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Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:43:54 -0000

I dance more to artists I actively search for in Spotify than to tracks (often without proper metadata, sigh, that's only OK with WAV files) I just get free and store in my iTunes.

I don't hate having physical copies, and sometimes I buy CDs. This is about the want and curiosity. Actually thinking I might give a flip and keep following for more, put you in my playlists, etc.

Imagine comparing that to someone who actually wanted to pay and did. That's definitely something, and on the other side each downloader is only a maybe, a question mark. Just don't knock that, is what I'm saying here.

If I notice spammy stuff going on, that one track may be all I ever hear.

BTW, this is coming from a computer dork who barely socializes (or networks) out of the home, hahaha.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:24:06 -0000

SoundCloud hardly takes care of current/past spam, really. They delete accounts but I have to actively tend to the messages or they stay "as new," even when accounts were deleted before I saw the message. Annoying. SC messages are getting to be like Twitter DMs.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:18:23 -0000

Hey, you should make sure you're branding yourself on Disqus. I wanted to check out your alt rap but you've no link! You can have your name linked, then your profile linked to your site! (Like I have.) Feel free to reply with your link!! :)

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:43:09 -0000

Do you like music, lol? I mean, really, you like the music until that artist doesn't QUICKLY follow you back and then you just dislike the tunes and don't want 'em? Ugh, it just sounds too fake and maybe even lacking that love of music. Keepin' it 100!!

I only get tempted to unfollow when I see a full feed clogged by reposts by one user. NO! Ugh. I've also been unfollowing the major artists I followed back when I first signed up because then I was confused and SC told me to follow a lot, so I did, heh. I really don't need famous artists THERE too. I actually follow blogs all about their stuff, even though some of that is in everyone's faces all the time, haha.

You only follow people with shared interests ... is your only interest yourself??? OK, similar interests ... but that doesn't fit with that type of unfollowing.

I do run ... my own way, thanks. I don't care if it's zig-zag, haha.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:26:43 -0000

Become fans, really? I don't care how great the music sounds if you tick me off or disgust me with behavior that nasty. But I keep reading on marketing sites that apparently most people are extremely different from me and absolutely fall for BS.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:22:48 -0000

Ugh I hope I don't get that, that could hurt. I see that SO much on Twitter and I'm beyond suspicious there. Soon, I'll be fully cynical, oh no.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:20:43 -0000

Also about artists caring, feeling depressed and still refusing to fake it, haha. All mixed with the others who have that buzz, hopefully some real. I learned from years ago (before I released music) that faking it brings debt, not happiness. All I have is my self love, true inner pride, a few real peeps and food, and I'm still OK, haha.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:15:25 -0000

I think that's changed a lot though, unfortunately. SC Go is laughable but sadly it's what SC cares about now, that and top artists, and making big labels happy. Today, I see Bebe Rexha at the top of my SC homepage because her track is promoted. Most artists cannot even pay to get that ad, because we must first be premier or whatever. Bebe doesn't need that boost. The label will blast her elsewhere, and I probably would've checked out her new stuff anyway, but now I look at that ad and feel, "UGH."

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Noella Rose — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:07:39 -0000

Seems like all vanity but no true pride, fake gains would kill me inside. That tactic's really not helpful for the artist at all. I won't even have time to check the music out! ... Fakers won't win long that way. On a very similar topic, I now purposefully wait a least a week on Twitter to check out people's music because I've grown suspicious there even more, but SoundCloud has also gone downhill.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

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Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

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Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

BrandGizmo — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:01:06 -0000

Agree

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Darth Math — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:01:49 -0000

Having a hard time in Soundcloud as people seem to always expect me to make a track or two every week even when I update that I have life to do. things come up and they just unfollow me because I can't make another track for a few weeks. It's annoying.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

realist — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:04:54 -0000

you mad bro?

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Michel Labruyere — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:11:04 -0000

Hey there! Great story, I started googling after suddenly a lot more people started to follow me on soundcloud. I had an increase of 50 followers in 4 days, which is a lot for a learning producer like me who just wants to share his music so it can get heard and commented on. Somehow the increase doesn't match my number of plays (numbers, numbers, numbers).

Also, I really agree with you on the matter that followers should be "earned" on the basis of what you produce. I want it to be real people who actually listen to what I'm making. It is really difficult to get your tracks heard, I agree, since there's so much different artist out there who all want to get their tracks played. But people please, let's stay serious and follow someone because you like the music they are producing.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Hubert Sawyers III — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:29:18 -0000

You're so right. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Hubert Sawyers III — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:28:47 -0000

Thanks, glad you enjoyed.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Ricciardo — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:57:17 -0000

i follow only people i have interest in ear, about 20 people, i would like to discover more artists but its dificult to find genuine good staff in soundcloud in the middle of an ocean of miserable and avarage quality music... and i dont have much time to search, about the spamm, its a bit anoying, specialy when people share tracks with you without caring who you are, just for the matter of spamming, for thouse people i block them imediatly and report spamm, they dont deserv other actions, wannabe artists, pseudo-labels etc etc, many types of idiots do it... other kind of tactic i have been noticing is even more anoying, wich is people who dont follow or coment, they "like" your music, without earing anything... per example, there is people wich have 723012 likes, wich make you wonder, how come they eard so many tracks? even if they were earing music during 24h per day, they couldnt ear all of them, so obviously they spamm likes to make others sympaty or simply go to their page for curiosity...

Its really a shame what music world as becomed, in the old days there were fame seekers, there allways be some... but today its worse, many non-talented people that dont input much effort into music is really trying to make use of social networks and overal industry crysis to build a career, while decent talented artists who more likely are synth neards and the type of people who isolate more to have time to create things, do not have the cake piece they deserve... its really a pity, specialy because the market of sales doesnt translate quality also, its everything fake this days, Beatport started to ban some artists because they were buying their own music to climb charts and have more fame and gigs..

i guess at some point in the future music will need to re-gain some kind of balance between quality and proffit, right now its not about that...

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Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

untz untz — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:15:20 -0000

Nobody here wants it to be true, but it is. Mediocre house shit like Guetta, Aviici, or SHM is all about marketing AND contacts. Technically, the music is not hard to make. In fact, the masters sound like shit with way too much top and squashed compression. It goes hand in hand with what it's about if u want to be heard. BE LOUD AND ANNOYING!

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Better Name — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 04:24:48 -0000

"The house producers who are making a living have friends. They touch flesh; they build with like-minded folk." not true at all! this is what the power of the internet is. you are taking this to the extreme now. you can reach far more people without touching flesh Hubert. i can release a free download and reach 90 countries. with 2,000 downloads i can make more people dance than i could selling a track on a digital store!

2,000 dj's playing my track in clubs world wide is much better than me getting ego boosts from hanging out with people being polite to my face but not really liking my music.

you need to relax on this "build a solid fanbase 1 by 1" thing.

i agree using lame tactics makes you a dead give away for a loser but man at the end of the day it all comes down to how good your music is. if your music is crap NOTHING will work. you can fake it til you make it and keep faking it but in the end it wont be satisfying. your music will need to be at the very least mediocre and generic for you to pull it off.

Re: How to Annoy People Using SoundCloud

Better Name — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 04:22:59 -0000

nah you are hemorrhaging possibilities, you don't know where the 100 plays are coming from, you cant make this assumption. i'd say your music is not good enough to have hit any virality. part of the problem today is like you said, a guy gets some cheap software and sits in his room thinking he is ready to get big in the industry. beatport is a great example of saturated shit, 999 out of 1000 labels are absolute rubbish and they are dealing with this problem too. follow spamming is not even spamming. its fishing, unless they are curious enough to take the bait you wont have them even blink at your presence. also assuming you buy a set of speakers and now you are a dj? man you sound really naive.

fact 1: you are not getting publicity, fact 2: exactly, you have no idea what you are doing.

your options are to make better music, watch what happens. promote outside of soundcloud in other social media platforms. buy a soundcloud account so you can send your tracks to multiple groups (house music groups in your case) and give up the follow fishing.