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Ed Shelley@mr_ed · @ChartMogul, @ Berlin Startup Radio
I'm sorry, but the way these paid plans are differentiated is a first-class lesson in how NOT to price your subscription product - it's clearly driven from the business model side, rather than from the USER. How is a user supposed to differentiate between "120M+ tracks" and "150M+ tracks"?! Are those 30M tracks ones I might want to listen to? Do they repres… See more
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Eon@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@mr_ed My initial thought on that is that the 30M tracks are the ones that you otherwise only get to listen 30sec to? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sunil Neurgaonkar@sneurgaonkar · Genius-Nerd-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist
@mr_ed Good point. What if I have to listen to just those 30M songs. Is there any plan for that? Maybe they did this because they just wanted to do something to counter Spotify. Also, liked your article. I wrote this comment as I was listening to Tiesto's remix, on SoundCloud.
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Sylvain Grande@sylvain_grande · Twitter @sylvaingrande
@mr_ed fair criticism, but if you use SoundCloud you'll clearly see that all tracks that are available in the SoundCloud Go+ plan are clearly marked as Go+ tracks, and available as 30s previews in SoundCloud / SoundCloud Go. One of the key rationale, from a user perspective, is around transparency AND keeping the social viral loop going, i.e. no dead end for… See more
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Ed Shelley@mr_ed · @ChartMogul, @ Berlin Startup Radio
@sylvain_grande appreciate the response, Sylvain. I use and [want to] love SoundCloud - my frustrations are from both a user and Product perspective. I understand the angle of transparency here, not wanting to wall-off content completely. It's frustrating though, when in the flow of my feed, only to be interrupted by a 30s preview. The differentiation on n… See more
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Sylvain Grande@sylvain_grande · Twitter @sylvaingrande
@mr_ed I can appreciate your point, but our users are listeners AND creators AND rightsholders, as we are a platform to host the creations done by artists. Offering them flexibility on how they want to manage their content is also part of the product philosophy. I appreciate your follow up and you point. We'll be sure to improve further.
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Jim Canto@jimcanto · Freedom hunter. Citizen dev. Solopreneur
@sylvain_grande @mr_ed Maybe allow non-paying members the ability to eliminate "clips" from their stream so their experience IS ad-driven but NOT degraded for not paying. Paying would then enhance a "good" experience. (just brainstorming here)
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