SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
Things I hate about Soundcloud:<p>1. They haven&#x27;t updated their iOS app seemingly in years. It lacks basic controls and makes it impossible to listen to more than a single song at a time.<p>2. The really shitty &quot;artist engagement&quot; sites that force you to follow 20 other social media accounts in order to get a download. I know this isn&#x27;t Soundcloud directly, but they&#x27;re the ones letting artists link off to these basically spam services through a button that promises a direct download. They could have easily required you to follow the artist before downloading directly to solve at least part of this problem.<p>3. Music discovery is absolute trash. Discovery on a platform like SC is even more important than a place like Spotify because there is so much underground talent that should be listened to. This was the entire point of SC and they largely failed at that.<p>4. I have seen countless artists on twitter calling out SC for taking down their own songs from their own accounts for copyright strikes. It also seems like their ability to work with artists in general is just utter garbage.