As I started this thread a good while back, this is what actually happened. I paid Soundcloud whatever it cost. Not because it may be the best place, but because it is convenient.

I get to go back and listen to songs I wrote and recorded fifteen years ago. If they had been on my computer systems for that long, some of them would have been lost due to computer failures.

$100 is the new $10 bill. Decisions to spend those amounts of money don't change my life. Soundcloud is useful, so I put up with their BS.

Billy