I have noticed that Sound Cloud distorts the sound, especially with cymbals. It sounds like high frequency hissing distortion. I have noticed that it is also dependent on the chipset on the PC. We use Thinkpad for work and they are horrendous. My Dell at home is significantly better but not perfect. Android phones seem to be fine.
If I play the same song as an Mp3 it is perfect.
What other "free" alternatives are there?
I found this few days ago
It's a DAW in the browser
Lets you publish the mix.
Has free tier.
Aims to be a collaboration tool
morph youtube?
This one keeps popping up on youtube adverts
https://www.landr.com
There is not free tier,... based on their pricing page.
Haven't tried, and I don't plan to, but it fits the description
Definitely bandlab. I am an absolute fan and dedicated user. Bonus you can download Cakewalk by Bandlab 64bit for free. (Previously sonar platinum)
Just an irritation note. Them crazee wrappers keep on nagging you to like their songs consisting mostly of F bombs and shaking someones booty. Besides that, many usable real instrument and midi loops.
Linkable for sharing and added bonus non GT peeps can also listen and like your creations.
Allows collaborations through forking or creation of a band with fellow users. Be warned, heavy on cell data but light on wifi over PC
Wellll, this is now the question as SC has it's revised it's free tier to limit to 15 tracks or 3hrs (whichever is hit first). Boo SC!
I've only got around 40mins of tunes, but spread across 35 tracks. So, while I understand I'll not lose any currently uploaded tracks, I can't add anymore (without going PRO - which there is absolutely no incentive to do)
Reddit reccomends Audius.co as a alternative (Here's a Engadget article - I just tried it...Hmm, colour me throughly underwhelmed. Couldn't play one track through without buffering - in fact not one track completed playing start to finish. Signup wasn't overly painful, but you know that their target market is equipped with decks and a twitter account....sigh.
I guess I'll be cleaning up my SC account for now. Likely Audius will sort out their blockchain playback in time (I guess they don't have africa friendly nodes yet?) - might be interesting to see how many people migrate across to other platforms?
One we havn't yet mentioned is Spotify - apparently free to upload, though I'm not entirely sure how it all works. Seems to be overkill just to host a few tracks for shifts n giggles.
Hi guys!
You can also try hearthis.at
I joined some time ago, on the free tier. You're able to upload 500MB of music per week. I don't check back often, and I don't get much traffic, but one plus is that you can import your songs from your Soundcloud profile (incl. metadata) into hearthis.at
It also helps that you don't get spammed.
I decided to just upload to Youtube completely. I've found it fairly easy to put together a simple playthrough video with no extra expense over and above what I already own
A bit more work to shoot and edit a video but I've done it real simple. Different to soundcloud where people can stream on the go without high data costs but if I'm honest with myself, nobody would stream my stuff on the go anyway lol.
Guess it doesn't help for demos and whatever but I'm mostly doing stuff I'm happy to 'release' as a finished 'product'
So according to the email I got yesterday, SoundCloud will not be changing upload limits - they’re “listening” to their users (i.e. they’ve noticed everyone talking about SoundCloud alternatives and crapped themselves)
ScottyDogg Video = >10x more views. That's my rough thumbsuck - it's probably even more of a difference.
In other news - Soundcloud have changed their minds and reversed the 3hr/15 track limit silliness. A very jaded me will say it wasn't Reddit - but a plan to get a bit of hype, maybe get a bunch of peeps onto Pro and then say it was all a mistake...
Since there isn't any real alternatives, it likely worked?
V8 Video = >10x more views. That's my rough thumbsuck - it's probably even more of a difference
So with my Purple Cow upload to SoundCloud, I shared it about the same amount as I shared the Youtube upload.
On the SoundCloud upload, I currently have 159 listens (uploaded 29 September 2019) - on the Youtube Upload, I have 205 views (uploaded a week ago)
To be fair though, I did get a few more views (like 7 lol) after I uploaded the second video on my Youtube channel (and shared that) so there's slightly more 'promotion' going on
Regarding SoundCloud potentially planning it to get a couple more subs - it's possible yeah; I've pretty much only seen people commenting how they'd never upgrade cause it's not worth it (so not sure if that approach would pan out) but those ~30-40 comments aren't necessarily representative of the population of SoundCloud.
