hey guys welcome back to the channel I'm Charles Cleyn in this video I'm going to
explain how to download music from SoundCloud so if you're new here please
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couple links to my music in description below i post videos reviews videos on
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download music from SoundCloud first things first
in the digital world all songs are basically on files now computer files
and that's most of the time on Spotify and Apple music YouTube music google
play amazon music wow there's a lot now basically hardly any artists even print
CDs anymore like do you even buy CDs anymore when it comes to how to download
music on soundcloud an artist has to choose on soundcloud whether to make
their tracks downloadable or not download and I'm gonna go through both
of those ways when a track is not downloadable well you just can't
download it however there are these third-party sites where you can go and
put in the soundcloud URL link in the site and that will go and scrape and
download the song for you I do not recommend doing this because this is
going against the terms of the artist first saying on soundcloud that the
track is not downloadable so you should not go against their will and then
download the track and then share it and listen to it without paying for it
because that's not right for the artists because they made that song in the first
place for example as an artist I do not have my tracks on SoundCloud as
downloadable because I'm not going to give them away for free I put a lot of
hard time and work into something it's not like you make a movie and then you
go to the movie theater and it's just free it's kind of the same thinking so
that's why some people don't have their tracks as downloadable on soundcloud and
so if you come across those tracks that you want to download but they're not
downloadable you should respect the fact that they're not downloadable and just
go to spotify pay for the track it's $0.99 but at scale that means a lot for
the artist on the other hand there are a
significant amount of tracks on Soundcloud that are downloadable and I'm
going to explain how to download music from SoundCloud in that regard I was
just talking about how if people give their music away for free they're not
making any money so why would someone want to have their track as downloadable
on the Internet well it's a subjective decision to do so
and to make your track downloadable but there are also a few objective reasons
as well one being if you are a new artist if you're just learning about
production maybe you have a laptop and you're trying to make an EDM hit or a
dance hit and you're playing around with some sounds and you upload a demo you're
not gonna care too much if you make any money from it because maybe it didn't
take you that much time or you prefer to grow a fanbase quicker because more
people are looking for free music to listen to it because you can grow a
fanbase quickly if you have a free product so on soundcloud here's what it
looks like here's my profile charles clean I have my tracks in this section a
good thing to note is tracks are only the options for download you cannot
download playlists and you cannot download albums so for example this
track that I have called believe you cannot see here anywhere that you can
download this track if it was downloadable it would be in this more
section under this list for example if we go to this artist chef Valero do
minimal techno free download also in the title it ought it just says free
download so right there you know you can go download it here we go to the track
section we are on the track under the more box you can see here we go download
file you can click this and it can download directly and here we go we have
seven four five minutes left of downloading and we will have the track
downloaded on our computer ready to go we can carry it with us honor
you know iPod whatever do people even use iPods anymore so there you have it
that's how to download music from SoundCloud one thing to consider as well
when you go to SoundCloud and you are just searching for free downloads which
you can do in a search bar here there are a lot of tracks that say that
they're free download for example this area on a touch
remix you'll notice the download option is not available in the list however
they do have a link here that goes to another site this can be good but also
this can be bad sometimes when you go to these off third-party sites they're
going to ask for an email that might ask for your acceptance on a Terms of
Service and you never really know what you're gonna get into so if you're going
to go off a soundcloud that's at your own risk
to what you're downloading that's up to you that's how to download music from
SoundCloud if you're new here punch the subscribe
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