so we just found out Soundcloud made their codec better and reverted it back for no reason

here's the difference between the "better" codec (left) they supposedly implemented then took back out vs youtube (right, full freq range). I suspect all they did is change the bitrate of the broken AAC codec they use, which may affect the cutoff, but is still bad regardless :(

It actually wasn't for no reason they did that because they hate us

PURPOSELY FUCKING OVER THE USERS OF ONE OF TWO MOST ACCESSIBLE INDEPENDENT MUSIC PLATFORMS BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT

this CANT be right but oh my god if it is

you can go check yourself, just find a song between dec 2024 and mid march 2025, and then find a song out of that range and youllhear the difference its actually crazy

can they lock the fuck in

oh so i wasn't being paranoid about that they actuially just decided that was a good idea

we do a little trollin

What a shit show, I didn't do proper testing, but I also noticed the differences, I thought it was just the browser f-ing around