{"id":5753,"date":"2017-07-19T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:56:31","slug":"soundcloud-tries-to-allay-fears-but-streaming-needs-a-business-model-cdm-create-digital-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/soundcloud-tries-to-allay-fears-but-streaming-needs-a-business-model-cdm-create-digital-music\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundCloud tries to allay fears, but streaming needs a business model &#8211; CDM Create Digital Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And, look, while all of this shakes out, musicians and labels continue to pursue a strategy that caters to building relations on <em>all<\/em> these services. Some of them have great success stories with YouTube, with SoundCloud, with Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe that\u2019s the point. It seems to be the businesses in between that are non-functioning \u2013 or (in the case of futuristic blockchain propositions) just not ready for primetime.<\/p>\n<p>Musicians and labels keep doing the hard work of making the music and fighting to get it heard. Yet investment and attention pours into the middleware between us and listeners \u2013 and that middleware really isn\u2019t working terribly well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cdm.link\/2017\/07\/soundcloud-tries-allay-fears-streaming-broken\/\">SoundCloud tries to allay fears, but streaming needs a business model &#8211; CDM Create Digital Music<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, look, while all of this shakes out, musicians and labels continue to pursue a strategy that caters to building relations on all these services. Some of them have great success stories with YouTube, with SoundCloud, with Spotify. But maybe that\u2019s the point. It seems to be the businesses in between that are non-functioning \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[176,87],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-music-business","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}