# SoundCloud for music sucks (or I am doing something wrong)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [July 3, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582 "2021-07-03T07:36:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582/1 "2021-07-03T07:36:31Z")

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My brother is a guitar player and posts to this site. I can never hear anything I click on, I get these endless dot dot dots, with a 140 mbps internet. But he posts links on FB and others can hear them.

Do you have to have a paid membership to hear songs, or to post them yourself?

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**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582/2 "2021-07-03T13:09:23Z")

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Not sure what your problem is, maybe some computer setting, but you don’t need to pay anything for Soundcloud to work.

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582/3 "2021-07-03T18:47:42Z")

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Works for me (unpaid)  
Post up a link and we can try it out.

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582/4 "2021-07-03T20:18:43Z")

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worked for a minute but now it’s gone along with a couple of other tracks I recorded