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Ctrl+F Soundcloud.. crickets

I once made a chrome extension to add global keyboard shortcuts to Soundcloud and now that is literally all I listen to all day (I know, artists aren't getting a penny from me and that is bad, especially for small indies, I would buy much more music off bandcamp if the ux wasn't so atrocious).

My point is, surely I'm not the only one here using SC exclusively? Just curious.



Just yesterday, I tried to find an album that Scott Melker had uploaded to SoundCloud. It's gone, and he posted this announcement https://soundcloud.com/scottmelker/please-listen-a-message-o...

So, SoundCloud can't present me with the discography of Black Sabbath, and a smaller artist I enjoy can't even keep his music on the service.


The problem with Soundcloud is that the freely available "preview" versions are 128 kbps transcodes,[1] which is pretty mediocre quality (and possibly worse, if the source was lossy to begin with).

[1]: http://uploadandmanage.help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/a...


Re: global keyboard shortcuts.

I found https://github.com/msfeldstein/chrome-media-keys a while back. It's amazing.

It's not flawless, but it adds global controls to most websites.




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