http://cdm.link/2017/07/heres-download-music-soundcloud/ (http://cdm.link/2017/07/heres-download-music-soundcloud/)
The advice is to download everything matters for you (your music), and look for some alternative...just in case...
:(
Alfredo
Alfredo, I've never trusted any cloud services and still refuse to use them.
To me, it's crazy to store my data on a server that may not even be in the country I live in.
I burn everything to DVD disks and the really important stuff is burned to two, or more, disks.
My movie archive is stored on over 400 disks. I cannot see uploading that much data anywhere.
Same deal for my music. Where I live is where it stays.
I keep mine all safely held on a single hard disk in a 10 year-old PC.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, sure, I agree that it's absolutely unsafe to keep all our important files only in one place, but anyway if Soundcloud closes it will be anyway a great loss.
About physical media...I'm not sure about these neither. After some years I've found some CDs with strange transparent "holes" that make them unreadable. And about external external hard disks, last week I discovered that 2 of mine had become unreadable too. So, I think that it's also a matter of good luck or bad luck. :-\
And anyway, more backups means more safe your files are.
Alfredo
Flash, I doubled down on the number of hard drive backups. My wife and I have a total of sixteen hard drives that
reside in a storage cabinet, all containing multiple backups of our data. She hates burning disks and so far it has worked
well for us.
Alfredo is correct. Nothing lasts forever. So far, I've been lucky on drive failures. Only had one drive go tits-up.
It was backed up. It was a main boot drive. The computer was back online in less than one hour.