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As the biggest companies by global market capitalisation in 2017 (notably Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook) all make aggressive investments in music, SoundCloud continues its downward spiral. It’s a heart-wrenching sight for this original community member. Archive Team are preserving what they can. Dani Deahl...
Read MoreWith news this week that SoundCloud is in meltdown and Spotify is allegedly play-listing fake artists to drive down royalty payouts, it’s evident that making money in the music industry is more complicated than ever. Here’s an insightful list of some of the inventive ways...
Read MoreThe battle for dominance heats up as Swedish music-streaming service Spotify is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire German rival SoundCloud. The move would give Spotify a larger library of content (SoundCloud has over 125 million songs), offer emerging artists an easier path to streaming...
Read MoreWith the recent news of Microsoft acquiring Linkedin dominating the press, another deal has been inked also worthy of discussion: Twitter has invested $70M in music streaming service SoundCloud, notably two years after having walked away from a $1B purchase offer. How the strategic partnership...
Read MoreVideo killed the radio star. Streaming killed downloads. Home taping is killing music. Is the cloud about to kill the mastering engineer? LANDR, the instant online mastering service, already looked a bit that way. The drag-and-drop service lets you download a track that is algorithmically...
Read MoreWith all the turmoil SoundCloud has been facing with its supposed transition into a subscription-based platform and the problematic copyright clearance issues it’s been facing in the wake of its mission to launch said service, Apple Music has swooped in at an opportune time to...
Read MoreJust what we need, more inferior sounding speaker options and kids playing music off their phones! AmpMe have just launched a new app that allows you to ‘merge’ phones into an inter-connected speaker system to remotely reach far-flung locations by pairing up yours and your...
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