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Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So say you decide to pay for a year of soundcloud, it's a good deal and it's all up front which means no hassle for both parties. One day, you wake up to discover your
Account was terminate without notice, and it's only been 4 months!

Naturally, you check your gmail only to discover a message detailing some sort of vague interpretation of the terms of service agreement. Usually something to the effect of something that you said could be considered obscene and therefore your account is "otherwise objectionable in SoundClouds reasonable discretion;"

So now you're left wondering, well do I at least get my money back? They already deleted all my stuff, and my followers are gone, are they at least going to pay for the other 8 months I paid for? The answer is a big fat NO! Because they have a clause that says:

"If you have a Subscription and your account is suspended or terminated by SoundCloud pursuant to (i) or (ii) above, you will not be entitled to any refund for any unexpired period of your subscription"

What is section ii? Well:

"(ii) you are in breach of any of the material provision of these Terms of Use or our Community Guidelines, including without limitation, the provisions of the following sections: Your Use of the Platform, Your Content, Grant of Licence, and Your Representations and Warranties;"

Pretty broad, I know. But basically your money is in the pockets of soundcloud now. If you're just some music guy, who just posts ambient beats, then maybe you can use soundcloud. But if you plan to have any vocals or are doing a podcast, make sure to pay month to month because these people will pocket everything you give them should they dislike a word or 2 you said.

Date of experience: August 10, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible
September 28, 2018

Never works even with wifi, takes forever to load, will stop mid-song to load. All around terrible. Not reliable at all.

Date of experience: September 28, 2018
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My title says it all.
81 DAYS.
81 DAYS!
81 DAYS!
ROBOTIC reply every time. 3,000,000 plays/streams. Not ONE CENT IN FAN BASED ROYALTIES!

Date of experience: May 6, 2022
Hungary
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Garbage
August 6, 2018

Expensive and continues to block me for no reason. Artists need a new platform that is better than this $#*!. F u soundcloud.

Date of experience: August 6, 2018
Texas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Club music
June 1, 2017

A source of new club music for me. Subscribed to some channels which issue new podcasts and some interesting standalone tracks - all good and fun!

Date of experience: June 1, 2017
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Removing music from playlist but still on the app lots of people have there songs remove and have to refind them again and NO RESPONSE from app terrible but they pressure you to upgrade

Date of experience: September 18, 2019
India
13 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Great Site
September 4, 2020

It is a great website for more music to listen. Easy to listen to and upload the song. I really like to recommend it to everyone.

Date of experience: September 4, 2020
India
16 reviews
15 helpful votes
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My cd player of online
January 22, 2018

Soundcloud nice streaming for playing songs in all languages and music
https://soundcloud.com/msksiva/

Date of experience: January 21, 2018
India
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Best Ever!
March 10, 2016

I'm please with the sound cloud, I started listening it recently and started loving 'em. Great!

Date of experience: March 10, 2016
Utah
5 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Best!
December 9, 2016

A place where I find interesting music to spend a day with. Just brilliant :)

Date of experience: December 8, 2016
Canada
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Awesome
December 22, 2019

They made me a promo for free and they did an interview too and all thats stuufff
I never had problem with those people
THEY ARE AWESOME

Date of experience: December 20, 2019
New York
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Pandora is great. But lately i started listening to SoundCloud and they are just as good

Date of experience: May 26, 2015
Canada
5 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Loving them. So many new artists put their songs here.

Date of experience: February 14, 2016
California
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Works good
November 22, 2016

SoundCloud works good. I enjoy to listen podcast on it.

Date of experience: November 22, 2016
Illinois
7 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Always use it
October 6, 2015

No way, the best one among other similar sites. It affords to find almost everything.

Date of experience: October 6, 2015

Overview

SoundCloud has a rating of 1.8 stars from 148 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with SoundCloud most frequently mention customer service and free trial. SoundCloud ranks 126th among Music Promotion sites.

service
25
value
24
shipping
6
returns
11
quality
24