important outlet f=
or
> >>>> your work, it might be time to pay up.
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------
> >> Posted by: Steve Sergeant <>
> >> ------------------------------------
> >>
> >> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> >> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause.
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------
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> >> Yahoo Groups Links
> >>
> >>
> >>
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>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Posted by: rapsac <>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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