Soundcloud's automatic content detection pulled my mashup - How to circumvent it?

[aaron_altar]

@DJSigma

The automatic detection scans the waveform of your track looking for matches with waveforms of tracks that copyright holders don’t want on the site. If you get caught out by that, it will tell you the name of the offending track. It’s happened to me 3 or 4 times.

People can also report your mixes/tracks for copyright infringement and there may well be people who are paid to search for offending tracks and report them, so it’s possible that a track listing could get you caught out, but I have no evidence for that either way.

It never even got posted. It was refused while creating the waveform. It never told me the offending track though. If they don’t want the mix up, that’s fine, but if I knew what track or label it was at least I could avoid them in the future. I’m all about honoring their wishes, it is their music after all, but in order to do that I need to know who it is.

[Afterhour_Ali]

Soundcloud send me a warning yesterday that they would close my account upon further infringements.
Today they suspended my account without any upload in the meantime.

Fuck that, I’m going to their office next week.

[photojojo]

@Afterhour_Ali

Fuck that, I’m going to their office next week.

Tell them said hi!!

[fullenglishpint]

This makes me wonder how people like DJs From Mars and things like JFB’s megamix don’t get pulled all the time. I mean, how can nothing in this match up with a copyrighted waveform:

[Patech]

If Soundcloud isn’t going to allow a track to be uploaded, there is a good reason. Soundcloud is made for original and remixed productions. The whole thing is cluttered with mash-ups done by DJs who don’t know how to produce. Mash-ups don’t belong on Soundcloud. Mash ups are done while mixing, so it should be on Mixcloud. I think it’s pretty much cheating when someone takes tracks and programs them together to play as one track to give the impression that they are doing a crazy mix. Would you play a prerecorded set? NO! Then why play a prerecorded “3 track song”? There are way too many people getting credit or recognition for using other artist’s music as there own by using the ( dj ____ mash up) at the end of the title. Mash ups violate not only Soundcloud’s rules but also violates artist’s copyrights and violates the rules of DJing & live remixing.

[epikeddie]

^^^
I’m with this guy…

But if anyone wants to know a way to get around it…upload as a private track. Then after it’s all uploaded switch it to public.

It’s worked for me on a few occasions but I’m starting to only use it for originals and contest entries that require using it.

[Mike_08]

15 seconds of silence before your track starts…

[DJSigma]

None of those methods actually work, because they scan the entire waveform right after it’s uploaded. The only way around it is to change the song enough so that the waveform no longer matches the one in their database.

[photojojo]

You should rap over all the songs. I bet it wouldn’t get pulled then, probably wouldn’t get any listens either.

[Patch]

@""Patech""

If Soundcloud isn’t going to allow a track to be uploaded, there is a good reason. Soundcloud is made for original and remixed productions. The whole thing is cluttered with mash-ups done by DJs who don’t know how to produce. Mash-ups don’t belong on Soundcloud. Mash ups are done while mixing, so it should be on Mixcloud. I think it’s pretty much cheating when someone takes tracks and programs them together to play as one track to give the impression that they are doing a crazy mix. Would you play a prerecorded set? NO! Then why play a prerecorded “3 track song”? There are way too many people getting credit or recognition for using other artist’s music as there own by using the ( dj ____ mash up) at the end of the title. Mash ups violate not only Soundcloud’s rules but also violates artist’s copyrights and violates the rules of DJing & live remixing.

All complete garbage.

[aaron_altar]

@epikeddie

But if anyone wants to know a way to get around it…upload as a private track. Then after it’s all uploaded switch it to public.

Didn’t work. They pulled it before I even had a chance to switch it to public. I give up, it’s not that a big of a deal. I think the offending track is one I downloaded from Soundcloud. It’s the last track so a good portion of it plays by itself. I just won’t use Soundcloud tracks to start or end mixes anymore.

[Patech]

@Patech

If Soundcloud isn’t going to allow a track to be uploaded, there is a good reason. Soundcloud is made for original and remixed productions. The whole thing is cluttered with mash-ups done by DJs who don’t know how to produce. Mash-ups don’t belong on Soundcloud. Mash ups are done while mixing, so it should be on Mixcloud. I think it’s pretty much cheating when someone takes tracks and programs them together to play as one track to give the impression that they are doing a crazy mix. Would you play a prerecorded set? NO! Then why play a prerecorded “3 track song”? There are way too many people getting credit or recognition for using other artist’s music as there own by using the ( dj ____ mash up) at the end of the title. Mash ups violate not only Soundcloud’s rules but also violates artist’s copyrights and violates the rules of DJing & live remixing.

@Patch

All complete garbage.

Why do you think this statement is garbage?

[ksandvik]

I would not mind mashups on SoundCloud but most of them are of so bad sound quality I can’t hear more than 10 seconds before I delete them from my hard disk.