Steen Larsen (SLL)'s dashboard

Do any of yo know why I'll get this strange message, that I've added a track but it is not visible at the moment?

Its like that it will be visible, but when?

Man, that's new to me, spam messages on a music service like SC. Is it music spam or messages that has nothing to do with music? Pretty crazy but not surprising, that spam has found its way SC. I just hope they have to tools for getting rid of it :-)

SLL

Sad to hear that Rico. I also use the oldschool uploader, since the normal uploaders/replacers hasn't been working for me in the past. I'm not sure today if they work with the new Firefox 3.5 update? Worth a try, if you're using an older firefox? Or try the oldschool uploader.

SLL

What is not working right? I use 3.5 since today, and 3.5 seems to be a bit faster in general than the previous 3.0.11.

Well, I've managed to use the oldschool uploader. But this is the only way I can upload files to SC. The newschool uploaders doesn't work with Firefox. I've just been told, that Firefox 3.5 is public released, so i'll better try the upload out after updating.

I would also love to have some better callback routines, that actually showed the use how much of the file that were uploaded. I really don't know what is going on with the info you'll get now. It can't be used or trusted for anything, as it seems to be random on each upload. Sometimes 10% is uploaded, and other times it goes right up to 90% the minute you press "ok" to upload.

Is there a chance, that it would be possible, to make the uploading routines steady, for example with a certain browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer. And with what browser do the "normal" newschool uploaders/replace routines work correctly?

All the best,
SLL

Thanks Nils, in fact i tried to send two messages, but both times the "send" button just showed the scrolling animation, and never got finish.. just standing so forever. So I thought, that it didn't work. But glad to know, that you got the message, and that you'll reply to it asap, thanks.

SLL

Cheers Alex, and good to see you reply to this important problem. Yes, the bad stuttering problem is also big for me, as its all the time, no matter what I do when I'm logged into SC. And before the Kim update, things were looking much different, no stuttering here or any other bad performance things.

As fort the Internet speed, I'm also sure that it has nothing to do with it. If you're using a i7 cpu with 6Gb of memory, then I guess there definitely must be a speed leak somewhere in the code.

I say the same thing as you, a pain to browse now :(
I'll, hope to see the SC crew taking this problem professional and not turning away from the, trying to forget all about it.

SLL

Thanks Alex for helping me out on this problem :-)

I don't think SC is taking the slow GUI serious yet, as I've been telling about this for some days without a single reply from any of the SC people?! Personally, I "think" they haven't tested the new "Kim" release on slower computers and/or slower Internet connections (as loading time also is x 2), or am I wrong, then please tell me. But you really have to test SC releases on different size computers. And I don't think SC has announced any minimum computer setups for running their site.

Everything was running so smooth after they got the new servers. But after the "Kim" release, things speed wise looks as bad as the early days before the new servers.

(This is one of my topic from the blog:)

I just wrote down some percentage values from the different SC views. How much cpu usage SC takes in the XP task manager doing nothing:

Dashboard: 50%
You: 30-40%
Tracks: 50%
People: 20-30%
Groups: 10%

I don't know how the numbers looked before the update. But as said, I think that SC has made things work smoothly on newer computer systems. And if you are a little outdated as I'm with an old P4C computer, thinks can be very bad. But I don't like the fact, that SC was working smoothly on my setup before the new update. So I guess it much be one pretty heavy update in terms of whats made differently behind the scene, or... something isn't done right or is running right.

I'm having no problems surfing around on the Internet on other Internet pages, fast and smooth. But the minute I enter the SC pages, things goes from good to bad in speed.

My computer setup:

- P4C (2.8Ghz 1core + HT) (yes, not fast, but should be fine for Internet surfing!)
- 2GB DDR mem
- Gfx: Geforce FX5200
- Windows XP SP2
- Kaspersky Internet security 2009
- Firefox v3.0.11
- Internet connection: 6mbit / 384kbit (which should be more than enough for SC)

Aha okay, now I understand. Its some kind of closed community, which probably needs special apps before it works. Yes, its looks much like the Facebook logon page :-)

Sorry, I'm not able to help you in this case.

If you social network supports any form of html/stylesheets code, then it should be possible to stream your tracks with one of the Soundcloud embed apps.

Don't navigate away from the uploading page. Then you will loose the upload if its still uploading. Open up a new tap, if you want to navigate to other sites while uploading.

Also try the "oldschool" uploader, if you're having problems with the normal newschool uploader. I have to use the oldschool uploader, otherwise nothing gets uploaded.

SLL

Also occasionally have this problem. A few moments ago, I was viewing the "Dashboard", and played some tune from there, that were uploaded. the strange thing is, that only some of the tunes would play back. On some of the, nothing happened when I clicked on the "play" button. First when I entered the user page, of which uploaded the file, I could play the file back. And when I pressed on the "back" button on my browser, I could also play the file from the "dashboard".

So its some kind of random problem, not happening all the time.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.1.0, but have had the Firefox pop-up blocker enabled + the add pop up blocker in Kaspersky Internet Security 2009. I don't know if this could have anything to do with the problem, as it works fine sometimes?!

But now I've entered Soundcloud on the "write-list" of both blockers, to see if this will help anything?

SLL

I have the exact same problem with the oldschool uploader. The minute I select an MP3 file to upload, the process meter goes quickly up to about 50 to 90%, and stays there. It never finish, or at least it looks that way. But actually, the upload does finish and track uploads fine. But I have to check when the upload stream is finish manually on my Internet security bandwidth monitor :-) And when its finish, I'll wait some time, as I'm not sure if I interrupt the file encoding in some way... but after some time, I just check my uploaded files, and its there.

The newschool uploader also works this way, but no file is uploaded or at least saved among my files :(

And the replace routine also works this way, but no file is replaces? :(

So I always have to upload a new tracks (version of a track), instead of using the replace routine.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.10 on win XP.

SLL
http://soundcloud.com/sll

I would also love a feature like this. Normally I make my songs public for listening (not downloading!). But on a few occasions, I need to make a songs downlodable for a few persons, but keeping it public (not downlodable) for the rest. So I vote for this feature :-)

Depends on which "pro" account you buy. All pro accounts can have unlimited numbers of tracks contained.

1. On the cheapest "Light" account, you can max. upload 15 tracks per month.
2. On a "Standard" account, you can max. upload 50 tracks per month.
3. And on the "max", its unlimited amount of tracks per month.

So 27 tracks is possible with a "light" account. But you have to split the upload of tracks up in two parts. 1st month 15 tracks, and the 2nd month the rest. Or buy the "standard" account, where you can upload all of them in one go!

You can see it all here:

http://soundcloud.com/pro

SLL