SoundCloudReviews of soundcloud.com

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SoundCloud’s distribution tool is a nightmare for artists. They removed two of my tracks with the false claim of “artificial plays,” even though we proved 100% that this was impossible (my tracks only had 5–10 plays a month). On top of that, the distribution process causes massive delays and losses: tracks get rejected over and over with random reasons, and only after resubmitting many times are they suddenly accepted. I even recorded a video showing how I submitted over 30 distribution requests correctly — marked as non-explicit with the right language — but the system changed my inputs after submission, leading to rejection. The same happens with artworks, often rejected for nonsensical reasons like “wrong text,” even when everything is correct. Support is just as bad: I was ignored for months, often had to write 10+ times before receiving a lazy, unacceptable response, and then was ignored again mid-conversation. Issues never get solved. Overall, the service feels manipulative, unreliable, and completely disrespectful to independent artists.

have a problem with distribution that I’ve been trying to solve with SoundCloud support. Average response time is 1,5 - 2 weeks and I receive a single response for each three emails I send. Horrible. Edit: after two months of back and forth with this BS i now finally give up. Am I paying 100€/month to be able to upload more than 3h on my profile and that’s it? What exactly is “Pro” about waiting 3 months for a single reply on such a stupid issue only for your “review team” to keep giving me the same copy-paste response no matter what “license” I upload? And how do you want me to “prove” that I have the artist’s permission to distribute, when I am the artist myself?

While Soundcloud has a large following, they refuse many if not most, songs for monetization. Our studio-produced vocal EDM songs with the artist name ROUNDROCK were all rejected for royalties because of the alleged use of AI, though our sound engineer and producer submitted declarations under oath that no AI was used. Not recommended !

Could be better, they removed my tracks from 2008, lost forever, pretty bad for what was suppose to be cloud storage.

One full minute unskipable ads on a platform where people want to hear music? That’s ridiculous. And they are getting more and more frequent. I understand the platform needs funding to exist and that includes ads, but there is a way to do it without making the users frustrated about using it. It used to be a good platform for free music but when its forcing you to pay because the ads are too frequent, now they have competition with bigger and more popular music platforms.

Constant bugs both on the web and mobile. Impossible to connect with an actual human being running the platform. Lackluster "Insight" information that often presents an error, delayed feedback, and slow or faulty information. It's great for uploading and storing your content with an Artist Pro subscription, but the price doesn't match the value.

By all means get a free account and publish your music, but don't, whatever you do, pay them for artist or artist pro tier, they will take your money and leave you at the mercy of a 100% automated, defect riddled hellscape of a website with ZERO support. Tracks will be randomly rejected for monetization / distribution and there's NOT A SINGLE THING you can do about it - their 'support' rebot is a black hole where your pleas will echo into the abyse for all eternity, their facility to revise and 'upload' documentation for a track to be monetized is 100% NOT WORKING and nobody there gives a flying burst of flatulance as no human being will ever see or respond to your frustrated cries for help. Trust me, just sign up with a decent distributor (like distrokid) from the outset and save yourself the wasted £75 fee and limitles PAIN of trying to use SoundCloud for anything other than basic music hosting / streaming.