Deleting 1800 + Tracks on SoundCloud
It’s quite a thing to delete your SoundCloud account.
I’ve been paying for a membership for however long, and we’re cutting crap like that out of the house, and this one was remarkably easy to put on the chopping block.
After you go to an unpaid account, they still keep all your stuff (but hidden) on the site, and you have to go through and manually delete it, which I did today.
1,800+ tracks.
What the hell, JD? That’s ridiculous.
There was some good stuff, and I can always put it back up. But I’m going with—if I remember or think about this or that song, then I can put it back up.
Otherwise, I’ve got enough stuff out on streaming to where if somebody really gets a hankering for listening to some JD tracks, they can find them.
I’m not sure that’s ever happened, but you know, It’s a weird world out there, and there are a lot of people, so you never know.
That being said, I’m using this as a kind of new beginning.
At some point this week, probably Friday, a new record will drop to streaming, and then I’ll tell people about that.
I kind of never understood the “I’ve got new stuff coming out in two months” thing. There is no call to action, and people are onto the next thing instantly.
Whereas if you’re like, “Hey, I have a record,” they may actually go to their streaming site and check it out.
These records I make, especially in January, are really a snapshot in time. When I listen to them I’m reminded and think about what I was doing at the time and who I was.
It’s like a different version of the same guy.
Which I think actually qualifies as art.
So, giving myself a pat on the back today for having the nuts to delete all the crap.
I still have it on a hard drive somewhere. But that’s probably where it’s gonna stay.
As Christopher Hitchens said, “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”