https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/what-happens-if-soundcloud-dies/ (https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/what-happens-if-soundcloud-dies/) :(
Bandcamp has always been the better service, because Soundcloud's model is fundamentally flawed. (The main superficial feature difference, the ability to comment tracks, is honestly a bug to me.) Soundcloud survived on payments from the artists for more storage space, whereas bandcamp incidentally covers many of its costs by providing a store for the artist. 99% of the time people just want to listen to some music, but Soundcloud made it harder to capitalize if that 1% wanted to actually purchase the track. Artists lost a sale, Soundcloud lost an opportunity to take a cut, and the customer lost the opportunity to pay for (read: be more invested in) the song. The article even touches on this. Soundcloud drives sales at Bandcamp. The fact that soundcloud couldn't capture that market share was dropping a huge stinking ball on their part, and they failed to do that for, what, 6 years at least?
Here's one thing you can be sure of:
Any service that gets its support from the artist end rather than the customer end will inevitably collapse. Artists don't have money.
I've backed-up all my music. Nothing commercial on there, just soundclips of pedals etc. I suppose I only thought it was a free host for audio files.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/soundshroud/ (https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/soundshroud/)