r/soundcloud • u/BillieHolidayRocks • Jun 30 '26
General Discusson Buh bye, SoundCloud.
After several weeks of attempting unsuccessfully to distribute a track with the underlying composition in the public domain—resubmitting again and again according to what SoundCloud's AI response said— I finally moved to Amuse. Their process was clear and simple—and my track was approved the next day. They charge about half of what SoundCloud charges for a year's pro subscription, and the artist gets 100% of streaming royalties.
I had successfully distributed only one other track through SoundCloud. I later learned that once you cancel your subscription, they remove your distributed tracks from Spotify, Apple Music, and all other DSPs. (Whereas if you cancel your Amuse subscription, they will leave your tracks up but take a percentage—a larger cut than CD Baby, but then they didn't charge initially for distribution as CD Baby does.)
So I've now had experience distributing tracks with CD Baby, SoundCloud, and Amuse. It's early days, but so far Amuse is looking like a champ. https://www.amuse.io/en/
(And no, I don't work or shill for Amuse. I'm just a musician churning out music.)
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u/DjBamberino Jun 30 '26
Regardless of whether or not you have any affiliation with amuse I think it's important to point out that amuse is clearly not a replacement for soundcloud. They're a distribution service, not a hosting service.
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u/InevitableUpper910 The Mad Pride Jul 01 '26
The reason I paid for an account on Soundcloud was to have all my albums available for free download in one location. I mainly use it as a hosting service.
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u/DjBamberino Jul 01 '26
Just saying, bandcamp lets you upload as much material as you want and allows you to set your prices to 0 for free downloads!
(however if too many people download in a month it automatically gets set to paid)
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u/InevitableUpper910 The Mad Pride Jul 02 '26
I set everything on Soundcloud as free and put a price on Bandcamp. But I don't find either network very useful. Most of the messages I get are scams intended to target vulnerable people with financial abuse.
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u/Virtual-Prompt3410 Jul 03 '26
Can u set your albums to private? Right now I’m using hosting for applications for artist residencies and apps to things, looking for public release later.
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u/Ok_Maintenance_6512 Jun 30 '26
Never heard of amuse i stay on soundcloud with my uplaods. Soundcloud has a way bigger User base. Go on Spotify for full reach
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u/DjBamberino Jun 30 '26
Unlike the title of OP's post might suggest amuse is a distribution service like distrokid, not a hosting platform like soundcloud.
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u/sastofficiallol Jun 30 '26
Amuse have sucked since they updated the pro subscription to no longer have infinite artists.
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u/SoundCloud Jul 01 '26
Hi there, thank you for your feedback regarding our support. We sincerely apologize for the experience you had, as it is never our intention to fall short in our distribution services. We understand that you have chosen another option, and we wish you the very best in your musical journey. However, if you could share your support request ticket number with us, I would be happy to review it and respond accordingly.
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u/Tape-Lab Jul 02 '26
The SouncCloud for Artist Team rules!! One of yall even once said they liked my song!
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u/SoundCloud Jul 02 '26
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u/liam33d Jul 02 '26
I've been trying to distribute a track for over a month now. I've raised several support tickets and all of them have been ignored.
The rejection notes say I haven't added the correct language in relation to the lyrics on each track but I have. The lyrics are in English and I've selected English. There is literally nothing I can do.
Can someone at Soundcloud please get back to me. DM me on here to get my ticket number.
It looks like you're going the same way as Juno Downloads, hopefully not but if you are at least give us warning so we can download our mixes etc.
Cheers
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u/Powerful-Suit-3193 Jul 02 '26
Is there something else out there for distribution? It's the same with distrokid. Also I think it's a matter of time Amuse will bump up the prices?
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u/Majestic-Ground-4340 Jul 08 '26
I'm not happy with SoundCloud at all too! There is hardly any support but many bugs seem to occure on a regular basis. Amplify is good advertised, but it's kind of strange how it selects listeners. It seems to not select people with the same langauage or similar tags, but somehow only looks for similiar sounding songs. Not very helpful as local band.
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u/BillieHolidayRocks Jun 30 '26
I don't respond directly to trolls, but I'll reiterate that I don't work for or shill for Amuse. (And I regret my snarky headline, as snark invites snark. I'll do better next time.) I shared my experience because I was fed up after several weeks of labor attempting to get SoundCloud to distribute my original arrangement/track of a song written in 1879. I jumped through hoops and submitted several pages of documentation, and each time they came back with AI-written slop. I finally found the well-hidden form to submit a support ticket. Eight days later, there's still no response.
If I run into problems with Amuse, I'll share them here. But right now, I'm very happy with my change of distributor.
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u/Professional_Life706 Jun 30 '26
Why not use distro kid?
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u/Prudent_Data1780 Jun 30 '26
Full of A.I shite
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u/Professional_Life706 Jun 30 '26
What do you mean with ai shit?
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u/Prudent_Data1780 Jun 30 '26
The ballpark figure for fully AI-generated tracks uploaded through DistroKid is estimated at 10 million to 15 million tracks, per year so it's filling up with it
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u/Professional_Life706 Jun 30 '26
Achso you don't want to give money to a site that does that I fully understand that decision. Sites like Spotify filter it out afterwards as I understood it but yes that's a pretty big problem
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u/shynitel Jun 30 '26
let’s be real, people are releasing AI music through all different distribution services
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u/Ashinedaddy Jun 30 '26
Command you for doing so my friend, i had somewhat similar problem with them & when i tried reaching out i heard nothing just dropped them yesterday for Landr & Im working on switching my past releases from them to Landr before they get removed, i totally understand where your coming from its clear to see why people don’t like soundcloud anymore
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u/InsideRealistic1129 Jun 30 '26
Interesting that the first post on this thread is an advert for soundcloud. Amuse sounds interesting, might have to check it out.
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