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1a. Re: Soundcloud alternatives (wasSoundcloud woes)
From: Jonas Gruska
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1a. Re: Soundcloud alternatives (wasSoundcloud woes)
Posted by: "Jonas Gruska" mrqwa
Date: Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:11 am ((PDT))
Dear Aaron,
just wanted to thank you for your service to the world.
I am a huge fan of your website and I upload my recordings there as
well. Thinking about moving my whole soundcloud profile too.
m("jon_gruska","//archive.org/details/");">https:
Thanks again!
Jonas
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http://jonasgru.sk
On 16 Jul 2017, at 19:34, Aaron Ximm
[naturerecordists] wrote:
> 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–future, 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
>>>>> equation
>>>>> 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 for
>>>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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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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>>
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>>
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"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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