I've been sharing music on SoundCloud for a decade and I am genuinely interested in this topic, but I cannot stand how strongly this post reeks of LLM writing. Do people releasing this kind of content not notice all the clichés?
ffaser5gxlsll 14 minutes ago [-]
I've been using soundcloud also for similarly long, however a few months ago I started to notice the sharp uptick in llm-generated music that killed completely the enjoyment I had out of the site for me.
It started first noticing some similar songs that repeated too often. Songs that I actually liked, so after a while I recognized them and their variation too often. Then noticing some of the tags I was usually listening to were filled just by just one or two artists. Looking at the artists themselves, they're publishing a couple of songs per hour, non-stop. They're also clearly stating that the music is generated in the artist info btw.
Problem is, this destroyed completely the "discoverability" for me. Tags are hijacked by hundreds of similar songs you can't avoid. As soon as somebody likes one of these, "related" also quickly starts to loop.
I found no way to block these. You can block users, but this doesn't prevent their songs being recommended to me. Feedback was, so far, ignored.
I can't possibly think they're not aware of this issue, so I can only assume that so far they're getting something out of it...
outofpaper 1 hours ago [-]
Worse than that is the fact that the article completely ignores how SoundCloud now is prioritizing the ears of older listeners.
inigyou 1 hours ago [-]
They don't care. They think the point is quantity and they don't even know what the word "quality" means.
dspillett 43 minutes ago [-]
They know what quality means, but it takes effort and while the majority let them get away with “meh, it'll do” or worse they'll not need to make that effort.
Heck, they probably don't care if the majority look in, see the slop, and nope out after a couple of paragraphs or less. By that time the ad impressions have been counted. That is what it is really about, not quantity (well, not directly, though that is the least effort route to more impressions) nor quality. Ad-tech is the target audience.
1317 2 hours ago [-]
alt title: Less Is More: Why SoundCloud Low-passes its AAC Transcodings
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It started first noticing some similar songs that repeated too often. Songs that I actually liked, so after a while I recognized them and their variation too often. Then noticing some of the tags I was usually listening to were filled just by just one or two artists. Looking at the artists themselves, they're publishing a couple of songs per hour, non-stop. They're also clearly stating that the music is generated in the artist info btw.
Problem is, this destroyed completely the "discoverability" for me. Tags are hijacked by hundreds of similar songs you can't avoid. As soon as somebody likes one of these, "related" also quickly starts to loop.
I found no way to block these. You can block users, but this doesn't prevent their songs being recommended to me. Feedback was, so far, ignored.
I can't possibly think they're not aware of this issue, so I can only assume that so far they're getting something out of it...
Heck, they probably don't care if the majority look in, see the slop, and nope out after a couple of paragraphs or less. By that time the ad impressions have been counted. That is what it is really about, not quantity (well, not directly, though that is the least effort route to more impressions) nor quality. Ad-tech is the target audience.