Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different
1317
24 points
11 comments
July 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
1317
alt title: Less Is More: Why SoundCloud Low-passes its AAC Transcodings
ainch
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?
chaz6
As the years go by I get more and more annoyed by the fact you cannot sort results by upload-time on Soundcloud. Your only time-related option is a filter which makes no guarantee about the order of results.
bad_username
Cutoff at 17 kHz is certainly a viable trade-off in lossy audio compression, but calling it an _upgrade_ is pretty controversial, if not dishonest.