{"id":7880,"date":"2016-12-09T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2016-12-09T04:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:44:12","slug":"spotify-and-soundcloud-merger-no-longer-a-sure-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/spotify-and-soundcloud-merger-no-longer-a-sure-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify And SoundCloud Merger No Longer A Sure Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7881\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/youredm.com_.png\" alt=\"Photo: youredm.com\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/youredm.com_.png 640w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/youredm.com_-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/youredm.com_-530x298.png 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: youredm.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember when we were all speculating about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/spotify-is-in-talks-to-buy-soundcloud\/\">Spotify-SoundCloud merger<\/a>? Well, it looks like we all spoke a little too soon.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it back in September, Spotify had reportedly been in advanced talks to purchase SoundCloud. Usually, that means that a deal is close, if not already done. Except for perhaps a few niggling details, all that the paperwork needs is a few important signatures.<\/p>\n<p>With this new month comes new problems. The word is that the talks are off. According to\u00a0<em>Your EDM<\/em> and\u00a0<em>TechCrunch, <\/em>the\u00a0reason given to them by an unnamed source is, &#8220;[Spotify] feared that an acquisition could negatively impact its IPO preparation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Would SoundCloud&#8217;s purchase have changed anything for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Remember when we were all speculating about a Spotify-SoundCloud merger? Well, it looks like we all spoke a little too soon. In case you missed it back in September, Spotify&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2152,400,7,2203],"tags":[3741,4112,622,1122,4613],"views":1264,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}