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Mixcloud or Soundcloud
What should DJs use?
Pandemic hobbies
Like many people, staying-home isolation and entirely too much free time meant finding ways to pass that time (unlike some people, I just didn’t have it in me to build elaborate marble mazes and such). We had our share of jigsaw puzzles, movie nights, and Zoom group activities, but I also decided to try something I’d wanted to try for years. A DJ controller, some software, music and a basic beginners’ course online and I was ready to go.
Mixcloud or Soundcloud?
I’m a perfectionist, so it would be two years before I’d even think about posting my first mix online, but when the time came, I had a decision to make: Mixcloud or Soundcloud?
A LOT of DJs put their mixes up on Soundcloud because it has some DJ software integration features, and the platform is more well-known and thus, gets more traffic than Mixcloud. The problem is that technically, posting DJ mixes on Soundcloud isn’t entirely legal unless you’re such a big deal you’ve got agreements with people.
Supposedly, Soundcloud is for you to post music you make yourself, or to listen to or DJ with tracks made by artists who’ve posted their work to Soundcloud. Soundcloud doesn’t seem like it’s ever really bothered to check up on that, however, so…
