SoundCloudReviews of soundcloud.com

Genuinely just straight up shit id now say 2 ads per song you get more advert time than actual songs, they wont let you transfer to Spotify nor let me buy premium and back to the adverts its that same horrible premium advert every, single, one its probably because they cant get anyone to advertise on there because they know how shit they are wish there was an option for minus stars. I normally dont write reviews n stuff but they've just pissed me off that much. Just use Spotify instead

I am a professional producer (Yelltrix) and a SoundCloud Next Pro subscriber. My work is 100% human-made, composed in Ableton Live. Despite providing official legal documentation from the Portuguese Republic (IGAC) and digital signatures (Chave Móvel Digital) proving my authorship, SoundCloud's automated systems keep rejecting my releases with conflicting excuses (first 'AI detection', then 'licensing issues'). It is unacceptable that a paying customer and a certified artist is being ignored by automated bots. I have provided project screenshots and legal certificates that prove no third-party samples or generative AI were used. I demand a human technical review immediately. My rights as a creator are being violated by these unjustified blocks.

The incessant ads without the paid subscription makes this platform nearly unusable -- however, some of the remixes available on the platform are insanely good (and cannot be found anywhere else e.g. Spotify, Youtube). That might be SoundCloud's only redeeming quality.

It USED to be a great website, now its full of dark patterns and anti-user design choices. For instance: You can no longer see all of an artists tracks from the mobile version of the website, only featured and popular tracks, why? I dont know... I assume they want to force people to use the app, but why? This seriously limits the actual usefulness of soundcloud for an artist. On top of that its a battle to release tracks through their distribution system without getting your content denied for whatever bogus reasons and the chatbot support is annoying and hallucinating like it was on acid. I used a CC0 licensed work for my album cover and I had to spend 45 minutes talking to a gaslight-bot 3000 and when it finally send me onwards it took days before any action, and I didnt get a "We are sorry - We messed up" message or anything, my track just suddenly got accepted even though it was in draft mode - I didnt wish to publish it before updating the audio file... If you want to keep artists then I think its paramount that soundcloud stops using "dark patterns" to force app downloads. You should aim to make the app convienient if you want app users, not making the website UNCONVENIENT. This WILL just lead to users jumping ship as soon as another, better, well-funded alternative appears. I hope someone at soundcloud reads this criticism, but I doubt it.

Worst music app. An ad every 2 songs and it’s the same ones over and over again. Idk how people use the app

If you still haven't paid the November 2025 royalties to the aggregator—that is truly terrible.

Distribution of a song or an album seems to be a big issue or problem for Soundcloud. I worked (an still work) with Tunecore were I had no or hardly any problem to distribute my works. With Soundcloud there is always something. Artwork not right etc. I gave up after countless emails. And I get sick of these Chatbots!

haben mich um 5200 doller betrogen Verlust 1 jahr Arbeit , 4800 Flower haben mich dauern versucht zu zwingen ihre tools zu benutzen vts plugs etc voice swap , wollten viele lieder sonst nicht veröffentlichen , nur mit ihren partnern ...der musik markt ist ein freier markt .... totale donald trump Methoden als ich mich beschwert habe haben die mich gekündigt und was zur löschung aller lieder und bewertungen geführt hart DONT WASTE YOUR TIME