Is Soundcloud still the best option for posting One-Synth-Challenge tracks?
- KVRist
- 121 posts since 16 Apr, 2017 from Rīga
It is hard to predict the future for any free service, but I tried that audiomack.com recently and it felt really close to soundcloud in terms of features.
Speaking for my personal situation and opinion.
I have already over the 15 track limit, so to me applies that 180 minute rule. I guess that means I can post few more tracks before I have to decide.
I like the spirit of OSC, that VST plugins are free-ones most of the time and there are no any other costs for making your submission. There's still workaround for that SoundCloud issue by making another account (or maybe you are using pro version anyway). I mean everyone can decide how seriously they want to treat this game. This situation just made a little bit of inconvenience it's not like SoundCloud made OSC impossible.
Speaking for my personal situation and opinion.
I have already over the 15 track limit, so to me applies that 180 minute rule. I guess that means I can post few more tracks before I have to decide.
I like the spirit of OSC, that VST plugins are free-ones most of the time and there are no any other costs for making your submission. There's still workaround for that SoundCloud issue by making another account (or maybe you are using pro version anyway). I mean everyone can decide how seriously they want to treat this game. This situation just made a little bit of inconvenience it's not like SoundCloud made OSC impossible.
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- KVRAF
- 35436 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
For those who want to read it: https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/ar ... load-limit
So, yeah, threshold of 15 tracks, although your tracks will remain, when you uploaded them before 9th of december. So, if you have 100 tracks on your Soundcloud, they will remain, but, you can't upload anymore then.
So, yeah, threshold of 15 tracks, although your tracks will remain, when you uploaded them before 9th of december. So, if you have 100 tracks on your Soundcloud, they will remain, but, you can't upload anymore then.
What if my account has more than 3 hours of audio or 15 tracks after December 9th?
Anything you upload before December 9th, 2019 when the new upload limit goes into effect will remain on your account, will not be hidden, and will continue to be available to you and all listeners.
On December 9th, if you have more than 3 hours of audio or 15 tracks on your account, uploading will become temporarily disabled. To continue uploading, you will need to make space for new uploads by either deleting older tracks to get under the free limit or unlocking unlimited uploads by upgrading to a Pro Unlimited plan.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 951 posts since 30 Oct, 2013 from Scarborough
Couple of thoughts -
I personally quite like Soundcloud, (though I have not tried others yet). I have used it now for quite a few years and reached 42 tracks without having to pay anything. This is very generous of them imho.
Almost at my limit, I was considering subscription anyway. For my purposes it seems worthwhile.
My options with the new limit are:
1. to remove about 30 tracks to clear space for new OSC entries, and host them elsewhere e.g. my own website.
2. to pay the subscription.
3. Find another service which provides similar service for free.
With respect to OSC it is still possible for anyone to participate for free using option 1. So it is only a barrier to entry for those who do not wish to remove older tracks, or pay the subscription. The same situation existed already for those who exceeded the previous limit. Just the goalposts have changed.
I am very interested to hear peoples views, and am going to check out your alternative suggestions. Keep em coming...
I personally quite like Soundcloud, (though I have not tried others yet). I have used it now for quite a few years and reached 42 tracks without having to pay anything. This is very generous of them imho.
Almost at my limit, I was considering subscription anyway. For my purposes it seems worthwhile.
My options with the new limit are:
1. to remove about 30 tracks to clear space for new OSC entries, and host them elsewhere e.g. my own website.
2. to pay the subscription.
3. Find another service which provides similar service for free.
With respect to OSC it is still possible for anyone to participate for free using option 1. So it is only a barrier to entry for those who do not wish to remove older tracks, or pay the subscription. The same situation existed already for those who exceeded the previous limit. Just the goalposts have changed.
I am very interested to hear peoples views, and am going to check out your alternative suggestions. Keep em coming...
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- KVRist
- 470 posts since 25 Aug, 2016 from Helsinki, Finland
Actually you are already over the limit, since it’s 15 tracks or 3 hours, whichever comes first.
Personally I don’t think any platform apart from maybe Youtube can be trusted to exist in five years, so any effort moving to another service might be wasted at a moment’s notice. I’m not sure how to best achieve it, but it would probably be best if participants could host their tracks wherever they want, and the OSC site would only take care of voting.
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- KVRian
- 653 posts since 13 May, 2017 from Virginia
Audiomack is looking like a strong alternative.
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Precisely. If they’ve exceeded the threshold they’re making good use of SC so pay for it.exponent1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 11:59 amThe threshold is 15 tracks and a lot of folks over the past year or 2 have probably exceeded it already before this policy change, with or without having participated in OSC.Mushy Mushy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 11:55 am But you only need to pay if you exceed the track threshold. It’s business as usual otherwise.
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- KVRist
- 193 posts since 4 Jul, 2018 from the nest
I would be okay with still using SoundCloud, but I'm definitely not going to pay for their service. As someone who has bought a total of 1 plugin total, I don't have the money to spend on that and I don't particularly like soundcloud anyway.
I can delete my old tracks and move them somewhere else when I want to. It's a little bit of a hassle but if we're still using soundcloud for OSC that seems like my best option.
I can delete my old tracks and move them somewhere else when I want to. It's a little bit of a hassle but if we're still using soundcloud for OSC that seems like my best option.
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- KVRian
- 506 posts since 10 Nov, 2018
How about users who have exceeded these 15 tracks over many years, people who upload very sparsely? The question is not whether one should pay for SC for using its services, it's whether OSC should continue to use SC for hosting/scoring tracks and these are 2 very different things. The OSC doesn't upload tracks, the participants use their own accounts to upload their tracks so the participants have a say in whether or not they'd want to pay for SC to keep participating in OSC.Mushy Mushy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:23 pmPrecisely. If they’ve exceeded the threshold they’re making good use of SC so pay for it.exponent1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 11:59 amThe threshold is 15 tracks and a lot of folks over the past year or 2 have probably exceeded it already before this policy change, with or without having participated in OSC.Mushy Mushy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 11:55 am But you only need to pay if you exceed the track threshold. It’s business as usual otherwise.
- KVRist
- 476 posts since 20 Mar, 2015 from Nerima, Tokyo
Its very possible to have alternate free accounts and make one per OSCyear.
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- KVRAF
- 2313 posts since 20 Oct, 2014
Hm, but isn't it lot about commenting, too?
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 951 posts since 30 Oct, 2013 from Scarborough
Here's my entry for April 2019 - link to AudioMack
https://audiomack.com/song/richardsempe ... osc122flac
Site looks good (apart from constant google ads showing up), sounds good too. I notice it is not showing up in a player on the above link like soundcloud does.
Can comment on it too.
Does anyone see a way to download the track?
https://audiomack.com/song/richardsempe ... osc122flac
Site looks good (apart from constant google ads showing up), sounds good too. I notice it is not showing up in a player on the above link like soundcloud does.
Can comment on it too.
Does anyone see a way to download the track?
Last edited by RichardSemper on Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105855 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
an outsider so just a query...
why is the comments on sc so important?
can comments not be made within the thread if it's not available on whatever site the audio is posted?
why is the comments on sc so important?
can comments not be made within the thread if it's not available on whatever site the audio is posted?
- KVRist
- 235 posts since 11 Oct, 2012
Hearthis.at might be another option. It can be a bit laggy, but in my experience it's reliable and you can even import your soundcloud and mixcloud tracks with a click.
I just tried to get an EP on Audiomack, but something went wrong during the first upload and since then I got multiple very strange and partly incomplete error messages when editing, replacing tracks was not possible and so on. Deleted the whole EP in the end and closed the site. The site looks very nice though, will try again at some point ^^
I just tried to get an EP on Audiomack, but something went wrong during the first upload and since then I got multiple very strange and partly incomplete error messages when editing, replacing tracks was not possible and so on. Deleted the whole EP in the end and closed the site. The site looks very nice though, will try again at some point ^^
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