SoundCloudReviews of soundcloud.com

Went with the pro package and it’s useless, wish I could get a refund

I've posted several songs on their service and all I received was spam and attempted scam, let me explain it in more detail, please read. Every time I posted a new song, I would get an automated new fan and their system would suggest me to return the favor and subscribe to that new fan's page as well. However, that subscription to my page of that "new fan" would disappear after a while. The exact same thing would happen with each new song I would upload. After a while I would be contacted by someone claiming to be a Label offering me a contract after I send them my song without voice-over protection, which is not how labels work, so that is an example of an attempted scam. Also, this would only happen after upload, if there was no upload, and I deliberately was not uploading for 3 weeks, there was nothing happening and my content was not accessible in their search engine, not appearing to anyone else, except me! My friend told me he can't see me while I was able to see myself. So, their system is doing so called shadowbanning. You can see your own content, but nobody else can, but since you can see your own content you're being tricked into thinking everyone can see. I've closed account there.

As a songwriter and musician I am grateful for these guys!

Soundcloud is cool. I love that you can find loads of electronic music that normally I wouldn't find anywhere else. Thinking of creating my own music some day.

Decent but could be better. Not as good as in the old glory days of music blogging. Hope it improves.

Soundcloud is a site where you can find a lot of cool tracks, but the point I want to make here is that I cannot create an account there. I have tried signing up using many different e-mail addresses I own and every single time the site says the e-mail is incorrect and to try another one. Excuse me? Is it even possible to create an account there or are they discriminating against users from eastern Europe- which I think could be the case as other people somehow managed to create a profile, but I can't? One more thing, a lot of tracks are unavailable to users in my country. For heaven's sake, we live in the 21st century and even today some nations seem to be regarded inferior to other. How can you distribute your music and share it with the rest of the world when you put those unnecessary limits as to who can listen to it?

I have been promoting my music in SoundCloud via Repost Exchange as an independent artist and got around 3M plays which 2M plays are from the United States. I contacted Repost By SoundCloud to double check why are not getting paid? Unfortunately they could not explain why. After 2 years of using their distribution services and creating a real fan base I just realised that the only way to get money out of them is using Music Reports Inc otherwise they will hold your mechanical royalties! You get your mouth full of lies telling unsigned artists that you help them but in reality you only help the labels just like the rest of platforms.

Tbh this isn’t nice, I’ve seen way better apps and compared to them, this isn’t it. why are comments popping up when I'm listening? so chaotic I almost mistook them for lyrics