SoundCloud

Their top 50 use to be featuring the artists who reaches the most plays and gets the most notice but not anymore, I don't know who they've got deciding who gets to be in the top 50 and sponsored as well but it's definitely not a fair system based on who's deserving the attention the most. Their curators must be deaf or something or maybe they just don't really care that much about music.

For a website that is used pretty much universally, to say their service is awful would be an understatement. You can't contact them; they never reply when you email and they aren't interested in anything other than taking your money. I've written to them 20 times and had not one single reply. In the end, I had to raise cases with PayPal to get my account cancelled and even then they refused to speak with PayPal or myself. There are plenty of other file sharing platforms out there who offer much better customer interaction. I would encourage you to look for these, rather than perpetuating and reinforcing this terrible customer service platform.

First they upload your music to some other artist's profile. Even when you tell it to create a new profile. Then you try to get in contact with support. Then you find that they have no live chat, no phone number, just a email ticketing system that is devoid of response. Some of the worst customer support I've seen besides maybe cash app or Amazon. Just avoid these guys at all cost and do not give them a dime of your hard earned money.

Your followers, just your followers (not the whole soundcloud community) do not get a chance to hear your new music. I have set up 3 different accounts at different times with different music, its always the same. Your followers do not represent your plays not likes just listens. Strange. I predicate that unless a new buyer takes over within the next five years soundcloud will join myspace in the realm of what was with netscape in deep woulda coulda shoulda conversations. Rotate the music, stop promoting the known and famous. It may not be like that but it looks and sounds like that.

Not user friendly or impressed by it! I've been using Pandora for a while and i see no difference give or take a few songs on both apps they all have same features i also used Soundcloud on my Serato dj and its a mission to download songs to your computer then to the dj set. The streaming part is okay but the history disappears I'll keep Pandora for now and just keep downloading songs from different sources for my dj set. One more thing canceling subscription was a mission to had to YouTube it that's bad!

Low value for artists with needing to pay to even monetise your music and with a max upload time of 180 minutes before paying, terribly low royalty rates per view, infested with bots/promo ad accounts, site works great for listeners on the functional end though. So it might not be worth using as an artist, I still use it but I only just about break even with over 500 monetised views a day on a channel. Best bet in my view is to mainly focus on distribution through DistroKid or something and YouTube manual uploading for more value. Yes I understand it's their website and they can chose to do what they want, but there has been a lot of bad decisions of late.

I am overall very pleased with the service, and encouraged by the traffic I get.
There are times when I experience glitches, such as tracks not loading properly, or edited tracks not editing properly. Other than that I am really happy with it. Anyone can post their music and it's a great way to hear new and interesting music out there. A little like Pandora, but without commercials, and not necessarily music that is published or under a record label.

The best way to get your music heard (especially for free). Or at least a great starting point. Other sites like "reverbnation" or "bandcamp" just don't seem to have the volume that SC does. Although those sites have their own specialties, SC is at the top of the music streaming game. I prefer it over those and spotify because it is the easiest way to find other underground artists and form relationships that both parties can benefit from.

I absolutely love soundcloud. It is the best music website of our time. Uploading songs are painless. You can share music publicly or keep it private. The coolest feature is that when you listen to a song you see the wavelengths of the entire song. Users can click on exact seconds of the song and make comments. As the song plays the comments will pop up as the time elapses them. Very cool and constructive for people who create music.