If hope that SoundCloud can survive the transition from a brilliant service with innovative features (especially the user-annotated waveforms), to a &quot;competitor&quot; to the likes of Spotify or Pandora.<p>I fear that the VC&#x2F;investor zeal for monetizing the hell out of SoundCloud will ruin what has made SoundCloud so special, and that sure, it may some day be worth more than Spotify, but if so I suspect it&#x27;ll devolve into something less than its present goodness, and an inevitable drop in valuation will follow, leaving VCs scratching their heads.<p>So it goes with every good online music service. They come, they go. Investors cash out, users get screwed, same as it ever was.