Hopefully this isn't Goodbye, Clyp.

Clyp isn't shutting down as far as I know, but there is writing on the wall.

Recently, Clyp announced that they were moving to a fully premium model. SoundCloud and Photobucket have already pulled that. SoundCloud backed down, but Photobucket just seemingly stopped existing aside from emails telling me my bucket was full.

There's virtually no reason to choose Clyp over SoundCloud, so I do not see a reason that Clyp will make enough money to keep the lights on indefinitely. (Especially seeing as people mention using Discord to share all files under eight megabytes.)

I downloaded everything from my middle school Photobucket and deleted enough to get them to stop yelling at me for having too much stuff, so my first instinct was to take all of my files off of Clyp and move them to Google Drive.

Well, there's no option to download everything at once on Clyp. Even if there was, I would need to go through every single one of my 145 Clyps and enable downloads for each one.

Even if I downloaded everything, there's another hitch. I just rendered off WAV files and dropped them onto Clyp. So, on top of downloading all 145 Clyps, I would need to convert 145 Clyps to MP3 files. And then, on top of all that, I would probably need to clip the sixteen second samples down to my normal six seconds for storage reasons. 

If enough people buy Clyp premium, then Clyp will keep their lights on and I won't have to do anything. I do hope that enough people buy it - not just for my laziness, but also because I don't want anyone to lose their job because their company folded. 

I will slowly download all of my content from Clyp so that if their site goes down suddenly, I will have all of the audio files. But, unless that happens or Clyp disables embeds, all of the articles with audio from Clyp will continue to have audio from Clyp. 

Here's to hoping that Clyp makes enough money to keep the lights on!