How to Upload a Song on Soundcloud Without Copyright

Last updated 26 March, 2018

Save yourself from the heartache of losing years of plays, comments, and followers on SoundCloud by learning from my mistakes.

A few weeks ago I read about SoundCloud starting its takedown campaign on a massive calibration, targeting both casual users and big proper name acts alike (Pocketknife Party being one of them). I've had a few takedowns in the by due to some remixes and mixtapes that I've made in the five years that I've been on the music sharing platform, and so I didn't think much of information technology because I but assumed information technology was business as usual. Big fault…

I got a text message from a promoter just a single solar day after I read about the takedown campaign.

"I have a client wants to hear your remix but they can't access your SoundCloud. Where else can nosotros check it out?"

I expected the worst, and I was right: My account had been deleted forth with all the music I uploaded for the last half decade! It actually couldn't take come at a worse time (is there ever a good time?), considering I was virtually to start promoting my EP of all-original music which was going to rely heavily on using SoundCloud as my playback and social hub, and instead I was left with nothing.

And then I contacted support and they told me that they have a "three strikes and you're out" rule regarding takedowns. Sadly, I wasn't aware of that until my account was removed, since takedowns in the past didn't lead to obvious penalties other than your music disappearing from your profile.

So in order that you might save yourself from all the problem I went through and larn from my mistakes, hither is my advice to anyone who wasnts to carry on using SoundCloud:

1. Don't upload edits, mixtapes or remixes to SoundCloud – I know this is obvious, merely this wasn't necessarily the case when I renewed my pro account last year. SoundCloud is now quite strict about it, and is becoming more of a repository for original material by musicians instead of a community of DJs and a bastion of remix culture, so if you lot program on uploading content that has music that you didn't compose yourself, look elsewhere
2. Don't ignore your past uploads – If y'all've been on SoundCloud for a couple of years, you'll want to go through your back catalogue of tracks to brand sure that there aren't any songs there that aren't yours. They could potentially be flagged downwardly the road, and the last affair that y'all want is your account being deleted for some mix you fabricated half a decade ago
3. Make sure yous back up your music files – Deject storage is what's pop today, but don't think that having your files uploaded means that they're safe from being deleted. I had a couple of tracks on my profile from when I first signed up to the service that I never saved copies of, and y'all bet I'chiliad boot myself correct at present for not taking the fourth dimension to collect them all in an external difficult drive. For an easy fashion to pull all your SoundCloud mixtapes (but not individual tracks), Mixcloud merely introduced a new feature called SoundCloud Importer
4. Don't put all your eggs in one social basket – I had a mixed bag of talk evidence podcasts, originals, and remixes on my account, and all of them were gone in an instant, along with any semblance of authority on the platform or popularity for whatever of my tracks. Sure, I could brand some other SoundCloud business relationship, simply how can I get back five years'-worth of plays, comments, and community involvement? Our recommendation is to use a variety of social platforms that are suited to your content: Use Mixcloud for mixtapes, use Buzzsprout for your podcasts, etc. That mode, you aren't defined by any one service that could potentially ruin your career if it disappears. Better, have your own site…
5. Gather email addresses equally a priority – This is a biggie. No affair if your SoundCloud contour gets deleted or your Facebook and Twitter accounts get hacked; if you've got an email list of all of your fans that you constantly update and abound, you're pretty much covered for whatever social media setback gets thrown your way. Equally more than and more online platforms get introduced, the merely matter constant on the internet since the early on 90s has been east-mail service. Your online profiles and your weblog could die, only email won't, at least not for the foreseeable future!

Finally…

SoundCloud's equivalent of the Blue Screen Of Death. At the stop of it all though, information technology was my responsibleness to exist updated on the service's new policies and to comply accordingly.

The biggest takeaway here is that you lot're ultimately responsible for whatever you upload to your social media accounts. I can bluster all I want about how "unfair" these takedowns were, or near how SoundCloud is at the fore of remix civilisation and that its refusal to lead it is a missed opportunity for moving the needle forward for copyright laws, just at the stop of the day I should've just paid closer attention to the music that I had on my SoundCloud contour, as well as the changes in policies that the service had undertaken and duly complied.

Trust me, folks: Information technology'southward not worth risking your fourth dimension, money, and music if you lot're just going to finish up losing all of that in the end because of a basic oversight.

How accept you been affected by the SoundCloud takedowns? Where do y'all host your music now? Delight share with the balance of usa in the comments below.

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Source: https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2015/05/5-deadly-sins-soundcloud-users/

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