SoundCloud is an online audio platform that enables people to send, receive, play, and distribute music, and also engage in conversation about the music. The platform is designed to meet the needs of professional musicians. Music can be distributed in downloadable or streamable formats, to individuals or groups of people. Conversations about the music are facilitated by a capability to insert comments relating to a specific location within a sound track.
BUT: You only have 2 hrs of free space.
Mixcloud is an on-demand platform that helps radio presenters and DJs host and distribute their content online. All the content on their site is curated by real people, its real DJ mixes and real radio shows, not algorithms. It’s all about helping fans discover new music through expert curators.
BUT: It doesn’t let you post without a tracklist
Soundcloud. I cant be bothered with a mix i cant download to burn off or squeeze onto the ipod. Plus for $15 a month we have 24 hours of space. Plenty.
They have 100mb limit per track. That means my two hour show has to be split which is more work.
I put a track listing with all my mixes so that part is irrelevant. And I can’t sit at my computer and listen, I absolutely have to be able to download mixes. Plus I get a lot of promo and small producer songs that they load up for free download.
If mixcloud would increase their limit to 200mb or even 150mb, and I would gladly pay for that, I would use them more for my own mixes, but I’m not going to sit and listen to stuff at my computer very often.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
