Mix cloud or sound cloud?

[Claude Perdu]

I combine them. My latest stuff is on Soundcloud (more standardized and download feature) and when my account is full I upload them to Mixcloud as archiving purpose (and sometimes a mirror on Mediafire for download).

[ChrisEPIC]

i prefer soundcloud, 2 free hours is plenty, what i do is i have 3 accounts, i have an account for my originals, my mixes, and now my house side project.

besides their premium plans aren't that expensive, especially for the more major artists that are selling their music off of soundcloud anyways. it practically pays for itself.

not to mention all the apps they have for promoting and everything else.

[JonathanBlake]

SO... WHICH ONE IS BETTER?

[/QUOTE]

Noob alert :eek: (me, not you) - soundcloud more noobish.

[sebastiannz]

so on mixcloud do people post single tracks they've produced or is it mainly dj sets?

[itskindahot]

according to alexa, soundcloud is the 724th busiest site on the interwebz. mixcloud is only the 14,710th busiest site. soundcloud gets 1.4 million pageviews a day, mixcloud gets only 75,000 pageviews a day. enuff said.

[Jester]

wow!

[Quiggers]

mixcloud for mixes, soundcloud for productions.

legally , if you post a mix on soundcloud and allow it to be downloaded, you are
file sharing music you dont own the rights to. and the riaa can see exactly how many downloads that mix got, soundcloud have had to start pulling mixes as they'll be the first to go to court if the aren't seen to be fighting piracy

[astromech]

but i don't like the media player and how you can't jump through points in the waveform.

This is just not true. You just need to let the music stream ahead first. I think Mixcloud stream slower to save on bandwidth. I bet most people don't listen to mixes all the way through.

EDIT: I use Mixcloud because it's much more specialised for mixes. And it's free.

[itskindahot]

legally , if you post a mix on soundcloud and allow it to be downloaded, you are
file sharing music you dont own the rights to. and the riaa can see exactly how many downloads that mix got, soundcloud have had to start pulling mixes as they'll be the first to go to court if the aren't seen to be fighting piracy

idk about other countries but in the US there is no substantial legal difference between making audio available via streaming vs. making it available for downloading.

[Nephew]

For mixes I use mixcloud. 100mb isn't that bad I'd say, you can easily fit a 60-70min mix on there at 192VBR. That's plenty good for a mix I'd say. And I usually just send link to the people who matter to me so the lack of traffic isn't a big deal. I'd actually say it's harder to get noticed on soundcloud because of the over abundance of users on there.

As far as having to post a tracklisting? You should be doing that anyways!


On that note though, I do use soundcloud just for my productions, and as is the same with mixcloud I just send the links to the people who matter so I'm not really concerned about some random listener stumbling upon my page.