Comments on: On SoundCloud

By: JimHirshfield

JimHirshfield — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:28:04 +0000

In reply to LE. ;-)

By: LE

LE — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:22:58 +0000

Not really. Just trying to elevate myself by making an association to something that is considered classy by people! I’ve seen him perform a few times. I’d rather listen to Dire Straits. My delta chi name for him is “joeitall”. Because he typically doesn’t want to hear any advice. It’s really annoying.Hey if you get a website I can pimp you as well. You can register “Jimedian.com” for that purpose. Would look really good as a logo. Imagine that rolling off the tongue of Jimmy Kimmel when you do your first standup.

By: JimHirshfield

JimHirshfield — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:09:41 +0000

In reply to LE. Aria gonna sing their praises as well?

By: JimHirshfield

JimHirshfield — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:05:00 +0000

In reply to LE. I appreciate your support and respect your perspective.

By: LE

LE — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:31:31 +0000

In reply to JimHirshfield. Death of record companies? He's directionally correctI give you a 10/10 on the Hirshfield scale for putting a good spin on that one. That's whitehouse press briefing quality. In movies Milius would have written something like that (watch the documentary on Netflix..)Death and taxes, of course, are always directionally correct. (Not as good as yours but thanks for the idea as always.)

By: Bobur

Bobur — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:12:09 +0000

A very interesting business model. YouTube applied to audio. The sceptic in me says SoundCloud is masking their revenue raising ability by saying “artists will get paid”. But really? How much of the ad money goes to SC and how much to artists? Need more transparency here.

By: diymanik

diymanik — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:14:53 +0000

In reply to Andrew P. I actually think you're right on topic. Those sets are my favourite feature on SoundCloud because it allows you to discover more artists than you possibly could on iTunes, Spotify or YouTube. I can't count how many times I've been browsing through my feed and found an artist I've never heard of in a set and they've become one of my favourites. Sets are the key to SoundCloud's discovery engine and the moves they're making put them in a position to help those indie artists get discovered and paid and encourage more individual artists to use the platform as their own personal music label.

By: Susan Rubinsky

Susan Rubinsky — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:06:07 +0000

In reply to Andrew P. Right on! Me too. I want to support something where the artists get compensated. Love the mixes on Soundcloud.

By: Susan Rubinsky

Susan Rubinsky — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:04:36 +0000

In reply to ErikSchwartz. I find I am always amused at the selections I am offered based on "what my friends like." Sometimes I am outright appalled, like I had NO idea friend X was so into heavy metal. Really?

By: JimHirshfield

JimHirshfield — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:18:15 +0000

In reply to LE. Opinion, yeah his, clearly, as he wrote those words.Death of record companies? He's directionally correct, I think. Drunken, heroin, coke induced rant? Yeah, that was him in the 80s. Clean and sober for the last 25 years... and I guess he found religion.