Soundcloud Alternatives

So today Soundcloud began placing ads into listening sessions for desktop users. They put this in practice in the past for a bit to encourage PRO account and GO account subscription sales. But then they took it away for the free desktop user accounts. As of yesterday they put it back in play. I have found so many artists from WATMM through desk job day listening and playlist making on soundcloud. Was hoping I could get some suggestions for replacement sites with free all access listening ability accounts for desktop use. Or everyone's favorite spot. I have enjoyed making mixes and discovering all you beautiful bastards amazing work.

I know this forum offers plenty to sift through, but soundcloud will still have people upload raw, quick, wip takes the moment they really want to hear a spit out. I love stumbling onto that stuff (also yes, i check the WIP tab all the time) and I figure aside from getting private clyp links from friends there is no better place for that type of sifting. Thoughts?

This looks promising. https://audius.co 

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/24/audius-music/
 

Besides bandcamp, https://freemusicarchive.org/ , youtube, vimeo, there is https://hearthis.at which will let you batch import all your soundcloud tracks, pictures & info through an automated process which might be useful to look at for backup purposes. In similar vain as audius posted by Chim above, there are more sites exploring the blockchain like choon; https://choon.co .

(Also distrokid is a viable option though paid for pumping out tracks to all the popular vendors (spotify etc), cheapest option for this kind of service)).

With uBlock Origin addon I've never encountered a Soundcloud ad.

picosong

  On 10/22/2019 at 10:23 AM, roasty said:

picosong

Soundcloud requiring a sign-in before you can skip through tracks makes them seem really desperate.

  On 12/18/2021 at 5:08 AM, ManjuShri said:

Soundcloud requiring a sign-in before you can skip through tracks makes them seem really desperate.

They got rid of that quicksmart lol.