But you didn’t write it. That main riff is clearly The Trooper by Iron Maiden. The remix is your work but the music you based it on isn’t. The copyright holder of the original work can & will block things they feel it infringes upon their rights.
Edit. Don’t know if that’s why they keep deleting your track, but it’s a possibility.
Had a similar problem on Soundcloud. In one of my own made tracks i used a kick drum from a well known sample pack. I got a warning, if i don’t dele this track they will suspend my account.They claimed this kick was stolen from another track. But it was not true. I explained, that this kick was from a sample pack i purchased and this pack also is used by thousands of other people. I showed them which sample pack an the site from where it was purchased. After some discussions they understood and apologized.
Iron Maiden didn’t write a gameboy version of The Trooper, don’t be purposely dense.
I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt.
As I said, you own the copyright to your gameboy remix. That’s your performance of Iron Maiden’s song. But you did not write those melodies / riffs your remix is based on. Those were written by Iron Maiden. You do not own the copyright to The Trooper. Iron Maiden, or whoever owns the copyright, owns that melody you’re using. So unless you have a license granting you permission to use that copyrighted material you are not actually allowed to publish this track. Or any copyrighted material, actually.
Honestly they probably just have an automated removal algorithm going on there. Just name it something else and it probably won’t get deleted, as I doubt the actual copyright holder is going to care if you cover a song like this on a streaming service.
I’ve had similar stuff happen on Redbubble, if you plug some IP anywhere (even if it’s not exactly related, but you’re using the tags in an advantageous manner) they’ll similarly take it down and warn you about reuploading. Just food for thought
What are some sane alternatives to SC? Something minimal and lightweight?
I don’t care so much about my online presence & clout, but I need to upload my tracks somewhere for reference in case I need to share something to someone later.
Unpopular opinion: possibly YouTube.
I know you have to go an extra step and render a video, but at least they don’t impose crazy limits or bombard you with “Signup for pro!!!” (or whatever their premium service is called). If we don’t get a proper Soundcloud alternative that gains traction, it might just default to YT eventually.
That’s part of the reason why I upload to YouTube, yes. Though, I’m not convinced that they won’t apply restrictions in the (near) future. Data storage is just getting more and more costly. If not monetarily than in terms of environmental impact. But for now it’s YT all the way, for me.
Just saw your post right now ; ) and a new detail about the ban: a day before I already uploaded the same track and I was wondering why it suddenly disappeared. Now 6 month later I found an email from SC in the spam folder with a warning about this track (‘1st strike’ I guess).
Due to lack of alternatives I created a new account some weeks ago and wanna upgrade now to the Pro account, will see what happens ; )
Mmh,
my account “Hanz Meyzer” was deleted today, too. I’ve edited the account description, maybe a bug in the update post renamed the account or deleted it? Really weird. You can’t even get in touch with support, you have to chat with an annoying AI first. Then there might be a ticket created, but it’s almost not possible.
Do you know better alternatives to soundcloud? I am kind of tired of this provider, but it’s layout is straight forward.
Hanz Meyzer Lab is still online.
Not better, but there’s an alternative. And Bandcamp of course in case of finished stuff.
Ah yes, that is an ancient backup account. The main account had mostly KVR OSC compo songs.
Thanks, ok. What’s worse regarding Audius then? Ah yes, Bandcamp.
Do you know some “mass uploader” tool for musicians, so it uploads your song +ü cover to youtube, soundcloud, audius, you name it?
No, I don’t upload a lot of stuff anywhere.
Ask @lilith , he’s on Audius, too. I’m not. But obviously SoundCloud is the market leader like “eBay” or “YouTube”, and Audius seems to be kinda like “hood” or “Dailymotion”.
Audius is very slow compared to SC and uploads take much longer. I didn’t upload much in the last weeks. Currently I’m more fiddling with my PC and learning Emacs and Supercollider. I don’t know why but I don’t have the urge to make music currently. Last night I configured Emacs with Matlab on my working PC. Guess I’m sick 
This all just gets worse as time goes on… Why even bother uploading music for others to listen to when you don’t know them & will never meet them? There’s billions of tracks out there & even if it’s decent it’s hard to get any interest going because so many are tired of ‘listening-listening’… If you make music YOU like to listen to then do that, offline only, for you & perhaps family or friends… I see where some don’t listen to their own music so in that case try another hobby… If everybody suddenly did all this soundclutz & all the others would change radically back to oldskool days…
BUTT!… That ain’t gonna happen looks like…
Personally I had my account deleted 2.5 years ago but they did not delete it, it’s all still there but now I have no access to it even though they said they would…
The entire internet is an ad-whore space just like outta the movie ‘Idiocracy’ (2006)… Remember the scene where Dax is in front of the TV Screen & his ‘Baitin’ Flick’ is just a small video in the very center surrounded on all sides by ads?!! We are there!!!
Idiocracy… I need to watch this again. Totally agree. The internet was much better 20 or even 30 years ago. I deleted my discord account recently and use IRC more often (via weechat in the terminal). Yesterday I wanted to watch a movie on Prime. The new navigation menu is so awful, they completely destroyed it. I was searching over 30 minutes for a movie (this happens often) and in the end I switched off. Netflix is even worse (with their movies obsessively trimmed to politically correctness). Youtube is full advertisements and it is getting worse every day.
Why not posting to archive.org?
That’s I wise decision imo. Burning less money is always something good.
I just have created an Audius account and uploaded my album that can be found on Bandcamp. It took about 3 minutes to upload all 13 tracks. Not too bad. But indeed the website is pretty slow in general. Kinda like you need to reset your router.
This website is very confusing, way too many stuff is listed there and the filters aren’t that good. It looks like “nomen est omen”, it’s an archive, but not a website for presenting stuff and connecting people.
