I was experiencing some errors on the website (i.e. songs not playing and showing a red x). When I looked into the browser console, I saw, among an error and some warnings, this URL. I shortened it a bit, because HN automatically translates URLs into proper links, which might or might not be a good idea here.
tangentially related: everything I've ever made I've released under CC BY
https://pastebin.com/vv2AMmCN contains a list of all the different soundcloid accounts I've created over the years so there's a bunch of random crap to dig through if the interest exists
there may be some redundancy across all these but there's more music that I made throughout the years stored in those as well. Note that the quality may very severely because those contain the music that I made when I first started 14 years ago as well. but either way there's a lot more there if your curator is willing to dig.
Just a quick poking around I notice that many of the songs either don't have a license or have a "non-commercial" license. I did find at least a bit that's licensed under "CY-BY" but from the random smattering I sampled, it seems like the majority might not be.
Was the intent that all of the music listed there be released under a "CC-BY" license?
interesting, it was my intent to release everything under CC-BY but I suppose some of the earlier music that I made as well as stuff uploaded from mobile just used the default "all rights reserved" setting. So to clarify, yes it was my intent to release everything under CC-BY. i would prefer my music to be free as long as I get attribution.
A nice UX treatment, if your service can handle it, is to start pre-loading on hover over the play button, that way the song is ready to play when the user clicks. It may seem like a minor thing, but it makes a big difference in usability, and your current design is sparce enough, with enough space that you would likely not get many false loads.
With SoundCloud in the financial trouble it is in, and sites trying to use their API without paying, you could have a very good resource here.
The URL outputs differently depending on how I pull them from our hosting it seems! Both formats work on all download links though. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
The credit should in most cases be placed in the description! We're working on a guide to help you figure it out more easily, until then the link to the CC description is all we can offer unfortunately.
1) show something happen in the UI straight after clicking play - there might be several seconds latency before it starts streaming now
2) pause any currently playing track after clicking "Play" on another track, so you don't get a soundclash