SoundCloudReviews of soundcloud.com

Titel / Überschrift: Algorithmus zerstört die Plattform – Enttäuschung für zahlende Producer Bewertungstext: Sterne-Bewertung: 1 / 5 Sternen Ich bin seit längerer Zeit als Producer auf SoundCloud aktiv und nutze das kostenpflichtige Next Pro-Abonnement. Leider hat sich die Plattform in letzter Zeit extrem zum Negativen entwickelt. Der aktuelle Empfehlungs-Algorithmus ist eine absolute Katastrophe für Künstler. Neue Tracks werden kaum noch organisch verteilt und bleiben regelmäßig bei mickrigen 150 Plays hängen – völlig unabhängig von der musikalischen Qualität, dem Mix oder dem Genre. Das System bewertet Musik nur noch nach starren Klick- und Skip-Mustern der ersten wenigen Minuten. Wenn der Bot eine ungünstige Test-Gruppe auswählt, wird der Track sofort begraben und erreicht niemals die eigentliche Zielgruppe. Man stellt sich als Künstler die berechtigte Frage: Wofür bezahlt man hier eigentlich monatlich ein Abo? Das ursprüngliche Versprechen von SoundCloud – eine Heimat für Indie-Künstler, Entdecker und die Underground-Szene zu sein – wird durch diese kompromisslose Automatisierung komplett zerstört. Gute Musik geht im System unter, während nur noch auf Reichweiten-Maximierung optimierter Einheitsbrei gepusht wird. Solange sich an dieser Praxis nichts ändert und zahlende Musiker so ausgebremst werden, kann ich SoundCloud weder für Hörer noch für Producer weiterempfehlen.

I’d give zero stars if I could. I’ve been locked out of my SoundCloud account for months. Password resets work, but SoundCloud then sends a verification code to the same email address, and it never arrives. It’s not in spam. I’ve checked repeatedly. So I can’t log in, can’t manage my account, and can’t cancel my subscription. I’ve tried every phone number I could find for SoundCloud, and every one connects to a fax machine. I’ve emailed their support team several times and never had a single reply. In the end, the only way to stop them taking my money was to cancel my bank cards. That’s how bad it is. If you’re thinking of signing up for SoundCloud, don’t. Once something goes wrong, there’s no one to help you, and they’ll keep charging you anyway.

I have been locked out of my Soundcloud Artist's account, with seemingly no way to get back in. I realize two-part authentication is required, but I have already done that. I see no reason why I should continue to pay for an account that I can't access!

Just one word says all the situation. Crocks.

i've reported numerous disgusting things on this website and the moderators have been nothing but nice and have actually ended up removing the things i've reported, even deleting accounts which break guidelines numerous times the thing is though that they're one of the worst websites in general for music artists, they support ai, remove tracks with copyrighted music in them instead of just allowing them to stay up but be unmonetizable (even when they change the original song) and also shove as many ads as possible in your face, if you don't pay for their subscription you get bombarded with popups not to mention the fact that it's a website specifically for uploading music yet they limit the amount of music you can upload behind a paywall which basically goes against the site's entire purpose. they also changed their ui last year to look much worse even though it was completely fine the way it was, speaking of, the ui is also generally really buggy and pages just don't load sometimes. on mobile you get ads which take up the entire screen and even when you exit the app and go back on it the ads persist, completely blocking you from using the app until it's over. it's probably very nice to use if you actually pay for go+ but it's pretty expensive. overall, great moderation, terrible platform.

Why won't they let me cancel my subscription. This is crazy, straight up fraud. They keep taking from my bank account. Im contacting my lawyer to start collecting issues to see about a class action cause soundcloud can't get away with this BS.

I created a soundcloud account years ago just to listen to smaller artists or indie music. I am a lurker. Turns out that SoundCloud has gotten way to globalistic and changed some things like showing my real name instead of username for all to see. kind of what Duolingo did (which then got data mined and sold). Not sure how they even got my real username but it's sick and disgusting. You cannot even delete your account unless its done via the app. They really want to data mine you all the way to the end.

I mean, just try to search through your likes playlist if you are someone like me who has 5000+ tracks in my "likes". I've used SoundCloud mainly for 10 years, mobile is fine but website is just complete garbage. They don't listen to feedback. Searching for likes on desktop is unusable; it takes 20 years to load. Terrible how much Soundcloud has gone downhill over the years. Used to be the ultimate best for music. Now it is trash.