Old embedded SoundCloud disappears over time?

[Disconnectica]

I looked at my old posts (tracks for critiquing).  I noticed all the posts more than about 5 months old no longer show the embedded SoundCloud player.

 

Anyone know why?  Should we expect old posts to lose their players over time?  Is it a SoundCloud thing or a forum thing?

 

I was thinking about editing the old posts to put the player back in, but wanted to check if that's an acceptable thing to do.  I don't like the idea that people might find my old post but not be able to hear my tracks.

 

As an example, here's one of my old posts:

https://forums.songstuff.com/topic/50842-the-shape-of-pears/

 

The SoundCloud player appears to be loading, and then vanishes.

 

Thanks,

Rob.

[john]

Hi

 

No issue with the forums. It looks like you have removed the song. Here is the link you embedded:

 

https://soundcloud.com/robertcwebb/the-shape-of-pears-v3

 

As you can see the song is not available. Perhaps you changed the privacy setting on the song?

 

It’s not the first time a member has raised this issue and the cause has either been the song actually removed or it has been made a private track.

 

It’s perfectly okay to update your music link, though if the music change I would appreciate you mentioning the update and why in the post. If it is a like for like replacement you don’t need to do that. It’s just to save someone reading a comment and listening for the issue and not finding it and wondering what is going on

 

Cheers

 

John

[Disconnectica]

8 hours ago, john said:

No issue with the forums. It looks like you have removed the song. Here is the link you embedded:

 

https://soundcloud.com/robertcwebb/the-shape-of-pears-v3

 

As you can see the song is not available. Perhaps you changed the privacy setting on the song?

 

Ah, I know what it was.  I changed my artist name at some point, so the links changed.  I thought I'd changed them all.  Possibly the caching made it appear not to be a problem earlier.

 

Thanks,

Rob.