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Who’s using SoundCloud?. Alternatives?
Hi!
I run out of space on my free SoundCloud account.
144€/year for the Pro account sounds a bit steep. Unless it provides benefits besides the hosting and player which I’m unaware of.
These are the only plans I can see, and it doesn’t look like the Repost plan has anything to do with hosting songs..l
I’ve been doing videos and posting in YouTube, which is rather silly… I miss MySpace! 😄
What are you nice people using?. Are you paying the PRO plan?.
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I get far more views/listens on YouTube than SoundCloud so I use that for promoting my music. For sharing my music with friends in better quality, I host them on my own website too.
For selling music, I like Bandcamp a lot.
Is purevolume still around?
I find the workflow from creation to sharing via SoundCloud to be worth the fees. The fact that many can use the service for free to some point and deleted older work for new work
makes it very useful. I got tired of deciding what to throw away and just paid for the upgrade. Now I have 300+ files to review and see how my IOS journey has progressed.
Most of it is just experimental music created to share here and demonstrate a technique or the benefits of an app.
But SoundCloud is so easy to fit into an AUM->AudioShare->SoundCloud workflow. From idea to finish goods in minutes.
I use SoundCloud to share ideas that are unfinished or not worth publishing on streaming services.
For YouTube, I’ll usually take my logo, a picture I’ve drawn, or a photo I took and throw it in iMovie with the song. Can spice it up with one of the apps that lets you animate the picture.
If it’s really worth getting out there, I’d recommend using a distributor. Distrokid works fantastic for me. $35-ish a year for two artist names, unlimited uploads, 100% royalties, and I get to pick my release dates.
Distrokid sounds like the best distribution platform. Right?. Im currently using EmuBands which seems very similar. But I like the idea of 2 artist names.
Quick question… if you decide to stop paying the Distrokid subscription at some point. You don’t loose albums already uploaded (Spotify, etc). Do you?.
You do unless you pay extra. I haven’t done it but this is my understanding. Standard process is that your music stays up as long as you pay. They pull it if you stop paying. But you can pay a one-time fee per album/single to have it stay up “forever”.
The catch is, at least from what I’ve heard, even if you pay the extra, they take it down if you cancel/close your account. But if you just stop paying, your music stays up. But they auto-draft. So if you want to cancel but keep your music up, you basically have to get one of those Visa gift cards and change your payment method to that the year before. Then just let it run out.
Sounds like a hostage situation
Eh, it’s business. It costs them money to maintain the platform and if they keep your music up, they have to keep paying you. So you’re costing them money and not paying anything.
If they tell you this openly, up front, then it's business, I agree.
Distrokid also has some limitations on file size too, so if you do longer performances that could be an issue. I know they are a popular aggregator, but I hear the most complaints about them from my clients. Slow customer service, expensive if you want to leave their service but not have your songs pulled, etc. YMMV
Personally I’ve always been really happy with CDBaby myself.
I paid once for EmuBands, so I guess it was one of those one-time fee things.
I don’t want to have to worry about a subscription. I agree with @ervin, you shouldn’t have to pay again and again and be penalized if you don’t.
There’s also an artist profile thing in Spotify but I’m not sure how it works.
I don’t find it logical to have to spend money to post music. I can host a ton of music on Google Drive for no money, the only difference in SoundCloud is you get a nifty player to embed. Because let’s be realistic, no one gives you an “audience”. It’s basically hosting, and for that I find SoundCloud a bit too expensive.
Bandcamp and YouTube.
Regarding the Kid of Distro:
I, er, someone I know, went for a few years not paying them to renew, with an expired card which the person I’m talking about never updated. Everything stayed where it was. Reminder emails came every few weeks (so I’m told) but in the long run it was cheaper to ignore the emails than to pay to renew.
I wish this was a poll. I just singed up for Souncloud Pro and now I'm kinda regretting it. Wasn't aware of all these other options.
fuck those cnuts. Some cnut took my username thatI had for over 10 years. The would even discuss it. Just told me I was in breach of some bullshit.
I like CD Baby for distribution because you pay a one off fee and it's on the streaming platforms forever, no annual sub. Forget how much the fee is but its not a lot
Unless you release a lot of music CDBaby is probably better value than Distrokid. Plus of course you don't need to keep paying to keep your work out there, it's a one-off fee rather than a sub.
Definitely against the subscription model. Unless you’re making money it makes zero sense.
I can make it a poll. But I don’t know the options… as I far as I can tell Distrokid, cd baby and those have little in common with SoundCloud. You can probably put bandcamp in the same category, although SoundCloud does let you upload your private tracks, work in progress or whatever… but 144€ a year?. Seems like way too much for just storing songs.
SoundCloud has the promotion side of things down more than the other options. Well known and easy to comment and share tracks with people. I can see the appeal for that aspect. Not a fan of their encoding though, seems to be optimized more for speed than quality. Though maybe they’ve improved it in the last year or so since I last checked.