How to #Win at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is quickly becoming the hip new community for audio creators, especially electronic artists. Even though they recently started cracking down on copyright violations, the site remains an excellent place to promote your remixes, productions and get DJ gigs as a result. Here are a few steps to #winning! @ SoundCloud, taking full advantage of its community, and making sure your tracks reach the largest online audience. I’ll also supply some examples of SoundCloud profiles that have followed these steps and succeeded. Finally, We even got SoundCloud themselves to add their own nuggets of advice!

1. Make good music

The first step to any musical endeavor: your content needs to be top-quality. Avoid putting works in progress on your SoundCloud profile publicly until you’re completely ready. SoundCloud is a great tool for privately sharing audio, so if you have projects at a stage where they are not for public consumption, or you want to collaborate with other audio creators, features like private sharing, secret links and timed comments can really help.

2. Give some away and share your tracks

When releasing tracks, let one go out for free every once in a while. Free downloads spread like wildfire across SoundCloud. Look at Aeroplane’s profile. Their downloadable tracks have significantly more plays than the material they’re holding back.

SoundCloud Says: Sharing is important! If you have a new track, share it across your networks. Such as posting onto your Facebook wall, embedding a player onto your site, or inviting blogs to embed a widget of your track. How about linking in your social networks and using the sharing note?

3. Categorize your tracks correctly

Even if your music is good, it could be construed as bad if it’s being listened to by the wrong people. Make sure the genre of your uploads is set precisely, and tag your track accordingly. Avoid popular tags like “Wolfgang Gartner” and “Daft Punk” — these will get you nowhere. Record labels are usually good at categorizing their tracks. Take, for example, Allusion Records’ profile. They’ve labeled each track specifically; not just “house” but “tech-house” in many cases. It’s important to identify with subgenres, because there are listeners out there who really know what they like when they are searching on SoundCloud.

SoundCloud Says: If you churn out a lot of content you can select the best tracks to put in front of your audience with the spotlight feature.

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4. Share your tracks effectively with groups

Join groups that legitimately reflect your musical interests, and submit your uploads to the groups that make the most sense. You can usually find over 20 groups to send a single track to. Think beyond genre: I submit my tracks to groups focusing on music made in Austin, TX, where I live, as well as “unsigned artist” groups. Johnny Muse added his track “I’m So Laid Back” to 58 groups and has had 214 plays this week at the time of writing. The track also boasts 31 comments.

5. Interact with other users often

There are two main ways of achieving this goal: by commenting, and by directly sharing tracks. Try commenting on other user’s tracks, without being annoying. Say something descriptive, and occasionally be constructive rather than blindly complimentary. People notice when you comment on things, and will likely check you out. Renegades of Jazz have more than 10 followers for each person they follow, but get their name out there by commenting frequently. I discovered their profile through some comments they made on tracks I was listening to by another artist.

In addition, if you are building a conversation with another user sharing your tracks directly with them can help to create a personal dialogue. You can send your tracks directly to dropboxes on user profiles. However, definitely avoid sharing tracks with too many people, and to people who won’t enjoy your music. Whoever you share it with will get a message saying “_____ shared this track to you and 189,444 other people.” That’s no way to make friends.

6. Follow similar users

A great way to know who to interact with is to pay attention to who starts following you, and don’t hesitate to follow back users who are creating similar content (or music that you simply like).

SoundCloud Says: Your dashboard can be an RSS feed of new music from your followers, check out their updates in your dashboard and start a conversation over the next awesome track they upload, or reply to one of their comments. You never know, you may find someone to collaborate on a new track or be asked to remix one of their tracks in the future.

Following users on SoundCloud is a cyclical action. If other users see you’re following them, they are likely to check out your music and follow back, leading to more exposure. Chi Recordings follows over 1000 users and has over 2000 followers.

7. Be patient

All of this takes time. It doesn’t happen overnight. But by applying these methods, I was able to dramatically increase the number of times my tracks are played. I went quickly from getting 1-6 plays on a track to over 40, over the course of a weekend. That’s not where I’d like to be, but it’s indicative of a trend that can only continue. Hector87’s “Everything Is Going to Fail” has received 23 downloads in 24 days. These are the kinds of statistics you’re going to get excited about. Don’t expect thousands of plays each day just yet.

The steps above are a nearly effortless way to increase exposure and fan base if you truly are doing it for the right reasons and want to interact, collaborate and engage with a community who want to create too. As a great bonus, you’ll discover new music and help support other artists!

Rolf Ski 12 years

I’m running the oldest (nu) disco community on SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco ) and got quite successful with it (over 3500 members and 1300 personal followers atm). Some additional advice from my personal experience:

1. Don’t promote yourself, promote others.
Rather similar to the advice in the article. I gained most followers by merely promoting other artists for my group. I went as far as publishing tracks of others in order to promote my group. Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/social-disco-club-the-way-you-move-greg-wilson-version

2. Work with other artists.
Similar to the advice in this article. Collaboration on SoundCloud with other artists gained me a lot of followers and members to my group, see the example above.

3. Always use artwork
Even without any Photoshop knowledge you can easily download some Creative Commons picture from Flickr and adapt it for artwork using basic Mac or Windows OS tools like Paint or so. If you want people to blog about you on Facebook for instance that artwork gets published as well so you need to have something in place to stand out for yourself. Here’s a good example of the difference that Soundcloud artwork makes when it’s blogged on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deeperdisco

4. Use consistent artwork
Although this is a more of a personal choice, it can become particularly useful when you start to publish a lot of tracks and sets. As we are all our own brands now on the internet, becoming easily recognizable for other people because of your consistent artwork branding can make a difference. Here’s an example: http://soundcloud.com/bonedisco

5. Tag your mp3’s correctly and use artwork as well
This is as important as categorizing your tracks once uploaded to SoundCloud. You want your track info (and artwork) showing up correctly in Serato or Traktor whenever some DJ decides to give your track a spin.

6. Upload in 320Kb
Hard drive space and download speeds are generally not a bottleneck any more so have other people enjoy your music in the best possible quality. If it wasn’t for Serato and some other software still not supporting it I would have advised uploading tracks (not DJ sets) in flac format (flac = wav/aiff quality with tagging capabilty)

7. Publish track listings with your sets.
A lot of dj’s want to hide their “magic” in music selection. Your set will however get better found with a track listing as it will show up in the SoundCloud search results when people are looking for particular tracks. Also keep in mind that a lot of people (like me) never bother to listen to a dj set without a track listing as they want to prevent the frustration of hearing a good track without knowing its name.

8. If you do a re-edit/ remix, publish the original artist name.
As someone said in the comments, you will generate far more hits when using the original artist/title name as SoundCloud indexing will always show up in top 10 Google search results.

9. Add a YouTube video.
For the same reason as above. Youtube has always a top 10 position in Google search results. SoundcCloud allows you to add a video link so better make use of it. Also remember that a lot of people use Youtube as their single music player. Adding a video can be as simple as only using one artwork image.

10. Claim your own category (optional)
I started the Deep Disco group on SoundCloud with the goal of creating deep disco as a music category. A genre that sits in the middle between (nu) disco and deep house. Since then many people have started using deep disco as a category name for their SoundCloud tracks as well. The Facebook team has now recognized my deep disco page as an official community and deep disco has even been blogged as a life style: http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/goodbye-hipsters-hello-deep-disco/

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Tom Jarmey 8 years

Thanks for the article, i’ve followed these steps on my profile, feedback would be appreciated https://soundcloud.com/tom-jarmey
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Omar Bateman 9 years

I just used these tips and doubled the number of plays I got in a day!!!!!!!!!
https://soundcloud.com/gooey-beats
State of Psychosis 10 years

You definitely have to add cloudkillers to this article. I think i mentioned that before unless this is a different one.

It’s peer to peer commenting.

You get constructive help from other artists so u can improve, you get free promotion, and you’ll be able to set the spark to build a following.

Here’s a link that if you sign up from you’ll get 10 fast bonus comments to start you out, 50% free luck (which will get you bonus comments), and 20 free points.

http://www.cloudkillers.com/register.php?aff=25109

The site costs nothing by the way. You just make comments to earn these points and luck. You can even win free pro accounts by making 2000 comments.
- Al 8 years
  
  So basically, the more you comment, the more comments you’ll get in return?
Anonymous 10 years

Sound cloud or Mix cloud is the go to playlist for musicians, djs and anyone loving music. Check out my playlist from: http://www.vnvsounds.co.uk/dj-hire/
Peter Blom 10 years

Magnificent tips. A little short though.

I’ve taken the time to write a totally huge guide for SC at http://www.soundcloudguide.com. Don’t buy followers or plays, just learn your tricks and do that stuff organically (and by yourself). Hope that helps 🙂

Best from a fellow producer. Peace!
Praverb.net 10 years

Great article…I love the ease of SoundCloud and how it appeals the auditory listen. Thank you for sharing this…
NCS Andy 10 years

PROMOTE YOUR’S MUSIC FREE !!
http://www.cloudkillers.com/register.php?aff=26931
- Peter Blom 10 years
  
  Magnificent website. Thanks!
Sandesh Shetty 10 years

http://soundcloud.com/divine5/beatport-special-days-of-love

just like this
Tom 10 years

Do what I did and take the easy way..buying plays!!! http://www.bigchangemarketing.com/sound-cloud/
- Peter Blom 10 years
  
  That stuff never works
R.V. 10 years

Greetings from Portugal : )

check my new track online and tell me what you think about it

http://soundcloud.com/rvprofile/she
cheers

—

R.V.
Dirtygiggles 11 years

http://soundcloud.com/dirtygiggles
Hey this is a great way too haha
Svhmusak 11 years

http://soundcloud.com/simeonvanhalen
i heard this guy’s alright. kinda weird though ; )
Adam Dietz 11 years

soundcloud is great it has really helped me get my music and remis out there.i have landed spots opening for wiz khalifa and more.check me out on soundcloud
http://www.soundcloud.com/8-trak
A train da Mixologist 11 years

Why can’t I download my mixes into sound cloud? my mixes are 1 hour! whats up with that? aljay1960@yahoo.com
Dreamr OKelly 11 years

So when you are getting over a thousand plays and more then 50 downloads/favs without doing any of this stuff does that mean your music is exceptionally good??? 🙂

just wondering, cause my SC tunes are killing it over there 🙂

http://soundcloud.com/dreamr
Dwight Jones 11 years

Hi fellow musicians, producers, and music lovers. Bless Up for the info thus far – I’m pretty new to SoundCloud, so this question may seem trivial. I want to know if sharing a single track to multiple groups is alowed. I’m having trouble doing this – and I don’t want to upset any protocol, just asking! Bless!
- Peter Blom 10 years
  
  Hey Dwight, yes it is. You can add a track to 75 groups if you have a paid Soundcloud account.
Mh571994 11 years

http://soundcloud.com/okara
Scott Hernandez 11 years

Aloha from Maui http://soundcloud.com/scotthernandez/love-forever

I originally used SoundCloud simply for online song storage. Soon after it began to generate work for me in commercial projects, as well as a major distribution deal with Universal Music/InGrooves and has resulted in actual income. My business interests are primarily focused on licensing deals versus being the next Gaga. I don’t really get side tracked with the whole following thing and only follow artists that I truly like. As far as emailing unsolicited tracks, seems a little too desperate and I rarely take a listen, so you may want to reconsider that approach. What does get my attention are comments on my tracks. That’s pretty much a guarantee I’m going to see who you are and take a listen to your tracks. Followers always get a listen and if something catches my ear, I give it a comment. That’s how I’ve discovered most of the artists I follow. I’ve also discovered several artists in Groups. All of Steven’s tips are great and accurate.
Scott Hernandez
http://soundcloud.com/scotthernandez/love-forever
Shining eyes 11 years

Too bad one can’t upload mixes anymore. Well.. You can. Just as long as
it’s not copyrighted materials… 🙂 Then they’ll just block you mix. I
got blocked after mixing in the good old classic: Ultra Nate – Free.
PS: There are alot of other places to go to if you wan’t to share mixes.
tommi theater 11 years

thanks for that interesting article. a few days ago i found the “deep disco” group.. i joined there too. the suggestions of RolfSki here are very helpful too.
Anonymous 12 years

Good article.

Hello DJTT peeps, I make rowdy Dubstep. http://www.soundcloud.com/koolkatofficial
Anonymous 12 years

Good article.

Hello DJTT peeps, I make rowdy Dubstep. http://www.soundcloud.com/koolkatofficial
DJAD 12 years

People should host soundcloud parties x)

http://soundcloud.com/djafterdeath/djad-summer-noise-1

Danse!
DJAD 12 years

People should host soundcloud parties x)

http://soundcloud.com/djafterdeath/djad-summer-noise-1

Danse!
Erol Ramazzotti 12 years

Nice article Ean!…and I’m happy to discover I was already covering the 90% of the points you are mentioning and it works! check this:http://www.facebook.com/Erol.Ramazzotti and my soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/erol-ramazzotti. I received more than 12k plays in 10 months and a lot of feedback and connections. If you like my music please support me and become a follower. Cheers and God bless the 2manydjs.
Gaurav Mehta 12 years

Hi Steven
Awesome post! How about including mobile apps that connect with SoundCloud ??We at Dirty Water Labs in Boston built an android app called “SoundGarage Mobile” – for accessing SoundCloud from your droids.* Link to SoundGarage (Free): http://tinyurl.com/SoundGarage* Link to SoundGarage Pro (Paid) http://tinyurl.com/SoundGarageProFeatures:- Browse your tracks, groups, favorites, users- Seamless streaming and playback- Continuous Playback (Playlist feature) – SoundClouder of the Day feature (#SCOTD)- Listen to your and others Favorite tracks- Listen to tracks from other artists or users- Listen your or others “Private tracks”- Listen to Creative Commons music- Browse by Genre and Groups- Browse People you follow or following you- Follow / Unfollow other users- Search Tracks, Groups, People, Genre- Share Tracks, Share Group, Share User Profile on Facebook, Twitter, Email etc etc- Follow/Unfollow other usersPRO Features:- Download tracks directly to their android devices. – Artist Recommendations from Echo Nest- Buy tracks from appVideo of the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMWWwdnWJIThanks,Gaurav MehtaFounder, Dirty Water Labshttp://twitter.com/dirtywaterlabs
Langroove 12 years

THX Souncloud!!!!

http://soundcloud.com/electrolesy
Matt 12 years

I post live club sets where I own the music and rights to broadcast through Record Pools and legit purchases. The sad thing is my sets get pulled constantly on S.C. saying I don’t have right and need to email a petition response to them. I don’t have the time to send them proofs after spending time uploading, tracklist and such. Instead I still continue to give out larges amounts of CD’s at home and out of town as well as post to my website. Still getting gigs and I’m saving $25 bucks a month hosting to be pulled. I understand S.C. is for producers and I wish producers and S.C. continued success.
Cheers
U31 12 years

I’ve been posting my half arsed attempts to http://www.mixcloud.com/U31/ ever since soundcloud started with the copyrite shenanigans
Josh Cohen 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/djstereoshock

Check out my profile. Leave a comment, or send a message and I will gladly share some secrets of mine on how to build your soundcloud following.

DJ Tech tools has the right attitude and idea, but I have some techniques that can help further your profile.

Thanks,

Stereoshock 🙂
Josh Cohen 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/djstereoshock

Check out my profile. Leave a comment, or send a message and I will gladly share some secrets of mine on how to build your soundcloud following.

DJ Tech tools has the right attitude and idea, but I have some techniques that can help further your profile.

Thanks,

Stereoshock 🙂
Josh Cohen 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/djstereoshock

Check out my profile. Leave a comment, or send a message and I will gladly share some secrets of mine on how to build your soundcloud following.

DJ Tech tools has the right attitude and idea, but I have some techniques that can help further your profile.

Thanks,

Stereoshock 🙂
Josh Cohen 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/djstereoshock

Check out my profile. Leave a comment, or send a message and I will gladly share some secrets of mine on how to build your soundcloud following.

DJ Tech tools has the right attitude and idea, but I have some techniques that can help further your profile.

Thanks,

Stereoshock 🙂
Josh Cohen 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/djstereoshock

Check out my profile. Leave a comment, or send a message and I will gladly share some secrets of mine on how to build your soundcloud following.

DJ Tech tools has the right attitude and idea, but I have some techniques that can help further your profile.

Thanks,

Stereoshock 🙂
Kelvin_Clone 12 years

I’m from ATX too. Represent, yo.
DJ BIg Styles 12 years

Another epic piece of advice that I have found here on DJTT. Thought I would add my soundcloud success story. Back in February I put up a mash-up of Norah Jones/J. Dilla and saw about 100 plays, I sent the track to the dropbox of a blog in germany that i thought would absolutely love it, and they did. As of today the track is at just under 1200 plays, it was shared all over facebook, and I went from no followers to almost 40. Not astronomical numbers but definitely a soundcloud success story!

check the track here:

http://soundcloud.com/djbigstyles/dillah-jones-you-gotta-see
http://www.soundcloud.com/djbigstyles
Tuananh_nguyenduc 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/tuan-anh
harddix 12 years

Soundcloud helped much. Thanx!

http://soundcloud.com/harddix
danger granger 12 years

I was already basically following this posts ideas for my new edit of
Steve Aoki and Afrojacks – HAnds up vs Vandalism – Throw your hands up (Angger Dimas remix) http://soundcloud.com/danger-granger/steve-aoki-afrojack-vs
And has gotten me over a 1000 streams in 8 days
danger granger 12 years

I was already basically following this posts ideas for my new edit of
Steve Aoki and Afrojacks – HAnds up vs Vandalism – Throw your hands up (Angger Dimas remix) http://soundcloud.com/danger-granger/steve-aoki-afrojack-vs
And has gotten me over a 1000 streams in 8 days
UberVice 12 years

Remixing trending artists is huge. Get your buddies to share it around Facebook and you’re pretty much good to go for a while. My proof is with a remix I did of Cee Lo Green’s “F*** You”:

http://soundcloud.com/ubervice/fuck-you

Over 5,000 listens and closing in on 500 downloads.
UberVice 12 years

Remixing trending artists is huge. Get your buddies to share it around Facebook and you’re pretty much good to go for a while. My proof is with a remix I did of Cee Lo Green’s “F*** You”:

http://soundcloud.com/ubervice/fuck-you

Over 5,000 listens and closing in on 500 downloads.
Lucxke 12 years

Another Tip: If you are letting people download your mixes/tracks put your name on your files before you upload them to soundcloud. Otherwise when people download them they won’t know who made them and where to come back for more.
Danny RiottheDj Mellen 12 years

Oh, btw what happened to the tech tools group? I never hear anything from it anymore….
Danny RiottheDj Mellen 12 years

Hmm,
I hadnt heard of the mixes getting takedowns, just tracks…
my two cents is that the blogging part cant be understated,
this track, http://soundcloud.com/riot-the-dj/david-guetta-feat-rihanna-whos-that-chick-riot-the-dj-g6-remix was blogged, and it has 2900 plays, and 1000 dl, where as http://soundcloud.com/riot-the-dj/black-sabbath-paranoid-riot is a better track but still holds tight at 200 plays 64 dl, blogging gets 100’s of plays a day, if fact thats when I had to upgrade my account, which i advise if you can afford it, I have a retarded amount of space, and can see where my tracks are poppin off, like Australia or Romainia…. Nice!
thanks soundcloud….
- Mr. DJ 12 years
  
  so wait can you upload Mix Set? I never used it because I wasn’t sure about this and I don’t want to get in trouble. lol…
Johnny Muse 12 years

Thanks for support 🙂

Cheers,

Johnny Muse.
1000 Cutts 12 years

I run the S4 group: Get Involved:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/traktor-kontrol-s4
Matt H 12 years

Soundcloud has a lot of great potential and I have definitely made contact with friendly and inspiring producers, but it also seems to very quickly be succumbing to the personal brand spamming that made Myspace such an awful place. I get a lot of personal messages saying “Free mix for you!” that were clearly sent to as many people as possible. Big producers have tracks that are nearly un-scrubbable for all the comments on there, many of which are starting to look like “hey this is great come check out my profile follow back plz!”.

If this can be mitigated then Soundcloud could become a great place but right now I can just feel the noise building up inside.
- Joeblack949 12 years
  
  you know if you click the little text quote bubble icon in the bottom right corner the comments go away right? and that you can embed any player with the settings to disable it if you like. i know exactly what you mean and find it annoying on those high profile artists tracks and mixes where you cant even click on the timeline
- Joeblack949 12 years
  
  you know if you click the little text quote bubble icon in the bottom right corner the comments go away right? and that you can embed any player with the settings to disable it if you like. i know exactly what you mean and find it annoying on those high profile artists tracks and mixes where you cant even click on the timeline
Mojaxx 12 years

I should also add that I think this should also be supplemented by the good old fashioned handing-out of CDs locally.

In the week since I did the mix I’ve given out over 50 CD copies to staff and customers at gigs. People actually really appreciate being given something physical for free, I find.
Mojaxx 12 years

Last week I finished a mix and posted it to both Soundcloud and Mixcloud, people seem to prefer the Soundcloud option as it lets them download it.

I really wanted people to hear it so I hit up everyone who follows me on Twitter, as well as some of the artists whose work appears in the mix.

It’s the first time I’ve really pimped out a mix in this way, and it’s had some ok results, I’m up to 175 streams/downloads in less than a week. Alright, that’s not gonna change the world, but it makes the time I spent making the mix worthwhile.

Anyway, I’m pleased with it, and if you’re into mash-up/dubstep/D&B etc you should have a listen!

http://soundcloud.com/mojaxx/mojaxx-real-artists-ship-the
Mozace 12 years

great article, i’ve been on soundcloud for some time now, and this will definitly boost my profil..

check out my soundcloud http://www.soundcloud.com/mozace_c4twool/
my group http://www.soundcloud.com/c4twool/
and our website http://www.c4twool.fr
Maryland DJ 12 years

Actually didn’t know about the groups before, guess it’s just something I slept on… good advice!
sebastiannz 12 years

good collection of tips… soundcloud is fantastic. i’ve been exposed to heaps of great music i wouldn’t have heard otherwise. and i really like being able to comment on people’s work and give them big ups 🙂
Michael Mah 12 years

Check out my mixtape~ 🙂
http://soundcloud.com/dj-3mo/3motion-breakdown-episode-1
and also my 1st bootleg~
http://soundcloud.com/midilifecrisis/put-your-hands-up-for-autosave
Michael Mah 12 years

Check out my mixtape~ 🙂
http://soundcloud.com/dj-3mo/3motion-breakdown-episode-1
and also my 1st bootleg~
http://soundcloud.com/midilifecrisis/put-your-hands-up-for-autosave
Kylie Rose 12 years

QUESTION: can we have a similar post about mixcloud?
- FDRK 12 years
  
  Yes! I guess most of the DJTT readers are DJs.
  Mixcloud is more for DJs since we can post mixes there without beeing blocked due to copyright violations…
  - DJ ABEATZ 10 years
    
    Unfortunately…they are starting to crack down NOW. You posted 2 years ago..its now 2013 and they want to suck the life out of soundcloud, so I was posting a mix and got blocked. SUCKS.
    - FDRK 10 years
      
      It’s always a matter if how large the service gets I guess… The music industry will take them down one by one. Go Mega! 🙂
Alexmango10 12 years

http://soundcloud.com/sundago/miami-2011
Vlaanderen75 12 years

I have had way better luck with house mixes, there is no size limit which is what I don’t like about s.c.
http://www.house-mixes.com/profile/tongue-FU
DJ Young Machi 12 years

Hit me up guys 😀

http://soundcloud.com/sound-surge
Go Buck! 12 years

I’ve just recently discovered the simplicity of soundcloud, and am really excited to explore some of the advice you’ve given in this article – thanks!

http://www.soundcloud.com/gobuckmusic
Sander Vermeer 12 years

Will a disclaimer help solve infringement issues? Or removing download options?
Oh and do check out my awesome mixtapes!
http://soundcloud.com/stereohero
I will listen to anyones posted mix/track listed in the comments 😉
Eyal Goldman 12 years

ha….since i posted my plays went from 1(they restart the play count on monday
) to 94…..publicity works LOL
http://soundcloud.com/funksinatra
DetroitTechnoHouse 12 years

Great article. I’ve recently been doing this lately. Also on mixcloud also.
Otto Trigitaliz Filipsson 12 years

Luve My soundcloud It helped me a lot …

Some of you are freq Downloaders there heheh…
No Roux No 12 years

soundcloud has helped me out alot, another way to get people to listen to your songs is having ur songs on youtube, believe me we have more plays on youtube than in our soundcloud.

ps.http://soundcloud.com/norouxno
Poppa Mint 12 years

23 downloads in 24 days isn’t really something to get excited about. We have gotten 370 odd downloads in our first month on soundcloud, with no promotion. Maybe it was just luck, but yeh, set your hopes a lil higher! I second the idea of remixing trending artists (without selling your soul) and traffic seems to flow in. Check out our case study if yawanaa : http://soundcloud.com/poppa-mint/james-blake-to-care-like-you-1 (the tracks been dropped all over the place, even caught a local dj dropping it here in manchester! GET ON SOUNDCLOUD!
- Otto Trigitaliz Filipsson 12 years
  
  I caught a local dj Playing The Bromance remix and its not 4 download !!! The geezer ripped it with Wave lab recording it ,, Hihihi… Felt sorry 4 the guy and gave him the original hehe..
  - Poppa Mint 12 years
    
    haha nice!
bodegabrad 12 years

I got zapped by their copyright team for a couple mixes I did a month ago. I explained that I was a radio DJ and was given the tracks directly from the artists and labels and was not making profit off of them. I also included that the songs were mixed together into a one hour blend…and that I would cancel my subscription$$. One hour later my tracks were restored. I think the labels just use the search bar to find “violators” and act accordingly. I make sure to state the nature of the mix above the track listing now for good measure and haven’t had a problem since (knock on wood). If it happens again tho, I’ll prob. switch to Mixcloud.com
Warren Potter Allen IV 12 years

hows the whole re-rub, re-edit, re-lick rules go? seems like there is an acceptable grey area around them. (to pass it seems, don’t suck #1 and #2 don’t use tracks that will piss off the original artist)
DJJackMeoff 12 years

damn shame to hear about that copyright BS. If that continues SC will ultimately fail. They should go after people making a buck off of it instead of someone trying to express them selves.
James W Irvine 12 years

so do things like this?

http://soundcloud.com/jamesmajin/dirty-electro-house-mix

xD
James W Irvine 12 years

so do things like this?

http://soundcloud.com/jamesmajin/dirty-electro-house-mix

xD
James W Irvine 12 years

so do things like this?

http://soundcloud.com/jamesmajin/dirty-electro-house-mix

xD
James W Irvine 12 years

so do things like this?

http://soundcloud.com/jamesmajin/dirty-electro-house-mix

xD
- Rolf Ski 12 years
  
  @James:
  Suggestions for promotional improvement:
  – upload artwork with your mix
  – upload dj sets in 320kb, not in wav, so you can tag it
  – use a descriptive name in the upload file: “James W Dirty Electro mix” instead of “2011-03-15_14h36m23.wav”
  
  As an additional suggestion, if you really want to get fancy, use the timed comments in Soundcloud to mark the tracks of your set.
  Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/best-of-deep-disco-soundcloud-grandmix-vol-i-part-1
- Rolf Ski 12 years
  
  @James:
  Suggestions for promotional improvement:
  – upload artwork with your mix
  – upload dj sets in 320kb, not in wav, so you can tag it
  – use a descriptive name in the upload file: “James W Dirty Electro mix” instead of “2011-03-15_14h36m23.wav”
  
  As an additional suggestion, if you really want to get fancy, use the timed comments in Soundcloud to mark the tracks of your set.
  Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/best-of-deep-disco-soundcloud-grandmix-vol-i-part-1
- Rolf Ski 12 years
  
  @James:
  Suggestions for promotional improvement:
  – upload artwork with your mix
  – upload dj sets in 320kb, not in wav, so you can tag it
  – use a descriptive name in the upload file: “James W Dirty Electro mix” instead of “2011-03-15_14h36m23.wav”
  
  As an additional suggestion, if you really want to get fancy, use the timed comments in Soundcloud to mark the tracks of your set.
  Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/best-of-deep-disco-soundcloud-grandmix-vol-i-part-1
- Rolf Ski 12 years
  
  @James:
  Suggestions for promotional improvement:
  – upload artwork with your mix
  – upload dj sets in 320kb, not in wav, so you can tag it
  – use a descriptive name in the upload file: “James W Dirty Electro mix” instead of “2011-03-15_14h36m23.wav”
  
  As an additional suggestion, if you really want to get fancy, use the timed comments in Soundcloud to mark the tracks of your set.
  Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/best-of-deep-disco-soundcloud-grandmix-vol-i-part-1
Rolf Ski 12 years

I’m running the oldest (nu) disco community on SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco ) and got quite successful with it (over 3500 members and 1300 personal followers atm). Some additional advice from my personal experience:

1. Don’t promote yourself, promote others.
Rather similar to the advice in the article. I gained most followers by merely promoting other artists for my group. I went as far as publishing tracks of others in order to promote my group. Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/social-disco-club-the-way-you-move-greg-wilson-version

2. Work with other artists.
Similar to the advice in this article. Collaboration on SoundCloud with other artists gained me a lot of followers and members to my group, see the example above.

3. Always use artwork
Even without any Photoshop knowledge you can easily download some Creative Commons picture from Flickr and adapt it for artwork using basic Mac or Windows OS tools like Paint or so. If you want people to blog about you on Facebook for instance that artwork gets published as well so you need to have something in place to stand out for yourself. Here’s a good example of the difference that Soundcloud artwork makes when it’s blogged on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deeperdisco

4. Use consistent artwork
Although this is a more of a personal choice, it can become particularly useful when you start to publish a lot of tracks and sets. As we are all our own brands now on the internet, becoming easily recognizable for other people because of your consistent artwork branding can make a difference. Here’s an example: http://soundcloud.com/bonedisco

5. Tag your mp3’s correctly and use artwork as well
This is as important as categorizing your tracks once uploaded to SoundCloud. You want your track info (and artwork) showing up correctly in Serato or Traktor whenever some DJ decides to give your track a spin.

6. Upload in 320Kb
Hard drive space and download speeds are generally not a bottleneck any more so have other people enjoy your music in the best possible quality. If it wasn’t for Serato and some other software still not supporting it I would have advised uploading tracks (not DJ sets) in flac format (flac = wav/aiff quality with tagging capabilty)

7. Publish track listings with your sets.
A lot of dj’s want to hide their “magic” in music selection. Your set will however get better found with a track listing as it will show up in the SoundCloud search results when people are looking for particular tracks. Also keep in mind that a lot of people (like me) never bother to listen to a dj set without a track listing as they want to prevent the frustration of hearing a good track without knowing its name.

8. If you do a re-edit/ remix, publish the original artist name.
As someone said in the comments, you will generate far more hits when using the original artist/title name as SoundCloud indexing will always show up in top 10 Google search results.

9. Add a YouTube video.
For the same reason as above. Youtube has always a top 10 position in Google search results. SoundcCloud allows you to add a video link so better make use of it. Also remember that a lot of people use Youtube as their single music player. Adding a video can be as simple as only using one artwork image.

10. Claim your own category (optional)
I started the Deep Disco group on SoundCloud with the goal of creating deep disco as a music category. A genre that sits in the middle between (nu) disco and deep house. Since then many people have started using deep disco as a category name for their SoundCloud tracks as well. The Facebook team has now recognized my deep disco page as an official community and deep disco has even been blogged as a life style: http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/goodbye-hipsters-hello-deep-disco/
Rolf Ski 12 years

I’m running the oldest (nu) disco community on SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco ) and got quite successful with it (over 3500 members and 1300 personal followers atm). Some additional advice from my personal experience:

1. Don’t promote yourself, promote others.
Rather similar to the advice in the article. I gained most followers by merely promoting other artists for my group. I went as far as publishing tracks of others in order to promote my group. Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/social-disco-club-the-way-you-move-greg-wilson-version

2. Work with other artists.
Similar to the advice in this article. Collaboration on SoundCloud with other artists gained me a lot of followers and members to my group, see the example above.

3. Always use artwork
Even without any Photoshop knowledge you can easily download some Creative Commons picture from Flickr and adapt it for artwork using basic Mac or Windows OS tools like Paint or so. If you want people to blog about you on Facebook for instance that artwork gets published as well so you need to have something in place to stand out for yourself. Here’s a good example of the difference that Soundcloud artwork makes when it’s blogged on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deeperdisco

4. Use consistent artwork
Although this is a more of a personal choice, it can become particularly useful when you start to publish a lot of tracks and sets. As we are all our own brands now on the internet, becoming easily recognizable for other people because of your consistent artwork branding can make a difference. Here’s an example: http://soundcloud.com/bonedisco

5. Tag your mp3’s correctly and use artwork as well
This is as important as categorizing your tracks once uploaded to SoundCloud. You want your track info (and artwork) showing up correctly in Serato or Traktor whenever some DJ decides to give your track a spin.

6. Upload in 320Kb
Hard drive space and download speeds are generally not a bottleneck any more so have other people enjoy your music in the best possible quality. If it wasn’t for Serato and some other software still not supporting it I would have advised uploading tracks (not DJ sets) in flac format (flac = wav/aiff quality with tagging capabilty)

7. Publish track listings with your sets.
A lot of dj’s want to hide their “magic” in music selection. Your set will however get better found with a track listing as it will show up in the SoundCloud search results when people are looking for particular tracks. Also keep in mind that a lot of people (like me) never bother to listen to a dj set without a track listing as they want to prevent the frustration of hearing a good track without knowing its name.

8. If you do a re-edit/ remix, publish the original artist name.
As someone said in the comments, you will generate far more hits when using the original artist/title name as SoundCloud indexing will always show up in top 10 Google search results.

9. Add a YouTube video.
For the same reason as above. Youtube has always a top 10 position in Google search results. SoundcCloud allows you to add a video link so better make use of it. Also remember that a lot of people use Youtube as their single music player. Adding a video can be as simple as only using one artwork image.

10. Claim your own category (optional)
I started the Deep Disco group on SoundCloud with the goal of creating deep disco as a music category. A genre that sits in the middle between (nu) disco and deep house. Since then many people have started using deep disco as a category name for their SoundCloud tracks as well. The Facebook team has now recognized my deep disco page as an official community and deep disco has even been blogged as a life style: http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/goodbye-hipsters-hello-deep-disco/
Rolf Ski 12 years

I’m running the oldest (nu) disco community on SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco ) and got quite successful with it (over 3500 members and 1300 personal followers atm). Some additional advice from my personal experience:

1. Don’t promote yourself, promote others.
Rather similar to the advice in the article. I gained most followers by merely promoting other artists for my group. I went as far as publishing tracks of others in order to promote my group. Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/social-disco-club-the-way-you-move-greg-wilson-version

2. Work with other artists.
Similar to the advice in this article. Collaboration on SoundCloud with other artists gained me a lot of followers and members to my group, see the example above.

3. Always use artwork
Even without any Photoshop knowledge you can easily download some Creative Commons picture from Flickr and adapt it for artwork using basic Mac or Windows OS tools like Paint or so. If you want people to blog about you on Facebook for instance that artwork gets published as well so you need to have something in place to stand out for yourself. Here’s a good example of the difference that Soundcloud artwork makes when it’s blogged on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deeperdisco

4. Use consistent artwork
Although this is a more of a personal choice, it can become particularly useful when you start to publish a lot of tracks and sets. As we are all our own brands now on the internet, becoming easily recognizable for other people because of your consistent artwork branding can make a difference. Here’s an example: http://soundcloud.com/bonedisco

5. Tag your mp3’s correctly and use artwork as well
This is as important as categorizing your tracks once uploaded to SoundCloud. You want your track info (and artwork) showing up correctly in Serato or Traktor whenever some DJ decides to give your track a spin.

6. Upload in 320Kb
Hard drive space and download speeds are generally not a bottleneck any more so have other people enjoy your music in the best possible quality. If it wasn’t for Serato and some other software still not supporting it I would have advised uploading tracks (not DJ sets) in flac format (flac = wav/aiff quality with tagging capabilty)

7. Publish track listings with your sets.
A lot of dj’s want to hide their “magic” in music selection. Your set will however get better found with a track listing as it will show up in the SoundCloud search results when people are looking for particular tracks. Also keep in mind that a lot of people (like me) never bother to listen to a dj set without a track listing as they want to prevent the frustration of hearing a good track without knowing its name.

8. If you do a re-edit/ remix, publish the original artist name.
As someone said in the comments, you will generate far more hits when using the original artist/title name as SoundCloud indexing will always show up in top 10 Google search results.

9. Add a YouTube video.
For the same reason as above. Youtube has always a top 10 position in Google search results. SoundcCloud allows you to add a video link so better make use of it. Also remember that a lot of people use Youtube as their single music player. Adding a video can be as simple as only using one artwork image.

10. Claim your own category (optional)
I started the Deep Disco group on SoundCloud with the goal of creating deep disco as a music category. A genre that sits in the middle between (nu) disco and deep house. Since then many people have started using deep disco as a category name for their SoundCloud tracks as well. The Facebook team has now recognized my deep disco page as an official community and deep disco has even been blogged as a life style: http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/goodbye-hipsters-hello-deep-disco/
Rolf Ski 12 years

I’m running the oldest (nu) disco community on SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco ) and got quite successful with it (over 3500 members and 1300 personal followers atm). Some additional advice from my personal experience:

1. Don’t promote yourself, promote others.
Rather similar to the advice in the article. I gained most followers by merely promoting other artists for my group. I went as far as publishing tracks of others in order to promote my group. Example: http://soundcloud.com/rolfski/social-disco-club-the-way-you-move-greg-wilson-version

2. Work with other artists.
Similar to the advice in this article. Collaboration on SoundCloud with other artists gained me a lot of followers and members to my group, see the example above.

3. Always use artwork
Even without any Photoshop knowledge you can easily download some Creative Commons picture from Flickr and adapt it for artwork using basic Mac or Windows OS tools like Paint or so. If you want people to blog about you on Facebook for instance that artwork gets published as well so you need to have something in place to stand out for yourself. Here’s a good example of the difference that Soundcloud artwork makes when it’s blogged on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deeperdisco

4. Use consistent artwork
Although this is a more of a personal choice, it can become particularly useful when you start to publish a lot of tracks and sets. As we are all our own brands now on the internet, becoming easily recognizable for other people because of your consistent artwork branding can make a difference. Here’s an example: http://soundcloud.com/bonedisco

5. Tag your mp3’s correctly and use artwork as well
This is as important as categorizing your tracks once uploaded to SoundCloud. You want your track info (and artwork) showing up correctly in Serato or Traktor whenever some DJ decides to give your track a spin.

6. Upload in 320Kb
Hard drive space and download speeds are generally not a bottleneck any more so have other people enjoy your music in the best possible quality. If it wasn’t for Serato and some other software still not supporting it I would have advised uploading tracks (not DJ sets) in flac format (flac = wav/aiff quality with tagging capabilty)

7. Publish track listings with your sets.
A lot of dj’s want to hide their “magic” in music selection. Your set will however get better found with a track listing as it will show up in the SoundCloud search results when people are looking for particular tracks. Also keep in mind that a lot of people (like me) never bother to listen to a dj set without a track listing as they want to prevent the frustration of hearing a good track without knowing its name.

8. If you do a re-edit/ remix, publish the original artist name.
As someone said in the comments, you will generate far more hits when using the original artist/title name as SoundCloud indexing will always show up in top 10 Google search results.

9. Add a YouTube video.
For the same reason as above. Youtube has always a top 10 position in Google search results. SoundcCloud allows you to add a video link so better make use of it. Also remember that a lot of people use Youtube as their single music player. Adding a video can be as simple as only using one artwork image.

10. Claim your own category (optional)
I started the Deep Disco group on SoundCloud with the goal of creating deep disco as a music category. A genre that sits in the middle between (nu) disco and deep house. Since then many people have started using deep disco as a category name for their SoundCloud tracks as well. The Facebook team has now recognized my deep disco page as an official community and deep disco has even been blogged as a life style: http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/goodbye-hipsters-hello-deep-disco/
- Anonymous 12 years
  
  Ive been following you for a while now. Nice to see you on DJTT.
  DJTT & Native Instruments Forums Moderator saying hello 😉
  - Rolf Ski 12 years
    
    Thanks for heads up, Karlos. Added you to the buddy list on the NI forum 🙂
Bob Bell 12 years

Great advice. Soundcloud rules.
Bob Bell 12 years

Great advice. Soundcloud rules.
Bob Bell 12 years

Great advice. Soundcloud rules.
Bob Bell 12 years

Great advice. Soundcloud rules.
FDRK 12 years

Too bad one can’t upload mixes anymore. Well.. You can. Just as long as it’s not copyrighted materials… 🙂 Then they’ll just block you mix. I got blocked after mixing in the good old classic: Ultra Nate – Free.
PS: There are alot of other places to go to if you wan’t to share mixes.
FDRK 12 years

Too bad one can’t upload mixes anymore. Well.. You can. Just as long as it’s not copyrighted materials… 🙂 Then they’ll just block you mix. I got blocked after mixing in the good old classic: Ultra Nate – Free.
PS: There are alot of other places to go to if you wan’t to share mixes.
FDRK 12 years

Too bad one can’t upload mixes anymore. Well.. You can. Just as long as it’s not copyrighted materials… 🙂 Then they’ll just block you mix. I got blocked after mixing in the good old classic: Ultra Nate – Free.
PS: There are alot of other places to go to if you wan’t to share mixes.
FDRK 12 years

Too bad one can’t upload mixes anymore. Well.. You can. Just as long as it’s not copyrighted materials… 🙂 Then they’ll just block you mix. I got blocked after mixing in the good old classic: Ultra Nate – Free.
PS: There are alot of other places to go to if you wan’t to share mixes.
- Taylorryan_123 12 years
  
  when i do my mixes – i grab free downloadable remixes that other people have done on soundcloud and post links to their sites – i have gained so many more followers from doing this as well as people want to hear new remixes and stuff that is a little different!
Emil Beatsnatcher Brikha 12 years

I think Facebook owns everyone and their mothers when it comes to promoting your stuff. Simply ask people to share it on their wall if they like it and that should get the buzz going quite well.

If you’re a DJ or producer with a smallish following that will kick start your stats for sure.

I released a remix of “We no speak americano” last year very casually and didn’t bother with any promotion at all and hit the tiny number of 200 in a day or two. It’s old but still grooving 🙂 http://soundcloud.com/beatsnatcher/emil-beatsnatcher-brikha-no-speak-americano-serious-club-remix-1
Emil Beatsnatcher Brikha 12 years

I think Facebook owns everyone and their mothers when it comes to promoting your stuff. Simply ask people to share it on their wall if they like it and that should get the buzz going quite well.

If you’re a DJ or producer with a smallish following that will kick start your stats for sure.

I released a remix of “We no speak americano” last year very casually and didn’t bother with any promotion at all and hit the tiny number of 200 in a day or two. It’s old but still grooving 🙂 http://soundcloud.com/beatsnatcher/emil-beatsnatcher-brikha-no-speak-americano-serious-club-remix-1
Emil Beatsnatcher Brikha 12 years

I think Facebook owns everyone and their mothers when it comes to promoting your stuff. Simply ask people to share it on their wall if they like it and that should get the buzz going quite well.

If you’re a DJ or producer with a smallish following that will kick start your stats for sure.

I released a remix of “We no speak americano” last year very casually and didn’t bother with any promotion at all and hit the tiny number of 200 in a day or two. It’s old but still grooving 🙂 http://soundcloud.com/beatsnatcher/emil-beatsnatcher-brikha-no-speak-americano-serious-club-remix-1
Emil Beatsnatcher Brikha 12 years

I think Facebook owns everyone and their mothers when it comes to promoting your stuff. Simply ask people to share it on their wall if they like it and that should get the buzz going quite well.

If you’re a DJ or producer with a smallish following that will kick start your stats for sure.

I released a remix of “We no speak americano” last year very casually and didn’t bother with any promotion at all and hit the tiny number of 200 in a day or two. It’s old but still grooving 🙂 http://soundcloud.com/beatsnatcher/emil-beatsnatcher-brikha-no-speak-americano-serious-club-remix-1
Rubixhelix 12 years

lol @ e-reputation… unless you’re gunning to be the next lady gaga… who cares about that?

good article tho
Rubixhelix 12 years

lol @ e-reputation… unless you’re gunning to be the next lady gaga… who cares about that?

good article tho
Rubixhelix 12 years

lol @ e-reputation… unless you’re gunning to be the next lady gaga… who cares about that?

good article tho
Rubixhelix 12 years

lol @ e-reputation… unless you’re gunning to be the next lady gaga… who cares about that?

good article tho
KLOSELINE 12 years

Some secret is to make remixes of popular tracks. I made a mircoblend of Rusko and Kid Sisters track. Its getting so many hits, even though its by far not the best track ive ever made… People just tend to find this stuff easier than your original production.
KLOSELINE 12 years

Some secret is to make remixes of popular tracks. I made a mircoblend of Rusko and Kid Sisters track. Its getting so many hits, even though its by far not the best track ive ever made… People just tend to find this stuff easier than your original production.
KLOSELINE 12 years

Some secret is to make remixes of popular tracks. I made a mircoblend of Rusko and Kid Sisters track. Its getting so many hits, even though its by far not the best track ive ever made… People just tend to find this stuff easier than your original production.
KLOSELINE 12 years

Some secret is to make remixes of popular tracks. I made a mircoblend of Rusko and Kid Sisters track. Its getting so many hits, even though its by far not the best track ive ever made… People just tend to find this stuff easier than your original production.
GUNNER BASS 12 years

great advice. just set up my spotlight, thanks!

@ daniel silva i’ve never had any dj mix taken down, you have? maybe because I started putting in work on my tracklists? check out the insanely long tracklist for the top item in my spotlight: http://soundcloud.com/gunner-bass

i did have an unauthorized dubstep remix of Warp 1.9 taken down once though =/ i took that as a compliment LOL.
GUNNER BASS 12 years

great advice. just set up my spotlight, thanks!

@ daniel silva i’ve never had any dj mix taken down, you have? maybe because I started putting in work on my tracklists? check out the insanely long tracklist for the top item in my spotlight: http://soundcloud.com/gunner-bass

i did have an unauthorized dubstep remix of Warp 1.9 taken down once though =/ i took that as a compliment LOL.
GUNNER BASS 12 years

great advice. just set up my spotlight, thanks!

@ daniel silva i’ve never had any dj mix taken down, you have? maybe because I started putting in work on my tracklists? check out the insanely long tracklist for the top item in my spotlight: http://soundcloud.com/gunner-bass

i did have an unauthorized dubstep remix of Warp 1.9 taken down once though =/ i took that as a compliment LOL.
GUNNER BASS 12 years

great advice. just set up my spotlight, thanks!

@ daniel silva i’ve never had any dj mix taken down, you have? maybe because I started putting in work on my tracklists? check out the insanely long tracklist for the top item in my spotlight: http://soundcloud.com/gunner-bass

i did have an unauthorized dubstep remix of Warp 1.9 taken down once though =/ i took that as a compliment LOL.
Eyal Goldman 12 years

I’m very happy with soundcloud for my own music
http://soundcloud.com/funksinatra
i used to put my dj sets there, but i found out that mixcloud is better for sets.
That said – I got the best feedbacks ever from soundcloud, from really major players like Dimitri from Paris and a certain man made from plastik….Soundcloud also gave me really good vibes in my local scence (TLV israel), and my dj gigs got more $$$… so yes – YEAH SOUNDCLOUD!!!
Eyal Goldman 12 years

I’m very happy with soundcloud for my own music
http://soundcloud.com/funksinatra
i used to put my dj sets there, but i found out that mixcloud is better for sets.
That said – I got the best feedbacks ever from soundcloud, from really major players like Dimitri from Paris and a certain man made from plastik….Soundcloud also gave me really good vibes in my local scence (TLV israel), and my dj gigs got more $$$… so yes – YEAH SOUNDCLOUD!!!
Eyal Goldman 12 years

I’m very happy with soundcloud for my own music
http://soundcloud.com/funksinatra
i used to put my dj sets there, but i found out that mixcloud is better for sets.
That said – I got the best feedbacks ever from soundcloud, from really major players like Dimitri from Paris and a certain man made from plastik….Soundcloud also gave me really good vibes in my local scence (TLV israel), and my dj gigs got more $$$… so yes – YEAH SOUNDCLOUD!!!
Eyal Goldman 12 years

I’m very happy with soundcloud for my own music
http://soundcloud.com/funksinatra
i used to put my dj sets there, but i found out that mixcloud is better for sets.
That said – I got the best feedbacks ever from soundcloud, from really major players like Dimitri from Paris and a certain man made from plastik….Soundcloud also gave me really good vibes in my local scence (TLV israel), and my dj gigs got more $$$… so yes – YEAH SOUNDCLOUD!!!
Anonymous 12 years

Good article… But still, not a safe place to upload DJ mixes as opposed to your own tunes, if you start linking to them from elsewhere, as your mix may disappear without warning leaving your dead links all over the web… Definitely not professional!
Anonymous 12 years

Good article… But still, not a safe place to upload DJ mixes as opposed to your own tunes, if you start linking to them from elsewhere, as your mix may disappear without warning leaving your dead links all over the web… Definitely not professional!
Anonymous 12 years

Good article… But still, not a safe place to upload DJ mixes as opposed to your own tunes, if you start linking to them from elsewhere, as your mix may disappear without warning leaving your dead links all over the web… Definitely not professional!
- R3 Bonaire 12 years
  
  thanks phil for the dead link advice, i never thought about that.
Anonymous 12 years

Good article… But still, not a safe place to upload DJ mixes as opposed to your own tunes, if you start linking to them from elsewhere, as your mix may disappear without warning leaving your dead links all over the web… Definitely not professional!
Daniel Silva 12 years

Any tips on how to post a DJ set and not have it taken offline due to “copyright restrictions”? I mean, does any DJ out there have the copyright to the songs they promote when they play?
Daniel Silva 12 years

Any tips on how to post a DJ set and not have it taken offline due to “copyright restrictions”? I mean, does any DJ out there have the copyright to the songs they promote when they play?
Daniel Silva 12 years

Any tips on how to post a DJ set and not have it taken offline due to “copyright restrictions”? I mean, does any DJ out there have the copyright to the songs they promote when they play?
- Steven Campbell 12 years
  
  I think it’s SoundCloud not wanting to get involved legally. There are plenty of other services (namely Mixcloud) that are centered around mix uploads.
  - Futureglue Musik 12 years
    
    mixcloud rules! no maximum set, no copyright bs… also no d/l and a max of 100mgs per set, but I can live with that.
    - Ean Golden 12 years
      
      keep in mind that they will run into the same problems eventually. Once MIx cloud gets large enough, the copyright people will come knocking.
Daniel Silva 12 years

Any tips on how to post a DJ set and not have it taken offline due to “copyright restrictions”? I mean, does any DJ out there have the copyright to the songs they promote when they play?
Anthony Nicholson 12 years

nicely done. SC is a great tool. i would like to see something like this for mixcloud if it would make sense. i only use MC to post stuff and thats where it ends. i think thats in part because i dont care to explore the site.
Anthony Nicholson 12 years

nicely done. SC is a great tool. i would like to see something like this for mixcloud if it would make sense. i only use MC to post stuff and thats where it ends. i think thats in part because i dont care to explore the site.
Anthony Nicholson 12 years

nicely done. SC is a great tool. i would like to see something like this for mixcloud if it would make sense. i only use MC to post stuff and thats where it ends. i think thats in part because i dont care to explore the site.
Anthony Nicholson 12 years

nicely done. SC is a great tool. i would like to see something like this for mixcloud if it would make sense. i only use MC to post stuff and thats where it ends. i think thats in part because i dont care to explore the site.
- Steven Campbell 12 years
  
  Mixcloud is a little more convoluted than Soundcloud, and since all the content is very long (being mixes), it’s a little more tedious to explore. I use MC pretty much just for hosting, and embed the mixes on Facebook, my own site, etc.
- Steven Campbell 12 years
  
  Mixcloud is a little more convoluted than Soundcloud, and since all the content is very long (being mixes), it’s a little more tedious to explore. I use MC pretty much just for hosting, and embed the mixes on Facebook, my own site, etc.
- Steven Campbell 12 years
  
  Mixcloud is a little more convoluted than Soundcloud, and since all the content is very long (being mixes), it’s a little more tedious to explore. I use MC pretty much just for hosting, and embed the mixes on Facebook, my own site, etc.
- Steven Campbell 12 years
  
  Mixcloud is a little more convoluted than Soundcloud, and since all the content is very long (being mixes), it’s a little more tedious to explore. I use MC pretty much just for hosting, and embed the mixes on Facebook, my own site, etc.
Gabriel Lacasse 12 years

Good advice to help boosting your e-reputation. But still think twice about what you want to share, post or offer as free download since it has a direct impact on your reputation, even in the cover of your username.
Gabriel Lacasse 12 years

Good advice to help boosting your e-reputation. But still think twice about what you want to share, post or offer as free download since it has a direct impact on your reputation, even in the cover of your username.
Gabriel Lacasse 12 years

Good advice to help boosting your e-reputation. But still think twice about what you want to share, post or offer as free download since it has a direct impact on your reputation, even in the cover of your username.
Gabriel Lacasse 12 years

Good advice to help boosting your e-reputation. But still think twice about what you want to share, post or offer as free download since it has a direct impact on your reputation, even in the cover of your username.
Zjc 12 years

some good advice. Sone of this is obvious. And other prices apply to all social media
Zjc 12 years

some good advice. Sone of this is obvious. And other prices apply to all social media
Zjc 12 years

some good advice. Sone of this is obvious. And other prices apply to all social media
Zjc 12 years

some good advice. Sone of this is obvious. And other prices apply to all social media