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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. In December , as part of a major redesign, SoundCloud introduced a feature called the repost. In the meantime, artists and fans alike flocked to rival services like Spotify, Google, and Apple. Interviews with artists, producers, and managers illustrate how SoundCloud squandered early enthusiasm for its service with a messy transition to a paid business that ultimately made little money for artists — or SoundCloud — while driving away the listeners and creators that were its lifeblood. Founded in as a kind of YouTube for audio, SoundCloud became popular among a wide swath of outsider artists. It helped fuel the rise of EDM and the raw, grunge-inspired genre that came to be known as SoundCloud rap. It initially solved the hosting issue. This was a big deal in — It's almost laughable in the age of infinite cloud storage, but it was very expensive to host your music online.
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SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website based in Berlin , Germany , that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Started in by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud has grown to be one of the largest music streaming services reaching over million monthly users worldwide. SoundCloud has influenced the music industry through the success of many artists who have used the service to launch or advance their careers. SoundCloud was established in Berlin in August by Swedish sound designer Alexander Ljung and Swedish electronic musician Eric Wahlforss, and the website was launched in October A new APN was released in December which improved mobile device support and added features such as concurrent listening and site navigation, and the ability to create personal collections. In March , Twitter announced it would partner with SoundCloud in developing its first integrated music app. However, the project never moved forward because SoundCloud was unable to accommodate licensed music due to a lack of necessary arrangements with music labels. SoundCloud announced in January that it had commenced licensing negotiations with major music companies to address the matter of unauthorised, copyrighted material regularly appearing on the platform. However, the prospect of acquisition was discounted by the media, with one report stating that "the numbers didn't add up", [19] and Bobby Owsinski hypothesizing on the Forbes website in July that SoundCloud's ongoing inability to secure deals with the major music labels was the foremost culprit.